Comparison

Snap Pocket vs FRMT

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

Head to head
About

Snap Pocket

Features
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A filter camera designed for vlog video shooting. Key features: 1. Multiple popular mirrorless-camera color presets. Get straight-out-of-camera filters in one tapβ€”no complicated color grading required. 2. Adjust white balance, exposure, and more manually to create clean, cool-toned looks and customize colors your way. 3. Ultra-clear, lossless image quality with support for 4K, high frame rates, and high bit rates. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 4. Flattering portraits with subtle beauty retouching. Say goodbye to dull, yellowish footage and enjoy naturally rich colors. 5. A great alternative to a professional camera. Perfect for travel portraits, at-home selfies, street photography, city walks, still-life and food shots, landscapes, blue-hour scenes, and flowers. Made for vloggers, photography enthusiasts, selfie lovers, film-camera fans, and travel photography lovers.

About

FRMT

This app offers highly accurate film simulations, replicating real film characteristics like halation, interimage effects, and natural grain. It provides four distinct film stocks and allows users to develop RAW files, either captured within the app or imported from other sources.

Highlights
  • Accurate film simulation
  • Halation and interimage effects
  • Real grain simulation
  • Four distinct film stocks
  • RAW file development
  • No subscription or ads
Features
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FRMT is the most accurate film simulation on the App Store. Here is why that is a real claim and not marketing. Most film apps are filters. A filter is a lookup table. It takes the color of a pixel, swaps it for a different color, and that is the whole trick. Same color in, same color out, every time, no matter what is around it. Film does not work like that. Light scatters sideways through the emulsion. Each dye layer chemically holds back the layers next to it. Dye forms in clumps, and how much forms depends on how much light hit that exact spot. What a pixel becomes depends on everything around it. FRMT simulates that, stage by stage, on every frame you shoot. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES Halation. Light passes through the emulsion, bounces off the film base, and exposes it again slightly off to the side. Bright edges bloom instead of stopping dead. Interimage effects. Developing dye releases a chemical that drifts sideways and holds back its neighbors. This is most of what gives a stock its color signature, and it is why reds stay clean next to greens. Real grain. Not a texture laid on top. Grain here is the actual variation in how much dye formed, so it follows the tones. Strongest in the midtones, almost gone in deep shadow, the way it works on the real thing. The curves and the numbers come off the manufacturers' own published datasheets. Nobody eyeballed a preset. FOUR STOCKS Cinnabar 50. Punchy and saturated. Landscapes, foliage, sunsets. Galena 100. Neutral and even. Travel, streets, mixed light. Baryta 100. Soft and fine grained. People, portraits, overcast days. Flint 64. Grainy and warm with cool shadows. Street, hard light, neon. You load one at a time, the way you load a roll. There is no look picker on the capture screen and there are no sliders. None of the four is a preset of another. HOW IT WORKS Press the shutter and a RAW negative is written immediately. Developing happens afterward, in the background, and takes about a minute per frame. That is not a loading spinner, it is real work on the GPU. Frames wait on the roll until they are done, and you can set developing to hold until you are plugged in. Finished photos save to your photo library and stay in the app, so you can look at them without leaving. You can also import RAW files you shot on something else and develop those. ON A PHONE WITHOUT PRORAW The simulation is built for RAW negatives, and that is where it is most accurate. On an iPhone that cannot shoot ProRAW, FRMT still works: it develops the phone's own photos through the same film, from what is left after the phone's processing, and marks those frames on the roll so you always know which is which. You can also import RAW files from another camera and develop those at full accuracy. NO SUBSCRIPTION, EVER Pay once. No account, no cloud, no ads, no watermark, no in app purchases. Your photos never leave your phone. There is no networking code in the app at all. WHAT TO EXPECT The viewfinder shows you the scene, not the film. Grading a live preview means guessing at the answer, and a preview that guesses wrong is worse than one that is honest. Use the exposure dial to place your highlights. This is slide film. There is not much room above the highlights. That is faithful, not a bug. Most accurate on an iPhone that can capture ProRAW. Works on any iPhone running iOS 17.2 or later.

Screenshots

Snap Pocket4 screens
FRMT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Snap Pocket at Free against FRMT's $14.99. Snap Pocket also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.2). FRMT's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On ads there is nothing between them.

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

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

Snap Pocket is free to download; FRMT costs $14.99 up front. Snap Pocket sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. FRMT asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snap Pocket ships an update every 2 weeks, FRMT every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Β· 3 level
Snap Pocket versus FRMT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnap PocketFRMT
PriceFree β€” better$14.99
Positive reviewsβ€”66.7% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
Monetizationβ€”Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better17.2
Further details β€” not scored
Size29 MB13 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperRIPPLE MOTION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDLevi Foster

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Snap Pocket

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$0.991 Month
  • Annual Membership$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Member$9.99
None

FRMT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snap Pocket free?
Snap Pocket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FRMT free?
FRMT costs $14.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snap Pocket or FRMT have ads?
Neither Snap Pocket nor FRMT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snap Pocket or FRMT?
Snap Pocket ships an update every 2 weeks, and FRMT every 6 days. Most recently, Snap Pocket was updated on October 31, 2026 and FRMT on November 6, 2026.

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