Frames vs Termpolis R
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Hundreds of device frames
- Customizable backgrounds and finishes
- Full-resolution exports
- Screen recording support
- Preset saving
- App Store canvas presets
- iCloud sync across devices
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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.
Termpolis R
Control and monitor terminals running on your computer directly from your phone. View output, send commands, and manage multiple desktop connections securely. Requires the companion desktop application.
- Remote terminal viewing
- Type commands remotely
- Monitor running terminals
- Secure end-to-end encryption
- Pair with multiple desktops
- Granular permission control
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Termpolis Remote is a companion for the Termpolis desktop app. It lets you check on the terminals already running on your computer, read what they have printed, and type into them, from your phone. It is a viewer and a keyboard. Nothing runs here. The work happens on your desktop, signed in the way it was already signed in, on the machine where your files, your repositories and your tools already are. Close this app and the work carries on without it. REQUIRES THE TERMPOLIS DESKTOP APP Termpolis Remote does nothing on its own. You need Termpolis running on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer, with Remote turned on in Settings. Termpolis is free and open source: github.com/codedev-david/termpolis RELAY ACCESS IS A SUBSCRIPTION The app is free to install. Your phone reaches your desktop through a relay we run and pay for, and that is what the subscription covers: Relay access -- $4.99 per month, auto-renewing. New subscribers get the first week free. The desktop app stays free and open source. There is no free tier here and nothing is held back from subscribers; the relay is the one thing this app does. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of that. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free week is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://termpolis.com/privacy.html PAIRING TAKES ONE SCAN Your desktop shows a code. You scan it. Both screens then show the same eight words -- if they match, the two devices agreed on a key nothing in between can derive. If they do not match, something is in between, and the right move is to unpair. ONE PHONE, SEVERAL DESKTOPS Pair with up to 16 computers -- a work machine, a home one, a Linux box in the corner -- and switch between them from the terminal list. Each pairing has its own key and its own name, so each desktop grants what this phone may do on that desktop alone, and unpairing one leaves the others exactly as they were. END TO END, NOT JUST IN TRANSIT Every message between your phone and your desktop is sealed with a key the two of them derived together, using X25519 key agreement and ChaCha20-Poly1305. The relay that carries the traffic sees a room id, a size and a time. It cannot read a single byte of what passes through it, and it keeps nothing. YOUR DESKTOP DECIDES WHAT THIS PHONE CAN DO Reading output, starting terminals, typing, closing terminals -- each is granted on the desktop, in Settings, and each is checked again on the desktop for every request. This app can report what it has been allowed. It cannot grant itself anything. WHAT IT STORES One encryption key and one pairing record for each desktop you have paired with, in the iOS keychain, on this device only. No transcript, no scrollback, no cache of what your desktop said. Unpairing erases that desktop's key and record, and works whether or not the desktop is reachable. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no tracking of any kind. There is no server of ours that your terminal output ever reaches, because there is nowhere for it to go. CAMERA Used for one thing: reading the pairing code on your desktop screen. Frames are decoded on the phone and thrown away. If you would rather not, the pairing code can be typed in by hand. Termpolis is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the wire format this app speaks is published in full.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Frames at none against Termpolis R's 1. Frames also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Termpolis R's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Termpolis R sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Frames asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Frames against 5.0 for Termpolis R. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Frames ships an update fortnightly, Termpolis R every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Frames | Termpolis R |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 194 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Immanuel Sabwami | David Engelhart |
Customer experience
Frames
Termpolis R
In-app purchases
Frames
No in-app purchases
Termpolis R
- Termpolis Remote7 Days trial$4.991 Month









