Comparison

Chama Optics vs Unspooled

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

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Chama Optics

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Chama Optics โ€” Edit your photos on the spot: color grade, frame, and mosaic faces, all in one app. A photo post-processing app for mirrorless and DSLR camera users. It offers EXIF-based shooting info frames, automatic face mosaic, color grading, and cheki (Polaroid-style) frames. โ—† Made for you if... Events, travel, & street photography โ€” Weddings, tourist spots, and more โ€” whenever you need to mosaic other people's faces. Sharing photos on social media โ€” Post fan activity photos, memories with friends, or event highlights on SNS. DSLR/mirrorless users & gear reviewers โ€” When sharing your shots with shooting info (camera, lens, aperture, etc.) embedded in the frame. โ—† Face Detection & Privacy Protection โ€ข On-device automatic face detection โ€ข Apply mosaic or sticker to detected faces โ€ข Manually add, delete, or adjust detection areas โ—† LUT Color Grading โ€ข Apply professional LUT filters (.cube format) โ€ข Fine-tune exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, saturation, and more โ€ข Apply LUT individually or in batch โ—† Cheki (Polaroid-Style) Frames โ€ข Polaroid-style borders โ€” adjustable width, color, bottom margin, and text (or EXIF) โ€ข Play Dice! for random sticker placement, or place them freely โ—† EXIF-Based Shooting Info Frames โ€ข Multiple built-in frame themes โ€ข Auto-display camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO โ€ข Verbose EXIF to view full metadata including maker notes โ—† Batch Processing & Export โ€ข Edit multiple photos at once with batch apply โ€” export as JPEG, PNG, or WebP โ€ข Fine-tune quality and scaling modes (max width/height, longside, and more) โ—† Privacy First All image processing is performed entirely on-device. No cloud uploads, no external AI models โ€” your photos never leave your device. Inspired by the travel VTuber Akai Haato, who loves photography.

