Narrative vs Pic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Narrative
Relive and share your life's candid moments captured by a wearable camera. This app organizes your photos into a timeline, allowing you to explore unique timelapses and easily search for specific memories.
- Timeline of geotagged and timestamped memories
- Explore moments with unique timelapses
- Search for specific moments by date
- Highlight best photos from a moment
- Share captured memories
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Search and share your memories captured with the Narrative Clip (getnarrative.com) – the wearable camera for moments that matter. View unique, candid, serendipitous photos taken from a personal viewpoint. Never miss authentic smiles, sudden surprises or a trip of a lifetime. Key features * Timeline: scroll back in time and get a snapshot of all your moments that we geotag and timestamp * Moments: explore each moment and see an absolutely unique timelapse of all the photos taken at that time * Search: look for a specific moment by day using the jump-to-date feature * Trim: the app’s innovative algorithms highlight the best photos from a moment Awards Digital Trend Awards: Top Tech of CES 2015 USA Today’s Reviewed.com: Editors’ Choice SXSW Accelerator: Finalist Digital Innovation Awards: Best Conversation Starter CES Editors’ Choice Winner About Narrative Narrative’s vision is to give everyone the ability to capture and share moments that matter, allowing users to tell their story as it happened. Narrative is an innovative market leader in wearable cameras and intelligent photo analysis that has created the world’s most wearable camera. Enjoy your moments as they happen and let the Narrative Clip handle the capturing of memories. The Narrative App then organizes these memories into moments on a timeline, easily accessible and shareable for you at any time.
Pic
Manage your photography workflow on the go. Create and share client galleries, upload media, and post directly to social media from your mobile device. Download high-resolution photos and videos to your device.
- Create and share client galleries
- Upload any media
- Manage work on mobile
- Post directly to social media
- Download high-res photos and videos
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Your galleries go where you go. The Pic-Time mobile app brings your workflow to your fingertips. Create and share galleries with clients, upload any media, and manage your work right from your phone or tablet. Post your work directly to social, or download high-res photos and videos to your device. Everything you need, always within reach.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pic at 4.7 against Narrative's 3.8. Pic also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Narrative's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 31%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Pic holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pic has 1.7K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Narrative's written reviews are positive against 31% of Pic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Narrative ships an update every 5 weeks, Pic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Narrative | Pic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews — better | 31.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 1.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Third Dot AB | Pic-Time, Inc. |
Customer experience
Narrative
Pic
In-app purchases
Narrative
No in-app purchases
Pic
No in-app purchases
