Postra Mobile vs Press Paper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Postra Mobile
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Postra turns your camera roll into a single flow: find, compose, refine, and export. The core of the app is free. For more, Postra Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that you keep forever. Items marked (Pro) are part of Postra Pro. Find the one shot • Recent or Random to surface buried photos fast • Filter freely by camera and lens • Search by words like "flower" or "sky" with on-device AI search (Pro) • Tap any photo to gather visually similar ones (Pro) Build photo collages • Grid, Free, and Carousel layouts; Carousel keeps portrait and landscape photos uncropped (free: up to 4 photos per collage or carousel) • Margins, gap, background color, and drop shadow to frame your work • Build several boards at once and export them together, great for finishing a tall composite as a multi-image post (Pro) • Up to 10 photos per collage or carousel (Pro) • Presets for Instagram, X, Threads, Stories, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest aspect ratios • "Preview" shows how your post will look on each platform before sharing • Layered, tilted Design templates and Mosaic, which packs photos at their original ratios (Pro) Refine • Basic retouch: brightness, contrast, saturation, highlights, shadows, temperature, and more • Copy & paste adjustments to other photos • Advanced retouch with HSL, tone curve, color balance and clarity, built-in presets, and RAW development (Pro) Play: film and analog textures • Basic effects such as halation, light leaks, film grain and fade, plus 11 looks, for free • Over 60 effects including double exposure, film scratches, mold and halftone, and every one of nearly 40 looks (Pro) • Fine-tune the strength of each effect in the detail settings Finish and export • Print-style finishing with drop shadow and frames • JPEG export up to 2048px, ready to share • Full-size export and PNG, HEIC or TIFF (Pro) • Caption band with EXIF (camera, lens, aperture, date), date stamp, paper texture, and film base (Pro) Postra Pro (one-time in-app purchase) • One purchase unlocks every (Pro) feature above, forever. It is not a subscription • Layout and export favorites, your own retouch presets, and your own Play looks: one of each for free, unlimited with Postra Pro • If you bought the earlier paid version of Postra, you keep every feature with no extra purchase • On a new device or after reinstalling, use Restore Purchase in Settings Privacy first • All analysis, layout, and export happen entirely on your device • Your original photos are never modified • No account, no tracking, no ads Note: AI search downloads a search model (~146MB) once on first use. Your photos are never uploaded. For iPhone and iPad.
Press Paper
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Turn photographs into tactile halftone and risograph-inspired prints with Press Paper. Choose a photo or use the live camera, then build the image like a real press: separate it into ink plates, choose dot, line, grain, or hatch screens, and tune paper, registration, frame, and texture. Finished looks make it easy to jump into process colour, newsprint, and expressive duotones. Save finished prints to Photos or share them directly. Press Pass is a one-time purchase that unlocks the full ink library, a third plate, ink sampling from your photo, print-resolution export, and three-second looping video export. Your photos are processed entirely on your device. Press Paper has no account, advertising, or cross-app tracking. Privacy Policy: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Press-Paper-Privacy-Policy-3a83971e7add80d989dbd6f1f46b5e42 Terms of Use: https://walnut-burst-160.notion.site/Press-Paper-Terms-of-Use-3a83971e7add80f99ee1d5acd0e9f405 Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Press Paper at Free against Postra Mobile's $4.99. Postra Mobile's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On 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
Press Paper is free to download; Postra Mobile costs $4.99 up front. Postra Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Press Paper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Postra Mobile ships an update every 3 days, Press Paper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Postra Mobile | Press Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Koji Chikazawa | Jerry Munyoka Nkongolo |
In-app purchases
Postra Mobile
- Postra Pro$4.99
Press Paper
- Press Pass$3.99









