Chromagraph Camera vs Flipcorder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chromagraph Camera
This app offers a unique approach to mobile photography, bypassing default camera processing for custom color and texture rendering. It allows for detailed adjustments while preserving the original look and stores full-quality raw files.
- Bespoke color and texture rendering
- Raw image data processing
- Shoot first, see look after
- Adjustable color, tone, and texture
- Gallery with original raw files
- Exportable JPEGs and HEICs
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Replace your phone camera’s default processing with bespoke, curated color and texture rendering designed by cinematographer Steve Yedlin and used on the Knives Out films. Chromagraph starts from raw image data and builds the image its own way: not a filter laid over the usual look processing, but a different process from the start. (Chromagraph is a stills-only camera; it does not shoot video. Note that on some devices such as the iPhone 11, not all cameras support raw capture and will not be usable in Chromagraph) SHOOT FIRST, SEE THE LOOK AFTER As with a film camera, you frame through the viewfinder and see the finished look only after the image is processed. Take the picture, then open the gallery to see it with the Chromagraph look applied. ADJUST WITHOUT LOSING THE LOOK Intuitive yet powerful tools for color, tone, and texture give you real control while keeping every image true to the look that’s the core of the app. A GALLERY THAT KEEPS THE ORIGINALS Store full-quality raw files and view them in the app with the look applied live, along with any adjustments you make. Export smaller files to share with friends or save to your photo library, or turn on auto-export in Preferences to send every photo to your library right away as a JPEG or HEIC with the look applied. NOT A FILTER A filter sits on top of the processing your phone has already done. Chromagraph skips that processing and uses its own methods for the curated look preferred by director Rian Johnson and cinematographer Steve Yedlin.
Flipcorder
Capture your day in short clips and relive them as an unedited home movie. Apply retro VHS or clean MiniDV looks to your footage. Earn stickers and track your filming streaks.
- Daily video diary recording
- Unedited home movie playback
- Retro VHS and MiniDV filters
- Sticker collection and rewards
- Filming streak tracking
- Home Screen widgets
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Flipcorder is your retro camcorder for daily video diaries. Film your day 20 seconds at a time, and tonight relive it as one unedited home movie, like an old camcorder tape. One price, paid once: no subscription, no watermark, no ads, nothing locked. Record Daily Flips • Experience the unique daily tape: everything you film lands on today’s dated 30-minute cassette, in order, for a true retro camcorder feel. • Easily record 20-second “flips” with a simple tap, each stopping and saving automatically with a calm countdown. • You always have control to record longer flips, but the day's tape is always limited to 30 minutes. One Unedited Home Movie • Watch your day as a single, unedited home movie, playing back exactly as you filmed it - authentic video the way it used to be. • Apply classic VHS looks with bleeding color, tracking wobble, and a date stamp, or the crisp, clean look of MiniDV. • Change a tape’s look at any time: the original footage is never touched, so the choice stays yours. • Tap the picture to watch a tape full screen, and every flip keeps the local time where it was filmed, so the date stamp still reads right after a trip. • Hop from flip to flip, or wind the cassette round with your finger to find a moment. Stickers and the Camcorder Bag • Earn stickers as you film: first flips, full tapes, days on tape and a few hidden surprises. A new one slaps onto the viewfinder, then hops onto today’s cassette, and its tape keeps it. • Keep them in your camcorder bag, with your Home Video Club card, this week on tape, your spare tapes and your sticker sheet. • A kind streak counts the days you film. Spare tapes, earned with a full week of flips, cover the odd day off, and Put it in the bag pauses the count while you’re away. • Share your bag, your week or a new sticker as a little card, tall or square. Cards never show your footage. A Theme for Every Day • Today’s blank cassette offers a theme of the day. Tap Take the theme and it becomes the tape’s label, carried on the end card of your saved movie. Theme of the day can be switched off in Settings. Save and Share Memories • Save your whole tape to Photos as one movie with a title card, either with the chosen camcorder look rendered in or as clean 1080p video, ready to share. Never a watermark over your footage. Rather just the flips? Turn off Title and end cards in Settings. • Turn on Remember where flips were filmed, and Photos can show where a saved tape was filmed. The movie file itself never carries the place. • Turn on gentle reminders if you like: a quiet morning nudge or an afternoon check-in while today’s tape is blank, and an evening note when it’s ready to play. • Put today’s tape on your Home Screen as a cassette, with one tap to open the camcorder or play your day’s movie, plus Streak, This week and Next sticker widgets for the Home Screen, and Streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy too. Built for iPhone Duo • Unlock exclusive features for iPhone Duo, where the fold acts as the power switch, a camera lens is on the cover, and the subject sees a live retro preview with a REC light on the outer screen. • Close your iPhone Duo to instantly save a flip, simplifying your recording process and keeping you focused on the moment. In Your Language • Flipcorder speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese. The camcorder’s own lettering, like REC and PLAY, stays as printed. Flipcorder is a one-time purchase, with no subscriptions, in-app purchases, ads, watermarks or accounts. There’s no Pro version: everything above is included. Your videos stay on your phone until you save or share them. Anonymous usage stats help make the app better: never your footage or anything you type, and Settings > Share usage stats turns them off. Open Flipcorder tomorrow morning and make your first home movie memory.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flipcorder at 5.0 against Chromagraph Camera's 4.4. Flipcorder also leads on price ($4.99 vs $12.99) and review sentiment (86% vs 72%). Chromagraph Camera's advantage is ratings volume (179 vs 21) and chart position (#1 vs #12). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Chromagraph Camera costs $12.99 and Flipcorder $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Flipcorder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chromagraph Camera has 179 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Chromagraph Camera's written reviews are positive against 86% of Flipcorder's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Chromagraph Camera | Flipcorder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (179 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.6% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | #12 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chromatic Applications LLC | Lotus Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Chromagraph Camera
Flipcorder
In-app purchases
Chromagraph Camera
No in-app purchases
Flipcorder
No in-app purchases
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