Poloska vs p10trancer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poloska
This app transforms your phone into a slit-scan camera, capturing continuous slices of time to create surreal and dynamic images. Explore motion, distortion, and unique visual effects to unleash your creativity in photography.
- Slit-scan photography
- Dynamic image creation
- Motion and distortion effects
- Horizontal and vertical scanning
- Creative photo manipulation
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Experience time in a whole new way! Poloska transforms your iPhone into a slit-scan camera, letting you take surreal and mesmerizing pictures like never before. Rather than taking a single snapshot, Poloska records continuous slices of time, creating dynamic images that reveal motion, distortion, and unique visual effects. Unleash your creativity and have fun with photography! How it works: - Slit-scan magic: Poloska captures hundreds of frames per second, extracting a narrow slice from each frame and merging them into one flowing image. The longer you shoot, the wider your final image will be. - Unleash your creativity: Capture images of stretched cars, melting landscapes, or warped portraits—your imagination is the limit. - Customizable viewport: Choose between horizontal or vertical scanning to shape your shot just the way you want. - Pro tip: For the best results, use a tripod to stabilize your shots and unlock even more incredible effects. Download Poloska today and start bending time with your photos!
p10trancer
This live video instrument for visual artists features nine independent video pads, two output channels with multiple transitions, and a six-effect rack per pad. It allows for real-time manipulation of video sources, including cameras and feedback loops, with a simulated NTSC pipeline for analog artifacts.
- Nine independent video pads
- Two output channels with five master transitions
- Six-effect rack per pad
- Two independent pad-to-pad keyers
- Simulated composite-NTSC pipeline
- HDMI external display support
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p10trancer is an iPad-native live video instrument for VJs and visual artists, inspired by the rich lineage of video mixers and samplers. Nine pads in a 3×3 grid, two output channels, a master fader, and effects you dial in by feel. Every gesture is performed live — there is no timeline, no track view, no beat grid. Plug in, hit a pad, see what happens. WHAT'S INSIDE • Nine independent video pads. Each pad can hold a video file, a still image, the iPad's front or back camera, a USB-C UVC camera (HDMI capture box, webcam), the keyer's composite output, or the master mix as a feedback source. • Two output channels with five master-mixer transitions: blur crossfade, linear swipe, star swipe, chroma key, luma key. A position fader sweeps between channels. • A six-effect rack on every pad: blur, internal feedback, chroma distortion, YUV phaser, luma phaser, edge enhance. Effects are bypassed by default — engage what you need. • Two independent pad-to-pad keyers, each with chroma or luma keying, threshold and softness. Keyers can chain (one keyer's foreground sources from another keyer) and self-feedback. • A simulated composite-NTSC pipeline. Frames are encoded into a simulated composite waveform with 4× horizontal oversampling, glitch effects mutate the encoded composite, and the result is decoded back. Chroma boost, HSync wobble, subcarrier drift, Y/C delay, dropouts, banded noise — every artifact is the kind of thing a real analog video processor produces, because it's produced by the same kind of operations. • HDMI external display through a DP-Alt-Mode USB-C dongle, switchable between HD 720p and NTSC 4:3. • Per-pad audio mixed through AVAudioEngine. Audio follows whichever channel its pad is routed to. Master output captures to MP4.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: p10trancer at 5.0 against Poloska's 4.1. p10trancer also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Poloska's advantage is ratings volume (76 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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.
p10trancer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poloska has 76 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Poloska's written reviews are positive against 100% of p10trancer's.
Poloska ships an update every 4 months, p10trancer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poloska | p10trancer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (76 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NIKITA SHANIN | Tristan Mayshark |
Customer experience
Poloska
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In-app purchases
Poloska
No in-app purchases
p10trancer
No in-app purchases









