Comparison

QromaScan vs PhotoAura

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

Head to head
About

QromaScan

Effortlessly scan and organize your physical photos using your iPhone and voice commands. Simply speak the date, location, and people to automatically tag and categorize your images as you scan them.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated scanning
  • Automatic photo tagging
  • Geotagging capabilities
  • Contact and GEDCOM file integration
  • Dedicated LED lightbox for optimal scanning
  • Organizes photos into sharable digital images
Features
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QromaScan makes it dead simple to scan and organize your photos in one easy step with the two things you use the most everyday; your iPhone and your voice. Just say the date, location and people in your photos, and QromaScan will tag and organize your photos as it scans! QromaScan requires the purchase of the QromaScan Lightbox, which provides the ideal environment for scanning your photos. It’s 12 brilliant LED lights are specifically calibrated to make your photos look brilliant without effecting the look. Forget about all those blurry photos with a big glare right in the middle of it last time you tried to take a picture of a picture. The QromaScan Lightbox aligns your phone and your photos perfectly, so you get a great photo every time. With QromaScan, your photos organize themselves using our unique voice recognition tagging system. Just say the date and location of the photo, and we will insert the right metadata into the photo. You can even tell us an address or location, and we will geotag the photo for you. Tagging people is easy too. QromaScan recognizes the names of the people in your contacts, and they can be used to tag you photos. If you use family tree software, QromaScan can import a GEDCOM file and use it with our voice recognition system to make it easy to tag family photos. Pick up a QromaScan Lightbox and you will be surprise how quickly your old box of photos can be turned into well organized and sharable digital images.

About

PhotoAura

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PhotoAura is the calm, beautiful way to view the photos your photographer shared with you — without the chaos of folder links, expiring downloads, or sign-up forms. When your studio finishes editing your shoot, they share a gallery directly to your account. Open the app and it's there. Browse the full set in an editorial dark layout, filter to just the photos of you (or anyone in the shoot), and save full-resolution originals straight to your Camera Roll. — FEATURES — PASSWORDLESS SIGN-IN Enter your email and we'll send a one-tap sign-in link. No passwords to remember, no forms to fill. Tap the link on your phone and you're in. EDITORIAL VIEWING A clean dark canvas with serif typography puts your photos first. Browse by gallery, scrub through a filmstrip, pinch to zoom, swipe between shots like Apple Photos. Drag down to dismiss with a smooth crossfade back to the grid. FACE FILTER Every gallery automatically detects the people in it. Tap a face to instantly filter to only the photos of that person — perfect for big group shoots, weddings, and team events. DOWNLOAD ORIGINALS Save photos at full resolution to your Camera Roll, or share the original file to AirDrop, Messages, and Mail. No watermarks, no compression, no link expiration. GET EVERY PHOTO AT ONCE Save a whole gallery to your camera roll with live progress, or download the full-size originals as one zip. Share the gallery as a link on WhatsApp, Messages, anywhere. YOUR DOWNLOADS, IN THE APP Files your photographer prepared for you — like a zip of your originals — sit in their own tab, ready whenever you are. PICK YOUR FAVOURITES Star the shots you love. Your photographer sees exactly which ones you chose, so retouching, prints, and albums start from your list instead of a guess. PHOTOS AND VIDEO Clips play right in the gallery alongside your stills, and stream instead of making you wait for a whole file. MULTI-STUDIO SUPPORT If you've worked with more than one PhotoAura-powered photography studio, the studio picker lets you sign in to any of them from the same app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your galleries are visible only to you and your photographer. PhotoAura collects only what's needed to sign you in. No tracking, no analytics SDKs, no ad networks. — FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS — PhotoAura powers the entire post-shoot experience for studios who care about how their work is delivered. If you're a photographer interested in offering PhotoAura to your clients, visit photoaura.app.

Screenshots

QromaScan3 screens
PhotoAura4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PhotoAura at none against QromaScan's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. QromaScan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PhotoAura asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QromaScan ships an update every 6 weeks, PhotoAura every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
QromaScan versus PhotoAura: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQromaScanPhotoAura
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQroma LLCRad Soft, Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

QromaScan

One-time1
  • QromaScan Import$4.99
None

PhotoAura

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QromaScan free?
QromaScan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PhotoAura free?
PhotoAura is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QromaScan or PhotoAura have ads?
Neither QromaScan nor PhotoAura shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QromaScan or PhotoAura?
QromaScan ships an update every 6 weeks, and PhotoAura every 5 weeks. Most recently, QromaScan was updated on November 6, 2026 and PhotoAura on November 4, 2026.

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