Comparison

Reefraction vs Bring Back Red

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Reefraction

Features
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Reefraction brings your underwater photos and videos back to life. Water swallows red and orange light the deeper you go, leaving dive and snorkel shots looking flat, blue, and lifeless. Reefraction restores the true colors the ocean took away โ€” in a single tap, or with full manual control when you want it. ONE-TAP CORRECTION Open a photo and Reefraction instantly neutralizes the blue-green cast and rebuilds the lost reds. No sliders, no guesswork โ€” just natural color. BUILT-IN PRESETS Choose the look that matches your dive with hand-tuned presets: โ€ข Shallow โ€” light snorkeling and surface shots โ€ข Reef โ€” the everyday all-rounder โ€ข Deep โ€” for darker, bluer water โ€ข Wreck โ€” low-light and shadowed scenes โ€ข Cave โ€” extreme low light โ€ข Green Water โ€” neutralizes murky green casts ADVANCED CONTROLS Want to fine-tune? Slide up the Advanced panel for precise control over: โ€ข Color Temperature (cool โ†” warm) โ€ข Tint (green โ†” magenta) โ€ข Red channel boost โ€ข Exposure & Contrast Nudge anything and your edit becomes fully Custom. VIDEO COLOR CORRECTION Shot underwater video? Scrub to any frame, dial in the correction live, then export the whole clip with your audio intact. Perfect for GoPro and action-camera dive footage. (Video editing available on iPhone and iPad.) BEFORE & AFTER Press and hold the image any time to peek at the original and see exactly how much color Reefraction restored. SAVE & SHARE Save corrected photos and videos straight to your library, share them to social, or export a copy. Your originals are never touched. DARK, DISTRACTION-FREE DESIGN A clean ocean-themed interface that puts your image front and center. REEFRACTION PRO Reefraction is free to use. A single one-time purchase, Reefraction Pro, removes the small watermark from your exported photos and videos forever โ€” no subscriptions, ever. Whether you're a scuba diver, freediver, snorkeler, or shoot with a GoPro, Reefraction gives your underwater memories the color they deserve. Dive in. Bring the reef back to life.

About

Bring Back Red

Features
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Your whole dive, restored. Bring Back Red is AI underwater color correction for the photos, Live Photos and video you bring home from scuba diving, snorkeling, freediving or an action camera. It measures what the water took from each shot and restores natural color without repainting the scene. AI FINDS YOUR DIVES BY ITSELF You do not tag anything or pick anything. Bring Back Red reads your camera roll, recognizes your underwater shots and groups them back into the dives they came from: photos, Live Photos and clips together. Open one and correct the whole dive in a single pass. Shots that are already balanced stay out of the way. Only the exceptions ask for your decision. VIDEO THAT SURVIVES THE EXPORT Supported 8K HDR video keeps its resolution, frame rate, audio and HDR intent. Correction follows the clip as the light changes through it, rather than freezing one look over the whole thing. Every export is reopened and checked before Bring Back Red calls it finished. If a long save is interrupted, you can finish it without processing the video again. IT TAKES WHAT YOUR CAMERA WRITES RAW and ProRAW from a housing, ProRes and Apple Log from an iPhone Pro, Dolby Vision and HDR video, and the everyday JPEG and HEIC. YOU KEEP CONTROL Preview photos and video before you commit. Adjust Intensity when you want to, or leave it alone. Export a corrected copy to Photos or Files, at full quality. Your originals stay exactly as they were, byte for byte. IT RUNS ON YOUR PHONE Correction happens on the device, so it works on the boat with no signal. There is no account to make, and your photos are never uploaded. ON IPHONE AND IPAD One app for both. On iPad the inspector stands permanently beside the photograph or the clip. AI that measures, never invents. Your dive is corrected, never repainted.

Screenshots

Reefraction3 screens
Bring Back Red4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bring Back Red at none against Reefraction's 1. Reefraction's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Reefraction sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bring Back Red asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Reefraction versus Bring Back Red: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReefractionBring Back Red
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size57 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoger WeissJerome Sommerfeldt

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Reefraction

One-time1
  • Reaafraction Pro$17.99
None

Bring Back Red

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reefraction free?
Reefraction is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bring Back Red free?
Bring Back Red is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Reefraction or Bring Back Red have ads?
Neither Reefraction nor Bring Back Red shows ads.

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