Comparison

Frames vs NameTheory

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

Head to head
About

Frames

Easily create professional device mockups for your screenshots and screen recordings. Choose from hundreds of device frames, customize backgrounds, and export in high resolution for app stores, presentations, and social media.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of device frames
  • Customizable backgrounds and finishes
  • Full-resolution exports
  • Screen recording support
  • Preset saving
  • App Store canvas presets
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Your screenshots deserve a frame. Frames turns screenshots and screen recordings into device mockups, ready for the App Store, social media, presentations, websites and more. Drop in a screenshot and Frames matches it to the right device. Then make it yours with real device finishes, backgrounds, shadows, custom layouts and more. FRAME EVERY SCREEN Choose from 265 device frames across 51 models, including iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, Apple Watch and Studio Display. Pick from real hardware finishes, Watch sizes, materials, bands and colors. MAKE IT YOURS Go beyond putting a bezel around a screenshot. Choose solid colors, built-in gradients, macOS wallpapers or your own images for the background. Blur your screenshot behind itself, add and fine-tune shadows, adjust corner radius, reposition your device, change its scale or create a transparent canvas. BUILT FOR FULL RESOLUTION Frames sizes the canvas around the device instead of squeezing every project into the same fixed resolution. With Frames Pro, export at each device frame’s full native resolution, up to 3450px for iPhone 17 Pro Max. FRAME SCREEN RECORDINGS Screen recordings work just like screenshots. Play them back inside the device frame, then export with Frames Pro as video, an animated GIF or even HEVC video with a real alpha channel for transparent backgrounds. SAVE YOUR FAVORITE LOOKS Turn your setup into a preset and reuse it whenever you want. Presets remember your frame, background, shadow, corners, canvas and placement. Quick Frame makes things even faster. Frame your latest screenshot from Frames, Control Center or your Lock Screen without going through the editor. You can also frame images from the Share Sheet or build Frames into your own workflows with Shortcuts. MADE FOR APP STORE SCREENSHOTS Choose canvas presets matching Apple’s accepted App Store sizes for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. App Store canvas sizes always export at their exact pixels, even without Frames Pro. KEEP PROJECTS TOGETHER Organize related projects into Groups, carry a style across the entire set and, with Frames Pro, import or export them in batches. Need more than one device? Frames Pro can put two, three or four devices side by side on a single canvas. IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Frames is built for all three. Projects, Groups and presets sync through your iCloud account, so you can start on iPhone and pick up on iPad or Mac. And the Mac version is a real native Mac app, complete with its own windows, menu bar, file panels, sharing and undo and redo. A LOT OF FRAMES IS FREE All 265 device frames and finishes are free, along with backgrounds, shadows, presets, Groups, App Store canvas sizes, Quick Frame, iCloud sync, the Share extension and Shortcuts actions. Frames Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks: • Full-resolution exports • Video and GIF exports • Batch importing and Group exports • Multi-device layouts You also get 3 free Pro exports before you buy. They never expire. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No third-party analytics. No advertising or tracking. Your screenshots are processed on your device, and iCloud sync uses your own iCloud account.

About

NameTheory

This app assists developers and creators in brainstorming unique names and checking their availability across web domains and social media handles. It leverages AI to generate variations and offers domain alerts, all while prioritizing user privacy with on-device processing.

Highlights
  • AI-powered name generation
  • Web domain availability search
  • Social media handle availability search
  • Domain alerts
  • On-device AI processing
  • Private data storage
Features
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NameTheory is a name generation and search tool for developers and creators. NameTheory uses AI to help you brainstorm name ideas and instantly looks up available web domains for those names and variations of them. All you have to do is add a few starter words that you like and NameTheory will suggest more words matching your theme and look up variations of all your words for available web domains across dozens of top-level domains like .com, .app, .ai and many more. Features: - Automatically searches available domains across hundreds of top-level domains for your names - Set up domain alerts to be notified if a domain becomes available - Uses AI to generates variations of your names and searches for their availability - Tries common "domain hacks" to find available names (getname.com, nameapp.com, getna.me, etc.) - Displays pricing for available domains - Searches App Store for similar names - Searches Instagram, TikTok, BlueSky, X/Twitter, Reddit, and GitHub for available handles - No AI subscription required, everything runs on your device using Apple's on-device AI - All your data is private and stored locally on your device or synced via your iCloud account

Screenshots

Frames4 screens
NameTheory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: NameTheory at free against Frames's free with in-app purchases. Frames's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Frames against 5.0 for NameTheory. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Frames ships an update fortnightly, NameTheory every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Frames versus NameTheory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFramesNameTheory
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB14 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperImmanuel SabwamiRoshan Choxi

Customer experience

Frames

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NameTheory

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Frames

No in-app purchases

None

NameTheory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frames free?
Frames is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NameTheory free?
NameTheory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Frames or NameTheory?
Frames and NameTheory are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Frames or NameTheory have ads?
Neither Frames nor NameTheory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Frames or NameTheory?
Frames ships an update fortnightly, and NameTheory every 2 weeks. Most recently, Frames was updated on October 19, 2026 and NameTheory on October 9, 2026.

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