Cliché vs Reveal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cliché
This app creates a shared album for event guests, automatically collecting photos taken by everyone. It focuses on capturing genuine moments and delivering a curated album of your event's memories.
- Shared event album creation
- Guest photo collection
- Automatic photo compilation
- Bluetooth-enabled guest connection
- Private event albums
- Film-like photo reveal
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One camera. Everyone invited. 12 photos each. Cliché turns your night into a disposable camera. Your guests scan a QR code, everyone shoots, and nobody sees a thing until it's over. Then the roll develops and you all get photos of the same night. WHY IT BEATS THE GROUP CHAT ALBUM - 12 photos each, not one more. Every shot counts, so people put their phones away and actually show up. - Nothing to see until the end. Nobody's comparing photos at the table, nobody's begging you to take it again. - Bluetooth picks up who you were with. You get your moments, even the photos you didn't take. HOW IT WORKS - Create the roll and hold up its QR code. Your guests are in within seconds. - Everyone shoots their 12 photos during the night. The roll stays closed while it develops. - You open it when the party's over, up to a week later. Forget to, and it opens on its own. - You get the whole roll, everyone else gets their moments. MADE FOR - Weddings, birthdays, festivals, bachelor and bachelorette parties - At work: conferences, trade shows, offsites, company parties and happy hours - Weekends away with friends, housewarmings, family reunions - Or just a Saturday night, for no reason YOUR PHOTOS STAY BETWEEN YOU - No feed, no followers, no ads - Only the people who were there see the photos - You pick how many photos everyone gets, 12 by default No photographer. No 2,000-photo album where you don't recognize anyone. Just your night, developed for the people who lived it.
Reveal
This app acts as a digital disposable camera for events, allowing guests to capture photos that are hidden until a scheduled reveal. It offers a unique way to collect memories without guests seeing each other's shots during the celebration.
- Digital disposable camera experience
- Hidden photos until scheduled reveal
- QR code guest access
- Limited photos per guest
- Host controls for viewing and deleting
- Event-specific albums
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Reveal is the digital disposable camera for your events. Create an album, display the QR code, and let your guests capture the celebration from every angle. Photos stay hidden during the event — then everything is revealed at once, at the time you choose. THE REVEAL MOMENT During the celebration, no one sees the photos: no passing phones around, no gallery to keep checking. When it’s time for the reveal, the entire gallery develops at once, like prints emerging from a darkroom. It’s the moment everyone has been waiting for. YOUR GUESTS JOIN IN SECONDS • They scan the QR code or open your link • They enter just their first name — no account needed • They land straight in your album, ready to take photos JUST LIKE SHOOTING ON FILM • A limited number of photos per guest: every shot counts • No editing, no filters: the celebration just as it happened • Every photo is credited to the guest who took it, using their first name YOUR EVENT, YOUR RULES • Choose the number of photos per guest • Schedule the end of the event and the reveal • As the host, view and delete photos at any time • Decide who can see the revealed gallery: everyone, or just you FOR ALL YOUR SPECIAL MOMENTS Weddings, birthdays, parties, bachelor and bachelorette parties, trips with friends, New Year’s Eve, team building: every event has its own album, QR code, and rules. PLAN AHEAD Create your album whenever you like: your guests can only access it once you share the QR code. Perfect for stress-free wedding planning. SIMPLE PRICING Free for up to 5 participants. Beyond that, a one-time payment per event, based on the number of guests. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cliché at none against Reveal's 10. Cliché also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Reveal's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Reveal sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Cliché asks for nothing beyond the download.
Reveal holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Cliché's written reviews are positive against 88% of Reveal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cliché ships an update every 2 days, Reveal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cliché | Reveal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Disket | Robin Taillepied |
Customer experience
Cliché
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In-app purchases
Cliché
No in-app purchases
Reveal
- Album: 5 people · ∞ photos$7.99
- Album: 10 people · 15 photos$7.99
- Album: 25 people · 5 photos$15.99
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- Album: 25 people · 15 photos$15.99
- Album: 25 people · 25 photos$19.99
- Album: 50 people · 15 photos$29.99
- Album: 50 people · 25 photos$37.99
- Album: 100 people · 15 photos$59.99
- Album: 150 people · 15 photos$84.99
- Album: ∞ people · 25 photos$129.99








