Comparison

Comic Book Camera vs Paignion

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

Head to head
About

Comic Book Camera

Transform your photos and videos into comic book panels. Arrange them into pages and albums, add text, and export your creations. Offers a unique live camera filter and a playful, intuitive design for storytelling.

Highlights
  • Live, comics-style camera filter
  • Arrange panels into albums and pages
  • Add text and captions to panels
  • Automatic location and date filling
  • Export at mobile or print resolution
  • Original graphics technology, no AI filters
Features
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Think inside the box. Serialbox frames the world in panels, live in the viewfinder. Part sketchbook, part graphic novel. Shoot or import, arrange your layout, and add text: a caption, a line of dialogue, a full narrative. Every panel builds the bigger picture—a story, a journal, an album for anything. Share a panel or page whenever you like. • Live, comics-style camera filter • Arrange panels into albums and pages • Panels for text, location, and date; location and date fill in automatically • Export at mobile or print resolution • No generative AI filters: Original graphics technology • Custom font based on the author’s wife’s handwriting • No account, no servers: Runs on your iPhone • Playful & intuitive design SERIALBOX FREE Free to use all major features. Create up to three albums. Exported images are small and carry a watermark. SERIALBOX UNLIMITED One In-App Purchase (or subscription) unlocks everything: • No watermarks • Export your original, unfiltered photos • Auto-save shots to your Photos library • High-resolution export • Back up albums to iCloud Drive • Unlimited albums that you can lock, export, import, and set as your default Screenshots include paid features. Privacy Policy: https://www.tinrocket.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.tinrocket.com/terms

About

Paignion

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Retro palettes and pixel patterns, rendered live. No editing after the shot — what you see in the viewfinder is what gets saved. LIVE PIXEL RENDERING Paignion runs a real Metal pixel-effect pipeline on every frame of the live camera feed — palette quantization, pattern, and dithering all happen before you tap the shutter, not as a filter applied afterward. 5 ICONIC PALETTES * Game Boy — the classic 4-shade green handheld display * NES — the 64-color palette from the original console's PPU * PICO-8 — the 16-color fantasy-console system palette * C64 — the Commodore 64's Pepto palette * CGA — the 16-color RGBI palette from early PC graphics Palettes work on their own, or paired with any pattern. 3 PATTERNS + REAL BAYER DITHERING * Mosaic — chunky, blocky pixelation * Dot Screen — a single-channel dot grid * Halftone — a true CMY halftone rosette (three independently rotated ink-channel dot grids), full color or on a palette * Authentic ordered (Bayer) dithering, not a random-noise approximation — works with any palette, and it's never gated SCREEN FX Two screen finishes that turn the viewfinder into a tiny console display: CRT-style scanlines, and an LCD pixel-grid bezel overlay. FREE TO START Shoot with the Original (no filter), Game Boy Cam, and Mosaic Only presets at no cost — Bayer dithering is included free with every palette, always. Full Unlock adds the NES, PICO-8, C64, and CGA palettes, the Dot Screen and Halftone patterns, and both Screen FX finishes — a single one-time purchase, not a subscription. EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'D EXPECT * Pinch to zoom, tap to focus * HEIF capture, saved straight to a dedicated "Paignion" album in your Photos library — no separate account, no cloud * In-app gallery to browse, share, and delete your shots * The preset you shot with is written into every photo's own EXIF No ads. No tracking.

Screenshots

Comic Book Camera4 screens
Paignion4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Comic Book Camera at every 3 days against Paignion's every 8 days. Paignion's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Comic Book Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Paignion sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Comic Book Camera ships an update every 3 days, Paignion every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Comic Book Camera versus Paignion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComic Book CameraPaignion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinrocket, LLCJaehoon Lee

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Comic Book Camera

Subscriptions2
  • Serialbox Unlimited (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Serialbox Unlimited (Yearly)$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Serialbox Unlimited (Lifetime)$19.99
1 purchases

Paignion

One-time1
  • Full Unlock$3.99

Questions

Is Comic Book Camera free?
Comic Book Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paignion free?
Paignion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Comic Book Camera or Paignion have ads?
Neither Comic Book Camera nor Paignion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Comic Book Camera or Paignion?
Comic Book Camera ships an update every 3 days, and Paignion every 8 days. Most recently, Comic Book Camera was updated on October 9, 2026 and Paignion on October 5, 2026.

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