Comparison

fff vs ALIGNED

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

Head to head
About

fff

Features
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[So many photos. So few you look at again] Thousands of shots sit in your camera roll, and only a handful ever see daylight. fff turns them into a magazine. The kind you actually want to flip through. [Every day, like a scene from a film] A quiet café, the walk home, a friend mid-laugh. Shot with 8 film looks inspired by movies, the days you’d usually scroll past become ones worth keeping. 13 instant photo frames, too. [A day on a page. A month in an issue] Pick one of 18 templates and drop in your photos. Move and style text, photos and stickers anywhere you like. When the pages add up, give them a cover, bind them into a magazine, and flip through it like paper. [One magazine, made together] Start a magazine, invite friends, and everyone adds pages from their own phone. The same days, seen through different eyes, all in one issue. [Only for the people you choose] No followers. No strangers. Only the friends you choose and the people making it with you can see it. [fff, favorite film folder] Like a folder of film you keep tucked away in a drawer. Open it with the people you love.

About

ALIGNED

Features
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ALIGNED — get every page aligned. ALIGNED is a layout tool built for multi-page Instagram carousels. Place photos, text and video across pages like a magazine spread, align them precisely, preview, and export the whole set at once. ■ An alignment system you rarely see Three-level magnetic snapping, pull-out guides, multi-object align & distribute, and cross-page alignment. Every element lands exactly where it should. ■ Real typography, including CJK Vertical (top-to-bottom) text with proper punctuation forms, letter spacing, line height and optical centering that behave the same in every direction. Commercial-use fonts built in, and you can import your own. ■ Not just images — video too Drop video into your workspace and export a whole page (image + text + video) as an mp4. ■ Made for iPhone and iPad Same app, same projects. On iPad: a sidebar toolbar (switchable for left- or right-handed use), keyboard shortcuts and trackpad pointer support. Highlights • Up to 20 pages, edit across page boundaries • 8-point crop, straighten, shape masks & borders • Shapes, cut-out stickers, grid layouts • Text shadow, background, style presets • Carousel / continuous / Threads previews • Reverse-order save, so your IG upload order is right • Works fully offline — your work stays on your device Free, and genuinely usable The core is free forever with no watermark: multi-page editing, the alignment engine, guides, cropping, fonts and image export. ALIGNED Pro (subscription) Unlocks video export (including full-page mp4 compositing) and cross-project copy. Monthly or yearly (yearly ≈ 40% off), each with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings; Pro stays active until the end of the paid period. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hilarious-aftershave-5aa.notion.site/ALIGN-3951b5c06b9a81b69736e9c7845fef0e

Screenshots

fff4 screens
ALIGNED3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: fff at none against ALIGNED's 2. ALIGNED's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ALIGNED sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. fff asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

fff ships an update every 5 months, ALIGNED every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
fff versus ALIGNED: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfffALIGNED
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB132 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeokyung LeeWEI-MING KAO

In-app purchases

None

fff

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ALIGNED

Subscriptions2
  • ALIGNED Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • ALIGNED Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is fff free?
fff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ALIGNED free?
ALIGNED is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do fff or ALIGNED have ads?
Neither fff nor ALIGNED shows ads.
Which is updated more often, fff or ALIGNED?
fff ships an update every 5 months, and ALIGNED every 3 days. Most recently, fff was updated on October 31, 2026 and ALIGNED on November 5, 2026.

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