Comparison

Stipo vs Immersive Border

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

Head to head
About

Stipo

Transform your photos into unique vintage-style stamps. This free app lets you add custom frames, text, and even voice notes to your images, creating digital keepsakes. Organize your creations into albums and enjoy a private, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Create photo stamps with custom frames
  • Add text and voice memos to stamps
  • Organize stamps into albums
  • Apply color and monochrome filters
  • Import custom LUT files
  • Watermark-free exports
  • iCloud sync
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Turn today into a stamp. Stipo is a completely free vintage stamp camera with every feature unlocked. There are no subscriptions, no ads, and no feature paywalls. Take a new photo or choose one from your library. Keep the moment you love inside the stamp frame while everything outside naturally fades into black and white. An ordinary photo becomes a small digital keepsake worth collecting. CREATE YOUR OWN PHOTO STAMPS • Take photos with the camera or import them from your library • Move and resize the stamp frame to refine your composition • Keep the subject in color while the background fades to black and white • Choose from multiple stamp sizes, frames, themes, and layouts • Apply color and monochrome filters • Import your own LUT files for a custom look • Add stamp text and adjust its font, position, and content • Export finished stamps without a watermark KEEP THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO Every stamp has a back. • Write a note for the moment • Record a voice memo and preserve how it sounded • Keep the original capture date • Optionally add a place, coordinates, and local weather • Revisit the words and sounds behind each stamp BUILD YOUR PERSONAL STAMP COLLECTION • Create unlimited stamps and albums • Organize travel, family, pets, and everyday moments • Browse your collection by date • Revisit places through the city footprint view • Select, save, share, or organize multiple stamps at once • Sync supported content across your Apple devices with iCloud COMPLETELY FREE • Unlimited stamps • Unlimited albums • All stamp frames and themes • All built-in filters and custom LUT imports • Custom text, fonts, and positioning • Watermark-free exports • iCloud sync PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your stamps, notes, and voice memos stay on your device by default. Stipo does not use third-party advertising or cross-app tracking SDKs, and your personal content is never sold. If you choose to enable iCloud sync, supported content is stored in your private iCloud database and synced between devices signed in to the same Apple Account. No feeds. No pressure to post. Just a small, free stamp camera for turning everyday moments into something worth keeping. Turn today into a stamp. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 Double-tap the photo or open Crop. Use the theme’s recommended ratio, a common photo ratio, or your own dimensions. Pinch to zoom and drag to adjust the composition. 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.

Screenshots

Stipo4 screens
Immersive Border4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stipo at none against Immersive Border's 1. Immersive Border's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. Immersive Border sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stipo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stipo ships an update every 2 weeks, Immersive Border every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stipo versus Immersive Border: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStipoImmersive Border
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQian Zhang全鹏 宋

Customer experience

Stipo

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Immersive Border

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stipo

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Immersive Border

One-time1
  • Immersive Border Pro Lifetime$0.99

Questions

Is Stipo free?
Stipo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Immersive Border free?
Immersive Border is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stipo or Immersive Border have ads?
Neither Stipo nor Immersive Border shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stipo or Immersive Border?
Stipo ships an update every 2 weeks, and Immersive Border every 2 days. Most recently, Stipo was updated on October 24, 2026 and Immersive Border on October 17, 2026.

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