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

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; 0.5Ɨ/1Ɨ/2Ɨ 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.

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Before & After

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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 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. Before & After sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GhostFrame asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
GhostFrame versus Before & After: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhostFrameBefore & After
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 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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