Comparison

Rolls vs WorthWait

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

Head to head
About

Rolls

This app encourages intentional photography by limiting the number of shots per roll and delaying photo development. It helps users capture fewer, more meaningful memories without the pressure of instant previews or social sharing.

Highlights
  • Limited shot rolls
  • Delayed photo development
  • No instant previews
  • Private albums
  • Export options
  • No social feed
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Rolls is a quiet camera app that helps you take fewer photos, more intentionally. Choose your roll length. Take your shots and wait to develop. Once you start, every photo counts. No endless retakes. No scrolling through twenty versions of the same moment. No feed. Your photos stay hidden until the roll is complete. Then they develop into a private album you can name, keep, and export when you’re ready. Rolls is built for walks, weekends, trips, dates, ordinary days, and the small moments that are easy to over-capture and forget. Take less. Keep more. Features: • Choose from 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 64 shot limits • Shoot without instant previews • Finish or end a roll early to develop it • Choose a cover photo for each album • Name and tag your rolls • View completed rolls in a private timeline • Export individual photos, selected photos, or full albums • No accounts, no likes, no social feed Rolls is a camera with limits, designed to make your photos feel considered again. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

WorthWait

This app simulates a 35mm film camera experience, offering 24 exposures per roll. Photos are only viewable 24 hours after the roll is finished, encouraging mindful photography without immediate review or editing.

Highlights
  • 24 exposures per roll
  • 24-hour photo development delay
  • No preview or deletion before development
  • Four distinct film styles
  • Manual exposure and focus controls
  • Blind mode for viewfinder-free shooting
  • 35mm framing on all devices
Features
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A camera with a roll of 24 frames you can't look at until tomorrow. That's the whole product. Not a technical limitation, not a feature we forgot to build: it's the decision everything else comes from. HOW IT WORKS You open a roll. You get 24 exposures — 36 with Plena. No preview, no review screen, no deleting mid-frame. When you shoot the last one, the roll goes in to develop and twenty-four hours begin. When they're up, it opens all at once: every frame together, the one that came out perfectly beside the one you don't remember taking. The clock doesn't start until you finish the roll. A roll can take you an afternoon or spread across three days. Nobody is rushing you. WHY YOU CAN'T LOOK Because being able to look changes what you do with the camera in your hand. The moment reviewing is possible, you start shooting for the review: you take it again, you find the safe angle, you delete what doesn't convince you. Without that possibility, you shoot for what you're living through, not for what you think will look good three seconds later. And yes, we know that not looking itches. That itch isn't a side effect we tolerate. It's the sign that the photograph still mattered to you when you took it. NOTHING INVENTED No generative AI. No interpolation. WorthWait adds nothing: no smoothed faces, no recomposed skies, no corrected skin. It gives you the pixels the camera captured, and not one invented. No digital zoom either. A crop you decide with your fingers isn't zoom — it's resolution you give up instead of stepping closer. THIRTY-FIVE MILLIMETERS WorthWait frames at 35mm. Always, on every phone. Not a setting, not a mode you switch on: it's the focal length the camera works at, and it never changes. FOUR FILMS, NOT FILTERS Original, Flat, Negative, Positive. Each one gives a whole roll its character before you take the first frame, the way you chose your film before loading the camera. They interpret color and contrast. They don't invent detail that wasn't there, and they don't rescue a technically bad photograph. EXPOSURE AND FOCUS, IF YOU WANT THEM Drag a finger across the viewfinder to change exposure: the whole screen is the control, no buttons on the image. Focus where you want, or let the camera do it. None of it shows up unless you look for it. Untouched, WorthWait shoots fully automatic, like a disposable. Touched, it's as precise as you want it to be. BLIND MODE Turn the viewfinder off completely. No screen, no frame, no last crutch to check against: light, instinct, and your hand. It isn't for every moment. It's there for when you want to take the trust one step further. PLENA — ONE PAYMENT No subscription, no renewal. Plena gives you rolls of 36, the number a full roll carried. It develops when you ask, once the roll is complete. And it gives you Camera Only: viewfinder and shutter, nothing else around them. What will never sit behind a payment: the camera skins, the four films, and the aspect ratio. How your camera looks and how your photographs feel are not merchandise. YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE YOURS No account. No sign-up. No cloud. Your photographs live in your phone's private storage and we never see them, because we never have them. When a roll develops, you can export it to your gallery. THIS APP ISN'T FOR YOU IF You want to see the photograph right away. You want to edit. You want to set ISO and shutter speed by hand, number by number. You want to delete the ones that didn't work. All of that exists, it's good that it exists, and there are excellent apps for it. It just isn't here, and it isn't coming. All things develop in time.

Screenshots

Rolls4 screens
WorthWait4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: WorthWait at 15.0 against Rolls's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Rolls sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and WorthWait sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rolls ships an update weekly, WorthWait every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Rolls versus WorthWait: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRollsWorthWait
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTristan JarrettDennis Berti

Customer experience

Rolls

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WorthWait

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Rolls

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Watermarks$2.99
  • Pro Lifetime$24.99
1 purchases

WorthWait

One-time1
  • WorthWait Plena$14.99

Questions

Is Rolls free?
Rolls is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WorthWait free?
WorthWait is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rolls or WorthWait have ads?
Neither Rolls nor WorthWait shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rolls or WorthWait?
Rolls ships an update weekly, and WorthWait every 5 days. Most recently, Rolls was updated on October 31, 2026 and WorthWait on November 10, 2026.

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