GridShot vs Compo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GridShot
This app acts as a photography coach by overlaying professional composition grids on your live camera preview. It offers built-in tips and visual examples for various techniques, along with pro camera tools to help you frame shots confidently.
- Live composition grids (Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio, etc.)
- Built-in tips and visual examples for techniques
- Live Histogram for exposure monitoring
- Level Indicator for straight horizons
- Exposure and zoom controls
- Capture photos with EXIF metadata
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Grid Shot - Your Personal Photography Coach Stop guessing. Start composing like a pro. Grid Shot overlays professional composition grids directly on your live camera preview, helping you frame every shot with confidence. Whether you're a beginner learning the basics or a seasoned photographer refining your craft, Grid Shot makes composition effortless. COMPOSITION GRIDS Choose from a growing library of grids used by professionals worldwide: - Rule of Thirds - Golden Ratio (PHI Grid) - Golden Spiral - Center Grid - Diagonal Lines - Symmetry Grid ...and more coming regularly. LEARN AS YOU SHOOT Don't just see the grid - understand it. Grid Shot includes built-in tips and visual examples for each composition technique, so you build real intuition while shooting. PRO CAMERA TOOLS - Live Histogram - monitor exposure in real-time - Level Indicator - keep your horizons straight - Exposure Control - fine-tune brightness - Flash Toggle - control your lighting - Zoom Controls - smooth pinch and button zoom CAPTURE & SAVE Take photos directly within the app and save them to your photo library with full EXIF metadata preserved. GRIDSHOT PRO (Optional Upgrade) Upgrade once, enjoy forever: - Remove all ads - Custom watermark text on saved photos - One-time purchase - no subscription Grid Shot is designed to be minimal, fast, and beautiful. Open the camera, pick a grid, and shoot. Download now and start framing your world.
Compo
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Most camera apps hand you a grid. Compo tells you what to do with it. Pick a shot recipe (Golden Hour Backlight, Room to Look, 45° Diner's View) and Compo draws its composition straight onto the live viewfinder: where the subject sits, where the eye travels, and what angle to shoot from. A live angle badge counts your tilt as you move, and turns green the moment you hit the angle the shot was built for. WHAT YOU GET • 32 shot recipes across portrait, food, product, landscape and architecture • Placement guides drawn on the live frame: drag a handle to fit them to your actual subject • Live angle guidance from the gyroscope, with a haptic tap at the target • A four-step checklist on every recipe: light, angle, zoom, placement • The reason each shot works, with a diagram and a finished photograph • Simulated aperture, applied to the photo you saved, not a preview trick • Live Photo capture • An album of what you shot, each frame captioned with the recipe you framed it with YOUR PHOTO IS A PHOTO The overlay is interface, not artwork. Nothing is ever burned into the file: what lands in your library is a full-resolution photograph with the guides gone. FREE TO START Eight recipes, the whole camera, the guides, the angle feedback and the checklists are free, forever. Compo Vol. 1 unlocks the remaining 24 recipes across every category as a single one-time purchase. There is no subscription. Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel. Vol. 1 stays unlocked on every device signed in to the same Apple ID. PRIVACY Your camera frames, your photos and your motion readings stay on your device. Compo has no account, no advertising, no analytics SDK and no cross-app tracking. When you open the album, it looks up only the photos it saved itself. Requires an iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Camera access is asked for when you first frame a shot, not at launch, so you can browse every recipe before granting anything.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Compo at none against GridShot's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. GridShot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Compo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | GridShot | Compo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marolean Sagaya Louis | Yafet Trakan Tangkuman |
In-app purchases
GridShot
- GridShot Pro$0.99
Compo
- Compo Vol. 1$2.99








