The Frame Camera vs PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
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
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
Easily create dynamic slideshows from photos and video clips. Enhance visuals with effects, transitions, and add music or narration for a professional touch. Share your creations directly to social media.
- Combine photos and video clips
- Enhance and edit photos
- Apply effects and transitions
- Add music and narration
- Add text captions
- Direct social media sharing
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Create amazing slideshow from your photos and video clips. Enhance, crop, flip and rotate photos. Apply stunning effects and transitions such as cross-fade, zoom, panning and much more to give a more professional look. Add music, or record narration to create a soundtrack for you slideshow further enhancing those memorable moments. Making these dynamic slideshows is quick and easy with the intuitive interface of PhotoStage Slideshow Maker guiding you through the process. Then, when your slideshow is finished sharing your results and your memorable moments is just as easy with options including directly uploading to Facebook and more to showcase your slideshow with friends and family, because a picture is worth more when it is seen, appreciated and shared with others. PhotoStage Slideshow Maker Features: • Combine photos and video clips • Crop, rotate and flip photos easily • Fine tune brightness, color and saturation • Add text captions to individual slides • Choose from a wide range of transitions • Add music tracks to your slideshow • Record or import audio narration • Easily share finished slideshows
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Frame Camera at 100% against PhotoStage Slideshow Maker's 33%. PhotoStage Slideshow Maker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.1 vs 3.9). On price, ratings volume, 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. The Frame Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PhotoStage Slideshow Maker sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of The Frame Camera's written reviews are positive against 33% of PhotoStage Slideshow Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
The Frame Camera ships an update every 4 months, PhotoStage Slideshow Maker every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Frame Camera | PhotoStage Slideshow Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) | 4.1 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 6 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 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ratha Sou | NCH Software |
Customer experience
The Frame Camera
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
In-app purchases
The Frame Camera
- Remove Ads$1.99
PhotoStage Slideshow Maker
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Open All Effects$1.99
- Open All Transitions$1.99
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- Open All Output Formats$1.99
- Unlimited Youtube and Facebook Sharing$1.99
- PhotoStage$4.99
- All advanced effects, transitions, export formats, ad-free slide creation$4.99
- All advanced effects, transitions, export formats, ad-free slide creation$9.99
Questions
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