Comparison

Recaps Pro vs 9PM

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

Head to head
About

Recaps Pro

Create personalized photo dumps, collages, and video recaps from your camera roll. Customize layouts, add text, stickers, and textures for a unique analog feel. Share your creations in various formats for social media or messaging.

Highlights
  • Create photo dumps and collages
  • Make stickers from photos
  • Automatic camera roll sorting
  • Multiple layout formats
  • Add text, stickers, and frames
  • Apply analog textures and filters
  • Export as images, slides, or videos
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Turn your favorite moments into photo dumps, collages and video recaps that feel like you. From the makers of Retro. You've seen Recaps in Retro. Now they have an app of their own, with more ways to create, customize and share. A weekend away. A birthday with friends. The little things that made your month. Recaps brings your photos together and gives you the tools to make something personal. Start with a recap made from your camera roll, choose a template, or build your own from scratch. Made by you, not generated for you Less perfect. More personal. Here's what you get with a subscription to Recaps Pro: • MAKE STICKERS FROM YOUR PHOTOS Turn people, pets and small details into cutout stickers. Mix them with other photos, add borders, and build collages full of the things you love. • A RECAP, ALREADY WAITING Open the app and your camera roll is sorted into layouts: last weekend, life lately, a flashback from months ago. Look back on your week, month or year, or start from an album. • A FORMAT FOR EVERY MOMENT Photo dumps, collages, grids, frames and slideshows. Keep it clean with a simple grid, go nostalgic with film frames, or pile everything into a paper collage. • PLAY WITH THE DETAILS Add text and pick from a dozen fonts. Decorate with hundreds of stickers and frames, or draw with sticker brushes. Move, resize and layer until it feels right. • GIVE IT THAT ANALOG FEEL Color filters, grain, halftone, paper and scanned textures. Add a little warmth or a rough, printed finish. • SHARE IT YOUR WAY Export a single image, a set of slides for a carousel, or a video slideshow. Got stickers on your recap? Make them pop and wiggle in an animated video. Save to your camera roll, share to Retro or Instagram, or send it straight to the group chat. We've poured our hearts into this, and we hope you love it. Say hi at hello@recaps.pro Recaps Pro requires a subscription or is free for Retro Premium users. Terms of use: https://recaps.pro/terms Privacy policy: https://recaps.pro/privacy

About

9PM

This app allows users to share daily photo and video dumps with trusted friends and family. Posts are automatically published at 9 PM, revealing everyone's day. It offers a private space for creative expression without pressure from strangers.

Highlights
  • Daily photo and video posting
  • Automatic 9 PM posting
  • Private social network
  • Trusted contact sharing
  • Visual life diary
  • React, reply, and share
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9PM IS REALLY SIMPLE 1. Choose photos and videos from your camera roll. 2. Your daily photo dump is automatically posted at 9:00 PM. 3. At 9PM, everyone’s day is revealed together. 4. React, reply, hug your friends. 9PM is built around one simple daily habit: share your day with the people you trust, then come back at 9PM to see theirs. Over time, your profile becomes a visual diary of your life, one 9PM at a time. There’s no algorithm. Every post comes from someone you added, and every profile is private. New to 9PM? Use invite code 95466 and add fredd. That’s me, the founder. MEMBERSHIP Some features require a membership. CONTACT hello@9pm.app Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Recaps Pro4 screens
9PM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Recaps Pro at 100% against 9PM's 50%. Recaps Pro also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). 9PM's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). 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. Recaps Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and 9PM sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

9PM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recaps Pro has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Recaps Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of 9PM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recaps Pro ships an update fortnightly, 9PM weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Recaps Pro versus 9PM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecaps Pro9PM
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size292 MB142 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLone Palm Labs, Inc.9PM Inc.

Customer experience

Recaps Pro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

9PM

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Recaps Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly Premium Membership$4.997 Days
  • Annual Premium Membership7 Days trial$36.001 Year
  • Annual Premium Membership1 Month trial2 variants$36.001 Year
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  • Annual Premium Membership3 Days trial$36.001 Year
6 purchases

9PM

Subscriptions2
  • 9PM Membership Weekly$4.997 Days
  • 9PM Membership Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • Claim a Username$4.99
  • Claim a 3-Letter Username$49.99
  • Claim a 2-Letter Username$499.99
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  • Claim a 1-Letter Username$999.99

Questions

Is Recaps Pro free?
Recaps Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 9PM free?
9PM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recaps Pro or 9PM?
9PM is rated higher. Recaps Pro averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while 9PM averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Recaps Pro or 9PM have ads?
Neither Recaps Pro nor 9PM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recaps Pro or 9PM?
Recaps Pro ships an update fortnightly, and 9PM weekly. Most recently, Recaps Pro was updated on November 10, 2026 and 9PM on November 10, 2026.

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