Fliptastic Pro vs ShadowCat Album
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fliptastic Pro
Transform your photos into professional videos for social media with a variety of transitions, AI-powered creation, and built-in music. Export in multiple formats and enhance your visuals with filters and text.
- AI-powered automatic video creation
- No watermarks on videos
- Unlockable cinematic transitions
- Built-in music library
- Photo editing and filters
- Export for various social platforms
- Stock photos integration
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Fliptastic Pro: no watermark, no ads, and the core transitions included from day one. Fliptastic Pro is the easy photo slideshow maker, with no watermark on your videos. Turn your photos into stunning videos with music for Reels, TikTok, YouTube and more. WHAT YOU GET WITH PRO • No watermark on any video, ever • All core transitions unlocked: Ken Burns, Crossfade, Reveal, Slide In, Flip In, Zoom, Cube, Bounce and more • Christmas effects, 17 theme songs, all 13 filters and all 6 formats included NEW: MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Unfold iPhone Duo and Fliptastic Pro opens up: your video and its controls sit side by side on the big inner screen. Half-fold it like a mini laptop to watch your slideshow above the fold while you fine-tune it below. Folded or unfolded, in every pose, Fliptastic fits. AI AUTO-CREATE Let AI pick your best photos and arrange them into a slideshow for you. It looks at quality, faces, composition and lighting, right on your device, and your photos are never uploaded. 40+ TRANSITIONS & EFFECTS 17 transitions and 24 effects with hearts, falling stars, Lunar New Year and Christmas themes. Use one style, mix them up, or pick a different transition for any slide. Pro includes the core transitions and the Christmas effects; Premium adds the rest. 6 FORMATS FOR EVERY SCREEN • 9:16 for Reels, TikTok & Stories • 16:9 for YouTube • 8:10 for Instagram posts • 1:1 Square • NEW: 4:3 Landscape and 3:4 Portrait, the classic photo shapes MUSIC THAT FITS Choose from 26 theme songs (17 included with Pro), or add songs you own from your music library or the Files app. Set your video's length in one tap, from 15 seconds to 3 minutes. PHOTO EDITOR & FILTERS 13 filters, crop, rotate and flip, plus brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth. Draw or add text right on a photo, with undo and redo. BEAUTIFUL TEXT SLIDES Add titles and captions with handpicked decorative fonts like Billabong, Pacifico and Permanent Marker. Perfect for intros, outros and storytelling. STOCK PHOTOS BUILT IN Need more photos? Browse thousands of free stock images from Pexels right inside the app, or take new ones with the camera. MORE FEATURES YOU'LL LOVE • Save unlimited projects and edit anytime • Drag & drop to reorder photos • Fit, Fill or Blur Fill for every photo shape • Smooth 30 or 60 fps export • Live Activities & Dynamic Island progress • Save to Photos or Files, or share to your favorite apps OPTIONAL: FLIPTASTIC PREMIUM Want even more? Fliptastic Premium is an optional subscription that adds the 5 Galaxy transitions (Particle Sweep, Light Saber, Time Warp, Portal and Radar Scan), the Love, Starry and Lunar effects, 9 more theme songs, and all future content. Packs you bought before stay unlocked. Fliptastic Pro: stunning slideshows in minutes. Subscription Terms: - Fliptastic Premium is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription - Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period - You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings - Privacy Policy: https://fliptastic.me/privacy-policy - Terms of Use (EULA): https://fliptastic.me/terms
ShadowCat Album
Manage your photo library locally without uploading to the cloud. Organize with albums and tags, automatically sort new photos, and create collages. Offers cleanup tools and a trash feature for easy recovery.
- Organize with albums and tags
- Auto-organize new photos
- Home screen widgets
- Photo cleanup tools
- Collage creation
- Trash for recovery
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ShadowCat Album is a local photo management app built to keep your library clean and easy to browse. No account required. We do **not** upload your photos to our own servers—you stay in control. 1) Photo Organizing (Core) - Organize with albums and tags, mark favorites - Faster browsing with a cleaner structure 2) Auto-organize After Taking Photos - Automatically organize new photos into selected albums/tags - Great for staying tidy with minimal effort 3) Home Screen Widgets - Multiple widget sizes to showcase your photos - Multiple sources supported (Random/Tag/Fixed; Album source is Pro-only) More Features - Cleanup: quickly find items to clean (videos, Live Photos, screenshots, large files, etc.) - Trash: restore mistakes anytime; items are removed from Apple Photos only after you confirm in Trash - Collage tools: long stitch, wide stitch, grid crop - Photo diary & stats: memories and trends at a glance Free Limits (Current Version) - Photo organizing: 30 starter items + 20/day - Auto-organize duration: 10 minutes starter + 5 minutes/day Pro (Optional: subscription / lifetime) - Unlock higher limits (up to unlimited), longer auto-organize duration (up to unlimited), faster widget refresh, album source for widgets, and more - Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled; manage/cancel in Apple ID Subscriptions Terms: https://shadowcats.netlify.app/terms Privacy: https://shadowcats.netlify.app/privacy Contact: 3d.slipbox@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ShadowCat Album at Free against Fliptastic Pro's $4.99. ShadowCat Album also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 57%). Fliptastic Pro's advantage is ratings volume (273 vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
ShadowCat Album is free to download; Fliptastic Pro costs $4.99 up front. Fliptastic Pro sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ShadowCat Album sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Fliptastic Pro against 4.8 for ShadowCat Album. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fliptastic Pro has 273 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Fliptastic Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShadowCat Album's.
Fliptastic Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, ShadowCat Album every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fliptastic Pro | ShadowCat Album |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (273 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 273 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ting Tze Chuen | 斌 胡 |
Customer experience
Fliptastic Pro
ShadowCat Album
In-app purchases
Fliptastic Pro
- Fliptastic Monthly$2.991 Month
- Fliptastic Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Lunar Pack$0.99
- Starry Pack$1.99
- Galaxy Pack$1.99
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- Love Pack$2.99
- Unlock Everything$5.99
ShadowCat Album
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$3.991 Year
- lifetime$9.99
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