Comparison

Unspooled vs Z

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

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Unspooled

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Unspooled โ€” ๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ์ผ์ƒ์„ ํ•„๋ฆ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ•„๋ฆ„์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ , ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Unspooled๋Š” ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํŠน์œ ์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ์งˆ๊ฐ์„ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ๋™์˜์ƒ์— ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ์ด์ž, ์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ดฌ์˜์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋Š” ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋…ธํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์ด๋ฏธ ์ดฌ์˜ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์—๋„ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํ•œ ๋กค์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„๋ฃฉ ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ โ€ข 62์ข…์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ๊ณผ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๊ธฐ โ€ข ์ดˆ๊ด‘๊ฐยท๊ด‘๊ฐยท๋ง์› ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ ์ง€์›(์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ) โ€ข ํ™”์ดํŠธ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ž๋™ยทํ”„๋ฆฌ์…‹ยท์ˆ˜๋™ ์กฐ์ ˆ โ€ข ์ง€์› ์กฐ๊ฑด์—์„œ RAW ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ โ€ข ํ• ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜, ๋น›์ƒ˜, HDF, ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ ์Šคํ‚จ ํšจ๊ณผ โ€ข ํšจ๊ณผ๋ณ„ ๊ฐ•๋„ ์กฐ์ ˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ ์กฐํ•ฉ โ€ข ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ธ, ๋น›์ƒ˜์„ ์ ์šฉํ•œ ๋™์˜์ƒ ์ดฌ์˜ โ€ข ๋™์˜์ƒ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ ์†๋„ ๋ฐ ์†๋–จ๋ฆผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ ์„ค์ •(์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐยท์กฐ๊ฑด) ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ โ€ข ์ƒ‰์ƒ, ๋ฐ๊ธฐ, ๋Œ€๋น„, ์ฑ„๋„ ๋“ฑ ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ณด์ • โ€ข ์ƒ‰์ƒ๋ณ„ HSL ๋ฐ ์ƒ‰์ƒ ํ˜ผํ•ฉ ์กฐ์ ˆ โ€ข RGB ์ปค๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ •๊ตํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ ํ‘œํ˜„ โ€ข ๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ธ ์กฐ์ ˆ ๋ฐ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํšจ๊ณผ ์ ์šฉ โ€ข ์ง์ ‘ ๋งŒ๋“  ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ์ €์žฅ ๋ฐ ์žฌํŽธ์ง‘ โ€ข LUT ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ์™€ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ๋ฐฑ์—…ยท๋ณต์› ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํŽธ์ง‘ โ€ข ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์ง„์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์šฉ โ€ข ์ž๋ฅด๊ธฐ, ํšŒ์ „, ๋’ค์ง‘๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์šธ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ ˆ โ€ข ์›๋ณธ๊ณผ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์šฉ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ต โ€ข ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ ํžˆ์Šคํ† ๊ทธ๋žจ ์ œ๊ณต โ€ข ์‹คํ–‰ ์ทจ์†Œ ๋ฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹คํ–‰ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ดฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก โ€ข ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋กค๊ณผ ๋‚จ์€ ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€ข ์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ, ๋ Œ์ฆˆ, ISO, ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐœ, ์…”ํ„ฐ์†๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ก โ€ข ์ดฌ์˜ ์œ„์น˜, ๋‚ ์”จ, ๋ฉ”๋ชจ ์ €์žฅ โ€ข ํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„๋ณ„ ์ฐธ๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ง€๋„ โ€ข ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐœ ์šฐ์„ ยท์…”ํ„ฐ ์šฐ์„ ยท์ˆ˜๋™ ๋…ธ์ถœ๊ณ„ โ€ข ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ธก๊ด‘ ๋ฐฉ์‹ โ€ข LiDAR ์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์˜ ํ”ผ์‚ฌ์ฒด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ‘œ์‹œ โ€ข ์žฅ๋…ธ์ถœ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ โ€ข ์Šค์บ” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ •๋ณด ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ(Pro) Unspooled Pro Unspooled๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋กค 3๊ฐœ๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ›„์—๋Š” ๋ณด์ƒํ˜• ๊ด‘๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ฒญํ•ด ๋กค์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Unspooled Pro๋Š” ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋กœ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•„๋ฆ„ ๋กค ์ œํ•œ ํ•ด์ œ์™€ ์žฅ๋…ธ์ถœ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜, ์ดฌ์˜ ์ง€๋„, ์Šค์บ” ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์˜ ์ •๋ณด ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ Pro ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•„๋ฆ„์˜ ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ค์ œ ํ•„๋ฆ„์นด๋ฉ”๋ผ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊นŒ์ง€. Unspooled์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‹น์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. โ€ป ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ดฌ์˜ ๋ฐ ํŽธ์ง‘ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ, ์ง€์› ๋ Œ์ฆˆ, ์ดฌ์˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด๊ณผ Pro ์ด์šฉ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ํ˜„์ƒยท์Šค์บ” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋™์ผํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ๋ณด์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Unspooled โ€” Make Every Moment Feel Like Film Create your own film colors. Capture every moment. Unspooled brings the colors and textures of analog film to your photos and videos, while also helping you document every frame you shoot with a real film camera. Capture photos with film-inspired looks, create your own unique color recipes, or apply beautiful film effects to photos you've already taken. For analog photographers, Unspooled also works as a film photography notebook, keeping track of every shot from the first frame to the last. Film-Look Camera โ€ข 62 built-in film looks with live previews โ€ข Ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto camera support on compatible devices โ€ข Auto, preset, and manual white balance controls โ€ข RAW-based photo processing when supported โ€ข Halation, light leaks, HDF, and soft skin effects โ€ข Adjustable effect intensity and combinations โ€ข Video recording with film colors, animated grain, and light leaks โ€ข Frame rate and video stabilization controls on supported devices Create Your Own Film Looks โ€ข Fine-tune color, brightness, contrast, and saturation โ€ข Advanced HSL adjustments and color mixing โ€ข RGB curves for precise color grading โ€ข Customizable grain and film effects โ€ข Save and edit your own film looks โ€ข Import LUTs and back up or restore your custom looks Photo Editing โ€ข Apply film looks to existing photos โ€ข Crop, rotate, flip, and straighten images โ€ข Compare edited photos with the original โ€ข View a color histogram โ€ข Undo and redo adjustments Film Photography Notebook โ€ข Manage film rolls and remaining frames โ€ข Record camera, lens, ISO, aperture, and shutter speed โ€ข Save shooting locations, weather, and notes โ€ข Attach reference photos and view shooting locations on a map โ€ข Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual light meter modes โ€ข Multiple metering methods โ€ข Subject distance measurement on LiDAR-supported devices โ€ข Long-exposure simulation โ€ข Link scanned photos and export shooting metadata with Pro Unspooled Pro Get started with Unspooled for free. Your first three film rolls are free. Additional rolls can be unlocked by watching rewarded ads. Unspooled Pro is available as a one-time purchase, unlocking unlimited film rolls, long-exposure simulation, the shooting map, scanned-image linking, metadata export, and other Pro features. For everyone who loves the look of film โ€” and everyone who still shoots it. Make every frame your own with Unspooled. Some features depend on device compatibility, camera capabilities, shooting conditions, and Pro access. Film effects are artistic interpretations and may differ from actual developed and scanned film.

