Comparison

GhostFrame vs Before & After

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

Head to head
About

GhostFrame

Capture daily progress with a unique timelapse feature that overlays past photos onto your live camera view. Easily align your shots with intelligent guides and automated capture. Create stunning visual stories of your growth, projects, or memories.

Highlights
  • Daily photo timelapse creation
  • Live ghost guide for alignment
  • Automated photo capture
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Multiple export formats
  • Privacy-focused, on-device processing
Features
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GhostFrame turns one photo a day into a timelapse that actually holds still. Pick a subject — your face, a bump, a baby, a plant, a room mid-renovation — and the camera fades yesterday's shot over the live view. New in 2.0, GhostFrame reads the ghost and the live picture on your iPhone and guides you in: when you're lined up it locks with a tap you can feel, and Auto can take the photo for you. WHAT'S NEW IN 2.0 • Live ghost guide: face tracking for selfie-style projects, scene alignment for everything else, a match score, one plain hint, and a haptic lock. • Auto-shoot and a level line. • Apple Watch: today's frames and streaks, Then vs Now on the Digital Crown, and a remote shutter for the iPhone camera. • Home Screen widget: your streak and latest frame for the project that still needs today's photo — tap to shoot. • Then vs Now: wipe, fade, flicker or side by side between any two frames, plus a share card. • Memory Lane: the photo from a month, 100 days or a year ago today. • Insights: streaks, a calendar of every day you showed up, milestones, your usual shooting time, your ghost-match score. • Export studio: a live storyboard of your video, auto-align steadies every frame; opening title and closing stats; 9:16, 1:1, 4:5, 16:9, 4K and GIF. • A living home where every project plays its own timelapse, a new icon and a new animated tour. ALSO INCLUDED Templates for Face, Bump (week cards), Baby (month cards), Fitness (front/side/back), Plant, Renovation and Anything; import photos you already have on their real dates; ghost from the previous, first or a pinned frame; outline mode; 0.5×/1×/2× lenses; reminders with quiet days that open straight into the camera; zip backups; captions for any video, transcribed on device. PRIVACY Photos and projects stay on your device; alignment runs on device. No account. Anonymous usage stats (never photos or names) can be turned off in Settings. Every feature is included. No subscription, no ads.

About

Before & After

Features
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Pay once. No subscription, no ads, no account. Your photos never leave your device. Before & After lines up two photos of your face automatically — eyes locked, angle corrected, scale matched — and morphs between them so the change is all you see. No pinching, nudging, or ghost-overlay guesswork: pick two photos (or shoot them in-app with a ghost guide) and the alignment happens by itself. Features • Automatic face alignment — eye-locked rotation, scale, and position correction • Smooth morph between the two shots — drag the photo or use the slider • Looping GIF export, ready for iMessage and social • Full-resolution crossfade video export for Reels and Stories (Pro) • Labeled BEFORE / AFTER side-by-side photo export (Pro) • In-app camera with ghost overlay for matched retakes • Mirror toggle for selfie chirality • Works completely offline — no account, no cloud, no analytics For anyone tracking a change that is hard to see day to day: fitness and weight-loss progress, skincare routines, hair growth or regrowth, braces, glow-ups, a year of aging. Free to use: compare unlimited photo pairs and make your first 3 GIF exports free. A one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited exports, removes the watermark, and adds the video and side-by-side formats. No subscription, ever. Privacy: everything runs on your device. Photos are processed locally and never uploaded anywhere.

Screenshots

GhostFrame4 screens
Before & After2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GhostFrame at none against Before & After's 1. 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. Before & After sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GhostFrame asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
GhostFrame versus Before & After: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhostFrameBefore & After
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB5 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperAll Things AI, IncRoman Kopaliani

In-app purchases

None

GhostFrame

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Before & After

One-time1
  • Before & After Pro (lifetime)$4.99

Questions

Is GhostFrame free?
GhostFrame is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Before & After free?
Before & After is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do GhostFrame or Before & After have ads?
Neither GhostFrame nor Before & After shows ads.

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