Comparison

Agitate vs CardShuttle

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

CardShuttle

Features
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CardShuttle sichert deine Speicherkarte direkt mit dem iPhone auf eine externe SSD — ohne Laptop, ohne Kompromisse bei der Sicherheit. WARUM CARDSHUTTLE Beim Fotografieren oder Filmen im Feld ist die Karte irgendwann voll. CardShuttle kopiert sie auf eine externe SSD und prüft danach jede einzelne Datei per Prüfsumme gegen das Original — nicht nur, dass die Datei da ist, sondern dass sie exakt übereinstimmt. FUNKTIONEN • Kopieren mit echter Verifikation (xxHash3 oder SHA-256) • Unterbrochene Backups automatisch erkennen und fortsetzen — schon geprüfte Dateien werden nicht neu kopiert • Field Mode: reduzierte, gut ablesbare Ansicht während des Kopierens, Bildschirm bleibt an • Backup nachträglich prüfen — auch ohne die Original-Karte • Verlauf aller bisherigen Backups • Export als CSV oder TXT • Vorschau von Kartengröße und freiem Zielspeicher, bevor der Transfer startet FÜR WEN Für Fotografen und Videografen, die unterwegs Karten leeren müssen, bevor sie weiterarbeiten können — bei Hochzeiten, Events, Dokumentationen oder auf Reisen. KOSTENLOS TESTEN Bis zu 10 GB pro Backup, drei vollständige Test-Backups kostenlos. CardShuttle Pro (einmaliger Kauf, kein Abo) schaltet unbegrenzte Backup-Größe, unbegrenzten Verlauf, Ziel-Prüfung ohne Originalkarte und Export frei. DATENSCHUTZ CardShuttle sammelt keine Daten. Alles bleibt auf deinem Gerät — keine Cloud-Übertragung, kein Tracking.

Screenshots

Agitate4 screens
CardShuttle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CardShuttle at none against Agitate's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 CardShuttle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Agitate versus CardShuttle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAgitateCardShuttle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevin David SchwabTim Jens Kramarczyk

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Agitate

One-time1
  • Agitate Pro$4.99
1 purchases

CardShuttle

One-time1
  • CardShuttle Pro$12.99

Questions

Is Agitate free?
Agitate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CardShuttle free?
CardShuttle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Agitate or CardShuttle have ads?
Agitate shows ads; CardShuttle does not.

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