Comparison

hibireel vs Compo

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

Head to head
About

hibireel

Record short video clips and combine them into a personal video diary. Add dates, locations, captions, and music to your creations. All content is saved directly to your device.

Highlights
  • Short-clip video capture
  • Automatic timestamps and location
  • Free-form captions
  • Background music integration
  • Save to Camera Roll
  • On-device storage
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Capture life's little moments in short video clips and stitch them into a mini-diary. hibireel lets you record 0.2 to 10-second clips, then combine them into a single movie with dates, locations, captions, and background music. Features: - Short-clip capture: portrait or landscape, front or back camera, picture-in-picture wipe recording - Automatic timestamps, place names and mini-map overlays - Free-form captions - Background music (built-in tracks or bring your own from the Music library) - Save the finished movie straight to your Camera Roll - Everything stays on-device: no accounts, no sign-up, no cloud upload hibireel is a small-batch video journal built for casual, everyday capture. Turn a walk in the park, a lunch with friends, or a weekend trip into a bite-sized reel you can look back on later.

About

Compo

Features
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Most camera apps hand you a grid. Compo tells you what to do with it. Pick a shot recipe (Golden Hour Backlight, Room to Look, 45° Diner's View) and Compo draws its composition straight onto the live viewfinder: where the subject sits, where the eye travels, and what angle to shoot from. A live angle badge counts your tilt as you move, and turns green the moment you hit the angle the shot was built for. WHAT YOU GET • 32 shot recipes across portrait, food, product, landscape and architecture • Placement guides drawn on the live frame: drag a handle to fit them to your actual subject • Live angle guidance from the gyroscope, with a haptic tap at the target • A four-step checklist on every recipe: light, angle, zoom, placement • The reason each shot works, with a diagram and a finished photograph • Simulated aperture, applied to the photo you saved, not a preview trick • Live Photo capture • An album of what you shot, each frame captioned with the recipe you framed it with YOUR PHOTO IS A PHOTO The overlay is interface, not artwork. Nothing is ever burned into the file: what lands in your library is a full-resolution photograph with the guides gone. FREE TO START Eight recipes, the whole camera, the guides, the angle feedback and the checklists are free, forever. Compo Vol. 1 unlocks the remaining 24 recipes across every category as a single one-time purchase. There is no subscription. Nothing renews, and there is nothing to cancel. Vol. 1 stays unlocked on every device signed in to the same Apple ID. PRIVACY Your camera frames, your photos and your motion readings stay on your device. Compo has no account, no advertising, no analytics SDK and no cross-app tracking. When you open the album, it looks up only the photos it saved itself. Requires an iPhone running iOS 17 or later. Camera access is asked for when you first frame a shot, not at launch, so you can browse every recipe before granting anything.

Screenshots

hibireel3 screens
Compo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: hibireel at none against Compo's 1. Compo's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Compo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. hibireel asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 6 level
hibireel versus Compo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhibireelCompo
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyosuke TamuraYafet Trakan Tangkuman

In-app purchases

None

hibireel

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Compo

One-time1
  • Compo Vol. 1$2.99

Questions

Is hibireel free?
hibireel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Compo free?
Compo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do hibireel or Compo have ads?
Neither hibireel nor Compo shows ads.

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