Comparison

Immersive Border vs 所见Seen

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

Head to head
About

Immersive Border

Features
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Give every photo a frame that feels intentional. CHOOSE A LOOK Start with 24 curated presets, from classic white borders and immersive backgrounds to tickets, postage stamps, 35mm film, a camera viewfinder, vinyl records, and a realistic museum gallery. Swipe between styles while keeping your selected photo. COMPOSE YOUR PHOTO Double-tap the photo or open Crop. Use the theme’s recommended ratio, a common photo ratio, or your own dimensions. Pinch to zoom and drag to adjust the composition. Your original photo is preserved. The museum frame adapts to the photo’s shape, with four gallery backgrounds to choose from. MAKE A STYLE YOUR OWN Adjust the available margins, colors, corners, and shadows with full-screen previews. Changes are temporary until you tap Save Preset to save a custom style. Personalize text on tickets, stamps, and other text-based themes. Text belongs to the current photo and is kept separate from saved styles. Ticket colors can match your photo automatically or use your own palette. Favorite and duplicate presets with a long press, and reuse your custom styles later. DETAILS FROM YOUR CAMERA Display available camera model, lens, exposure, date, and place information from your photo’s metadata. Film and vinyl themes use the actual camera model when it is available. STANDARD AND HIGH QUALITY EXPORTS Save the finished image to a dedicated album in Photos or share through the iOS share sheet. Standard export, up to 2400 px on the longest edge, is free and selected by default. An optional one-time Pro purchase unlocks High Quality export up to 6000 px. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos are processed on your device. No account, ads, analytics, tracking, or developer server. When a selected photo contains coordinates, Apple system geocoding may be used to display a place name. No subscription. No sign-in. Standard export stays free.

About

所见Seen

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Your photo library holds more than pictures. Seen helps you return to the days and places behind them. Seen is a local-first photo album app. Choose the photos you want to add, and Seen organizes them into experiences using their available dates and places. FIND YOUR PAST Browse Past by day, month or year. Search for a date, city or place to find matching photos. Open a photo at full size and continue through the photos in the same theme. PUT PHOTOS BACK ON THE MAP Explore photos with available location information, from cities to individual places. Photos without reliable location information are not assigned a guessed location. MORE THAN A YEAR IN REVIEW Explore monthly and yearly recaps, records from the same place, different memories of a city, past years on this day and destination records across two years. Recaps cover photos added to Seen with the relevant information. Experience counts describe recorded groups, not verified visits. KEEP YOUR OWN SEEN COLLECTION Save a recap or discovery you want to keep. Its photos, dates, places and related experiences stay together. Adjust the title, words, selected photos and cover within the work. Before sharing, preview one image containing the original cover, title, places, dates and counts, then choose where it goes. OPTIONAL AI Core organization and recaps work without AI. Optional AI connects only to DeepSeek and requires your own DeepSeek API key. Photo understanding requires separate confirmation of the selected photos and costs and sends reduced still images with metadata removed. Relationship analysis sends the index of imported experiences and the dates, place names, notes, tags and existing structured clues within the retrieved material scope. After you enable AI mode and grant the relevant authorization, material changes or an explicit generation may trigger further text analysis. Independent text polishing sends only the original text you separately select. AI may make mistakes or find no new connection. It does not directly rewrite experiences or saved works. DeepSeek charges usage fees under your account rules. LOCAL SAVING, YOUR CONTROL No Seen account is required. Core records, saved works and analysis caches stay on your device. Local asset backup and restore are available; original photos remain managed by Apple Photos. Seen does not currently offer account-based cloud sync. Maps and optional AI require a network connection. Organization, recaps and sharing do not delete original photos. Seen requests deletion of specific Apple Photos originals only after you separately choose that action and complete the system confirmation. Store images use licensed photos and prepared sample records, not real user data or a promise of AI results.

Screenshots

Immersive Border4 screens
所见Seen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 所见Seen at none against Immersive Border's 1. Immersive Border's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support 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. Immersive Border sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 所见Seen asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Immersive Border ships an update every 2 days, 所见Seen monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Immersive Border versus 所见Seen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImmersive Border所见Seen
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer全鹏 宋浩然 刘

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Immersive Border

One-time1
  • Immersive Border Pro Lifetime$0.99
None

所见Seen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Immersive Border free?
Immersive Border is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 所见Seen free?
所见Seen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Immersive Border or 所见Seen have ads?
Neither Immersive Border nor 所见Seen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Immersive Border or 所见Seen?
Immersive Border ships an update every 2 days, and 所见Seen monthly. Most recently, Immersive Border was updated on October 1, 2026 and 所见Seen on October 15, 2026.

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