LiveTone vs Immersive Border
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveTone
Transform videos into dynamic Live Photos that animate in your gallery. Combine multiple Live Photos into a single collage or enhance Apple Log footage with custom color grading. Preserve original capture metadata for detailed memories.
- Video to Live Photo conversion
- Live Photo collage creation
- 4K and original quality export
- Custom LUT import
- Apple Log footage grading
- Preserve capture metadata
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LiveTone turns video into real Live Photos. It also handles Apple Log footage, collages multiple Live Photos, and exports at the quality you choose. Create Live Photo: Pick a video and export it as a Live Photo that plays in Photos. Live Photo Collage: Combine up to four Live Photos into one frame—handy when you want several moments in a single piece. 4K & original quality: Export at 4K or full resolution so you keep as much detail as the source allows. Custom LUT import: Import and manage your own .cube LUTs and grade the way you like. Apple Log grading: Restore Apple Log footage to natural color. Apple Log to Live Photo: Export a Live Photo from color-graded Apple Log footage. Preserve capture metadata: Keep the original camera, date, and location in your export.
Immersive Border
Enhance your photos with a wide variety of artistic frames and borders. Customize colors, margins, and add metadata like camera details. Processed entirely on-device for privacy.
- 24 curated frame presets
- Customizable margins, colors, and shadows
- Add camera metadata to photos
- On-device photo processing
- Standard and high-quality export options
- Save custom styles
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Give every photo a frame that feels intentional. CHOOSE A LOOK Start with 24 curated presets, from classic white borders and immersive backgrounds to tickets, postage stamps, 35mm film, a camera viewfinder, vinyl records, and a realistic museum gallery. Swipe between styles while keeping your selected photo. COMPOSE YOUR PHOTO AND FRAME Double-tap the photo or open Compose to choose the ratio of the complete framed image and adjust the photo together. Standard border themes can fill the photo window while keeping the theme’s margins: drag and zoom to frame your subject, switch portrait and landscape, or choose Full Photo to keep the entire image. Free mode retains recommended, common, and custom photo crop ratios. Creative canvas themes keep their distinctive layouts. Changes apply only when you tap Done, and your original photo is preserved. The museum frame adapts to the photo’s shape, with four gallery backgrounds to choose from. MAKE A STYLE YOUR OWN Adjust the available margins, colors, corners, and shadows with full-screen previews. Changes are temporary until you tap Save Preset to save a custom style. Personalize text on tickets, stamps, and other text-based themes. Keep text specific to one photo, or turn on Include Custom Text when saving a preset to reuse your edited text across a project. Fields you leave automatic continue to update with each photo. Ticket colors can match your photo automatically or use your own palette. Favorite and duplicate presets with a long press, and reuse your custom styles later. DETAILS FROM YOUR CAMERA Display available camera model, lens, exposure, date, and place information from your photo’s metadata. Film and vinyl themes use the actual camera model when it is available. STANDARD AND HIGH QUALITY EXPORTS Save the finished image to a dedicated album in Photos or share through the iOS share sheet. Standard export, up to 2400 px on the longest edge, is free and selected by default. An optional one-time Pro purchase unlocks High Quality export up to 6000 px. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos are processed on your device. No account, ads, analytics, tracking, or developer server. When a selected photo contains coordinates, Apple system geocoding may be used to display a place name. No subscription. No sign-in. Standard export stays free. READY TO SHARE OR PRINT Choose the ratio of the entire framed image: square, 3:2, 4:3, 4:5, 5:7, 16:9, or 100 × 148 mm. Save the format, orientation, and framing preference with your custom preset. Every format exports an ordinary image at your selected Standard or High Quality setting, ready to use with your preferred printing service or app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Immersive Border at every 2 days against LiveTone's every 4 days. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. LiveTone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Immersive Border sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LiveTone against 5.0 for Immersive Border. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
LiveTone ships an update every 4 days, Immersive Border every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveTone | Immersive Border |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 鹭 丁 | 全鹏 宋 |
Customer experience
LiveTone
Immersive Border
In-app purchases
LiveTone
- LiveTone Pro$9.99
Immersive Border
- Immersive Border Pro Lifetime$0.99









