Analog Roll vs Tinycam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Analog Roll
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Analog Roll isn't an Instagram filter. It's a real roll-film camera, with all the friction and surprise of shooting on film โ right on your phone. HOW IT WORKS Pick a roll (24 or 36 shots), shoot, and that's it: the photo gets locked. You won't see it until it "develops" โ you decide if that takes 1 minute, 12 hours, 24 hours, or 30 days, like mailing it off to be developed. No preview, no retouching, no second chances. That's how real film gets shot. REAL EMULATION, NOT A FILTER Every photo runs through real 3D LUTs, scanned grain, and the same color curves as a good physical roll โ not a semi-transparent layer slapped on top. The result doesn't look like a filter: it looks like a roll of film. 5 ROLLS โข Amber 200 โ vivid colors, warm tones โข Super 400 โ bright greens, clean blues โข Noir Ultra 400 โ black and white, classic soul โข Retro Dusk 800T โ cinematic nights, halation in the highlights โข Analog Roll โ the free starter roll: every shot uses a different film stock, at random. You never know what you'll get. DOUBLE EXPOSURE Stack two shots on the same frame, like not advancing the roll between takes. Real, not an editing effect. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your rolls and photos are 100% local โ they never leave your phone unless you decide to post a photo that's already developed. No cloud, no mandatory account, no auto-upload. FRIENDS (OPTIONAL) If you want, connect an account and add friends by scanning a QR code. Post your developed photos โ they're visible instantly and disappear after 24 hours, like a polaroid passed from hand to hand. Analog Roll is for anyone who misses the wait. For anyone who'd rather have 36 intentional shots than 3,000 photos never looked at. Load a roll and shoot.
Tinycam
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Tinycam is a camera for the everyday moments you skip because your phone is nearly full. Every photo is compressed the moment you take it, to about 58 KB instead of a few megabytes. Thirty to forty Tinycam photos fit in the space of one ordinary iPhone photo, with no visible quality loss on your screen. There is no quality setting to get wrong. It is fixed, and it is invisible. TAP FOR A PHOTO. HOLD FOR A VIDEO. One shutter and no modes. The app opens straight to the viewfinder, so the moment is still there when you are ready for it. EVERY DAY, ALREADY SORTED Pull up from the viewfinder and every memory is there, filed by day and month like prints in folders, with the place you were written in the margin. Only your moments: no screenshots, no receipts, no scans. Pinch to step back from one big print to a whole year on one screen, and search by place or by date. A PHOTO DIARY THAT KEEPS ITSELF Shoot the small things: breakfast, the walk home, the kids at the park. A year later the ordinary Tuesday is the one you go back to. Open any memory to relive it like a print, with the rest of the month in a strip beneath it. FAVORITES, PRIVATE AND RECENTLY DELETED Heart the prints you love. Move the ones that are only for you to Private, locked with Face ID. Deleted memories wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days, in case you change your mind. NO CLOUD. NO LOGIN. JUST YOURS. No account, no sign in, no uploads, no feed, no ads and no analytics. Photos and videos stay in Tinycam's own storage on your phone, apart from your camera roll, and they are yours to save, share or delete whenever you want. Location is optional and only asked for after your first shot. WHAT IS IN IT - Photos at about 58 KB, videos at 720p in 30 second clips - A timeline grouped by day, month and year, named by the places you were - Search by place or by date - Favorites, a Private shelf locked with Face ID, and Recently Deleted - Save any memory to Photos, or share it - A home screen widget of your latest prints - A lock screen camera and a Control Center control on iOS 18 - Made for iPhone, and works on iPad Free, with no subscription. Your memories stay on your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Analog Roll at 15.1 against Tinycam's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Analog Roll | Tinycam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | josse Emilio Diaz Diaz | Shyjal Raazi |
In-app purchases
Analog Roll
No in-app purchases
Tinycam
No in-app purchases









