Weave for Messenger vs ActorDetector
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Weave for Messenger
Create unique, hand-drawn, self-dissolving video animations to share with friends. Watch your drawings come to life in a time-lapse video format. Express your creativity and connect with others in a fun, visual way.
- Hand-drawn video animations
- Self-dissolving effect
- Time-lapse video playback
- Shareable across platforms
- Creative expression tool
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* Featured on ANTYapps.pl with 5/5 stars rating (Jun 2015) Explore your creativity in a whole new way with Weave for Messenger! Create beautiful hand-drawn self-dissolving video animations and share with people you care about. Your friends, colleagues or relatives will be amused watching how exactly you've been drawing it. Your animations will be sent as videos, meaning that they could be viewed on any platform supported by Messenger. No need to install the app to view a message! Become closer by revealing your imagination expression techniques! Download the app and have fun! Weave for Messenger is free, simple to use and extremely assistive! Please support us by downloading the app, more awesome features are coming up in updates! Video preview soundtrack: 'Change' by My Monthly Date
ActorDetector
This app uses AI-powered face recognition to identify actors and celebrities in images. Simply upload a photo, and it will tell you who is in it. It's like Shazam, but for the faces of famous people.
- AI-powered face recognition
- Actor and celebrity identification
- Image analysis
- Fast results
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ActorDetector detects actors and celebrities via face recognition, powered by AI.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Weave for Messenger at none against ActorDetector's shown. Weave for Messenger also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 66%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). ActorDetector's advantage is ratings volume (401 vs 5) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ActorDetector holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ActorDetector has 401 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Weave for Messenger's written reviews are positive against 66% of ActorDetector's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Weave for Messenger ships an update every 9 days, ActorDetector every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Weave for Messenger | ActorDetector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (401 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 65.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 401 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roman Shevtsov | Matthias Lang |
Customer experience
Weave for Messenger
ActorDetector
Bugs and requests
Weave for Messenger
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ActorDetector
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cannot use camera without storage
- Photo upload from camera roll never works
- App prompts to install other apps
- Ads cannot be skipped
- No option to remove ads
Requested features
5 requests- Paid option to remove ads
- Increase history limit
- Option to pay to stop ads
- Ability to access past actor searches
- Add more actors to the database
In-app purchases
Weave for Messenger
No in-app purchases
ActorDetector
No in-app purchases
