Retain vs Cinematical
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Retain
Easily capture and upload customer photos to a system for tracking sales and building your customer base. The app allows for quick photo taking, previewing, and background uploading, with SMS confirmation for successful uploads.
- Capture customer photos
- Preview photos before upload
- Retake photos easily
- Enter customer names for matching
- Background photo uploading
- SMS upload confirmation
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Retain Loyalty photo uploader is a simple way to take photos of your customers and upload them to our servers for easy matching! This app is for any salesperson who wants to use our services to retain their customer's loyalty. It allows you to easily upload your customer's photo to our system. There you can keep track of your sales along with a photo of your customers and use our services to build up your customer base. Anyone can sign up for an account with us for free. With Retain Loyalty photo uploader you can... -Quickly and easily take a photo of your customer after the sale. -Preview your photo before uploading to be sure that you are happy with it. -Retake the photo if they forgot to smile. -Enter the customer's name for super simple matching. -Quickly take all the photos you want. They will all upload in the background to keep you going. You can remove the unwanted photos later on our website. -Enter you phone number and check to receive SMS, and you will get a confirmation text to let you know that your photo was successfully uploaded.
Cinematical
Easily add black bars to your videos for a cinematic look. Select your video, apply filters, and adjust positioning to achieve the desired effect before saving.
- Add black bars (letterboxing)
- Apply video filters
- Adjust scale and position
- Simple save function
- Select videos easily
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Cinematical adds black bars(Letterboxing) like move and filter your video. How to use is very simple. - Select the video you want. - Select the filter you like. As a default, a color1 filter is selected. - Adjust scale, horizontal/vertical positions if you need. - Hit "Save" button.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Retain at none against Cinematical's shown. Retain also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Cinematical's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Retain against 4.7 for Cinematical. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cinematical has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Retain's written reviews are positive against 75% of Cinematical's.
Retain ships an update every 2 months, Cinematical monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Retain | Cinematical |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Retain LLC | REAFO CO., LTD. |
Customer experience
Retain
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In-app purchases
Retain
No in-app purchases
Cinematical
No in-app purchases
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