Splatcam vs Xgrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Splatcam
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Record holographic videos (known as 4D Gaussian Splats, or Volumetric Video) on your phone. Open the app and record a holographic video of yourself or someone else. Record a dance, a trick, a workout, a performance or just a nice monologue. SplatCam captures 3D video using LiDAR, and uploads it to splatcam.com, where you play back your recording, spin it around and share with a link. What it does — One-tap video capture — Uploads to splatcam.com — Uses the LiDAR Depth sensor on iPhone Pro — Works hand-held or with your phone mounted in a tripod — Audio recording
Xgrid
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Photographing a screen usually fails. The camera's sensor and the display's pixel grid interfere with each other, laying rippling bands of false colour across the picture. Moving closer, tilting, or zooming shifts the pattern around but rarely removes it. Xgrid removes it. Press the shutter and Xgrid captures a hundred frames in under a second, lines them up, and averages them. The interference pattern shifts between frames while the picture itself stays put — so averaging cancels the pattern and keeps the detail. HOW IT WORKS • Captures at the highest resolution and frame rate your camera will stream, then resamples each frame so the display's pixel grid is filtered out before it can turn into an artefact • Aligns every frame for both drift and rotation, correcting the natural twist of a hand-held shot that simpler stacking ignores • Averages a hundred frames into 16-bit monochrome, with far more tonal precision in the shadows than any single exposure • Works hand-held. It genuinely prefers a relaxed grip to a tripod — the slight movement between frames is what lets the pattern cancel CONTROLS • Detail Restore — bring back fine structure after averaging • Density — adjust the tonal curve to open up dark or high-contrast areas • Colour — optional, off by default; monochrome discards the colour fringing that carries most of the interference • Swipe to compare the processed result against a single untreated frame, and pinch to zoom into either • Save or share whichever one you prefer - or both PRIVACY Everything happens on your device. Xgrid contains no networking code of any kind — nothing is uploaded, nothing is collected, nothing is tracked.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Xgrid at 16.0 against Splatcam's 18.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Splatcam | Xgrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nolan Consulting | Michael Hewson |
In-app purchases
Splatcam
No in-app purchases
Xgrid
No in-app purchases
Questions
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