Comparison

Five Meters vs Bring Back Red

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

Head to head
About

Five Meters

Features
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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.

About

Bring Back Red

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Five Meters4 screens
Bring Back Red4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Five Meters versus Bring Back Red: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive MetersBring Back Red
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFred PedersenJerome Sommerfeldt

In-app purchases

None

Five Meters

No in-app purchases

None

Bring Back Red

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Five Meters free?
Five Meters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bring Back Red free?
Bring Back Red is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Five Meters or Bring Back Red have ads?
Neither Five Meters nor Bring Back Red shows ads.

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