Comparison

Fondo Live vs Tonefold

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

Head to head
About

Fondo Live

Transform video clips into dynamic Live Photo wallpapers for your iPhone Lock Screen. Easily trim your favorite moments and set them as animated backgrounds. The app provides a built-in guide for seamless setup.

Highlights
  • Video to Live Photo conversion
  • Precise video trimming
  • Live preview during trimming
  • Export with progress indicator
  • Step-by-step setup guide
Features
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Turn your favorite moments into a Live Photo wallpaper for your iPhone Lock Screen. Fondo Live lets you pick a video from your library, trim the perfect segment, and export it as a Live Photo saved directly to Photos. From there, you can set it as your Lock Screen wallpaper and enable Motion for the Live Photo effect. Key Features • Video → Live Photo: Convert a short video moment into a Live Photo you can use as wallpaper. • Precise trimming: Drag the trim selector to choose the exact part you want. • Preview while you trim: Quickly preview the selected moment before exporting. • Export with progress: Clear export status and a success confirmation when it’s saved. • Built‑in setup guide: Step‑by‑step instructions to set your Live Photo as a Lock Screen wallpaper and enable Motion.

About

Tonefold

This photo editor offers a suite of AI-powered tools and one-tap styles to enhance your images. All edits are performed offline, ensuring your privacy and data remain on your device. Refine colors, apply artistic looks, or make precise adjustments with ease.

Highlights
  • Offline AI editing tools
  • One-tap style 'Looks'
  • Color and light adjustments
  • Transform and crop tools
  • Brush and mask refinement
  • Export to PNG, JPEG, HEIC
Features
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Tonefold is a fast, private photo editor that runs fully offline on your iPhone. Open a photo, restyle it with Looks, refine color and light, or start a blank canvas and stack photos as layers — all without an account or internet. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Blank canvas — pick a preset size or set your own, choose a white, black, gray, or transparent background, then place photos on the page • Photo layers — add more than one photo, move, pinch to resize, rotate with two fingers, and drag a handle to resize. Reorder, hide, lock, duplicate, flip, align, and flatten • Offline AI tools — cut out subjects, portrait bokeh, background blur, sky replace, skin smooth, denoise, and more • Looks — cinematic, golden hour, teal & orange, film noir, neon night, soft portrait, and more one-tap styles • Color & light — brightness, contrast, warmth, exposure, curves, HSL, sharpen, and grain • Transform — rotate, flip, crop to social ratios, straighten, and resize • Brush & mask refine — paint on photos or clean up cutout edges • Export — save PNG, JPEG, or HEIC to your Tonefold album, or share instantly WHY TONEFOLD • Fully offline — edits stay on your device • Built for speed — live previews while you drag sliders • Works in portrait and landscape • Simple tools with clear tips when you need them • Recent edits so you can jump back in Take a photo, pick from your library, or start a new canvas — and make it feel a little more you, with Tonefold.

Screenshots

Fondo Live4 screens
Tonefold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fondo Live at none against Tonefold's shown. On price, rating, ratings volume 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fondo Live against 5.0 for Tonefold. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fondo Live versus Tonefold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFondo LiveTonefold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHamza BoulahfaVinh Tam Tan

In-app purchases

None

Fondo Live

No in-app purchases

None

Tonefold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fondo Live free?
Fondo Live is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tonefold free?
Tonefold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fondo Live or Tonefold?
Fondo Live and Tonefold are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Fondo Live or Tonefold have ads?
Tonefold shows ads; Fondo Live does not.

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