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Unspooled

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Unspooled โ€” ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ํ•„๋ฆ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ•„๋ฆ„์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Unspooled๋Š” ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ๋™์˜์ƒ์— ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ์ด์ž, ์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ดฌ์˜์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋…ธํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์ด๋ฏธ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์—๋„ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํ•œ ๋กค์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„๋ฃฉ ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ โ€ข 62์ข…์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ๊ณผ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๊ธฐ โ€ข ์ดˆ๊ด‘๊ฐยท๊ด‘๊ฐยท๋ง์› ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ ์ง€์›(์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ) โ€ข ํ™”์ดํŠธ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ž๋™ยทํ”„๋ฆฌ์…‹ยท์ˆ˜๋™ ์กฐ์ ˆ โ€ข ์ง€์› ์กฐ๊ฑด์—์„œ RAW ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ โ€ข ํ• ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜, ๋น›์ƒ˜, HDF, ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์Šคํ‚จ ํšจ๊ณผ โ€ข ํšจ๊ณผ๋ณ„ ๊ฐ•๋„ ์กฐ์ ˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ ์กฐํ•ฉ โ€ข ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ธ, ๋น›์ƒ˜์„ ์ ์šฉํ•œ ๋™์˜์ƒ ์ดฌ์˜ โ€ข ๋™์˜์ƒ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ ์†๋„ ๋ฐ ์†๋–จ๋ฆผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ ์„ค์ •(์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐยท์กฐ๊ฑด) ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ โ€ข ์ƒ‰์ƒ, ๋ฐ๊ธฐ, ๋Œ€๋น„, ์ฑ„๋„ ๋“ฑ ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ณด์ • โ€ข ์ƒ‰์ƒ๋ณ„ HSL ๋ฐ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ ์กฐ์ ˆ โ€ข RGB ์ปค๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ •๊ตํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ ํ‘œํ˜„ โ€ข ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ธ ์กฐ์ ˆ ๋ฐ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํšจ๊ณผ ์ ์šฉ โ€ข ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“  ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ์ €์žฅ ๋ฐ ์žฌํŽธ์ง‘ โ€ข LUT ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ์™€ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ๋ฐฑ์—…ยท๋ณต์› ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํŽธ์ง‘ โ€ข ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์šฉ โ€ข ์ž๋ฅด๊ธฐ, ํšŒ์ „, ๋’ค์ง‘๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์šธ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ ˆ โ€ข ์›๋ณธ๊ณผ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์šฉ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ต โ€ข ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ ํžˆ์Šคํ† ๊ทธ๋žจ ์ œ๊ณต โ€ข ์‹คํ–‰ ์ทจ์†Œ ๋ฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹คํ–‰ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ดฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก โ€ข ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋กค๊ณผ ๋‚จ์€ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€ข ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ, ๋ Œ์ฆˆ, ISO, ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐœ, ์…”ํ„ฐ์†๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ก โ€ข ์ดฌ์˜ ์œ„์น˜, ๋‚ ์”จ, ๋ฉ”๋ชจ ์ €์žฅ โ€ข ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„๋ณ„ ์ฐธ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ง€๋„ โ€ข ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐœ ์šฐ์„ ยท์…”ํ„ฐ ์šฐ์„ ยท์ˆ˜๋™ ๋…ธ์ถœ๊ณ„ โ€ข ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ธก๊ด‘ ๋ฐฉ์‹ โ€ข LiDAR ์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์˜ ํ”ผ์‚ฌ์ฒด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ‘œ์‹œ โ€ข ์žฅ๋…ธ์ถœ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ โ€ข ์Šค์บ” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ •๋ณด ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ(Pro) Unspooled Pro Unspooled๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋กค 3๊ฐœ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ๋ณด์ƒํ˜• ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ฒญํ•ด ๋กค์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Unspooled Pro๋Š” ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋กค ์ œํ•œ ํ•ด์ œ์™€ ์žฅ๋…ธ์ถœ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜, ์ดฌ์˜ ์ง€๋„, ์Šค์บ” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ •๋ณด ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ Pro ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์ œ ํ•„๋ฆ„์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊นŒ์ง€. Unspooled์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‹น์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. โ€ป ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ดฌ์˜ ๋ฐ ํŽธ์ง‘ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ, ์ง€์› ๋ Œ์ฆˆ, ์ดฌ์˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด๊ณผ Pro ์ด์šฉ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํ˜„์ƒยท์Šค์บ” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋™์ผํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Unspooled โ€” Make Every Moment Feel Like Film Create your own film colors. Capture every moment. Unspooled brings the colors and textures of analog film to your photos and videos, while also helping you document every frame you shoot with a real film camera. Capture photos with film-inspired looks, create your own unique color recipes, or apply beautiful film effects to photos you've already taken. For analog photographers, Unspooled also works as a film photography notebook, keeping track of every shot from the first frame to the last. Film-Look Camera โ€ข 62 built-in film looks with live previews โ€ข Ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto camera support on compatible devices โ€ข Auto, preset, and manual white balance controls โ€ข RAW-based photo processing when supported โ€ข Halation, light leaks, HDF, and soft skin effects โ€ข Adjustable effect intensity and combinations โ€ข Video recording with film colors, animated grain, and light leaks โ€ข Frame rate and video stabilization controls on supported devices Create Your Own Film Looks โ€ข Fine-tune color, brightness, contrast, and saturation โ€ข Advanced HSL adjustments and color mixing โ€ข RGB curves for precise color grading โ€ข Customizable grain and film effects โ€ข Save and edit your own film looks โ€ข Import LUTs and back up or restore your custom looks Photo Editing โ€ข Apply film looks to existing photos โ€ข Crop, rotate, flip, and straighten images โ€ข Compare edited photos with the original โ€ข View a color histogram โ€ข Undo and redo adjustments Film Photography Notebook โ€ข Manage film rolls and remaining frames โ€ข Record camera, lens, ISO, aperture, and shutter speed โ€ข Save shooting locations, weather, and notes โ€ข Attach reference photos and view shooting locations on a map โ€ข Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual light meter modes โ€ข Multiple metering methods โ€ข Subject distance measurement on LiDAR-supported devices โ€ข Long-exposure simulation โ€ข Link scanned photos and export shooting metadata with Pro Unspooled Pro Get started with Unspooled for free. Your first three film rolls are free. Additional rolls can be unlocked by watching rewarded ads. Unspooled Pro is available as a one-time purchase, unlocking unlimited film rolls, long-exposure simulation, the shooting map, scanned-image linking, metadata export, and other Pro features. For everyone who loves the look of film โ€” and everyone who still shoots it. Make every frame your own with Unspooled. Some features depend on device compatibility, camera capabilities, shooting conditions, and Pro access. Film effects are artistic interpretations and may differ from actual developed and scanned film.

Screenshots

Chama Optics4 screens
Unspooled4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Unspooled sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chama Optics asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Chama Optics versus Unspooled: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChama OpticsUnspooled
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size88 MB118 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJinwoo ParkKYOYOUNG LEE

In-app purchases

None

Chama Optics

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Unspooled

One-time1
  • Unspooled Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Chama Optics free?
Chama Optics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Unspooled free?
Unspooled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chama Optics or Unspooled have ads?
Unspooled shows ads; Chama Optics does not.
Which is updated more often, Chama Optics or Unspooled?
Chama Optics ships an update every 3 days, and Unspooled every 3 days. Most recently, Chama Optics was updated on October 18, 2026 and Unspooled on October 24, 2026.

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