Flock vs Piclolo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flock
This app creates a shared, real-time album for events where guests can contribute photos and videos. All memories are saved in one place, accessible to the entire group. It's designed to capture every moment from every angle during gatherings.
- Create shared event albums
- Real-time photo and video uploads
- Built-in camera for instant snaps
- Save entire album to camera roll
- One-time purchase for guest limits
- Privacy controls and reporting
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Some of the best moments happen when everyone's together, and everyone's got a camera in their pocket. Flock pulls all those photos and videos into one shared album, so no memory gets stranded on someone else's phone. ONE EVENT, ONE ALBUM Name your gathering, pick a date, and share a QR code or link. Your people join in seconds and start shooting right away. WATCH IT FILL UP, LIVE Every photo and video your guests add shows up in real time, the whole occasion, from every angle, as it happens. No more chasing down pictures days later. SHOOT FROM INSIDE FLOCK Snap photos with the built-in camera and they land in the gallery instantly. KEEP EVERY MEMORY Save the entire album to your camera roll with a single tap. The day ends; the memories don't. ROOM FOR THE WHOLE CROWD Every event is free for up to 3 guests. Need more? Unlock 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, or 400 with a one-time purchase, pay once per event, never a subscription. YOURS, AND ONLY YOUR GROUP'S Sign in with Apple or Google. Mute the noisy ones, report anything off, and keep your memories with the people who were actually there. Flock is free to download. Guest-limit upgrades are one-time, per-event in-app purchases.
Piclolo
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No more "send me the photos" You know the drill. Forty messages in the group chat, six people swearing they'll send their photos "tomorrow," and half the night is gone forever — buried across ten different camera rolls that nobody will ever actually dig through. Piclolo fixes that. It's a shared photo album where everyone drops their photos and videos into one place, in full quality, the moment they take them. No group chat. No chasing people down two weeks later. No compressed, blurry screenshots of screenshots. Scan a QR code, you're in. That's it. Built for the moments you actually want to keep Trips with your friends Six people, six phones, one unforgettable week away. Instead of hunting everyone down for their photos when you land back home, share the album on day one and watch the whole trip fill itself in — every angle, every random detail someone else caught that you missed, all in original quality with nothing compressed or lost. Birthdays and nights out Everyone's phone is out all night, and by the next morning the best photos are scattered across group chats you'll never scroll back through. Put the QR code on the table, the fridge, or the group chat before the night even starts — by morning, the whole birthday is sitting in one album, including the shots you didn't even know were taken. Just the two of you A private album for you and your partner. Every trip, every silly dinner photo, every unflattering picture you both secretly love — kept somewhere you can actually scroll back through together, instead of lost three years deep in a chat thread neither of you will ever reopen. Weddings and big celebrations Your photographer catches the big moments. Your friends and family catch everything else. Print the QR code on table cards and collect hundreds of candid photos from every angle in the room. Everything you need, nothing you don't • QR Code Invites — share a code and anyone can join your album in seconds. A quick free sign-up is all it takes. • Selfie Filter — take one selfie and Piclolo automatically finds every single photo you're in, out of hundreds, using smart face matching. No more scrolling through everyone else's photos to find the three you're actually in. • Full Quality, Always — no file size limits, no compression. Unlike messaging apps that turn every photo into mush, what gets uploaded is exactly what gets downloaded. • Favorites — heart your best shots from the trip or the night and swipe through them in their own dedicated carousel, right at the top of the album. • Full-Screen Viewer — pinch-to-zoom, double-tap zoom, smooth swipe navigation, and a thumbnail strip to jump around fast. • Invite by Username — know someone's username? Add them directly, no QR code needed. Manage who has access to your album anytime. • Download & Share — send any photo straight to your camera roll, social media, or messages in one tap. Why people switch to Piclolo No feed. No followers. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just the people you actually went somewhere with, and the photos you actually took together — in one place, at full quality, forever. 100% free. No ads. No subscriptions. No limit on how many photos or videos you can upload, and no cap on how many friends can join. Your next trip, birthday, or night out deserves better than a group chat that loses half the memories. Create your first album in under a minute.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Piclolo at none against Flock's 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. Flock sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Piclolo asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Flock | Piclolo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leroy Labs LLC | Parklolo |
In-app purchases
Flock
- Invite up to 10 Guests$2.99
- Invite up to 25 Guests$4.99
- Invite up to 50 Guests$14.99
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- Invite up to 100 Guests$29.99
- Invite up to 150 Guests$49.99
- Invite up to 200 guests$69.99
- Invite up to 400 guests$99.99
Piclolo
No in-app purchases









