Comparison

WonderRoll vs NextFrame

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

Head to head
About

WonderRoll

Features
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Make taking a photograph something to look forward to. WonderRoll brings the experience of film and instant photography to your iPhone. Load a stock you love, frame the moment, press the shutter, and leave the reveal for later. ONE CAMERA. TWO EXPERIENCES. Instant Paper: Load an eight-sheet pack. Each shot develops automatically, with a waiting time that belongs to its paper stock. No return to a darkroom is needed. Find your finished prints in a dedicated instant library. Darkroom Film: Choose your stock, frame count and format. Load, advance and rewind a finite roll. Set a real place as your darkroom and return within its radius to start developing. Then scan your developed film to Photos. SHOOT NOW. DISCOVER LATER. Neither mode shows your finished photograph immediately after capture. Finite rolls and paper packs help you keep your attention on the moment in front of you. TAKE CONTROL. Adjust exposure and shutter speed with the parameter wheel in your viewfinder. Manual focus and aperture controls appear on lenses that support them, so the available controls follow your camera's capabilities. FIND YOUR COLOUR. Explore warm gold, natural colour, black and white, and other film and paper looks. Instant Paper keeps softer detail and visible grain; Darkroom Film offers clearer scans with richer tonal range. KEEP YOUR MEMORIES. Browse completed rolls and instant prints, save your favourite photographs, and optionally protect rolls, paper packs and negatives with private iCloud backup. Slow down. Give every shutter something to look forward to. WONDERROLL+ The free version includes three film stocks and one roll or paper pack per month. WonderRoll+ unlocks Unlimited rolls and paper packs Every premium film and instant stock Experimental stocks Future premium looks WonderRoll+ is available as an auto-renewable monthly subscription or Lifetime Access. Prices for your region are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID after confirmation. The monthly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account may be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Previous purchases can be restored inside the app. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your photographs notes darkroom location and settings stay on your device or in your private iCloud backup. WonderRoll contains no advertising SDKs third-party analytics or cross-app tracking. Camera access captures frames. Location access is used only for the Darkroom Film workflow. Photos access is requested only when you save finished photographs. Privacy Policy https://lei-xiong1999.github.io/wonderroll-privacy/ Terms of Use Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

NextFrame

Transform your film negatives into digital positives directly on your iPhone. This app offers advanced editing tools for color correction, tone adjustment, and HDR, with support for RAW files and custom LUTs. Preserve your original files locally without any server uploads.

Highlights
  • Import and convert film negatives
  • RAW file development
  • Color-cast correction
  • Perforation and tone adjustments
  • Apply film looks and LUTs
  • Create Live Photos from stills
Features
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Shooting films with your iPhone, converting negatives, everything about film is in NextFrame. Photograph or import a real negative (RAW supported) and invert it on your iPhone: film-base and white-point sampling, color-cast correction, DCMY channels, perforations, curves, and HDR. Source files stay in the app until you export. Nothing is uploaded to our servers, and there is no account. What it does • Copy a negative with the camera, or import from Photos / Files • Invert on device and save a positive • Sample film base and white by hand, or use on-device color prediction • Adjust the invert by channel, plus perfs, tone, white balance, and curves • Develop RAW locally, with common color spaces Also included • Film looks for positives or RAW, with stock recipes and imported .cube / .3dl / XMP LUTs • Pair a still and a video into a system Live Photo • Split a long frame into 3:4 stills Built for people who scan or copy their own film. The job is to turn a negative into a positive. Everything else is secondary. Auto-renewable subscriptions NextframePro includes a monthly plan, a yearly plan (auto-renew), and a lifetime purchase. Prices are shown on the purchase screen. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings. Purchase means you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://docs.qq.com/doc/DWk5iamhyS3FIVm9s#

Screenshots

WonderRoll4 screens
NextFrame4 screens

Verdict

The call

WonderRoll and NextFrame are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. WonderRoll sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and NextFrame sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WonderRoll ships an update every 5 days, NextFrame every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
WonderRoll versus NextFrame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWonderRollNextFrame
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size250 MB149 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLEI XIONG琪 闫

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WonderRoll

Subscriptions1
  • WonderRoll+$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • WonderRoll+ Lifetime$5.99
3 purchases

NextFrame

Subscriptions2
  • 月卡$6.991 Month
  • 年卡$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • 终生会员$9.99

Questions

Is WonderRoll free?
WonderRoll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NextFrame free?
NextFrame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do WonderRoll or NextFrame have ads?
Neither WonderRoll nor NextFrame shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WonderRoll or NextFrame?
WonderRoll ships an update every 5 days, and NextFrame every 4 days. Most recently, WonderRoll was updated on November 5, 2026 and NextFrame on November 6, 2026.

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