Comparison

ShutterLab vs Upscale

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ShutterLab

Features
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Turn your iPhone into a professional camera. Shutter Lab is a high-end camera app designed for photography enthusiasts and professionals. Go beyond auto mode and take full control of every setting to achieve the exact results you want. Powerful Manual Controls Precise ISO, shutter speed, and exposure (EV) adjustments Manual focus White balance control Lens selection (Ultra Wide / Wide / Tele) Professional Image Pipeline RAW / HEIC / JPEG / TIFF support LUT color grading Display P3 and sRGB Highlight roll-off Fake Log support Advanced Shooting Tools Exposure bracketing Focus peaking Zebra stripes RGB histogram Grid and leveler Fully Customizable Shooting Environment HUD configuration Adjustable UI opacity Custom presets Smart HDR Stabilization Why Shutter Lab? Shutter Lab is more than just a camera app. It leverages the full capability of your iPhone sensor to deliver a DSLR-like shooting experience. Go beyond capturing photos — create your work of art.

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Upscale

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Your voice, without the room it was recorded in. Upscale splits the audio in your video into three layers — the speech, the steady background, and the narrow tones that sit on top — then lets you rebalance them by ear until the voice is the thing people hear. Then finish the clip. Put a marker on something and it follows. Push the camera in on the line that matters. Save it to Photos, ready to post. The last touches, without opening a full editor. WHAT IT CLEANS UP • Fans, air conditioning, hum, traffic and other steady room noise • Beeps, alarms, birdsong and phone notifications • Speech that sits too low, too dull, or too uneven HOW YOU MIX IT • Voice, Background and Tones each get their own fader — turn the room down, bring the voice up • Tone runs warm to bright; Loudness lifts the level without crushing it • Hold Compare at any moment to hear the original against your edit • Solo any layer to hear exactly what landed in it The split runs when you ask for it, not on import. Bring in a clip, mark it up and export, and the audio is passed through exactly as recorded. FOLLOW SOMETHING Point at a subject and it stays pointed at it, frame by frame, for as long as you asked. A dot on your fingers, a ball, a face, a product in your hand. • Tap the thing, pinch the ring to fit it, and pick 2, 5, 10 seconds or the rest of the clip • Give it a name and a line runs out to a label — it unfurls when the marker arrives and packs away when it leaves • Drag anywhere on the clip to place the label; it stays inside the frame on its own • Eight colours, on a plate or as bare text over the footage • As many markers as you like, each with its own colour, name and stretch of the clip PUSH THE CAMERA IN Two camera moves, no keyframes to place. A push eases in on the moment that matters and settles back out. A whip snaps in and straight back, throwing the frame up, down, left or right. • Scrub to the spot, tap one, drag on the clip to aim it, pinch to set how close • A whoosh that sweeps with the move, a low impact on the landing, or a quiet tick — generated to the exact length of each move, so nothing sits a beat late EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no upload. Your video never leaves the device, the app works in airplane mode, and nothing about you is collected. FREE AND PRO Every feature is unlocked from the first launch — the split, the faders, tracking, labels, the camera moves, Compare — and every clip gets the full two minutes whether you pay or not. Nothing is held back and nothing is watermarked. Free includes three exports. After that, Upscale Pro is a one-time purchase, never a subscription: • Unlimited exports • Export the isolated voice, background and tone layers as separate audio files Buy it once and it stays yours, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. WHEN YOU'RE DONE Everything you changed is written back into the video and saved to your photo library, ready to post. GOOD TO KNOW The audio work is classic signal processing, not AI source separation. It handles fans, hum and room tone well — it can't isolate music or pull apart two people talking at once. Tracking follows one thing at a time and holds through a hand passing in front of it. Two identical objects crossing — two fingers of the same hand, say — can still confuse it. Privacy Policy: https://www.velto.at/en/upscalevoice/support Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ShutterLab4 screens
Upscale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShutterLab at none against Upscale's 1. ShutterLab also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Upscale sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ShutterLab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShutterLab ships an update every 2 weeks, Upscale every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
ShutterLab versus Upscale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShutterLabUpscale
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJIN KIMMEHDI KHOSRAVANI BIDZARDI

In-app purchases

None

ShutterLab

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Upscale

One-time1
  • Upscale Pro$3.99

Questions

Is ShutterLab free?
ShutterLab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Upscale free?
Upscale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShutterLab or Upscale have ads?
Neither ShutterLab nor Upscale shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShutterLab or Upscale?
ShutterLab ships an update every 2 weeks, and Upscale every 11 days. Most recently, ShutterLab was updated on October 31, 2026 and Upscale on October 31, 2026.

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