Comparison

Sephalight vs Immersive Border

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

Head to head
About

Sephalight

A minimalist color tool for designers and developers. Offers pre-built color schemes and supports HEX/RGB value copying. Includes an icon generator for App Store compliance, providing an efficient and elegant coloring experience.

Highlights
  • Minimalist color tool
  • High-quality color schemes
  • HEX/RGB color value copying
  • App Store compliant icon generator
  • Clean interface
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Sephalight brings cinematic capture, detailed color tools, and personal finishing touches into one creative workflow. Capture with character: Shoot photos and videos with live LUT previews, a 21:9 frame, and manual exposure, white balance, and focus controls. Refine every shade: Adjust exposure, curves, HSL, color grading, masks, and grain. Import .cube LUTs to shape your own look. Make it yours: Add camera details, device information, time, location, a signature, or a color palette as a watermark, then export to your photo library. Create on iPhone, iPad, and iPhone Duo, with an editing layout that adapts to the space you have.

About

Immersive Border

Enhance your photos with a wide variety of artistic frames and borders. Customize colors, margins, and add metadata like camera details. Processed entirely on-device for privacy.

Highlights
  • 24 curated frame presets
  • Customizable margins, colors, and shadows
  • Add camera metadata to photos
  • On-device photo processing
  • Standard and high-quality export options
  • Save custom styles
Features
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Give every photo a frame that feels intentional. CHOOSE A LOOK Start with 24 curated presets, from classic white borders and immersive backgrounds to tickets, postage stamps, 35mm film, a camera viewfinder, vinyl records, and a realistic museum gallery. Swipe between styles while keeping your selected photo. COMPOSE YOUR PHOTO Double-tap the photo or open Crop. Use the theme’s recommended ratio, a common photo ratio, or your own dimensions. Pinch to zoom and drag to adjust the composition. Your original photo is preserved. The museum frame adapts to the photo’s shape, with four gallery backgrounds to choose from. MAKE A STYLE YOUR OWN Adjust the available margins, colors, corners, and shadows with full-screen previews. Changes are temporary until you tap Save Preset to save a custom style. Personalize text on tickets, stamps, and other text-based themes. Keep text specific to one photo, or turn on Include Custom Text when saving a preset to reuse your edited text across a project. Fields you leave automatic continue to update with each photo. Ticket colors can match your photo automatically or use your own palette. Favorite and duplicate presets with a long press, and reuse your custom styles later. DETAILS FROM YOUR CAMERA Display available camera model, lens, exposure, date, and place information from your photo’s metadata. Film and vinyl themes use the actual camera model when it is available. STANDARD AND HIGH QUALITY EXPORTS Save the finished image to a dedicated album in Photos or share through the iOS share sheet. Standard export, up to 2400 px on the longest edge, is free and selected by default. An optional one-time Pro purchase unlocks High Quality export up to 6000 px. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos are processed on your device. No account, ads, analytics, tracking, or developer server. When a selected photo contains coordinates, Apple system geocoding may be used to display a place name. No subscription. No sign-in. Standard export stays free.

Screenshots

Sephalight1 screens
Immersive Border4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Immersive Border at Free against Sephalight's $1.99. Immersive Border also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Sephalight's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Immersive Border is free to download; Sephalight costs $1.99 up front. Immersive Border sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sephalight asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sephalight against 5.0 for Immersive Border. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sephalight ships an update every 4 days, Immersive Border every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sephalight versus Immersive Border: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSephalightImmersive Border
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer祖浪 吴全鹏 宋

Customer experience

Sephalight

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Immersive Border

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sephalight

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Immersive Border

One-time1
  • Immersive Border Pro Lifetime$0.99

Questions

Is Sephalight free?
Sephalight costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Immersive Border free?
Immersive Border is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sephalight or Immersive Border?
Sephalight and Immersive Border are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Sephalight or Immersive Border have ads?
Neither Sephalight nor Immersive Border shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sephalight or Immersive Border?
Sephalight ships an update every 4 days, and Immersive Border every 2 days. Most recently, Sephalight was updated on October 28, 2026 and Immersive Border on October 17, 2026.

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