Comparison

Silver Halide Pro vs SILVER

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

Head to head
About

Silver Halide Pro

Features
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Silver Halide develops your photos through real film emulsions — the same seventeen-stage pipeline as the desktop app, running on your phone's GPU. Shoot straight through a stock with the live viewfinder, or import frames you already have. Either way the grade happens on the device: no upload, no queue, no round trip to a server. TWENTY-THREE STOCKS Color negative, slide, black and white and print stocks, each with its own color response, grain structure and halation. A REAL EDITOR Exposure, brightness, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks. Color, saturation and vibrance. Grain by texture and opacity. Halation, bloom and diffusion. A tone curve when you want one. ROLLS, NOT A CAMERA ROLL Frames live in rolls you name. Edits copy from one frame to the next, and the whole roll exports at full resolution back to Photos. FREE AND PRO Four stocks and the whole editor are free. Silver Halide Pro unlocks the other nineteen stocks, as a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Frames you have already made with a stock stay editable either way. Sign-in is optional. Use Sign in with Apple or Google to carry the same Pro you have on Silver Halide Desktop. Your photos never leave your phone. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://silverhalide.pro/mobile/terms Privacy Policy: https://silverhalide.pro/mobile/privacy

About

SILVER

Features
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SILVER is a black-and-white film camera with no subscription. All six films are free, framed photos are free to save and share, and SILVER Pro is a one-time purchase. Shoot from the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action button. Each photo develops on screen, and SILVER files it in a private journal with the date, an optional place and your caption. SIX FILMS, ALL FREE • ARGENT 400: classic grain • HALO 400: open shadows • NOCT 1600: high contrast • LUME 100: soft highlights • SABLE 200: matte shadows • IRON 3200: deep blacks Adjust grain and borders, tap to focus and set exposure, and switch lenses or turn to the front camera. Flash, zoom, a grid and a 3 or 10 second timer are built in. The viewfinder is already black and white before you press the shutter. FORMATS AND A DATE Choose a format in the Film picker: full frame, 3:2, square 6Ɨ6, 6Ɨ7 or the wide XPan panorama. SILVER keeps the whole negative, so you can change the format after the shot. Turn on the date imprint for a small gray dot-matrix date in the corner. ALWAYS WITHIN REACH • Lock Screen camera: shoot without unlocking. Photos develop the next time you open SILVER. • Control Center and Action button controls. • Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later: slide to change film, press to shoot. • Siri: "Take a photo with SILVER." • Photo widgets for the Home Screen and a camera widget for the Lock Screen. The Lock Screen camera, the controls and the Siri camera need iOS 18 or later; widgets need iOS 17. A JOURNAL OF YOUR DAYS Photos are grouped by day. Add a caption, a mood or a place, mark favorites, and look back whenever you like. A deleted photo waits in Recently Deleted for 30 days. SAVE AND SHARE Frame a photo as Original, Post (4:5) or Story (9:16), with your caption, date and place. Framed photos are free to save and share, at a smaller size and with a small "Shot on SILVER" mark. SILVER PRO Pro is a one-time purchase. It saves every photo at full resolution, lets you remove the mark and adds day contact sheets. With Pro you can also import photos from your library and develop them on any film, without giving SILVER access to your library, and save each new photo to Photos automatically. Future updates are included. Restore your purchase with the same Apple Account. PRIVACY No SILVER account and no ads. Your photos, notes and places stay on your device unless you save or share them. SILVER sends anonymous usage data, such as which features get used, and never your photos, notes, places or anything you type. Turn it off in Settings; in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it stays off until you allow it. Capture and the journal work offline. Your Library is stored only inside SILVER. It stays out of device backups unless you turn on Settings › Backup.

Screenshots

Silver Halide Pro4 screens
SILVER4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SILVER at 15.0 against Silver Halide Pro's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Silver Halide Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and SILVER sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Silver Halide Pro versus SILVER: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilver Halide ProSILVER
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClick Boreal Unipessoal LDASushil Kumar

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Silver Halide Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Silver Halide Pro Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Silver Halide Pro Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$99.99
1 purchases

SILVER

One-time1
  • SILVER Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Silver Halide Pro free?
Silver Halide Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SILVER free?
SILVER is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Silver Halide Pro or SILVER have ads?
Neither Silver Halide Pro nor SILVER shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Silver Halide Pro or SILVER?
Silver Halide Pro ships an update every 5 days, and SILVER every 5 days. Most recently, Silver Halide Pro was updated on October 31, 2026 and SILVER on October 24, 2026.

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