Color Grading vs SOOCGrader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Color Grading
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Color Grading: Video LUTs helps you give your iPhone videos a cinematic look with built-in LUT presets and simple color controls. Add warmth to travel footage, try a faded film style for a vlog, or explore a cooler look for city clips. IMPORT, GRADE, SAVE Choose a video from Photos, apply a look, adjust its strength, and compare the result with your original. Save the graded video to Photos and share it using the iOS share sheet. Edit clips up to 5 minutes; for a longer video, select and trim a section of up to 5 minutes before grading. PREVIEW 8 BUILT-IN LOOKS Try all 8 LUT presets on your own footage before choosing a look. Use the intensity slider to make the effect subtle or stronger. Free to export at 720p with a watermark: Clean Film, Warm Sunset and Bright Travel. Pro required to export: Moody Street, Soft Portrait, Vintage Fade, Teal Orange and Night City. FINE-TUNE YOUR COLOR Adjust exposure to change brightness, contrast to shape light and dark tones, saturation to control color intensity, and temperature to shift the image warmer or cooler. COMPARE BEFORE YOU EXPORT Tap Original to view the source footage, then Graded to return to your edit. Check the look and your adjustments before saving. FREE & LIFETIME PRO Free includes all 8 preset previews, color adjustments, before-and-after comparison, and 720p export with a watermark using the 3 free presets. Lifetime Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks export with all 8 presets, the 1080p HD export option, and watermark-free videos. No subscription. The 5-minute clip limit applies to both free and Pro. Video processing happens on your device. No account is required. Color Grading focuses on individual video clips. Custom LUT import and multi-clip timeline editing are not supported.
SOOCGrader
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Grade your straight-out-of-camera JPEGs the way you see them. No presets required, no complexity โ just precise control over every layer of your image. Balance โ Dial in exposure, contrast, temperature and tint before anything else. Color Map โ A 3D color engine with hue, saturation, shadow warmth and an S-curve. One strength slider multiplies the whole map. Save your signature grade as MyGrade and load it anytime. Detail โ Sharpen, clarity, texture and noise reduction โ in the right order, automatically. Film โ Fade, vignette, halation and highlight rolloff for that organic finishing touch. Precision โ one-time unlock โ HSL per color range, split toning, and a full four-channel curves editor for surgical control. Hold to compare โ Press and hold the preview image anytime to see the original side by side. iPad support โ Full side-by-side layout on iPad โ preview on the left, controls on the right.
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Verdict
Color Grading and SOOCGrader are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Color Grading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SOOCGrader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Color Grading | SOOCGrader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.2 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ๅฒ ๆดช | Roldan Ablaza |
In-app purchases
Color Grading
- Lifetime Pro$9.99
SOOCGrader
- Precision Tools$0.99









