Comparison

ARCH Cam vs Tuck

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

Head to head
About

ARCH Cam

Features
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ARCH Cam is a spatial film camera. Every photo is shot on film: a cinematic film stock and fine grain are baked in the moment you press the shutter. And your shots don't disappear into a grid. They float around you in a 3D arch you can spin, pinch and walk through. - Five film stocks: Standard 500, Chrome 250, Gold 400, Cool 300, Monochrome 100. - Hold the viewfinder to meter: drag up and down for exposure, left to soften the film. - Develop: give photos already in your library the same film look. - Video, graded on the same stocks. - Arches: a spatial room for every trip, month or place. - Formations: sphere, color, helix, cube, cylinder, rings, waves. - Lock-screen and Control Center button straight into the camera. Free: a 24-exposure roll every week. ARCH Cam Pro: unlimited film, yearly or monthly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://recap-arch-privacy.netlify.app

About

Tuck

Features
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Tuck keeps the things you love online, for good. Share a post, article, video or profile to Tuck from Safari or any app, and Tuck saves a clean copy to your own private feed. Scroll it like a social feed, read articles in a calm reader, and tap a video to play it. Posts get deleted, accounts go private and links stop working. What you tuck away stays. ONE PRIVATE FEED • Everything you save lands in Home • Make your own feeds, like Cooking, Hiking or Design, and switch between them from the top of the screen • Show any mix of posts, people, videos, articles or your own posts • Sort by when you saved something or when it was posted • Search across everything you've saved • Lock a feed with Face ID, or keep it out of Home MADE FOR EACH KIND OF CONTENT • Posts show the author, text, images and any quoted post, without the noise • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of font, size and theme, and the original page is saved too so you can read it offline • Videos play right in the feed. Tap one and swipe up to keep watching your saved videos • Save profiles too, and jump straight to them in their own app WHAT TUCK SAVES • X, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon posts, with photos, quoted posts and counts • Reddit, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Telegram posts, with every image and video • Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat captions, photos and covers • YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Bilibili and niconico videos, with their details, playing in the official player • Weibo, RedNote, Douyin, VK and Naver Blog posts • Articles from any website and Substack, Apple Podcasts and Spotify episodes, and profiles everywhere • Any other link, as a card with its title and preview SAVE IN A TAP • Share from any app, or copy a link and tap the add button • Import a list of links, and export everything you've saved • Choose per save whether to keep photos and videos, or just the text and a thumbnail YOUR OWN POSTS Write notes with photos, videos and links straight into any feed, and keep them alongside everything you've saved. LOCAL FEEDS Turn a folder of your own videos and photos into a feed that scrolls like the rest: pick one in Files on iPhone and iPad, or any folder or external drive on the Mac. Tuck only reads the folder; nothing is copied or uploaded. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up • Everything is stored on your device and synced through your own iCloud, and you choose whether photos and videos sync • No ads, no analytics, no tracking • Pages are fetched directly from your device, never through our servers Tuck works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and is made for both screens of iPhone Duo.

Screenshots

ARCH Cam4 screens
Tuck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tuck at none against ARCH Cam's 3. Tuck also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). ARCH Cam's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. ARCH Cam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Tuck asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ARCH Cam ships an update every 6 weeks, Tuck every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
ARCH Cam versus Tuck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterARCH CamTuck
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB11 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBob Van den AudenaerdeRogue Superintelligence LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ARCH Cam

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • ARCH Cam Pro Lifetime$24.99
None

Tuck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ARCH Cam free?
ARCH Cam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tuck free?
Tuck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ARCH Cam or Tuck have ads?
Neither ARCH Cam nor Tuck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ARCH Cam or Tuck?
ARCH Cam ships an update every 6 weeks, and Tuck every 3 days. Most recently, ARCH Cam was updated on October 28, 2026 and Tuck on October 31, 2026.

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