Comparison

Prism vs Foundform

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

Head to head
About

Prism

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Color is everywhere. Prism helps you discover it, capture it, and turn it into beautiful palettes. Whether you're designing something new, searching for inspiration, or simply notice a combination of colors you love, Prism gives you an intuitive way to explore the colors around you. CAPTURE COLOR FROM THE WORLD Take a photo or choose one from your library and Prism will reveal a palette inspired by the colors inside it. Explore extracted colors directly on the image and see exactly where each color came from. DISCOVER COLOR LIVE Point your camera at the world around you with Live Palette and watch colors appear in real time. Find inspiration in a sunset, an outfit, a room, artwork, nature, or anywhere else color catches your eye. CREATE YOUR OWN PALETTES Generate new color combinations and explore color harmonies when you need inspiration. Create palettes for design projects, illustrations, interiors, branding, or simply for the joy of discovering something beautiful. EXPLORE & GET INSPIRED Browse photography-inspired palettes and Prism Originals to discover new combinations, moods, and ideas. BUILD YOUR COLOR LIBRARY Save the palettes you love and return to them whenever inspiration strikes. SHARE BEAUTIFULLY Turn your palettes into beautiful, customizable share cards. Choose from Light, Dark, Minimal, and Photo styles, then personalize your card with titles, HEX values, and Prism branding. EXPORT FOR DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT Take your colors beyond Prism. Export palettes as HEX, RGB, SwiftUI, CSS, JSON, or CSV for use in apps, websites, design projects, and creative workflows. PRISM PRO For those who want to create without limits, Prism Pro unlocks unlimited palette generation, unlimited photo color extraction, unlimited saved palettes, an ad-free Gallery, and access to future premium creative tools. SEE COLOR DIFFERENTLY From the colors already around you to combinations you haven't discovered yet, Prism makes exploring color simple, visual, and inspiring. Privacy Policy: https://www.jesserubio.com/prism/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://www.jesserubio.com/prism/support/

About

Foundform

This app helps designers and creatives build a visual field archive of found objects. It allows you to capture, organize, refine, and export design references from the physical world into a digital collection.

Highlights
  • Capture found objects with perspective correction
  • Organize finds into collections
  • Preserve metadata like location and date
  • Refine image properties and cutouts
  • Calibrate real-world scale for flat objects
  • Export clean PNGs with transparent backgrounds
  • Local storage for privacy
Features
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Collect the design around you. Foundform is a visual field archive for designers, creatives and anyone who notices the details. A bus ticket. A beautifully printed label. Interesting typography on a storefront. A sticker from a trip. Packaging you want to remember. Instead of letting these references disappear into your camera roll, Foundform turns them into a collection of individual digital specimens. CAPTURE FOUND OBJECTS Photograph an object directly in Foundform or import something you already captured. Perspective correction helps turn flat objects into clean, straight-on references, while cutout tools isolate irregular objects from their surroundings. BUILD YOUR FIELD ARCHIVE Organize finds into collections without duplicating them. One object can belong to several collections, and each object can contain multiple views — front, back, details or context photographs. PRESERVE THE DETAILS Keep where and when you found something alongside notes and other metadata. Foundform keeps the object connected to the place and moment it came from. REFINE YOUR SPECIMENS Adjust exposure, contrast, color and other image properties. Refine cutouts, correct perspective, add borders and choose how each view should be presented. CONNECT DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL SCALE For flat objects, optionally calibrate real-world scale by marking two points and entering the distance between them. Foundform can then derive the specimen’s physical dimensions. EXPORT FOR DESIGN WORK Export clean PNGs with transparent backgrounds. Calibrated specimens can be exported at their real-world scale and a chosen DPI — useful when bringing physical references into design workflows. MADE FOR VISUAL COLLECTIONS Foundform is designed around the objects themselves. Finds move naturally between your archive, collections and detailed views, making your digital collection feel closer to handling a collection of physical specimens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your archive is stored locally on your device. Foundform doesn’t require an account or social profile. Find something worth keeping.

Screenshots

Prism4 screens
Foundform4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Foundform at none against Prism's 3. Foundform also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 weeks). On price, 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. Prism sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Foundform asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prism ships an update every 4 weeks, Foundform daily. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Prism versus Foundform: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrismFoundform
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJesse RubioLinus Weber

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Prism

Subscriptions2
  • Prism Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Prism Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Remove Ads$6.99
None

Foundform

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prism free?
Prism is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foundform free?
Foundform is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Prism or Foundform have ads?
Prism shows ads; Foundform does not.
Which is updated more often, Prism or Foundform?
Prism ships an update every 4 weeks, and Foundform daily. Most recently, Prism was updated on October 6, 2026 and Foundform on October 13, 2026.

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