Comparison

The Photos Booth vs BeatSync

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

The Photos Booth

Transform your photos with a wide array of real-time live effects and color presets. Capture fun and elegant images, even in low light, with adjustable settings and various aspect ratios. Easily view, share, and manage your creations.

Highlights
  • 39+ real-time live effects
  • Apply effects and color presets simultaneously
  • Screen Flash for low light photos
  • Front and rear camera support
  • Adjustable effects level
  • Multiple photo crop sizes
  • Built-in photo gallery
Features
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The Photos Booth bring the original iPad Photo Booth amazing, elegant, and funny face that make you laugh all days long, into iPhone and beyond. Capture your photo with real time super fun effects and elegant effects. It boost to more advanced level, with more effects, adjustable effects level, and can apply effect with enhance color preset at the same time. Even in the dark time, all the captured photos just look great with Screen Flash. FEATURES: • Up to 39 real time live effects and color presets • Apply both effects and color preset at the same time • Great low light photo with Screen Flash for all devices • Capture with front and rear camera • Support dual and triple rear camera lens devices • Preview your photo after capture • Crop photo size: Standard 4:3, Square 1:1, Widescreen 16:9 and UltraWide 21:9 • Automatically save your photo to camera roll • Built-in photo gallery for photo viewing and easing sharing • Turn on flash to bright the dark • Level photo position with grid line • All effects are: Terminal, Mirror, X-Ray, Negative, Light Tunnel, Squeeze, Twirl, Stretch, Bold, Pixellate, TV Dot, Vegnette, Focus Blur, Zoom Blur, Beauty, Posterize, Emboss, Sketch, Cartoon, Edge, Stone Stamp, Hue Color, Clone, Fish Eye, and Shift Blur • All color presets are: Black & White, Grayscale, Sepia, Fade, Chrome, Deep Shadow, Etique, Cross Process, Aqua, Cool, Pale Bright, Yelly, Redy, and Greeny INFO: • Some effects required tap or pinch gesture to adjust effect position or effect level • Double tap to focus and set exposure (iPhone and rear camera only)

About

BeatSync

Easily create trendy music videos from your photos or a single video clip. Select a template, add your media and music, and let the app automatically sync effects to the beat. Export your creation or send it as a project file to KineMaster for advanced editing.

Highlights
  • Create trendy music videos
  • Automatic beat-synced effects
  • Use photos or one video clip
  • Select custom music
  • Send projects to KineMaster
  • No watermark
  • Save and share videos
Features
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Finally, you can send your video as a project file to KineMaster, the World's Most Powerful video editor, for more editing. No Watermark The Easiest way to make your own Hot Trendy Videos All you have to do is just pick a bunch of photos or a video on your phone and select a BeatSync template. Voila! Your amazing video is ready to be shared with your friends and to the world. Moreover, you can use your own video files! (Select 1 video file only) BeatSync Effects on the Music that You selected Select any music that you like, BeatSync will automatically provide you with the hot video effects on the perfect timing. Want to use your favorite music in your video and the effects are still in sync with the music? No problem! Our Beat Detection Algorithm will detect the perfect beat positions of your selected music, so the video effects could precisely match the beats. * 18 languages supported (Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese) * Project sharing to KineMaster will be available only for KineMaster v.5.1.0 or later. * The previews might be unstable on low-tier devices, but the exported videos will look fine. The Fastest and Easiest way to set up a KineMaster project Project share from BeatSync app to KineMaster app means that you are able to create a sophisticated video editing project in less than a minute. All the selected photos in BeatSync will be there in the primary timeline of the KineMaster as well as the transitions and the clip effects will be displayed in the KineMaster editing screen as a project, which means that everything is ready to be edited in the KineMaster automatically. You can change any transitions or clip graphics that have been created in BeatSync and enjoy the full editing strength of KineMaster. This means that you can add multiple video layers and use reverse mode, blending modes, voiceovers, chroma key, speed control, transitions, subtitles, special effects, and so much more into your video in KineMaster! Key Features . Select your photos or a video to make your own Hot Trendy Music Videos. . No need to edit anything, just select photos or a video and a template . You can add 1 video only or up to 30 photos. . You can make an order of the selected photos. . You can cancel the selected photos at once. . Various video effects and transitions (All included in KineMaster) . Hot and trendy music tracks (All included in KineMaster) . You can select any music that you like on your phone and the video effects will precisely match the beats automatically. . Send your video as a project file to the KineMaster video editing app . Seek bar is ready for a comfortable preview . Save your video in your local storage . Share your video to your favorite SNS such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram Download BeatSync now, and become a world coolest video maker! Are you a KineMaster user? Do not miss this chance to utilize the way to set up a sophisticated KineMaster project, easy and quick. For more details, questions and feature requests, please contact us. email : support.bs@beatsyncapp.com

