Comparison

Grainient vs deja

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

Head to head
About

Grainient

Transform your photos into unique, animated grainy gradients. Select an image, zoom in on your desired area, and let the app curate a color palette to generate a dynamic gradient inspired by your picture. Save and share your creations.

Highlights
  • Create gradients from photos
  • Extract color palettes
  • Generate animated grainy gradients
  • Save gradients to collections
  • Share creations
Features
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Grainient turns colors from your photos into beautiful animated grainy gradients. Choose a photo or take one with the camera, zoom into the area you want, and Grainient extracts a curated palette to generate a living gradient inspired by your image. Features: • Create a grainient from any photo • See your palette as three extracted color swatches • Save grainients locally into collections on your device • Share your granients to the world All processing happens on device.

About

deja

Features
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deja turns your camera roll into a time machine. The name comes from déjà vu — that flash of the familiar. deja gives you that feeling on purpose. Every day, deja deals you a handful of photos from a random moment in your past — a week last spring, a night three years ago — and lets you relive them one by one, like a story. Sit with the good ones, and let the memories you love rise to the top. RELIVE, DON'T SCROLL Your photos come back as a full-screen, cinematic replay — photos, Live Photos, and videos, with the date and place they were taken. Hold to pause. Swipe up to leave a note. CLEAN AS YOU GO Reliving is also tidying. Tap the trash to mark the blurry, the duplicate, and the accidental — then clear them all at once, with a single confirmation. No endless grid, no decision fatigue. See exactly how much space you free. A CARD TO KEEP Every relive ends on something to take away: a card built from one moment of that day — a meal, a walk, an afternoon — rather than a scatter of unrelated shots, captioned with the date, the place, and how long ago it was. Faces and subjects stay whole, never cropped in half. Tap it to deal another. If the moment held a video, the card moves. Share it, or just keep it. Your record — your streak, the memories you've relived, the space you've freed — makes a card too. A CALENDAR OF MEMORIES Every period you relive leaves a mark on your calendar wall, and the photos you love become its covers. Over time it turns into a living, retro map of your life — not a feed, just yours. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Today's memory waits on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Control Center. One tap drops you straight into reliving — no app to open first. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos never leave your device. deja reads your library on-device and stores nothing in the cloud. No account, no upload. FREE FOREVER Cleaning up is free, always — deleting your own photos should never cost anything. Reliving runs on credit: you start with a pool, and you can earn more inside the app. deja Pro lifts the limit for anyone who relives every day. deja Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Contact: deja@techtech.cc Terms of Use: https://techtech.cc/terms Privacy Policy: https://techtech.cc/privacy

Screenshots

Grainient4 screens
deja4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grainient at none against deja's 3. deja's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. deja sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Grainient asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grainient ships an update every 4 days, deja every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grainient versus deja: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrainientdeja
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAni TalakhadzeChung Ping Tseng

In-app purchases

None

Grainient

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

deja

Subscriptions2
  • deja Pro Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
  • deja Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • deja Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Grainient free?
Grainient is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is deja free?
deja is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grainient or deja have ads?
Neither Grainient nor deja shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grainient or deja?
Grainient ships an update every 4 days, and deja every 3 days. Most recently, Grainient was updated on October 2, 2026 and deja on October 12, 2026.

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