Comparison

PicLens vs Stourk

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

Head to head
About

PicLens

Features
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FIND YOURSELF IN EVERY PHOTO — WITH AI Upload a single selfie and let PicLens scan every photo from your events or weddings. Our AI face-matching technology identifies every picture with you in it across thousands of shots — from the ceremony to the reception, from the dance floor to the décor table. No more scrolling through 1,200 photos hoping you spot yourself. Your gallery finds you. VIEW ALL YOUR MEMORIES, ORGANIZED BY EVENT Every photo from your wedding — ceremony, Mehendi, Sangeet, reception — is organized into one beautiful, browsable gallery. Switch between events instantly. Filter by your face. See the full story of your day, exactly as it unfolded. SHARE IN ONE TAP Sharing photos with family and friends has never been simpler. Select as many photos as you want and share them all at once. Download your favorites in bulk. No more forwarding one photo at a time over messaging apps, no more links that expire, no more hunting through group chats. JOIN WITH AN INVITE CODE OR QR SCAN Attending a wedding? Join the shared gallery instantly by scanning a QR code or entering an invite code. No complicated sign-ups or account linking. Every guest — from grandparents to college friends — can access their memories in seconds.

About

Stourk

This app transforms your photo library into a visual journey across an illustrated atlas. It uses photo metadata to create animated routes, personalized postcards from visited cities, and passport stamps for countries. Save journeys as posters or videos to share.

Highlights
  • Photo metadata journey visualization
  • Illustrated atlas map
  • City-specific digital postcards
  • Country passport stamps
  • Journey saving as posters/videos
  • Private by design, no account needed
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Your photos already know where you have been. Stourk reads only the date and place stored with them and turns the whole collection into a journey: a stork carrying your memories across an illustrated atlas, city by city, year by year. WATCH THE JOURNEY Choose a year, or your whole life, and watch the places become a route. The map is a printed atlas, not a satellite view; the route is drawn as the shortest arc between the places your photos know. Scrub through it, jump to a moment, and see the photographs from that stop as you pass. THE POST Every city you stayed in writes to you. Its letter is addressed by hand, stamped with the city's own postage, and postmarked by the Stourk postal service. Tear one open and the city's own note comes out first, then the photographs from that city. THE PASSPORT Every country you entered is stamped into a passport: rubber ink, struck askew, dated. Turn the pages. Tilt your iPhone and the pages keep a surprise for you. THE CASE Journeys earn luggage labels. They stick to a suitcase you keep. KEEPSAKES Save a journey as a poster or a short film, and share it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Stourk has no account, no server and no analytics. It reads photo dates and locations on your iPhone, keeps what it builds there, and never uploads a photograph or a place. Your library is read-only to it. Clear the local data whenever you like; Stourk will not read your library again until you ask. The only network traffic is the map itself, vector tiles from OpenFreeMap with data from OpenStreetMap contributors, and, for a photo that lives only in iCloud, that photo from Apple. English and Turkish.

Screenshots

PicLens4 screens
Stourk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: PicLens at 3 against Stourk's 1. PicLens also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PicLens versus Stourk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicLensStourk
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyDailyDaily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaapchik GamesIBRAHIM KUCUKKAYA

In-app purchases

None

PicLens

No in-app purchases

None

Stourk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PicLens free?
PicLens is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stourk free?
Stourk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PicLens or Stourk have ads?
Neither PicLens nor Stourk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PicLens or Stourk?
PicLens ships an update daily, and Stourk daily. Most recently, PicLens was updated on October 25, 2026 and Stourk on October 16, 2026.

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