DiscCam vs tinwidget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DiscCam
Capture everyday moments and transform them into collectible digital discs or vinyl records. Customize your creations with unique graphics and labels, then organize them in your personal collection or share them as stories.
- Capture photos as CDs or vinyl records
- Customize CD graphics and vinyl label colors
- Build a personal collection of digital media
- Create 9:16 Photo or Motion stories
- Share stories to social media
- Simple, camera-first editing workflow
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Turn everyday moments into collectible discs. DiscCam is a camera inspired by CDs, vinyl records, and physical media. Frame a moment inside the disc, press the shutter, and watch it become a collectible. Capture as CD or Vinyl. Customize CDs with graphics and cases, or personalize vinyl with a label color. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Every capture is saved as a collectible. Browse your CDs and vinyl records in Collection or revisit memories by date in Calendar. MAKE A STORY Pick a favorite collectible and turn it into a 9:16 Photo or Motion story with a background inspired by its colors. Share directly to supported social apps or use your device's share menu. MADE FOR THE MOMENT DiscCam keeps editing intentionally simple. Strong defaults, tactile physical-media motion, and a camera-first workflow turn ordinary photos into something that feels worth keeping. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
tinwidget
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Fill a little tin with photos and stickers, then put it on your Home Screen. tinwidget is a tiny scrapbook. Add your photos as framed prints or cut the people, pets and things out of them, type words in cut-out magazine letters, add stickers from fourteen packs, and arrange it all inside an open tin on a cloth backdrop. Your tin becomes a Home Screen widget in three sizes. • Auto decorate: pick a few photos and tinwidget lays out a finished tin for you, with matching stickers, a title and a backdrop. Tap Shuffle for another look. • Photo frames: add a photo as an instant print, a postage stamp, a film frame, a taped or torn print, a round or black-and-white photo. Change the frame any time. • Photo cutouts: pick a photo and tinwidget lifts the subject out for you. Every cutout is kept, so you can use it again in another tin. • Words three ways: cut-out magazine letters, a flowing script, or a paper label, in the colour you choose. • Fourteen sticker packs, 550 stickers: wax seals, postcards, postage stamps, a grocery run, sunwashed souvenirs, binder clips, glossy trinkets, little everyday things, a little bakery and its coffees, embroidered patches, Y2K desktop icons, a full alphabet of cut-out letters, party pets and gym cats, and retro halftone prints. Plus every emoji. • 62 backdrops: gingham, denim, linen, knits, paper and more, or your own photo. • Easy to arrange: drag, pinch and turn with your fingers. Bring a sticker to the front, tuck it behind the tin, give it a border, flip it or copy it. • Widgets: small, medium and large, and a different tin for each one. • Share it: post your tin to your Instagram Story in one tap, save it to Photos, or send it anywhere. • Decorate together: invite one person through iCloud and fill a tin together, each on your own half. • Private by design: no account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your tins live only on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. tinwidget is free with two tins, six backdrops and five sticker packs. One purchase unlocks everything, forever. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DiscCam at every 3 days against tinwidget's every 9 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. DiscCam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and tinwidget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DiscCam ships an update every 3 days, tinwidget every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | DiscCam | tinwidget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 148 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nguyen Nhut Truong | KERNBASE.STUDIO |
In-app purchases
DiscCam
- DiscCam Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- DiscCam Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- DiscCam Pro Lifetime$19.99
tinwidget
- tinwidget — Everything$14.99