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Z

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Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights. Z-Stop is an iPhone spot meter true to this Zone System principle. Shoot black-and-white film with the Zone System, no external meter needed. [ Sound familiar? ] - Still guessing exposure by feel? - Wasting expensive film on bad exposures? - Carrying a spot meter for a camera with no meter? - Metered a shadow and got a picture that was too bright? - Forgetting where you metered by the time you develop? For about the price of a roll of black-and-white film, you can leave these behind. Meter one shadow with your iPhone, and Z-Stop shows the shutter and aperture that make it Zone 3, in 1/2-stop steps. With Pro, one tap on "Save" keeps the scene as a record image. [ The Zone System ] Worked out by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer around 1940. It divides tones into 11 steps, from black (Zone 0) to white (Zone 10), one stop apart. Detail is clearest from Zone 3 to Zone 7. Zone 3 : darkest shadow with full texture Zone 4 : foliage and stone in shade Zone 5 : middle gray (18% gray card) Zone 6 : sunlit light skin, light stone Zone 7 : brightest textured areas Expose so the shadow detail stays on the film, then set development so the highlights land where you want them. [ A meter only knows Zone 5 ] Any reflected meter renders what it reads as middle gray (Zone 5). Shoot a shadow at its reading and it turns gray. To place a shadow on Zone 3, give 2 stops less than the reading. That is why spot metering matters: a wide reading mixes one shadow with other tones. [ Why Z-Stop ] Finding a shadow, subtracting 2 stops, converting to real settings, and bracketing by half stops is slow and error-prone. * No spot meter or DSLR required - A reflected spot meter that reads only inside a small circle on screen. * Tells you if a shadow is good for Zone 3 - It checks how even the spot is (deviation): green "Z3 OK" if usable, red "Re-meter" if texture or an edge is mixed in. * No hunting for where to meter - "Find Zone 3" points only to usable spots. - With no Zone 3 it looks for Zone 4; with neither it says "Don't shoot", so you don't waste film. * No mental math - Shows values that match your body's shutter speeds and your lens apertures. - Values you cannot set get a red warning. * Ready for half-stop differences - Five steps in 1/2 stops, from the reading to -2 stops. - Full-stop shutters: unsettable steps are gray; "By aperture" brackets the aperture. * A steady reference - Exposure locks at the first reading, so up to five spots compare fairly. * No notebook needed (Pro) - The record image keeps the screen, readings, shutter, and aperture, so you can check your Zone 3 spot after developing. * See the gray before you shoot - B&W preview shows what tone a red sign or green awning will become. [ How to use ] 1. Tap a shadow. 2. Tap a green "Z3 OK" box to set the anchor, or press "Find Zone 3" at the lower left. 3. Fix the aperture ("By shutter") or the shutter speed ("By aperture"), and read the five steps. In theory Zone 3 is -2 stops, but the right step shifts by half a stop with film, EI, development, and printing. Choose a main frame and a sub frame. 4. With Pro, press "Save" to keep the record image in the "Z-Stop" album. [ Free and Pro ] Metering, Find Zone 3, Zone 3 anchor, five 1/2-stop steps, By shutter, By aperture, B&W preview, and settings are free. Pro (in-app purchase, yearly subscription) unlocks record saving. Setup : EI, aperture, ND, camera body (SLR, RF, medium/large format) Privacy : no internet except the subscription check with Apple; no ads or analytics; video stays on your iPhone Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ * Z-Stop calculates from the brightness of the iPhone's standard (1x) camera. * Development for the highlights is up to you. * Not for important shoots you can't repeat (weddings, trips, paid work) at first. * Test with a roll or two, set it up, and bracket until you know your results.

Screenshots

Unspooled4 screens
Z4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Z at none against Unspooled's shown. Z also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Unspooled sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Z sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $11.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Unspooled ships an update every 3 days, Z daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Unspooled versus Z: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnspooledZ
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size118 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKYOYOUNG LEEsungho an

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Unspooled

One-time1
  • Unspooled Pro$2.99
1 purchases

Z

Subscriptions1
  • Z-Stop Pro Yearly14 Days trial$11.991 Year

Questions

Is Unspooled free?
Unspooled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Z free?
Z is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Unspooled or Z have ads?
Unspooled shows ads; Z does not.
Which is updated more often, Unspooled or Z?
Unspooled ships an update every 3 days, and Z daily. Most recently, Unspooled was updated on October 24, 2026 and Z on October 9, 2026.

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