Five Meters vs Bring Back Red
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Five Meters
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Bring natural color back to blue, green or hazy underwater photos—automatically and entirely on your device. Water absorbs warm colors and scatters light, leaving dive photos flat and dominated by blue or green. Five Meters restores a natural-looking balance, then gives you focused controls to finish the result. Made for underwater photography: • Automatic color, contrast and clarity restoration • 16 controls across Color, Light, Water and Detail • Dedicated Dehaze, Water Color, Depth Balance and Clarity controls • Instant hold-to-compare view of the original • Pinch, pan and double-tap for close inspection • Full-resolution export to Photos, Files or the iOS share sheet • JPEG, PNG and HEIF/HEIC support Private by design: • Every edit is processed on your iPhone or iPad • Photos are never uploaded • No account, ads, analytics or tracking • No internet connection required • No watermark on exported photos Five Meters edits one photo at a time, keeping the workflow quick, focused and easy to understand.
Bring Back Red
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Your whole dive, restored. Bring Back Red is AI underwater color correction for the photos, Live Photos and video you bring home from scuba diving, snorkeling, freediving or an action camera. It measures what the water took from each shot and restores natural color without repainting the scene. AI FINDS YOUR DIVES BY ITSELF You do not tag anything or pick anything. Bring Back Red reads your camera roll, recognizes your underwater shots and groups them back into the dives they came from: photos, Live Photos and clips together. Open one and correct the whole dive in a single pass. Shots that are already balanced stay out of the way. Only the exceptions ask for your decision. VIDEO THAT SURVIVES THE EXPORT Supported 8K HDR video keeps its resolution, frame rate, audio and HDR intent. Correction follows the clip as the light changes through it, rather than freezing one look over the whole thing. Every export is reopened and checked before Bring Back Red calls it finished. If a long save is interrupted, you can finish it without processing the video again. IT TAKES WHAT YOUR CAMERA WRITES RAW and ProRAW from a housing, ProRes and Apple Log from an iPhone Pro, Dolby Vision and HDR video, and the everyday JPEG and HEIC. YOU KEEP CONTROL Preview photos and video before you commit. Adjust Intensity when you want to, or leave it alone. Export a corrected copy to Photos or Files, at full quality. Your originals stay exactly as they were, byte for byte. IT RUNS ON YOUR PHONE Correction happens on the device, so it works on the boat with no signal. There is no account to make, and your photos are never uploaded. ON IPHONE AND IPAD One app for both. On iPad the inspector stands permanently beside the photograph or the clip. AI that measures, never invents. Your dive is corrected, never repainted.
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Verdict
Five Meters and Bring Back Red are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Five Meters | Bring Back Red |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fred Pedersen | Jerome Sommerfeldt |
In-app purchases
Five Meters
No in-app purchases
Bring Back Red
No in-app purchases








