Lately vs Glassy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lately
Effortlessly transform hundreds of photos into stunning, ready-to-post Instagram carousels in under a minute. The app intelligently analyzes your camera roll, removes unwanted shots, and designs beautiful layouts, saving you hours of manual editing.
- Import entire albums instantly
- Automatic photo selection and cleanup
- Beautiful carousel layout generation
- Save hours of manual editing
- Full carousel editing control
- Local photo processing for privacy
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Stop spending hours making photo dumps. Lately turns hundreds of photos into a beautiful, ready-to-post carousel in under a minute. Import an entire holiday, event or camera roll in seconds. Lately automatically analyzes your photos, removes blurry shots, duplicates and photos with closed eyes. It selects your best moments, and turns them into a beautifully designed Instagram-ready carousel. No endless scrolling through hundreds of photos. No dragging images into place for hours. Just your best memories, ready to post in less than 60 seconds. • IMPORT ENTIRE ALBUMS IN SECONDS Select hundreds of photos directly from your camera roll. Lately is built for large albums, making it effortless to import photos from holidays, weekends away, weddings, festivals and everyday life. • LET LATELY PICK YOUR BEST PHOTOS Why spend hours deciding which photos to keep? Lately analyzes every image on your device and intelligently removes: - Blurry photos - Duplicate shots - Photos with closed eyes - Poor quality images Then it selects the strongest photos to tell the story of your trip or event. •BEAUTIFUL CAROUSELS, AUTOMATICALLY Your selected photos are instantly transformed into aesthetic, Instagram-ready carousel layouts. From layered scrapbook designs to seamless multi-slide compositions, Lately creates posts that look professionally designed with minimal effort. • SAVE HOURS OF MANUAL EDITING Creating a great photo dump usually means: - Scrolling through hundreds of photos - Choosing your favorites - Arranging layouts - Resizing images - Swapping photos - Tweaking spacing Lately does the hard work for you, turning hours of editing into less than 60 seconds. • COMPLETE CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT IT Don't like one of the photos Lately picked? Every generated carousel is fully editable. You can: - Replace photos - Move layers - Resize images - Crop - Reorder slides - Add more photos - Fine-tune every layout • YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR DEVICE Your privacy comes first. Everything happens locally on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded, shared with third parties or processed using AI. Lately creates a local project that you can edit, revisit and export whenever you're ready. • FAST FROM START TO FINISH Built for speed from the ground up. Import hundreds of photos, analyze them, generate your carousel and save it to your camera roll - all in less than 60 seconds. • IT'S COMPLETELY FREE Lately is completely free to use. No subscriptions. No adverts. No hidden charges. Just an easier way to create beautiful photo dumps. • PERFECT FOR - Vacations - City breaks - Festivals - Weddings - Birthdays - Concerts - Weekend trips - Graduation - Family events - Everyday memories - B-roll Wherever life takes you, Lately helps you turn your camera roll into beautiful, ready-to-post Instagram carousels in seconds.
Glassy
Transform your photos and Live Photos into dynamic visual cards with real-time data stickers and a unique liquid glass aesthetic. Add context like weather, music, or location to your memories. Create polished, modern designs with customizable templates and layered depth for sharing.
- Dynamic data stickers (weather, music, location)
- Liquid glass visual style
- Layered depth and foreground/background effects
- Export as images, videos, or Live Photos
- Customizable templates
- Animated stickers and effects
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Glassy is a carousel maker for seamless Instagram carousels, photo dumps, and panorama posts. Photos become collages and scrolling videos that flow across every slide. • Liquid Glass: translucent layers with tint, blur, and depth, and the content underneath still shows through. • Real Data Stickers: with your permission, bring weather, workouts, routes, time, location, music, lyrics, and movie details into a design. • Cross-Slide Layers: run images, text, stickers, and frames across several slides for a seamless swipe. • Motion: preview and export while Live Photos and animated elements keep moving. • A full toolkit: photos, text, widgets, stickers, frames, grids, drawings, gradients, and textures, starting from a template or a blank canvas. Make photo dumps, travel journals, lyric cards, workout recaps, mood boards, and posters. Free tools and materials cover everyday creation and still-image export. Glassy Plus unlocks premium materials, video and Live Photo imports, and motion exports. Exporting a design that contains premium content also requires Plus. Terms of Use: Apple's standard end-user license agreement applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lately at none against Glassy's 2. Lately also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 days) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Glassy's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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
Both are free to download. Glassy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lately asks for nothing beyond the download.
Glassy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Lately ships an update daily, Glassy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lately | Glassy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ralph Haville | 伟滔 黄 |
Customer experience
Lately
Glassy
In-app purchases
Lately
No in-app purchases
Glassy
- NowPrism Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- NowPrism Plus Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year









