Comparison

Brightroom vs Panime

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

Head to head
About

Brightroom

Transform your iPhone into a high-quality film scanner. Easily digitize color negatives, black-and-white negatives, and color slides with advanced editing tools for perfect results. Save your scanned memories directly to your device or cloud storage.

Highlights
  • Film negative and slide scanning
  • Color and B&W negative conversion
  • Live editing controls
  • DNG and ProRAW import support
  • Save to Photos or Files
  • IPTC caption embedding
  • Workflow optimization
Features
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Brightroom turns your iPhone into a precision film scanner. Photograph color negatives, black-and-white negatives, or color slides — on a lightbox, iPad screen, or bright window — and Brightroom instantly converts them into sharp, accurate digital photos you can crop, adjust, caption, and save. FILM CONVERSION • Color Negative (C-41) — removes the orange film base cast with per-channel auto-levels and white balance correction, plus an S-curve for shadow richness and highlight pop • Black & White Negative — desaturates before inversion with a classic film contrast curve • Slide / Positive (E-6) — gentle levels correction preserving the film's inherent color balance ADJUSTMENTS • 10 live controls in a scrollable toolbar: Crop, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Black Point, Saturation, Vibrance, Warmth, Sharpen, Vignette • Every slider updates the image instantly as you drag — no tap to apply • Changed controls highlighted in orange; one-tap reset per control IMAGE QUALITY • Supports DNG and Apple ProRAW imports alongside JPEG and HEIC • Single-pass Core Image pipeline — no intermediate resampling steps, maximum sharpness at full sensor resolution • Captures full pixel density from both 1x and 2x lenses CROP & SAVE • Manual crop with corner handles and rule-of-thirds grid • Save to Photos Library or directly to any Files location — iCloud Drive, network shares, NAS, cloud services • Save location remembered: pick a folder once, Brightroom saves there automatically • Save with optional 90° rotation — corrects sideways negatives at save time CAPTION • Type or dictate an IPTC caption before saving — embedded permanently in the JPEG, readable in Lightroom, Photos, and any IPTC-aware app • Voice dictation uses on-device speech recognition — nothing leaves your iPhone WORKFLOW • Scan → camera direct; Convert → camera or library (supports DNG/RAW) • After saving, immediately prompts for the next negative — no extra navigation between frames • Before/after toggle: tap Converted badge to compare with the original capture • Full-resolution JPEG output with EXIF orientation and IPTC metadata embedded

About

Panime

Features
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Panime brings your still photos back to life. Take one ordinary photo, paint a few strokes, and it becomes a jiggling Live Photo or a looping GIF — perfect as a live wallpaper, a post, or a chat sticker. Paint it, choose how it moves Four colored brushes, each a different jiggle feel: - Sway: drifts along the direction you draw, then eases back - Jelly: soft and wobbly, like pudding - Springy: light and bouncy - Float: a slow, low-frequency drift Feathering, erase, undo and redo — soft edges, no tearing. Make portraits blink Mark the eyes and Panime generates a natural blink. Upload a closed-eye photo, or optionally generate one with AI. Live preview Press and drag right on the canvas to pull and bounce — what you see is what you get. Or just shake your iPhone or iPad to feel it. One-tap export - Live Photo: saved to your library, ready to set as a live wallpaper — press and hold to play - GIF: easy to share in chats and on social apps About the optional AI feature "AI closed-eye generation" is optional and needs your own OpenAI API key. When enabled, your selected photo (with a mask over the eye area) is sent to OpenAI to generate the closed-eye frame. Leave the key empty and the feature stays hidden — everything else still works, and you can upload a closed-eye photo instead. We respect your privacy Panime has no servers of its own and does no analytics or tracking. Your photos are processed on your device by default; only when you actively use the AI feature is a photo sent to the third party you choose. Snap one, paint it — and watch your photo move.

Screenshots

Brightroom4 screens
Panime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brightroom at every 6 days against Panime's every 3 weeks. Panime's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

Brightroom costs $0.99 and Panime $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brightroom ships an update every 6 days, Panime every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Brightroom versus Panime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrightroomPanime
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreg AndersonFangtangjun (Chongqing) Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

Brightroom

No in-app purchases

None

Panime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brightroom free?
Brightroom costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Panime free?
Panime costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brightroom or Panime have ads?
Neither Brightroom nor Panime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brightroom or Panime?
Brightroom ships an update every 6 days, and Panime every 3 weeks. Most recently, Brightroom was updated on October 25, 2026 and Panime on October 25, 2026.

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