WaveShot AI Hands vs Cinetone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WaveShot AI Hands
Capture perfect photos effortlessly with a smart camera app that uses hand gestures to trigger automatic photo capture. Avoid timers and asking others to take your pictures, making solo photoshoots and group shots stress-free.
- Hand gesture recognition
- Automatic countdown
- Automatic photo capture
- Hands-free photography
- Simple interface
- Fast saving to gallery
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Taking the perfect photo has never been this effortless. No strangers. No timers. No running back and forth. Just wave, pose, and smile. Now featuring Slim Photo, Pro Shot Count, Retro Camera, Color Tint, and Photo Stamp for even more creative and effortless photography. WaveShot is a smart camera auto-shutter app that makes hands-free photography effortless. Simply place your phone anywhere, raise your hand above your head, and wave. Once your gesture is recognized, an automatic countdown begins, giving you time to pose naturally before WaveShot captures the perfect shot—completely hands-free. Packed with powerful and creative features, WaveShot makes it easier than ever to capture the moments you love. Forget setting timers, sprinting back into position, or filling your gallery with dozens of nearly identical photos. Simply find the perfect angle, wave to start, and let WaveShot do the rest. Hands-Free Wave Camera WaveShot recognizes your hand wave to trigger the camera automatically, making it easy to take solo photos, selfies, family portraits, couple photos, travel memories, and group pictures—without touching your phone. Slim Photo Slim Feature for a slimmer and younger-looking appearance. Pro Shot Count Never miss the perfect moment. Choose how many photos WaveShot captures with a single wave: • 1 • 3 • 5 • 10 • 25 • 50 • 100 shots Perfect for portraits, action shots, group photos, and finding the best expression without repeatedly triggering the camera. Retro Camera Turn modern photos into timeless memories with realistic vintage camera effects inspired by iconic photographic eras, including: • 1990s Point-and-Shoot • 1980s Flash Pop • 1970s Sunbaked • 1960s Faded Slide • 1950s Kodachrome • 1920s Silver B&W • 1910s Autochrome • 1860s Sepia • 1840s Daguerreotype Color Tint Add creative color tints to your photos for unique moods and aesthetic social media content. Photo Stamp Give your photos context that lasts. Burn the moment right into the image: • Time • Date • Location Mix and match any combination, or switch stamping off with a single tap—your settings are remembered for next time. Perfect For • Travel & vacations • Family photos • Group photos • Couple photos • Selfies • Social media content • Portrait photography • Content creators • Travel journaling & everyday memories Main Features • Hand wave gesture recognition • Hands-free photo capture • Adjustable countdown timer • Pro Shot Count (1–100 photos) • Realistic Retro Camera filters • Color Tint effects • Photo Stamp (time, date & location) • Automatic saving to your gallery • Clean and easy-to-use interface WaveShot helps you spend less time worrying about taking the photo and more time enjoying the moment. If you enjoy WaveShot, please leave a rating and review. Your support helps us continue improving the app and bringing new features to everyone. WaveShot requires an active subscription ($9.99/year) to access all features. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Cinetone
This video editing app allows users to refine footage, build soundtracks, and add captions. It also enables the creation of custom color grading LUTs for use in other editing workflows. Edit clips non-destructively and export finished videos or color profiles.
- Multi-clip timeline editing
- Add and edit captions
- Create custom cinematic color grades
- Import and export .cube LUTs
- Handle LOG and HDR footage
- Non-destructive editing workflow
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
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Edit the video. Shape the color. Cinetone is an iPhone video editor and cinematic color studio. Arrange multiple clips, refine each shot, build a soundtrack, add captions, and export a finished video—or create a color-only LUT for another editing workflow. EDIT ON A MULTI-CLIP TIMELINE Trim, split, move, and reorder clips. Reframe, rotate, or flip footage. See waveforms, trim added audio clips, adjust their volume individually, and keep original sound separate from added music. Editing is nondestructive: Cinetone works with its own local copies, leaving source files untouched. ADD CAPTIONS Create and edit captions for individual source clips, set their text and timing, and control whether they appear. Captions stay attached to their original clip as you trim, split, or reorder the timeline. Add them manually or generate them from speech in a selected original clip when the device, language, and Apple speech model support it. Model downloads may be required; transcription runs on device. Review captions before export. Enabled captions are burned into the video, never included in a LUT. MAKE THE COLOR YOURS Start with 20 original cinematic looks, including Golden Hour, Soft Portrait, Teal Shadow, and Rich Mono, plus three open community looks. Compare your grade with neutral Rec.709 and adjust exposure, warmth, tint, contrast, saturation, intensity, and fade. Import your own .cube LUTs from Files after choosing the matching input profile; imported LUTs output SDR Rec.709. HANDLE LOG AND HDR SOURCES Import supported Rec.709, Apple Log, Apple Log 2, and color-tagged HLG or PQ footage. HLG and PQ are converted to SDR Rec.709 for preview and video export. Cinetone does not export HDR video. EXPORT FOR YOUR NEXT STEP Export an H.264 MP4 or HEVC MP4 when supported, with SDR Rec.709 color and supported mono or stereo audio. Choose up to 1080p or 4K and up to 30 fps or the source frame cadence. Smaller sources are never upscaled. Export a 33-point or 65-point .cube LUT to carry color into a compatible workflow. Save videos to Photos with add-only access, share them, or save them in Files. SUGGESTIONS WITH YOU IN CONTROL Explore 20 looks and get on-device scene suggestions with a deterministic fallback. Where available, optional Apple Private Cloud Compute requires explicit opt-in on iOS 27 or later. Only disclosed scene metrics and look-catalog text are sent; your video, frames, and audio stay on device. Suggestions never apply a look or change your export automatically. USE SHORTCUTS, NO ACCOUNT Use Siri and Shortcuts to apply or recommend looks, explore cinematic looks, and export graded video. Find looks and imported presets with iOS Spotlight. No Cinetone account is required. Requires iOS 26 or later. iPhone only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cinetone at none against WaveShot AI Hands's 3. WaveShot AI Hands's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. WaveShot AI Hands sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cinetone asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WaveShot AI Hands against 5.0 for Cinetone. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WaveShot AI Hands has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
WaveShot AI Hands ships an update every 5 days, Cinetone every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WaveShot AI Hands | Cinetone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microffort LLC | Andrii Cheberiako |
Customer experience
WaveShot AI Hands
Cinetone
In-app purchases
WaveShot AI Hands
- WaveShot Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- WaveShot Annual$9.991 Year
- WaveShot Lifetime$319.99
Cinetone
No in-app purchases









