ArtDeck vs FrameGlimpse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArtDeck
Organize visual inspiration and study images with this app. Create moodboards by collecting images, videos, links, and notes, then analyze their composition, color, and values. Seamlessly sync your boards across all your Apple devices for easy access.
- Collect images, videos, and links
- Create moodboards and reference boards
- Analyze image values, color, and composition
- Sync boards across Apple devices
- Offline access to boards
- Annotate and draw on images
- Organize with infinite canvas
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ArtDeck is a reference board for iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Collect images, videos, links, and notes, then arrange and zoom them on an infinite canvas. Make a moodboard or open the built-in tools when you want to analyze value, color, composition, or motion. You can also keep references next to Procreate on iPad or your creative apps on Mac. iCloud sync is optional. CAPTURE NOW, USE IT ANYWHERE See a texture, a color combination, or a striking composition while you're out? Take a photo right inside ArtDeck and drop it on a board. Because your boards sync, it's there on your Mac and iPad, ready next to your design, 3D, or drawing tools. COLLECT FROM ANYWHERE • Shoot photos and video on iPhone and iPad; on Mac, take the photo with the webcam or your iPhone • Import from Photos or Files • Scan a document on iPhone or iPad, or use Continuity Camera on Mac • Save any link as a card, or paste a link to an image, video, or PDF to import it • Drag and drop, paste, or use the Share menu from any other app • Opens all common image formats, plus WebP, AVIF, JXL, HDR, EXR, and SVG. Video, GIFs, and PDFs up to 300 pages • HDR images and video at full brightness on capable screens, for the whole app or per board STUDY WHAT YOU COLLECT Study any image or video frame through the ToolBox's five lenses, without touching the original: • Values: grayscale, a value ladder, and Notan to read your darks and lights • Color: pull a palette from any image, or see its temperature and saturation zones • Composition: overlay grids, test new framings, or check the symmetry • Read: simplify to the big shapes, find where detail piles up, follow the edge hierarchy • Measure: drop plumb lines, read an angle off a snapping guide, and compare two lengths The Analysis panel shows value range, a histogram, hue, saturation, and color distribution. Export a study, or keep a copy on your board. Step through GIFs and video frame by frame, with onion skin and a GIF filmstrip ANNOTATE AND DRAW • Mark up an image, or draw directly: pen, highlighter, and shapes • Draw a stroke, then hold at the end to straighten it ARRANGE IT YOUR WAY • An infinite canvas to drag, scale, rotate, and zoom • Snap to objects and grid; align, distribute, and tidy up • Group and nest, reorder, lock, with undo and redo YOUR BOARDS, EVERYWHERE • The same boards on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, synced through your iCloud • Works fully offline: sync catches up when you're back online • Choose which boards sync • Split View and Stage Manager on iPad • Keep your window on top of the others on Mac YOUR GALLERY • Carousel and grid views of every board • Labels and multi-label filtering • Favorite, archive, rename, or duplicate any board MAKE IT YOURS • Dark, light, and high-contrast themes • Set one theme for the whole app, or one per board • An editor to fine-tune the colors and create your own themes • Import and export themes by file or link ACCESSIBILITY • VoiceOver support across the app, including items on the canvas • Respects Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion • A theme editor that checks color contrast and flags colors that are hard to tell apart EXPORT AND HAND OFF • Export a whole board or just a selection • PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or PDF, up to 8K, with a transparent background where the format allows • Save a whole board as one .artdeck file to back up or hand off TRY IT FREE, KEEP IT FOR LIFE Start with a free, individual 7-Day Trial. It does not renew. Lifetime Access is a one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription. No separate ArtDeck account is required. Keep what catches your eye.
FrameGlimpse
Extract high-quality still images, Live Photos, or GIFs from your videos and Live Photos. Organize your photo library by identifying screenshots, duplicates, and other clutter. Rediscover forgotten moments with a 'Memories' feature.
- Extract frames as Live Photos, stills, or GIFs
- Frame-by-frame video browsing
- Photo library organization
- Customizable aspect ratios and playback settings
- HDR and SDR video support
- On-device intelligence for moment detection
- Rediscover past moments with 'Memories'
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FrameGlimpse helps you find and save memorable moments. You can go through videos frame by frame, choose a cover frame, crop images and save them as new photos. You can also clean up your photo library by finding screenshots, duplicate photos, screen recordings, receipts, barcodes, photos of where you parked and empty albums to help free up space. The Memories feature lets you look back at moments from this day in years past. Key Features: - Extract frames from videos and Live Photos. Go through footage frame by frame and save moments as Live Photos, still images or GIFs, while keeping the original date, time and location information. - Find the best moments in your videos using on-device intelligence. - Adjust clip duration, playback mode, playback speed, image quality and frame rate. - Crop images using a custom aspect ratio or choose the original ratio, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9. - Support for HDR and SDR video, with HDR exports that preserve HDR quality. - Revisit moments from this day in years past, browse memories by location or view them in a Home Screen widget. - Swipe through your library like you would short videos to rediscover memorable moments. You can also explore memories from the same day or nearby locations. - Clean up your photo library. Find old screenshots, duplicate photos, similar photos, very short videos, screen recordings, selfies, photos of where you parked, barcodes, receipts and ID documents. More categories will be added over time. - Create GIF stickers for WeChat directly from the GIF export screen. Pro Features: - Export to the Files app. Exporting to your photo library is completely free. - Unlock more options, including GIFs that play forward and backward, advanced photo cleanup tools and Live Photo exports longer than 10 seconds. - Batch-export candidate frames and organize your photo library in bulk. Useful for: - Saving a special moment from a video of your baby, pet, vacation, party, concert or sporting event. - Getting a high-quality still image from a video when you forgot to take a photo. - Turning video clips into Live Photos or GIFs to share. - Looking back on old memories. - Quickly clearing unwanted items from your photo library. Privacy: - Only accesses the photos and videos you authorize. - All recognition, analysis and organization happen on your device. Your photos and videos are never uploaded. - No account required. No ads. Privacy Policy: https://wwmmkk.github.io/FrameGlimpse/PrivacyPolicy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ArtDeck at none against FrameGlimpse's 3. ArtDeck also leads on device support (3 vs 1). FrameGlimpse's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. FrameGlimpse sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. ArtDeck asks for nothing beyond the download.
FrameGlimpse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
ArtDeck ships an update weekly, FrameGlimpse daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ArtDeck | FrameGlimpse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexandre Alves | 名楷 王 |
Customer experience
ArtDeck
FrameGlimpse
In-app purchases
ArtDeck
No in-app purchases
FrameGlimpse
- FrameGlimpse Pro - Monthly$3.991 Month
- FrameGlimpse Pro - Yearly$12.991 Year
- FrameGlimpse Pro - Lifetime$24.99









