Comparison

Spherualizer vs Trip Postcards

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

Head to head
About

Spherualizer

Edit and share immersive 360° photos and videos. This app allows you to view, capture, and reframe spherical media from various cameras and devices. Create dynamic stories and animations with advanced editing tools.

Highlights
  • 360° spherical viewer with gyro and touch controls
  • Capture snapshots and full-frame video clips
  • Record video in infinite or timed modes
  • Gyro stabiliser for smooth video recording
  • Organise media into albums
  • Advanced spherical editor for framing and animations
  • Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV)
Features
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Transform any 360° photo or video into a story you can play, edit, and share. Spherualizer natively opens 2 : 1 equirectangular files from any 360 camera—including GoPro, Insta360, DJI, Ricoh Theta, and beyond—and panoramas stitched from multiple DSLR shots or even iPhone panos for a creative twist. Create on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and enjoy your full 360 library on Apple TV. Spherualizer is the viewer‑editor that makes spherical moments shine on every screen. 360 SPHERICAL VIEWER - Gyroscope and touch — tilt, rotate, or swipe to look around any spherical photo or video - Gamepad support — move smoothly with PlayStation or Xbox controllers, or use the on‑screen joystick - Full‑screen — view your 360 photos and videos in full‑screen INFO SHEET - View details such as resolution, frame rate, codec, and more - Photos also show EXIF data CAPTURE AND REFRAME - Quick snapshots — tap the shutter button to capture a frame from any angle - Full‑frame save — pause a 360 video and archive the complete spherical frame in the Gallery VIDEO RECORDING TOOLS - Press and hold the shutter button to enter recording mode from the spherical viewer - Pick your favourite mode: - Infinite — record for as long as you like; the video loops, so you can film the same moment from different angles in one take - Timed — choose 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, or 60 seconds - You can also select a segment of the video to record - Gyro stabiliser — three levels to balance smoothness and responsiveness while you move ORGANISE YOUR LIBRARY - Photos live in the Gallery and can be organised into albums - Videos stay on a separate tab SMART ICLOUD SYNC - Optimise storage by keeping originals only in iCloud, or download photos at full resolution and keep them on‑device at all times - Videos are always on‑device and are never synced — saving your iCloud space SIMPLE IMPORT - Open media without adding it to the Library - Import to the Library from the Photos or Files apps, even from a NAS or external drives - Drag and drop files into the Library to import, or drop a file into the spherical viewer to open it SPHERUALIZE ACTION - Thanks to the Spherualize action in the Activity View — often called the share sheet — you can preview 360 media from apps like Photos and Files REVIEW AND SHARE YOUR CREATIONS - Every snapshot, clip, or animation opens in a preview screen where you can share it or saved it to Photos ADVANCED SPHERICAL EDITOR - Start editing from the spherical viewer or the last saved draft - Precision sliders — rotate, zoom, move, and tilt for perfect framing, Tiny Planet, rabbit‑hole, or any perspective - One‑tap animations — transform 360 photos into video animations ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES - Native everywhere — optimised for iPhone, iPad (compatible with Split View), Mac (Apple Silicon), and Apple TV - Big‑screen immersion — play photos and videos on Apple TV by sending them from the iPhone app LIVE IN VR - Ready for Meta Quest — a free companion app syncs your Spherualizer Gallery photos with Quest for head‑tracked viewing - Search for "Spherualizer" in the Meta Store TRANSFORM YOUR 360 MOMENTS. Download Spherualizer today and start telling 360‑degree stories.

About

Trip Postcards

Features
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Come home from a trip. Mail arrives. Trip Postcards turns your trip photos into painted postcards — and everything happens on your iPhone. No account. No upload. No cloud. Your photos never leave your hands. A bundle is waiting Point the app at a window of time — recent trips, a date range, or photos you hand-pick. On-device intelligence finds your trips, chooses the keepers (sharp shots, real smiles, the money shot at the landmark), and skips the near-duplicates. Painted on the phone An AI art model that runs entirely on your iPhone paints a travel-poster world for every card — six moods, from vintage poster to golden hour to watercolor. After a one-time download, it works completely offline, in seconds. Written from the moment Flip a card and the back carries a note grounded in what actually happened — the place, the day of the trip, what's really in the photo. Edit it, or let the on-device writer take a pass. The whole trip on one card Collages that think: spreads, mosaics, one collage per city — with smart rotation so every photo gets its turn, and painted backdrops when you want them. Forward Share the front, the front with its note, a flip animation, or straight to Instagram Stories. Private by architecture, not by promise There is no server that ever sees a photo. No account, no analytics, no ads. The privacy policy is short because there's nothing to disclose. The AI features — painting your postcards and Write with AI — work best on iPhone 15 Pro and newer. On earlier iPhones, you can still turn your trips into real-photo postcards and collages; the AI painting and AI writing simply stay off.

Screenshots

Spherualizer4 screens
Trip Postcards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trip Postcards at Free against Spherualizer's $9.99. Spherualizer's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Trip Postcards is free to download; Spherualizer costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Spherualizer versus Trip Postcards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpherualizerTrip Postcards
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (100 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings100 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB29 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGiovanni MurruXperience Labs

In-app purchases

None

Spherualizer

No in-app purchases

None

Trip Postcards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spherualizer free?
Spherualizer costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trip Postcards free?
Trip Postcards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spherualizer or Trip Postcards have ads?
Neither Spherualizer nor Trip Postcards shows ads.

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