Comparison

Pixagram vs Horika

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

Head to head
About

Pixagram

Enhance your photos with a wide array of filters, effects, and frames. Add text, adjust image settings, and save your creations in high resolution. Easily share your edited images to social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Color filters (lomo, vintage)
  • Light effects and overlays
  • Frame borders
  • Instafit
  • Orton effect
  • Add text with 30+ fonts
  • Adjust image settings
Features
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Easily create stunning images with Pixagram, and share them to your favorite social network. Add unique filters, effect and frames to create a great design piece! ** Features ** • Color filters as lomo, vintage, ... • Light effects or overlays such as bokeh, leak • Frame borders like instant, grunge, viewfinder, film, ... • Instafit • Orton effect • Add film grain • Adjust contrast, brightness, saturation, exposure, saturation, vibrance, temperature • 30+ fonts to add text to your photos • Vignetting • Save on your device • Share with your friends on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Email, ... • High resolution export You like Pixagram? Please give us 5 stars! Your feedback is very important to our work. Help us to improve Pixagram by sending your bugs or requests on contact@xnview.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/xnview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/xnview G+: http://plus.google.com/+xnview/

About

Horika

This app recreates the tactile experience of using a film camera, offering unique photo effects like light leaks and grain. It encourages spontaneous capture of moments with a focus on creative experimentation and surprise results.

Highlights
  • Manual film winding simulation
  • Random photo effects (light leaks, grain)
  • Toy camera film textures
  • Multiple frame format options
  • Holka mode for toy camera feel
  • Multi-exposure support
  • Lens filter simulations
Features
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Horika brings the joy of advancing film with your finger to your phone. We intentionally make every shutter press uncertain. Each photo may produce unique traces like light leaks, grain, color shifts, or blur — not mistakes, but character. Horika is here to help you capture emotions and moments, right when they happen. Core experiences: - Thumb advance (manual film winding): advance the film with your thumb — a tiny ritual that recreates the tactile feel of physically moving the roll forward - Randomness: every shutter press is a small random experiment, waiting for careful eyes to discover - Toy camera film texture: layered light leaks, vignetting, grain, scratches, color shifts, and film borders - Multiple frame formats: simulate common 120-format frame sizes (such as 6×6 and 6×4.5), plus wide format - Holka mode: built-in "Holka" mode for a capture experience closer to a real toy camera - Film Lab: create, import, and manage your own custom films - Multi-exposure support to expand creative possibilities - New lens filter simulations so you can combine even more unusual final looks Try Horika. Capture freely and discover surprises worth keeping. Privacy: https://horika.omitlens.com/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://horika.omitlens.com/tos.html

Screenshots

Pixagram2 screens
Horika4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Horika at Free against Pixagram's $0.99. Horika also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Pixagram's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On review sentiment and ads 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

Horika is free to download; Pixagram costs $0.99 up front. Horika sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Pixagram asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixagram holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixagram has 254 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Pixagram's written reviews are positive against 75% of Horika's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixagram ships an update every 3 months, Horika weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Pixagram versus Horika: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixagramHorika
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (254 ratings) — better3.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings254 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB178 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerpierre gougelet俊 林

Customer experience

Pixagram

All ratings255 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative17.1%

Horika

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Pixagram

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App freezes during editing
  • Cannot save edited pictures
  • Text disappears from saved image
  • App crashes after update
  • Cannot access keyboard for typing
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  • App displays photo upside down on iPad
  • App not fitting iPhone X format

Requested features

6 requests
  • Landscape mode for iPad
  • More text options (multiple texts)
  • Utilize full screen on new iPhones
  • Smaller letter fonts
  • Gamma adjustment (shadows)
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  • More frame options

Horika

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pixagram

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Horika

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Membership (Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Pro Membership (Annual)$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Pixagram free?
Pixagram costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Horika free?
Horika is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pixagram or Horika?
Pixagram is rated higher. Pixagram averages 4.5 out of 5 from 254 ratings, while Horika averages 3.3 from 4 ratings.
Do Pixagram or Horika have ads?
Neither Pixagram nor Horika shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixagram or Horika?
Pixagram ships an update every 3 months, and Horika weekly. Most recently, Pixagram was updated on October 29, 2026 and Horika on October 22, 2026.

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