Comparison

Agitate vs Sweep

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

Head to head
About

Agitate

This app provides a reliable timer for home film development, supporting black and white, C-41, and E-6 processes. It features a unique clock that records step completion, not just countdowns, ensuring accuracy even after interruptions. Designed for darkroom use with safelight mode and intuitive controls.

Highlights
  • Accurate timekeeping that records step completion
  • Safelight mode with red screen and low brightness
  • Full screen button for easy operation in the dark
  • Tap-based agitation tracking with optional sound
  • Precise timing for drain and mid-run adjustments
  • Detailed agitation schemes and temperature conversions
  • Extensive database of published film development recipes
Features
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A timer for developing film at home. Black and white, C-41 and E-6 in one app, entirely on your device. THE CLOCK IS THE TRUTH Most timers count down, and a counter can stop — when a call comes in, when the system reclaims memory, when the app is force quit. Agitate stores the moment your step ends, not the seconds left in it. A call, a reboot, a phone that ran flat and came back: on return it works out where you are from the clock. There is nothing that can freeze, because there is nothing counting. BUILT FOR A DARK ROOM • Safelight mode: red on true black, screen driven to its lowest brightness, and the Live Activity uses the same palette so nothing lights up behind your back • The whole screen is the button, so you can start the next bath blind, in gloves, with wet hands • Every agitation is a tap in your hand. Sound if you want it, and it plays through the silent switch • Large tabular figures that do not jitter, readable across the room • A segment chain that always shows where you are in the process THE DETAILS OTHER TIMERS GET WRONG • The drain is called ten seconds before time, as the makers specify. A timer that simply rings at nine minutes gives you nine minutes and fifteen seconds of development, every time • Nudge the running step by fifteen seconds, or re-read the thermometer mid-run and let only the remainder be recalculated — without abandoning the run • Agitation as published: four inversions in the first ten seconds of each minute is one maker's scheme, five to seven inversions every thirty seconds is another's. They are not interchangeable. Stand and semi-stand are here too, marked as the community methods they are • Time and temperature converted for black and white between 14 and 27 °C, in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Refused for C-41 and E-6, where deviation is a colour shift that no extra time repairs • Minimum concentrate counted per film, not per tank. A 500 ml tank holds two 35 mm films, so a highly diluted developer can be half short while looking fine EVERY TIME FROM A DATASHEET Hundreds of published combinations, searchable, each row naming the manufacturer document it was transcribed from. No scraped database, no crowd-sourced numbers of unknown origin. If a combination cannot be sourced, it is not in here — write it as a recipe of your own instead, which is unlimited and free. WARNINGS BEFORE YOU POUR Expiry, exhaustion, minimum quantity, re-use surcharge and temperature tolerance are all in the free version. A warning behind a paywall would make the free version dangerous, so none of them are. AGITATE PRO Free develops your film. Pro remembers. • A development journal: every finished run with the film, the recipe, the temperature you actually measured, the push, and your own note. Searchable • A chemistry ledger: bottles with mixing date, fill level and film count, so the app knows when a developer is out of life or out of capacity • Export of all of it, recipes included, as CSV and JSON Pro is a one-time purchase. Not a subscription, nothing renews. PRIVACY No account or sign-up. The free version loads advertising from Google over the network, and Agitate Pro removes it. Your recipes and your journal never leave your device. Agitate is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any manufacturer of film, paper or chemistry. Product names are used only to identify which products a published time applies to. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://agitate-app.vercel.app/terms Apple's standard EULA also applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://agitate-app.vercel.app/privacy Recommendations for our other apps load online. Their views and taps are counted as daily totals, without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. See our privacy policy.

About

Sweep

This app helps you declutter your photo library by letting you swipe through your pictures to keep or delete them. It intelligently identifies duplicates, blurry shots, screenshots, and large videos, all processed on your device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Swipe to keep or delete photos
  • Identifies duplicates and blurry shots
  • Finds screenshots and large videos
  • On-device processing for privacy
  • Undo and review deleted items
  • Works offline
Features
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Your camera roll has thousands of photos. You've looked at maybe two hundred of them. Sweep turns cleaning it up into something you actually finish. One card at a time: swipe right to keep, left to delete. Ten minutes later you have gigabytes back. YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE Every scan, comparison and sharpness check runs on your device. No account, no sign-in, no uploads, no analytics, no tracking. Sweep touches the network for exactly one thing: processing your App Store purchase. Everything else works in Airplane Mode. FINDS WHAT'S ACTUALLY WORTH DELETING • Duplicates, near-duplicates and bursts — grouped together so you keep one and drop the rest, with a suggested best shot picked by sharpness, resolution and face quality • Screenshots — every receipt, meme and half-read article you saved once • Possibly blurry — on-device sharpness analysis that skips your favorites and portrait shots • Large videos — biggest first, because that's where the gigabytes hide SWIPE, DON'T AGONIZE • Right to keep, left to delete, up for Keep Forever — never shown to you again • Buttons for every gesture if you'd rather tap • 20-step undo, including shake to undo • Catch a card mid-flight and change your mind • Tap any card for full-screen, full-resolution viewing with pinch-zoom and video playback NOTHING IS DELETED UNTIL YOU SAY SO Every swipe goes into a review list, not the trash. See exactly what's queued and how much space it frees, uncheck anything you had second thoughts about, then confirm once. One system prompt no matter how many items. Deleted photos sit in Recently Deleted for 30 days, and Sweep tells you exactly how to empty it — no fake "space freed" numbers. CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT "KEEP FOREVER"? Review the kept-forever list in Settings and release any photo back into future scans. Nothing is ever locked away. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Sweep saves your progress as you go. Close the app mid-session, come back tomorrow, and you start from the next unseen photo — not the beginning. Rescan later and only new photos get analyzed. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver actions on every card, full Dynamic Type support, Reduce Motion handling, and iPad support. Available in 37 languages. ONE PAYMENT, YOURS FOREVER No subscription. Unlock deleting once and every feature stays yours. Free up space. Keep the photos you love. Never see that blurry one again.

Screenshots

Agitate4 screens
Sweep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sweep at none against Agitate's shown. Sweep also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Agitate's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Agitate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sweep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Agitate against 5.0 for Sweep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Agitate ships an update weekly, Sweep daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Agitate versus Sweep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAgitateSweep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB16 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperLevin David SchwabTrifecta Labs, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Agitate

One-time1
  • Agitate Pro$4.99
1 purchases

Sweep

One-time1
  • Sweep: Clean Up Camera Roll Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Agitate free?
Agitate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sweep free?
Sweep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Agitate or Sweep?
Agitate and Sweep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Agitate or Sweep have ads?
Agitate shows ads; Sweep does not.
Which is updated more often, Agitate or Sweep?
Agitate ships an update weekly, and Sweep daily. Most recently, Agitate was updated on October 18, 2026 and Sweep on October 20, 2026.

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