Aduku Stacker vs Vitamin-R
Aduku Stacker
aduku.appVitamin-R
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| Figure | Aduku Stacker | Vitamin-R |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · Focus Stacking Software | 7.9 (#9) | 7.3 (#21) |
| Privacy | The app processes photographs locally and says it does not upload images, create user accounts, or transmit analytics or telemetry. | The maker says it does not have customers’ credit card numbers because payment processing is outsourced to resellers. |
| Purpose | Aduku Stacker combines focus-bracketed photographs into one sharp image for macro, product, landscape, and microscopy photography. | Vitamin-R is a Mac focus and time-boxing app that turns a task into a focused work session. |
| Support | The maker lists [email protected] for questions and support, and says it has no obligation to provide support, maintenance, or updates. | Macintosh product support is available by email at [email protected]. |
Plans
Vitamin-R
- Vitamin-R (single-user license)$29.95, paid once
- Business licensePrice not published
- Enterprise licensePrice not published
- Family licensePrice not published
- Small Business licensePrice not published
In their own words
Aduku Stacker
Aduku Stacker combines photographs taken at different focus distances into a sharp image, for macro, product, landscape and microscopy photography. The free app offers five merge methods: Wavelet, Pyramid, Weighted, Hybrid and Depthmap. Its default workflow processes images at 16-bit and uses 32-bit floating-point merge calculations, with memory-bounded batching for deep stacks. Automatic alignment uses feature matching and subpixel refinement; options include focus-breathing correction, homography, mesh warp and manual alignment seeding. It imports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, HEIC and DNG, and exports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, linear DNG and depth maps. Proprietary RAW files may require Adobe DNG Converter on macOS. Retouching lets users paint from aligned source frames, erase strokes and undo or redo, but there is no clone tool. Processing is local and does not require an internet connection. It runs on macOS 13 or later and 64-bit Windows 10/11; 8 GB RAM is sufficient for most stacks, with 16 GB recommended for deep 16-bit RAW stacks.
Vitamin-R
Vitamin-R has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.