Project Sixty vs theLAB
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Project Sixty
This app offers a unique video recording experience focused on capturing moments differently. It emphasizes a single constraint for recording, an ad-free archive organized by time and place, and the ability to add voice commentary to memories. Your recordings are stored privately in your iCloud Photo Library.
- Single recording constraint
- Landscape-only recording
- Ad-free archive
- Organized by time and place
- Voice commentary on memories
- iCloud Photo Library storage
- No social features
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Sixty is a video camera built around a single constraint. The constraint is the whole product. You'll discover it the first time you press record. It will feel inconvenient. That's the point. This app is not for capturing more. It's for capturing differently… in a way your future self can actually return to. If you've ever scrolled back through your camera roll looking for a moment and found only fragments of it, you already understand the problem Sixty exists to solve. THE CAMERA Rotate your phone to landscape to record. Let the moment unfold. Your phone becomes a window, not a mirror. There is no filter, no edit screen. The camera does one thing. THE ARCHIVE Your captures live quietly, organized by time and place. No likes. No comments. No grid optimized for thumbnails. A room in your phone that asks nothing of you and waits patiently for you to come back. COMMENTARY Speak over a memory while you watch it back. Who was there. What was happening. How it felt. Your voice becomes the way the memory is remembered and it's searchable later by feeling, not just by date. The recording itself is discarded. Only the meaning is kept. WHERE YOUR VIDEOS LIVE In your iCloud Photo Library. Not on our servers. We have never seen them and we never will. If you delete Sixty tomorrow, your captures remain. The archive is yours. WHAT'S NOT HERE No feed. No followers. No likes. No streaks. No advertising, ever. Sixty starts the day you install it. MADE BY ONE PERSON Sixty is built by a parent who got tired of losing the best parts of his children's childhood to seven-second clips. There is no growth team. There is no roadmap optimized for retention. There is one person, one constraint, and an archive worth keeping. Read more at projectsixty.co.
theLAB
Create unique photographic images with a film-inspired editor. Apply color, texture, and scan character using a variety of tools and effects. Offers hands-on control for photographers seeking a distinct aesthetic.
- Film-inspired color and monochrome looks
- Scanned grain and cinema-style grain
- Lab scan profiles and correction
- Halation, scanner noise, borders, textures
- Light leaks and artifacts
- Saved looks for repeatable styles
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theLAB is a film-inspired photo editor for building finished images with color, texture, and scan character. Import an image, then shape it with film looks, scanned grain, lab-style color, halation, borders, paper textures, light leaks, artifacts, and crop tools. Designed for photographers who want more than a simple filter, theLAB gives you hands-on control over the feel of the image: density, warmth, tone bias, grain range, scan character, border placement, and finishing details. Features include: - Film-inspired color and monochrome looks - Scanned grain and cinema-style grain options - Lab scan profiles and scan correction controls - Halation, scanner noise, borders, textures, light leaks, and artifacts - Camera capture, photo import, file import, and share tools - Saved looks for building a repeatable editing style theLAB includes a free editing mode. theLAB Pro unlocks the full film stock library, advanced lab controls, additional grain scans, premium finishing assets, and high-quality export options. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://calebsalvadori.com/thelab
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Project Sixty at none against theLAB's 3. theLAB's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. theLAB sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Project Sixty asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Project Sixty against 5.0 for theLAB. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: theLAB has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Project Sixty ships an update every 3 weeks, theLAB every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Project Sixty | theLAB |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 504 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sixty, LLC | Caleb Salvadori |
Customer experience
Project Sixty
theLAB
In-app purchases
Project Sixty
No in-app purchases
theLAB
- theLAB Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- theLAB Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- theLAB Pro Lifetime$74.99









