Comparison

21Pix vs Tinycam

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

Head to head
About

21Pix

Features
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Remember disposable cameras? The waiting. The not-knowing. The little envelope of prints that always held a few surprises. 21Pix brings that feeling back โ€” through your phone, but with real photographs that end up on your doormat. HOW IT WORKS You get 21 shots. Frame each one through a tiny viewfinder โ€” no live preview, no filters, no deletes, no retakes. When the roll is full, order your prints โ€” they're printed on real 10ร—15 cm glossy photo paper and shipped to your address. A few days later, an envelope lands on your doormat. You open it. You see what you actually shot. Some are great. Some are blurry. All of them are surprises. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - No previews, no retakes โ€” Shoot blind. Discover later. The wait is the feature. - 21 shots per roll โ€” A hard limit makes every frame matter. The same number of exposures as a classic disposable. - Real photo prints by mail โ€” Premium 10ร—15 cm photographs on real photo paper, shipped across the EU. Not pixels. Paper. - Slow on purpose โ€” Mechanical shutter sound, real shake on capture, no previews and no retakes. We rebuilt the whole ritual. - Private and ad-free โ€” No tracking, no ads, no AI scraping, no behavioural profiling. Photos are deleted from our servers after we print them. - Made in the EU โ€” EU servers, EU printing, ships across the EU. WHAT LANDS ON YOUR DOORMAT Real 10ร—15 cm prints on glossy photo paper. Made for fridges, shoeboxes, and the back of a bedroom mirror โ€” not for feeds. Hold them. Stick them up. Mail them to someone. WHERE WE SHIP Across the EU: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany. More countries coming. PRICING The app is free. Each roll's price covers 21 prints on real paper plus shipping to your door. Final price shown before checkout. No subscriptions, no hidden costs. MADE BY HUMANS We're a small team. Real people answer your emails at info@21pixapp.com Forget what you shot. Be delighted by it later.

About

Tinycam

Features
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Tinycam is a camera for the everyday moments you skip because your phone is nearly full. Every photo is compressed the moment you take it, to about 58 KB instead of a few megabytes. Thirty to forty Tinycam photos fit in the space of one ordinary iPhone photo, with no visible quality loss on your screen. There is no quality setting to get wrong. It is fixed, and it is invisible. TAP FOR A PHOTO. HOLD FOR A VIDEO. One shutter and no modes. The app opens straight to the viewfinder, so the moment is still there when you are ready for it. EVERY DAY, ALREADY SORTED Pull up from the viewfinder and every memory is there, filed by day and month like prints in folders, with the place you were written in the margin. Only your moments: no screenshots, no receipts, no scans. Pinch to step back from one big print to a whole year on one screen, and search by place or by date. A PHOTO DIARY THAT KEEPS ITSELF Shoot the small things: breakfast, the walk home, the kids at the park. A year later the ordinary Tuesday is the one you go back to. Open any memory to relive it like a print, with the rest of the month in a strip beneath it. FAVORITES, PRIVATE AND RECENTLY DELETED Heart the prints you love. Move the ones that are only for you to Private, locked with Face ID. Deleted memories wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days, in case you change your mind. NO CLOUD. NO LOGIN. JUST YOURS. No account, no sign in, no uploads, no feed, no ads and no analytics. Photos and videos stay in Tinycam's own storage on your phone, apart from your camera roll, and they are yours to save, share or delete whenever you want. Location is optional and only asked for after your first shot. WHAT IS IN IT - Photos at about 58 KB, videos at 720p in 30 second clips - A timeline grouped by day, month and year, named by the places you were - Search by place or by date - Favorites, a Private shelf locked with Face ID, and Recently Deleted - Save any memory to Photos, or share it - A home screen widget of your latest prints - A lock screen camera and a Control Center control on iOS 18 - Made for iPhone, and works on iPad Free, with no subscription. Your memories stay on your phone.

Screenshots

21Pix4 screens
Tinycam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tinycam at none against 21Pix's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
21Pix versus Tinycam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter21PixTinycam
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size28 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRick GroenewegenShyjal Raazi

In-app purchases

None

21Pix

No in-app purchases

None

Tinycam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 21Pix free?
21Pix is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tinycam free?
Tinycam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 21Pix or Tinycam have ads?
21Pix shows ads; Tinycam does not.

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