The Frame Camera vs Crowbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Frame Camera
Enhance your photos with a wide variety of frames and effects. Customize frame transparency, hue, and brightness. Supports dual and triple cameras with zoom functionality.
- Over 100 frame types
- Customizable frames
- Add filters & effects
- Dual/triple camera support
- 10x zoom
- Grid lines
- Instant capture
- Easy social sharing
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Now you can capture your photo with fun, elegant, attractive and amazing. The Frame Camera got all beautiful frames for capture the moment. FEATURES: • Over 100 frames with types: General, Antique, Fame, Fun, Heart, Flower, Kid, Christmas, Halloween, Diamond and Gold • Use your own custom frames • Customizable frame transparent, hue color, saturation, and brightness • Add filters & effects on your photo • Supoort dual and triple camera lens devices • Zoomable on both front and rear camera up to 10x • Center your photo with grid line • Instantly capture with touch to capture • Easy sharing to social network
Crowbox
Easily share your photos directly to friends' iPhones without uploading to the cloud. Control the slideshow experience while others view on their own devices, perfect for sharing moments without cluttering their phones or requiring internet access.
- Show photos on others' iPhones
- Direct device-to-device sharing
- No internet or cloud required
- User controls the slideshow
- No account or login needed
- Safe and secure photo sharing
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You have some photos to show. You're all together - appropriately distanced of course. Crowbox lets you show YOUR photos on THEIR iPhones. You control the show - but they see it on their devices. So obvious, and easy, and smooth. Like an old-fashioned slideshow, except everyone has their own personal screen. You show your pics, they watch. Crow your photos with Crowbox! That was an amazing meal/hike/moose/sunset! Now you’re socializing with a few of your friend and you want to show them! You could hand them your phone (Yuck, nooooo!) and tell them to swipe left, hoping they don’t swipe right. You could send them all the photos, but they don’t really want to clutter up their device with your pics. You could send them all to social media, but Morgan doesn’t have an account, and you don't really want Pat to see them. Nothing else works like Crowbox! Did we mention that Crowbox is completely safe and secure! YOUR photos play directly on THEIR screens - there is no server, or cloud. And that means it works anywhere you have a group of iOS devices together - a driveway, a park, a mountaintop, a restaurant. No internet required. No account required. No wifi router required. No username and password required. Start Crowing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crowbox at 5.0 against The Frame Camera's 3.9. Crowbox also leads on ads (none vs shown). The Frame Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 22 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. The Frame Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Crowbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crowbox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 15 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
The Frame Camera ships an update every 4 months, Crowbox every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Frame Camera | Crowbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ratha Sou | Cyan, Inc |
Customer experience
The Frame Camera
Crowbox
In-app purchases
The Frame Camera
- Remove Ads$1.99
Crowbox
- Album option$1.99
Questions
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