Screenshots

The Photos Booth4 screens
BeatSync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Photos Booth at 4.4 against BeatSync's 3.3. The Photos Booth also leads on review sentiment (62% vs 38%) and ratings volume (771 vs 66). BeatSync's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Photos Booth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BeatSync asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Photos Booth holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Photos Booth has 771 ratings behind it against 66, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of The Photos Booth's written reviews are positive against 38% of BeatSync's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Photos Booth ships an update every 7 months, BeatSync every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
The Photos Booth versus BeatSync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Photos BoothBeatSync
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (771 ratings) — better3.3 (66 ratings)
Positive reviews61.8% of reviews — better38.5% of reviews
Number of ratings771 — better66
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB188 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRatha SouKineMaster Corporation

Customer experience

The Photos Booth

All ratings715 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative11.2%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive61.8%
Neutral14.7%
Negative23.5%

BeatSync

All ratings66 ratings
Positive56.1%
Neutral6.1%
Negative37.9%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral10.8%
Negative50.8%

User reviews

The Photos Booth

From 771 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 😂 Fun and funny effects
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Many filters to choose from
  • 🖼️ Good photo quality
  • 🤩 Makes funny faces and cool things

Room to improve

  • ⚠️ Too many ads
  • ❌ Doesn't take pictures
  • 🚫 App doesn't work
  • 😩 Offline ads are present
  • 😵 Not very user friendly

BeatSync

From 66 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to work with
  • 👍 Good transitions and effects
  • 👍 Good beat syncing
  • 👍 Works for photos
  • 👍 Good for TikTok and short dance videos

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashing often
  • 🐛 App no working
  • 🐛 Does not work for videos
  • 🐛 App crashed when selecting videos
  • 🐛 App crashes itself

Bugs and requests

The Photos Booth

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Doesn't take pictures
  • App doesn't work
  • Glitch: doesn't work if you go to the rest
  • Doesn't let me take the photo on the app, have to screenshot it

Requested features

2 requests
  • More than 26 fx
  • Ability to edit existing photos, not just take new ones

BeatSync

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • App crashing often on iPhone 17
  • App crashing when selecting videos
  • App shuts down when adding video
  • App crashes itself (April 2023)
  • App crashed on iOS 16
Show 12 more
  • App stuck on loading screen
  • App creates thousands of albums on iPad
  • App cannot proceed with hidden photos
  • Video loading errors on iOS 15
  • App force closes on new iPhone 13
  • App contains a virus, creates thousands of folders
  • Cannot transfer effects to KineMaster on iOS
  • No sound anymore
  • Cannot download translations on iPhone
  • BeatSync problems, cannot add to KineMaster
  • Cannot transfer clip graphics and transitions to KineMaster on iOS
  • App does not use all photos in video

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add option to choose multiple videos and photos
  • Add ability to add own music/songs
  • Add ability to select certain part of song
  • Allow using a short video for effects
  • More effects
Show 10 more
  • Switch positions of photos
  • Change coloring of picture
  • Add option to choose sounds from device storage
  • Add feature to mute music
  • Longer videos
  • More templates
  • Add YouTube music support
  • Add KineMaster integration for iOS
  • Add extra clip graphics
  • Add ability to use videos instead of only photos

In-app purchases

1 purchases

The Photos Booth

One-time1
  • No Ads$1.99
None

BeatSync

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Photos Booth free?
The Photos Booth is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeatSync free?
BeatSync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Photos Booth or BeatSync?
The Photos Booth is rated higher. The Photos Booth averages 4.4 out of 5 from 771 ratings, while BeatSync averages 3.3 from 66 ratings.
Do The Photos Booth or BeatSync have ads?
Both The Photos Booth and BeatSync show ads.
Which is updated more often, The Photos Booth or BeatSync?
The Photos Booth ships an update every 7 months, and BeatSync every 2 months. Most recently, The Photos Booth was updated on October 29, 2026 and BeatSync on October 23, 2026.

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