Comparison

FLIM vs ApexShot

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

Head to head
About

FLIM

Capture and share photos with friends using a unique disposable camera experience. Photos develop together at a set time, creating a shared surprise. Enjoy a private feed focused on genuine connections.

Highlights
  • Signature film look applied at capture
  • 12-hour photo development window
  • Shared rolls with up to 50 friends
  • Private photo feed
  • Reactions, comments, and mentions
  • Invite-only access
Features
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FLIM is a disposable camera for your closest friends. Point, shoot, and let it develop, just like the real thing. Personal shots land in your Darkroom right away. Shots into a shared roll stay hidden until the whole roll reveals at once, twelve hours after it started. Nobody sees them early, not even the person who took them. The waiting is what makes the reveal worth showing up for. Real film feel. Every photo gets FLIM's film look baked in at capture: warm color, fine grain where film puts it, and the soft red glow real film gives a bright window or a streetlight. No filters. No sliders. One look, applied the moment you shoot, the same for everyone. Share a photo and it goes out with the orange date stamp burned in, as a print, a story, or the full frame. Rolls for your people. Start a shared roll with up to 50 friends and shoot into it together. Everyone's photos land in the same place, and the whole roll develops at once. Trips, parties, nights out, all revealed together. Watch a roll fill up as its reveal gets closer, with a countdown on your lock screen, then play it back one shot at a time. Near-identical shots stack, a frame that came out black or blurred is marked so the call is yours, and once you have watched a reveal it stays watched on any phone you sign into. Join with an invite code, comment on each other's photos, react with emojis. Chapters. On the first of every month, the month you shared arrives on your page as a cover. It plays like a reveal, fifteen frames picked on your phone, and ends on the month in numbers: your most reacted shot, your biggest fan, the hour you shoot at. You decide which numbers other people see. Every past month is already there, and any month can be shared as a contact sheet. A feed that's yours. Follow friends, see what they post, react and comment. Mention someone with @ to bring them into it. FLIM is invite-only, so everyone you see is someone a friend chose to let in. The friend who invited you is named before you join, and you follow them from the start. Find friends by who you already know: people who follow you, people in your rolls, the people your inviter brought in. No public like counts. No algorithm deciding what you look at. No strangers. FEATURES • One film look, applied at capture, no post-processing • Twelve hour development window, with a roll's shots revealing together • Shared rolls with up to 50 members, joined by invite code • A reveal that plays your roll back one shot at a time, with a lock screen countdown • Chapters: every month you shared, as a playable recap with the month in numbers • Exports with the date stamp burned in: print, story, or full frame • A private feed from the people you follow, and friend suggestions that say why • Reactions, comments, and @mentions on photos and posts • Photo tagging you can edit any time, and you can untag yourself from anything • Blocking and reporting, reviewed within 24 hours • One daily notification rounding up what friends posted, instead of one per photo • Email sign-in with a one time code, invite only You need an invite to join. If you do not have a code yet, ask the friend who sent you here.

About

ApexShot

Features
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Turn your iPhone into a real action camera. ApexShot applies the pro techniques for fast-moving subjects — motorsport, sports, wildlife, kids — automatically, so far more of your shots come out tack-sharp. WHY ACTION PHOTOS COME OUT BLURRY The stock camera favors a slow shutter and blends several frames for a "clean" look. On a moving subject that means motion blur. ApexShot does the opposite: it locks a fast shutter and keeps the real single frame, so the moment is frozen instead of smeared. THREE MODES FOR EVERY SITUATION • Action (default): holds the shutter fast for the subject speed you pick, adjusting ISO for you • Panning: an on-screen level and rhythm guide help you sweep with the subject — sharp rider, streaked background • Trap Focus: lock focus on a spot and let the subject trigger the burst as it crosses SHOOT NOW, PICK LATER — AUTOMATICALLY • Smart burst: hold the shutter for a readiness-driven burst with the exposure frozen on the first frame • Pre-capture buffer: ApexShot is already recording the half second before you press, so you never miss the pass • Zero shutter lag on supported devices • The sharpest frame is chosen for you and saved to a dedicated "ApexShot" album SUBJECT CLASSES Tell ApexShot how fast your subject moves — Very Fast, Sport or Moderate — and it sets the right minimum shutter speed (up to 1/8000s) so nothing is left to chance. EVERY LENS, EDGE TO EDGE • Switch between ultra-wide, wide and telephoto native modules • Smooth pinch-to-zoom on the current lens • Live shutter and ISO readout, grid and level, volume-button shutter YOUR GALLERY, YOUR SHOTS Every keeper lands in the ApexShot album: pinch and double-tap to zoom, multi-select, share or delete — all from inside the app. HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% ad-free — no banners, ever • No accounts, no tracking, no analytics • Everything happens on your device; your photos stay in your library • Modern, fast, native SwiftUI app — no third-party code A note on results: a fast shutter needs light. In very dim scenes ApexShot keeps the action sharp and lets the image go a little darker or noisier, because motion blur can't be recovered but brightness can. For daylight, sports halls and most real-world action, it gets you keepers the stock camera would miss.

Screenshots

FLIM4 screens
ApexShot2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FLIM at 18.0 against ApexShot's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FLIM versus ApexShot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFLIMApexShot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJeffrey FernandezAngelo Sasso

In-app purchases

None

FLIM

No in-app purchases

None

ApexShot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FLIM free?
FLIM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ApexShot free?
ApexShot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FLIM or ApexShot have ads?
Neither FLIM nor ApexShot shows ads.

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