Double Exposure vs Half Frame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Double Exposure
Blend multiple photos into artistic, dreamlike images with this app. Capture new shots or use existing library photos. Offers free basic blending with optional Pro upgrades for higher resolution, advanced controls, and more blend modes.
- Blend photos from library or capture new
- Control exposure and touch focus
- Multiple blend modes (Pro)
- Full resolution output (Pro)
- ProRAW, TIFF, HEIF support (Pro)
- Manual exposure and focus controls (Pro)
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Double Exposure – Create Stunning Blended Photos Unleash your creativity with Double Exposure, the ultimate iPhone app for blending two or more photos into mesmerizing multiple exposure images. Capture and blend or combine photos from your library to craft artistic, dreamlike visuals with just a few taps. Free Features: - Capture and blend or combine photos from your library - Control exposure for perfect lighting - 4MP resolution with watermark - Touch focus for precise control - Save as JPEG Upgrade to Pro for Ultimate Control: - Full-Resolution (12MP) Output – Preserve every detail - ProRAW, TIFF & HEIF Support – Enhanced file formats for professional results - Full Manual Exposure & Focus Controls – Fine-tune your shot - Over 20 Blend Modes – Endless creative possibilities - White Balance & Tint Adjustments – Get the perfect color tone - Opacity Blending – Seamlessly merge images - Over a Dozen Preset Filters – Instantly enhance your photos Take your photography to the next level with Double Exposure. Download now and start creating!
Half Frame
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Half Frame — Shoot Like It's a Roll of Film Half the frame. Twice the story. You've seen those retro digital half-frame cameras everywhere. You've watched the reviews, added one to your cart, hovered over "buy" — and winced at the price of what is, let's be honest, a small sensor in a nostalgic shell. Put your wallet away. That camera you've been dreaming about? It's already in your pocket. Half Frame turns your iPhone into a true half-frame film camera experience — the anticipation, the discipline, the happy accidents — without the overpriced hardware and without ever pretending your photos need to look worse to feel analog. Shoot a roll, not a feed Pick your roll length — 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, or 72 exposures — and commit. There's no gallery to obsess over mid-roll. You frame, you shoot, you move on. Only when the roll is finished (or you cut it early, like rewinding mid-roll) do you get to review your shots, pick the keepers, and develop them to your photo library. If you like, every finished roll becomes its own numbered album — Roll 001, Roll 002, …. One frame, two frames, three True to the half-frame spirit, you don't have to shoot alone: Single — one full frame, all yours. Diptych — two shots, side by side, one story, the half-frame classic. Triptych — a big frame plus two stacked companions. Sequences, contrasts, before-and-after. Choose your format: 3:2, 4:3, cinematic 16:9, or square 1:1. Twelve films in your pocket Swap "film stock" with one tap: Natural — No makeup, just your sensor at its honest best. Vivid — Slide film: punchy, saturated colors that pop off the screen. Classic — 90s negative film with green-shifted foliage and punchy contrast. Gold — Warm everyday film with golden, sun-soaked highlights. Sepia — Warm, faded film for photos that feel like memories. Magenta — The unmistakable color shift of expired film. Faded — Matte retro with softly lifted, blue-tinted blacks. Chrome — Muted, documentary color: cool and restrained, staying out of the way. Cool — A crisp teal-and-orange cinema look for daylight scenes. Tungsten — Night film: glowing lights, teal shadows, bold grain. Silver — Soft monochrome with gentle, quiet tones — the calm counterpart to Black & White. Black & White — Classic monochrome with real film contrast and grain. Star your favorites and they stay at the front of the shelf. Dial in the look Every film brings its own character — you get the knobs anyway. Vignette, halation, and grain, each in three strengths or off. Or leave any of them on Auto and let the film decide. Vignette — darkened corners, from subtle to full retro tunnel. Halation — the red-orange glow film casts around bright lights. Grain — the speckled texture of film, from barely-there to heavy and gritty. Manual soul, modern brain Shutter control — cap your shutter at 1/30 up to 1/2000, or leave it on smart Auto that speeds up as you zoom in. No blurry shots, no exposure homework. Real photographic metadata — every developed picture carries its lens, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, exposure bias, and focal length in EXIF. Full-quality captures — computational photography stays on. You get the film workflow, not the film-era image quality. Tap to focus, pinch to zoom — with a zoom badge that snaps back to 1x on tap. Flash included — one tap, clearly badged when armed. Your dividers, your rules — white or black frame dividers in diptychs and triptychs, from none to extra bold. Keep the originals — optionally save every full exposure alongside the finished diptych or triptych. Available in English, German, Spanish, and French. Who this is for For everyone who fell in love with the idea of half-frame photography — the thrift, the rhythm, the diptychs — but couldn't justify spending premium money on a fashion-forward point-and-shoot with yesterday's internals. Scratch the itch. Keep the money. Shoot the roll. Half Frame. Load a roll. See what develops.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Half Frame at none against Double Exposure's 3. Double Exposure's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.8.3 vs 18.4). On price 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
Both are free to download. Double Exposure sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Half Frame asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Double Exposure | Half Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (28 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.8.3 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Allez Interactive Inc | Harald Schubert |
Bugs and requests
Double Exposure
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on launch
- Freezes on login screen
- Incompatible with older devices
- Fails to restore purchases
- Unable to open photos from library
Requested features
9 requests- Allow editing of existing photos
- Add blend modes
- Implement masking feature
- Provide a tutorial or instructions
- Add a delay timer for shutter
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- Implement remote activation
- Allow multiple exposures beyond two
- Support for RAW format
- Improve burst mode functionality
Half Frame
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Double Exposure
- PRO - Monthly$1.991 Month
- PRO - Annual3 Days trial$11.991 Year
- PRO - One Time Purchase$35.99
Half Frame
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is Half Frame free?
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