Comparison

Storyline vs ReelyUs

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

Head to head
About

Storyline

Create personalized movie-style greeting cards by describing your idea and adding a photo. Transform friends, family, or pets into stars of unique cinematic video messages for any occasion. No editing skills required, just imagination.

Highlights
  • Personalized movie-style greeting cards
  • Transform subjects into cinematic stars
  • Create videos from text descriptions
  • Add photos to videos
  • No editing skills needed
  • Suitable for any occasion
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The greeting card just got a serious upgrade. Make anyone the star of their own movie -- from your friends, family or even your pets. Birthdays? Halloween? A case of the Monday morning blues? There’s always a reason to make someone smile. With Storyline, you can create extraordinary personalized greeting cards just by talking. Turn your best friend into a secret agent. Make your mom a queen. Send your dog on a Wild West adventure. Or dream up something entirely your own. Just describe your idea, add a photo, and watch Storyline turn it into a cinematic video card. No editing skills. No complicated prompts. Just your imagination. Terms of Use: https://www.storyline.now/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.storyline.now/privacy-policy

About

ReelyUs

This app allows groups to collaboratively build a shared feed of photos from events. Hosts can then create a music-backed recap reel from these photos, which can be saved and shared.

Highlights
  • Create shared event experiences
  • Invite others with a join code
  • Collaborative photo and comment feed
  • Build music-backed recap reels
  • Save reels and photos
  • Content reporting and blocking
Features
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ReelyUs turns a group's photos from a shared event into a recap reel everyone can keep. Create an "experience" for any get-together — a birthday, a trip, a graduation, a day at the park — and invite the people who were there. Everyone adds their photos as "moments," with captions and comments, so the whole event comes together in one shared feed instead of scattered across everyone's phones. When you're ready, the host builds the photos into a short recap reel set to music — a simple, finished video you can save and share. FEATURES - Create a shared experience and invite others with a join code - Everyone adds photos, captions, and comments to one feed - Build a recap reel from the group's photos, set to music - Save your photos and finished reels to your device - Report or block content and members to keep experiences comfortable - Light and dark mode, with large, readable text ReelyUs is built for everyone — easy enough for any age to pick up, and made for the people you actually share moments with.

Screenshots

Storyline4 screens
ReelyUs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ReelyUs at none against Storyline's shown. ReelyUs also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Storyline's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Storyline sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ReelyUs sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Storyline against 5.0 for ReelyUs. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Storyline has 40 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Storyline's written reviews are positive against 100% of ReelyUs's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Storyline ships an update every 5 days, ReelyUs every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Storyline versus ReelyUs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStorylineReelyUs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (40 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings40 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size180 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStoryline Labs, IncBen Reyes

Customer experience

Storyline

All ratings40 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.0%

ReelyUs

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Storyline

Subscriptions7
  • Story Starter$2.991 Month
  • Unlimited$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited1 Month trial$4.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Storyteller Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Storyteller$5.991 Month
  • StoryPro Monthly$14.991 Month
  • StoryPro Yearly$149.991 Year
One-time3
  • 1 Film$0.99
  • 10 Films$9.99
  • 40 Films$39.99
4 purchases

ReelyUs

One-time4
  • 3 Movie Credits$1.99
  • 8 Movie Credits$4.99
  • 15 Movie Credits$9.99
Show 1 more
  • 35 Movie Credits$19.99

Questions

Is Storyline free?
Storyline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ReelyUs free?
ReelyUs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Storyline or ReelyUs?
ReelyUs is rated higher. Storyline averages 4.9 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while ReelyUs averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Storyline or ReelyUs have ads?
Storyline shows ads; ReelyUs does not.
Which is updated more often, Storyline or ReelyUs?
Storyline ships an update every 5 days, and ReelyUs every 4 days. Most recently, Storyline was updated on November 5, 2026 and ReelyUs on October 31, 2026.

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