Comparison

StoryCatcher Pro vs POP Camera Printer

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

Head to head
About

StoryCatcher Pro

Create and share engaging video stories with friends and family. This app offers themes, title design, video capture, photo import, and interview prompts to craft shareable video time capsules. Easily record, edit, and share your creations via email, YouTube, Vimeo, or cloud storage.

Highlights
  • Create video stories
  • Import photos and videos
  • Add custom titles and themes
  • Provocative interview questions
  • Share via email, YouTube, Vimeo
  • Save to camera roll or Dropbox
Features
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StoryCatcher® for iOS is a fun and simple tool to create and share video stories. Become the documentarian in your circles! Be the video storyteller for your friends, family, and heck, even strangers, by effortlessly building filmed stories. Choose themes, design titles, capture video, add screen text, and import photos! Once all your elements are in place, your very own movie is crafted into an amazing and shareable time capsule. StoryCatcher® provides provocative interview questions to keep things interesting. Create a single story or stitch together a group of stories into a Collection. You can even create a full-length documentary. You import the pieces; we’ll take care of the glue! Simply record and share; the app does the rest! CAMERA SHY? TRY PHOTO SLIDESHOW For those who prefer to stay behind the lens, the Photo Slideshow theme lets you tell a story using your voice and your favorite photos. Record your story as you normally would: StoryCatcher® keeps your audio and replaces the video with the images you select. Add captions and a title, preview it, and share. It's a beautiful way to bring photographs to life. SPREAD JOY WITH STORY BOOTH! Turn your device into a story recording booth and let friends and family film short shoutouts! Great for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and any gathering worth celebrating. Write a title and a short prompt your guests will see while they record. Story Booth creates a new Collection and adds each video automatically, keeping an eye on your available storage along the way. Afterward, rearrange, retitle, and edit the videos like any other StoryCatcher® story. PRIVATE BY DESIGN We believe in privacy and that your stories belong to you. No data collection or subscription, ever. Share your StoryCatcher® videos by email, on YouTube, or Vimeo, save to your camera roll, or store them in a shared Dropbox folder for all to enjoy, publicly or privately. StoryCatcher® is the brainchild collaboration between Professional Personal Historian, April Bell, and iPhone App Coder, Urs Brauchli. Their goal is to provide an engaging and intuitive tool to bring friends and family closer together through video storytelling. Ultimately, it is our personal stories that connect and bind us, now and for generations to come.  We want the world to tell their stories and pass them on. What’s your story? North Beach Apps, LLC was formed by Urs and April in 2012 to support the creation and distribution of StoryCatcher for iOS.

About

POP Camera Printer

Instantly print photos directly from your smartphone. Enhance your images with editing tools, add signatures and emojis, and create visual stories from your captured moments.

Highlights
  • Instant photo printing
  • Smartphone photo editing
  • Add signatures
  • Add emojis
  • Create photo stories
Features
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Print pictures instantly from your smartphone or mobile device. Edit photos, add signature, emojis, and create stories from all your Polaroid Pop.

Screenshots

StoryCatcher Pro4 screens
POP Camera Printer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: StoryCatcher Pro at 89% against POP Camera Printer's 15%. StoryCatcher Pro also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). POP Camera Printer's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (2.6K vs 7). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

POP Camera Printer is free to download; StoryCatcher Pro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

StoryCatcher Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POP Camera Printer has 2.6K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of StoryCatcher Pro's written reviews are positive against 15% of POP Camera Printer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StoryCatcher Pro ships an update every 6 months, POP Camera Printer every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
StoryCatcher Pro versus POP Camera Printer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStoryCatcher ProPOP Camera Printer
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.3 (2.6K ratings)
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews — better14.8% of reviews
Number of ratings72.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB285 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNorthBeachApps LLCC&A Marketing, Inc.

Customer experience

StoryCatcher Pro

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

POP Camera Printer

All ratings2,561 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews169 reviews
Positive14.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative81.1%

Bugs and requests

StoryCatcher Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

POP Camera Printer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when accessing photo gallery
  • Firmware update process not working
  • Inability to print photos from phone

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced photo editing tools
  • Improved camera connectivity

In-app purchases

None

StoryCatcher Pro

No in-app purchases

None

POP Camera Printer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StoryCatcher Pro free?
StoryCatcher Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is POP Camera Printer free?
POP Camera Printer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StoryCatcher Pro or POP Camera Printer?
StoryCatcher Pro is rated higher. StoryCatcher Pro averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while POP Camera Printer averages 4.3 from 2.6K ratings.
Do StoryCatcher Pro or POP Camera Printer have ads?
Neither StoryCatcher Pro nor POP Camera Printer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StoryCatcher Pro or POP Camera Printer?
StoryCatcher Pro ships an update every 6 months, and POP Camera Printer every 5 weeks. Most recently, StoryCatcher Pro was updated on October 9, 2026 and POP Camera Printer on October 19, 2026.

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