Comparison

ACDSee Pro vs ChopShop

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

Head to head
About

ACDSee Pro

This app combines a professional-grade camera with a powerful, nondestructive photo editor. Capture stunning images with advanced manual controls and perfect them with selective adjustments and effects. Create collages from your memories with over 100 layouts.

Highlights
  • RAW, TIFF, PNG support
  • Manual camera controls
  • Nondestructive photo editing
  • Selective adjustments (gradients, brushing)
  • Collage maker with 100+ layouts
  • Real-time effects and adjustments
  • HDR and Flash Fusion
Features
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Capture, perfect, and share your photos with ACDSee Pro for iPhone. ACDSee Pro combines a professional-grade camera and photo editor with all the tools you need to produce stunning photographs. Camera Harness the full power of your device's camera with specialized shooting modes, lossless RAW, TIFF and PNG support, manual controls for exposure/focus/white balance, real-time effects and adjustments, HDR & flash fusion, separate exposure and focus points, dual-axis level indicator, and more. Edit Perfect your photos with a powerful, nondestructive photo editor with RAW processing. Use gradients and brushing to selectively apply adjustments and special effects, including shadows & highlights, contrast, dehaze, white balance, saturation, vibrance, sharpness, split toning, and noise removal, and our one-of-a-kind Light EQ, Tone EQ, and Color EQ. Collage Convenient collage maker for sharing your memories. Quickly combine multiple photos into a single image for easy sharing. Choose from over 100 layouts. — CAMERA FEATURES RAW Support Shoot RAW on capable devices and write captured photos in DNG format. Lossless TIFF/PNG Write captured photos in lossless TIFF or PNG format, or choose one of three JPEG quality settings. Manual Controls Precisely control exposure, focus and white balance, including a custom white balance preset. Real-time overexposure and underexposure visualization. Shutter Priority Mode Set the shutter speed and ACDSee Camera Pro automatically chooses the ISO for proper exposure. Selfie Mode Look your best with skin smoothing and lightening, plus a front-facing torch/flash for low-light situations. Real-time Effect Filters Choose from 24 effects, including high-quality black & white, Orton, film grain, halftone, and various color tone filters. Real-time Adjustments See brightness, contrast, vibrance, sharpness, clarity, skin tune and vignette adjustments in real time and add additional noise reduction during capture. Exposure Bracketing Capture three exposures at once at different exposure levels. HDR Fusion Combine three shots taken at different exposures to create a single high-dynamic-range image, with manual override of composition parameters. Flash Fusion Combine a naturally-illuminated capture with a flash-illuminated capture. Video Mode Capture those special moments with video and apply filters and adjustments in real-time. Flash Modes Choose from six flash modes: Off, On, Auto, Torch, Torch & flash, and Flash Fusion. All modes work with either the rear-facing or the front-facing camera. Focus and Exposure Touch to select focus and exposure point. For more precise control, independently select focus and exposure points. Lockable AF, AE and AWB Independently lock focus, exposure, and white balance. Cropping modes Crop before you shoot to square, 4:3, 3:2, and 16:9 aspect ratios. Independent settings for front and rear cameras, still photo and video modes. Level Indicator Compose your shots with precise alignment using a dual-axis level indicator. — EDITOR FEATURES Image adjustments, including: - Shadows & Highlights - Light EQ - Exposure - Dehaze - Contrast - Tone EQ - Fill Light - White Balance - Saturation & Vibrance - Color EQ - Split Toning - Sharpness - Clarity - Softness - Denoise - Skin Tune Effects Apply a variety of creative effects to your photos, including film, light leaks, halftone, and more. Use gradients and brushes to mask adjustments. Focus Bring your subject into focus. Simulate a shallow depth of field by blurring the background. Vignette Adds a vignette effect around the edges of your photo. Geometry Crop, rotate, straighten, and mirror your photo. Filter Splash Creatively splash on effects such as selective coloring to draw attention to your subject. ACDSee is a trademark of ACD Systems International Inc. and may be registered in Canada, the United States, the European Union, Japan, or certain other jurisdictions.

About

ChopShop

This app offers quick and efficient audio and video editing for everyday tasks. It allows for trimming, splitting, reordering, and cropping clips without complex project setups. Enjoy fast exports with lossless quality when possible.

Highlights
  • Quick clip trimming and splitting
  • Drag-and-drop reordering
  • Lossless export when possible
  • Crop on export
  • Retime and reverse clips
  • Separate audio and video tracks
  • Frame-accurate nudging
Features
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ChopShop is the everyday audio and video editor for iPhone and iPad — for the cuts you make 20 times a week but don't want to fire up a full editing suite for. Import a clip from Files or Photos. Trim the edges. Split at the playhead. Drag to reorder. Crop on export. Save. Done. No "create new project" dialog, no media-import wizard. The timeline appears the moment the clip lands. Lossless when it can be If your edit doesn't need re-encoding, ChopShop won't. Same codec, same bitrate, no quality loss — exports finish in seconds, not minutes. The app falls back to a clean re-encode the moment you add a crop or stack mismatched formats, and the status line tells you which path's running before you export. The cuts you actually make • Trim clip edges with a live source preview at the new in/out point • Split at the playhead • Drag to reorder, drop new clips between, collapse gaps with a tap • Retime any clip — 0.5×, 2×, or a custom rate • Reverse any clip, pre-rendered in the background so playback stays fluid • Crop on export with per-edge insets and a lock for uniform crops • Frame-accurate playhead and clip nudges • Audio + video on separate rails — unlink to trim them independently, multi-select across both • Mixed-aspect timelines: each clip displays at its own native ratio • Copy the current frame to the clipboard as PNG Opens what you throw at it MP4, MOV, M4A, MP3, and WAV open instantly. Tiny project file .chop documents are readable, formatted JSON pointing at your source media — kilobytes, not gigabytes. Move them around, email them, sync them in iCloud Drive. Native, fast, no services Pure Swift on AVFoundation. No account, no cloud dependency, no telemetry. Doesn't need an internet connection to open a file. Localized into 11 languages English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), Українська, Русский, 简体中文. Documentation https://bendansby.com/apps/chopshop/docs.html Support ben.dansby@gmail.com — usually a reply within a day or two.

Screenshots

ACDSee Pro4 screens
ChopShop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ChopShop at every 8 days against ACDSee Pro's every 2 months. ChopShop also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 76%). ACDSee Pro's advantage is price ($5.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

ACDSee Pro costs $5.99 and ChopShop $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ACDSee Pro ships an update every 2 months, ChopShop every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ACDSee Pro versus ChopShop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACDSee ProChopShop
Price$5.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperACD Systems International Inc.Benjamin Dansby

Customer experience

ACDSee Pro

All ratings1,130 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews227 reviews
Positive75.8%
Neutral9.7%
Negative14.5%

ChopShop

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

ACDSee Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when using certain filters
  • Inability to export photos in desired format
  • Syncing issues with photos from other devices
  • Inconsistent behavior after iOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add lens distortion correction
  • Implement non-destructive editing
  • Allow saving of original and edited versions
  • Improve collage and layout tools
  • Add support for more file formats

ChopShop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ACDSee Pro

No in-app purchases

None

ChopShop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ACDSee Pro free?
ACDSee Pro costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChopShop free?
ChopShop costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ACDSee Pro or ChopShop have ads?
Neither ACDSee Pro nor ChopShop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ACDSee Pro or ChopShop?
ACDSee Pro ships an update every 2 months, and ChopShop every 8 days. Most recently, ACDSee Pro was updated on October 26, 2026 and ChopShop on October 23, 2026.

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