Comparison

Same Kind vs ProTune AI Camera

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

Head to head
About

Same Kind

This app helps you discover your unique visual style by organizing your photos into thematic collections. It offers a quiet camera with helpful tips and AI-powered editing to enhance your favorite shots. Share your images in various layouts or import existing photos to find new patterns.

Highlights
  • Private camera with auto-look suggestions
  • AI-powered photo enhancement
  • Organize photos into thematic 'kinds'
  • Import photos from Apple Photos
  • Share photos in multiple layouts
  • Calendar view of noticed moments
Features
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What keeps catching your eye? Same Kind is a private camera and visual diary. It gathers the photos you take and the photos you already love into kinds on your iPhone, so you start to see your own way of looking and carry it into the next shot. A QUIET CAMERA Open straight into the camera. Auto Look reads the scene and picks a look to match; touch and hold the button to change its strength or try other looks. Camera tips offer one short hint when a shot needs it, like "Wipe the lens", "Fit everyone in" or "Get down to their level", and stay quiet the rest of the time. Choose Off, Quiet or Active in Settings. YOUR PHOTOS FIND THEIR KIND Space gathers your photos into kinds: people, places, food, light, whatever you keep returning to. Photos that don't belong anywhere yet wait in Other. Open a kind to scroll through it, see it as a grid, or explore it as a map of connected photos. Rename a kind, move a photo, or tap Find another and go shoot the next one. BRING THE PHOTOS YOU ALREADY LOVE Import selected photos or a date range from Apple Photos. Same Kind makes private copies on your iPhone and never edits your originals. SEE YOUR MONTHS Calendar shows what you noticed, day by day. SHARE ONE PHOTO WELL Share a single photo as it is or in one of 13 layouts, from Film strip and Date stamp to Gallery wall and Viewfinder. IMPROVE A FAVORITE Open a photo and tap Improve. The retoucher looks at that one photo and decides what it needs: a clearer sky, richer color, lifted shadows, a straighter horizon or a better crop. It aims to keep faces, people, text and objects as they are. If a photo already looks finished, it tells you and charges nothing. The improved version appears next to the original, which never changes; touch and hold to compare. Improve uses AI image editing. Only the photo you choose is sent, resized and without location or camera data, to our server and to OpenAI. Same Kind deletes the uploaded photo when processing finishes and the result once it is on your iPhone. CREDITS AND PLANS Improve uses credits, and each Improve shows its cost on the button before you tap. A failed Improve costs nothing. • Improve Monthly: 12,000 credits every month, billed monthly. • Improve Annual: 12,000 credits every month, billed yearly. • Top up: 4,000 credits, a one-time purchase. Plan credits are used first and expire when the next month's credits arrive. Top-up credits never expire. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account subscription settings. The camera, Space, Calendar, import and sharing work without an account or a subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your library and how it is organized stay on your iPhone; Same Kind doesn't upload your library. Improve needs Sign in with Apple to hold your credits, and it sends only the photo you choose. Optional usage analytics never include your photos. If you allow it, Same Kind tells Meta which ads brought you to the app; your photos are never shared. Terms of Use: https://www.michaelbrowk.com/samekind/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.michaelbrowk.com/samekind/privacy

About

ProTune AI Camera

This app offers advanced AI-powered camera controls for iPhone users, automatically optimizing settings like shutter speed, ISO, and focus. It provides real capture dial adjustments and live "field looks" rather than simple filters, with a teach mode to explain its choices.

Highlights
  • AI Auto Optimize for scene-based settings
  • Real capture dial adjustments (shutter, ISO, focus)
  • Live "field looks" with adjustable intensity
  • Teach Mode explains AI recipe choices
  • On-device scene naming for looks
  • Selfie mode with AI optimization
Features
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Better photos from your iPhone — no f-stops required. The camera is rebuilt around Auto Optimize: one primary button by the shutter sets every dial for you, field looks sit on a right-edge rail, and full manual control slides out from the left. ProTune AI Camera is a field camera for photographers who want the recipe AND the dial position. Auto Optimize reads the scene, picks the right photo recipe, and writes real capture dials on your iPhone — shutter, ISO, EV, white balance, focus and zoom. Not filters. Real dials. Your last photo is always one tap away, and you can dictate the scene with the mic. WHAT AUTO OPTIMIZE SETS • Shutter / exposure duration • ISO • EV bias • White balance (temp & tint) • Focus lock • Zoom / lens and torch, when the scene calls for it EVERY DIAL, EXPLAINED Teach Mode shows which recipe was chosen, which dials moved and why — an instructor over your shoulder, not a chat wall. REAL DIALS, NOT FILTERS Field looks are capture grades applied live in the viewfinder — golden hour, mono ink, teal orange and more — with intensity you control. Name one out loud or type it and it's applied on-device. Never beauty filters. Never sky replacement. SELFIE MODE Front camera gets the same treatment: face-tuned Auto Optimize and fixed capture, so self-portraits get real exposure decisions too. FREE PEEK VS PRO • Free: browse every recipe, live viewfinder, 1 Auto Optimize per day • AI Camera Pro: unlimited Auto Optimize, manual dials, full Teach Mode, interactive field checklists $7.99/month or $59.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions via Apple In-App Purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://photo.grepawk.com/privacy BUILT FOR THE FIELD Recipes come from classic field technique — panning, motion control, HDR, focus discipline, low angle — each with dials, steps and checklists.

Screenshots

Same Kind4 screens
ProTune AI Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ProTune AI Camera at 17.0 against Same Kind's 26.0. 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. Same Kind sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ProTune AI Camera sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Same Kind against 5.0 for ProTune AI Camera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Same Kind ships an update every 5 days, ProTune AI Camera every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Same Kind versus ProTune AI Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSame KindProTune AI Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMikhail DvoiniakovGrepAwk LLC

Customer experience

Same Kind

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ProTune AI Camera

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

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Same Kind

Subscriptions3
  • Improve Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Improve Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Improve Annual1 Year trial$89.991 Year
One-time2
  • 4,000 Improve Credits$1.49
  • 4,000 Improve Credits$4.99
2 purchases

ProTune AI Camera

Subscriptions2
  • Photo Recipes Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Photo Recipes Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Same Kind free?
Same Kind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ProTune AI Camera free?
ProTune AI Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Same Kind or ProTune AI Camera?
Same Kind and ProTune AI Camera are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Same Kind or ProTune AI Camera have ads?
Both Same Kind and ProTune AI Camera show ads.
Which is updated more often, Same Kind or ProTune AI Camera?
Same Kind ships an update every 5 days, and ProTune AI Camera every 3 days. Most recently, Same Kind was updated on October 31, 2026 and ProTune AI Camera on October 31, 2026.

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