Strika vs Beam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strika
This app helps women learn how to pose for photos with real-time visual guides and structured templates. It aims to boost confidence by making posing practical, teachable, and fun for everyday people.
- Real-time camera pose overlays
- Structured pose templates
- Live camera guidance
- Pose categories for different settings
- Built for everyday women
- Focus on authenticity
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Your life is full of moments worth remembering, and you deserve to be in the photos. Strika helps you feel more confident in photos by showing you exactly how to pose while the photo is being taken. Explore 300+ pose ideas for a vacations outfit, wedding photo, date nights, outfit photos, romanticize your life, and more. Choose one that fits the setting, then open the Strika camera to see the pose directly over your shot. Match the angle, adjust your posture, and know what to do with your arms, legs, and gaze with a posing reference. No need to pull up random posing inspo you pulled from somewhere else. Think of it as pose inspiration and a camera in one. Whether you’re directing a friend, using a self-timer, or trying to capture a moment you can’t recreate, Strika helps you get more photos you actually want to keep. FEATURES POSES FOR EVERY MOMENT Explore poses organized by pose, position, setting, people, and props for woman posing. Find inspiration for travel, weddings, date nights, girls’ nights, fit checks, nature, dining out, at-home photos, and everyday moments worth remembering. LIVE POSE OVERLAY Put the reference pose directly over your camera so you can recreate it in real time, like a posing coach. Match the composition, body position, and camera angle without constantly switching between your saved inspiration and your camera. ADJUSTABLE CAMERA HELP Make the pose guide work for your shot. Turn the outline on or off, adjust the opacity, and hold the screen to reveal the original reference photo whenever you need it. ON-SCREEN POSING GUIDANCE Get direction for your posture, arms, legs, gaze, and expression. Each pose includes simple instructions to help you understand what makes the shot work. MULTI-CAPTURE Capture multiple photos within a single session, so you can choose from a variety of options. REAL POSES FROM REAL CREATORS Every reference photo comes from a real photographer and creator—not an AI-generated model. Explore authentic photos, discover the people behind them, and learn from creators who understand how to make a pose feel natural and achievable. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your captured photos stay in your camera roll. Strika doesn’t upload them or use them to train AI. FREE TO EXPLORE Start posing with hundreds of free templates. You can also unlock optional creator-made pose packs with a one-time purchase. No subscription required. Less second guessing. More photos that actually feel like you. For answers to common questions: https://www.trystrika.com/faqs Customer support: hello@trystrika.com Follow us: Instagram: @strika.app TikTok: @strika.app Pinterest: @strikaapp
Beam
This app automatically finds and shares photos of you taken by your friends. It helps you discover pictures you might have missed and easily save them, eliminating the need to ask for photos or dig through chats. Perfect for groups who love capturing moments together.
- Find photos friends have of you
- Automatic photo discovery
- Share photos easily
- Save full-quality photos
- See different POVs of moments
- Create stories from memories
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Your friends are sitting on photos of you that you've never seen. It’s time to change that. Beam is the social camera roll. Add your friends to your roll and Beam finds the photos they have of you, and the ones you have of them, so everyone can see a different POV from the same moment. No more "send me those pics", no more waiting for weeks, no more digging through a group chat to find the one you want. Great for friend groups, roommates, couples, and anyone who takes more photos than they ever send. HOW IT WORKS - Add friends to your roll - Beam finds shared moments across your friends from trips, events and time spent together - Select the photos you want your friends to see in one tap - Find and save pics of yourself - Pick your favorites or save all of them to your camera roll in one tap - Intersections shows you everyone's POV of the same moment - React to friends' photos with comments and emojis - Turn your best moments into stories and digital memories to share with your friends BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE TAKING PHOTOS If your camera roll is a reflection of your life, your memories shouldn't be trapped in it. Beam gives them a place to live, with the people who were there. - Stop asking friends to send photos - They show up on their own - Full-quality photos, not compressed screenshots - Only the friends you add to your roll see anything - Built for trips, parties, nights out, game days, and everything in between Download Beam, add your first friend, and see what they've been hiding in their camera roll. Questions or feedback? hi@beam.link
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Strika at none against Beam's shown. Strika also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). Beam's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (199 vs 9). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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.
Strika holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beam has 199 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Strika's written reviews are positive against 87% of Beam's.
Strika ships an update every 2 weeks, Beam every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strika | Beam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.8 (199 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 86.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 199 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 277 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pose Me LLC | Breezi Inc. |
Customer experience
Strika
Beam
In-app purchases
Strika
No in-app purchases
Beam
No in-app purchases









