Unspooled vs Z
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Unspooled
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Unspooled โ ๋น์ ์ ์ผ์์ ํ๋ฆ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ฆ์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ์๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ธ์. Unspooled๋ ํ๋ฆ ํน์ ์ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ง๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ง๊ณผ ๋์์์ ๋ด์๋ด๋ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ์ด์, ์๋ ๋ก๊ทธ ํ๋ฆ ์ดฌ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ ํ๋ฆ ๋ ธํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ํ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ง์ ์ดฌ์ํ๊ณ , ๋๋ง์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ง์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ธ์. ์ด๋ฏธ ์ดฌ์ํ ์ฌ์ง์๋ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ์ ์ ์ฉํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ค๋ฉด ํ๋ฆ ํ ๋กค์ ์์๋ถํฐ ๋ง์ง๋ง ํ๋ ์๊น์ง ์ดฌ์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆ๋ฃฉ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ โข 62์ข ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ๊ณผ ์ค์๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๊ธฐ โข ์ด๊ด๊ฐยท๊ด๊ฐยท๋ง์ ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ ์ง์(์ง์ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ) โข ํ์ดํธ๋ฐธ๋ฐ์ค ์๋ยทํ๋ฆฌ์ ยท์๋ ์กฐ์ โข ์ง์ ์กฐ๊ฑด์์ RAW ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ง ์ฒ๋ฆฌ โข ํ ๋ ์ด์ , ๋น์, HDF, ์ํํธ ์คํจ ํจ๊ณผ โข ํจ๊ณผ๋ณ ๊ฐ๋ ์กฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ค์ํ ํจ๊ณผ ์กฐํฉ โข ํ๋ฆ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ ์ธ, ๋น์์ ์ ์ฉํ ๋์์ ์ดฌ์ โข ๋์์ ํ๋ ์ ์๋ ๋ฐ ์๋จ๋ฆผ ๋ฐฉ์ง ์ค์ (์ง์ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐยท์กฐ๊ฑด) ๋๋ง์ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ โข ์์, ๋ฐ๊ธฐ, ๋๋น, ์ฑ๋ ๋ฑ ์ธ๋ฐํ ๋ณด์ โข ์์๋ณ HSL ๋ฐ ์์ ํผํฉ ์กฐ์ โข RGB ์ปค๋ธ๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํ ์ ๊ตํ ์๊ฐ ํํ โข ๊ทธ๋ ์ธ ์กฐ์ ๋ฐ ํ๋ฆ ํจ๊ณผ ์ ์ฉ โข ์ง์ ๋ง๋ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์ฅ ๋ฐ ์ฌํธ์ง โข LUT ๊ฐ์ ธ์ค๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ ๋ฐฑ์ ยท๋ณต์ ์ฌ์ง ํธ์ง โข ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ค์ํ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์ฉ โข ์๋ฅด๊ธฐ, ํ์ , ๋ค์ง๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ธ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ โข ์๋ณธ๊ณผ ํ๋ฆ ๋ฃฉ ์ ์ฉ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋น๊ต โข ์ปฌ๋ฌ ํ์คํ ๊ทธ๋จ ์ ๊ณต โข ์คํ ์ทจ์ ๋ฐ ๋ค์ ์คํ ํ๋ฆ ์ดฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก โข ํ๋ฆ ๋กค๊ณผ ๋จ์ ํ๋ ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ โข ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ, ๋ ์ฆ, ISO, ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ, ์ ํฐ์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ก โข ์ดฌ์ ์์น, ๋ ์จ, ๋ฉ๋ชจ ์ ์ฅ โข ํ๋ ์๋ณ ์ฐธ๊ณ ์ฌ์ง ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์ ์ง๋ โข ์กฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฐ์ ยท์ ํฐ ์ฐ์ ยท์๋ ๋ ธ์ถ๊ณ โข ๋ค์ํ ์ธก๊ด ๋ฐฉ์ โข LiDAR ์ง์ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์ ํผ์ฌ์ฒด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ โข ์ฅ๋ ธ์ถ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์๋ฎฌ๋ ์ด์ โข ์ค์บ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์ ์ ๋ณด ๋ด๋ณด๋ด๊ธฐ(Pro) Unspooled Pro Unspooled๋ ๋ฌด๋ฃ๋ก ์์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆ ๋กค 3๊ฐ๋ ๋ฌด๋ฃ๋ก ์ ๊ณต๋๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ์๋ ๋ณด์ํ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์์ฒญํด ๋กค์ ์ถ๊ฐํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. Unspooled Pro๋ ์ผํ์ฑ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ก ์ ๊ณต๋๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฆ ๋กค ์ ํ ํด์ ์ ์ฅ๋ ธ์ถ ์๋ฎฌ๋ ์ด์ , ์ดฌ์ ์ง๋, ์ค์บ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ๋ฐ ์ดฌ์ ์ ๋ณด ๋ด๋ณด๋ด๊ธฐ ๋ฑ Pro ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์ด์ฉํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ข์ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ถํฐ ์ค์ ํ๋ฆ์นด๋ฉ๋ผ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ์ฌ๋๊น์ง. Unspooled์ ํจ๊ป ๋น์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ธ์. โป ์ผ๋ถ ์ดฌ์ ๋ฐ ํธ์ง ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์ฑ๋ฅ, ์ง์ ๋ ์ฆ, ์ดฌ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด๊ณผ Pro ์ด์ฉ ์ฌ๋ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ํ๋ฆ ํ์ยท์ค์บ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์์ ํ ๋์ผํ ํํ์ ๋ณด์ฅํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. 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 โข 62 built-in film looks with live previews โข Ultra-wide, wide, and telephoto camera support on compatible devices โข Auto, preset, and manual white balance controls โข RAW-based photo processing when supported โข Halation, light leaks, HDF, and soft skin effects โข Adjustable effect intensity and combinations โข Video recording with film colors, animated grain, and light leaks โข Frame rate and video stabilization controls on supported devices Create Your Own Film Looks โข Fine-tune color, brightness, contrast, and saturation โข Advanced HSL adjustments and color mixing โข RGB curves for precise color grading โข Customizable grain and film effects โข Save and edit your own film looks โข Import LUTs and back up or restore your custom looks Photo Editing โข Apply film looks to existing photos โข Crop, rotate, flip, and straighten images โข Compare edited photos with the original โข View a color histogram โข Undo and redo adjustments Film Photography Notebook โข Manage film rolls and remaining frames โข Record camera, lens, ISO, aperture, and shutter speed โข Save shooting locations, weather, and notes โข Attach reference photos and view shooting locations on a map โข Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority, and Manual light meter modes โข Multiple metering methods โข Subject distance measurement on LiDAR-supported devices โข Long-exposure simulation โข 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.
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.
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Verdict
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.
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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.
Unspooled ships an update every 3 days, Z daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unspooled | Z |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KYOYOUNG LEE | sungho an |
In-app purchases
Unspooled
- Unspooled Pro$2.99
Z
- Z-Stop Pro Yearly14 Days trial$11.991 Year







