Comparison

Recaps Pro vs Afterfade

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

Afterfade

Capture fleeting moments by recording five-second video clips that are transformed into unique musical tracks. Collect seven clips to create a music video and a personalized cassette tape visualization. Your memories are processed entirely on-device and can be exported.

Highlights
  • Record 5-second video clips
  • Extracts color and sound for music
  • Composes music on-device
  • Seven captures create one track
  • Generates dreamcore music videos
  • Exports music videos and cassette visuals
Features
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Memory loses its sound first. Rain on the window. An announcement at the station. A friend laughing at something you've already forgotten. You were there — but by next week the sound is gone. Photos survive. Sound doesn't. Afterfade exists for that gap. FIVE SECONDS. THAT'S THE WHOLE THING. Point your camera at whatever is in front of you and hold it for five seconds. A sunset, a train platform, the coffee on your desk. Nothing to write, nothing to edit, nothing to make prettier. Five seconds and you're done. There's no daily quota to keep up with. Like a roll of film sitting in your bag, you use it when something catches you — one fragment or five, whenever. ORDINARY DAYS COUNT Halfway through a walk. A platform in a town you're just visiting. A night spent alone. Nothing special has to happen — that day's colors and sounds exist only on that day. Play it back later and the hour that felt like nothing has turned into a small, unexpectedly pretty memory. THOSE FIVE SECONDS TURN INTO MUSIC Color is collected from the image, sound from the mic. The dull grey of an overcast sky, the murmur of a crossing, a silly "yoo-hoo" shouted at the camera — they become chord changes and tape texture. No two tracks are ever the same. You're not listening to someone else's song. You're listening to your own day. SEVEN CAPTURES MAKE ONE MUSIC VIDEO After the seventh, press REC. Like sending a roll of film off to be developed, the days you've been carrying fold into a single track — and the five seconds you shot become one music video set to it. Fill the roll in an afternoon or take a month — it makes no difference. Right now that sound is lo-fi: tape wobble and muffled noise sit closest to the texture of a memory that isn't perfect anymore. Even the walking around, wondering what to capture next, is part of it. IT DOESN'T JUST PLAY — IT STAYS Every finished track lands on your shelf as a cassette tape dyed in the colors you collected. The music video is a dreamcore-styled short film, and both it and the cassette can leave the app. Shoot seven on a trip, come home, and send someone the whole trip as one video. WHAT YOU CAPTURE STAYS WITH YOU The music is made entirely on your device. No account, no sign-in. The five seconds you record — and the color and sound pulled out of them — are never uploaded anywhere. Whether anyone else ever hears it is always your call. Afterfade isn't a social network. There's nothing to compare, no streak to break, no one to perform for, and no notification asking where you've been. It's just somewhere to hold on to what fades. You can't remember the rain on August 12th. But it's still falling, quietly, somewhere inside your September track. FEATURES • Extracts color and sound from a 5-second capture • Composes entirely on-device — your clips are never uploaded • Seven captures complete one track • A cassette shelf dyed in the colors you collected • A dreamcore-styled music video built from your clips, set to your track • Save to your photo library or share anywhere

Screenshots

Recaps Pro4 screens
Afterfade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Afterfade at none against Recaps Pro's 5. Afterfade also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Recaps Pro's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment 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. Afterfade asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recaps Pro ships an update fortnightly, Afterfade every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Recaps Pro versus Afterfade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecaps ProAfterfade
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size292 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLone Palm Labs, Inc.Kanon Fujita

Customer experience

Recaps Pro

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

Afterfade

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
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
None

Afterfade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recaps Pro free?
Recaps Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Afterfade free?
Afterfade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recaps Pro or Afterfade have ads?
Afterfade shows ads; Recaps Pro does not.
Which is updated more often, Recaps Pro or Afterfade?
Recaps Pro ships an update fortnightly, and Afterfade every 4 days. Most recently, Recaps Pro was updated on November 10, 2026 and Afterfade on October 31, 2026.

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