Compare the Top Camera Apps as of May 2025

What are Camera Apps?

Camera apps are software apps that enable users to take photos or videos using their smartphone or computer. Most devices come with a native camera app, but third-party camera apps can add a wide variety of features that native camera apps do not offer. Compare and read user reviews of the best Camera apps currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    PHOTO iD by U Scope

    PHOTO iD by U Scope

    U Scope Technologies

    PHOTO iD™ by U Scope in a photo cataloging software that provides a rapid & organized method of capturing, labeling, and sharing images from any job site to generate professional detailed inspection reports with ease before leaving the property inspection site with our mobile & web-based platform. PHOTO iD enables users to create and share custom workflow templates to safely guide field reps through any inspection via remotely or by utilizing our platform’s proprietary automated inspection guidance feature that fully navigates the photo capturing process to ensure all images are always captured even when internet connectivity is not readily available. PHOTO iD's assignment mapping and scheduling feature allows users to visually organize and route daily projects, view assignments alongside weather forecasts, and seamlessly send routes to Google Maps for streamlined navigation. Integrate our API with your existing system to create a complete end-to-end documentation process.
    Starting Price: $17.99/month/user
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    Adobe Lightroom
    Amazing photos. Anywhere you are. Lightroom is the cloud-based service that gives you everything you need to edit, organize, store, and share your photos across any device. Easy-to-use tools like sliders and presets let you create photos that look just the way you want. Start on mobile, web, or desktop — your edits will be automatically applied everywhere else. Cloud storage starting at 1TB or more ensures that you can access your library wherever you are. Capture, edit, and share your photos all from one place. Lightroom can manage any number of photos so you'll always stay organized and on top of your game. Explore in-app Lightroom tutorials, plus inspirational content from professional photographers and educators as they take you through their process, step by step. Looking for shots of your cousin or favorite trips to the water? Adobe Sensei machine learning recognizes people and themes, making it a snap to find a photo or create an album.
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    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    Snapchat
    Snapchat - The fastest way to share a moment! Snapchat lets you easily talk with friends, view Live Stories from around the world, and explore news in Discover. Life's more fun when you live in the moment! We believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Snapseed

    Snapseed

    Google

    Snapseed is a complete and professional photo editor developed by Google. • 29 Tools and Filters, including: Healing, Brush, Structure, HDR, Perspective (see list below) • Opens JPG and RAW files • Save your personal looks and apply them to new photos later • Selective filter brush • All styles can be tweaked with fine, precise control • Details – magically brings out surface structures in images • Crop – crop to standard sizes or freely • Rotate – rotate by 90°, or straighten a skewed horizon • Perspective – fix skewed lines and perfect the geometry of horizons or buildings • White Balance – adjust the colors so that the image looks more natural • Brush – selectively retouch exposure, saturation, brightness or warmth • Selective – the renown “Control Point” technology: Position up to 8 points on the image and assign enhancements, the algorithm does the rest magically • Healing – remove the uninvited neighbor from a group picture • Vignette – add a soft darkness
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    VSCO

    VSCO

    VSCO

    VSCO is a creative channel. We build creative tools, spaces, and connections driven by self-expression. Our mission is to help everybody fall in love with their own creativity. Driven by a creator-first philosophy, VSCO supports the creative journey from start to finish — not only providing photographers with tools, but also with the education, community, and connections required to unlock their potential. Take your photography to the next level with 10 free VSCO presets. Easily import and edit your RAW photos. Use editing tools like Contrast and Saturation to make your photos pop or use Grain and Fade to add texture and mimic analog film effects. Adjust or play around with your photo perspectives with Crop and Skew. Save and recreate your favorite edits with Recipes. Transform your videos on mobile with the same premium VSCO presets and advanced editing tools from our photo editor. Adjust white balance and experiment with color control with HSL.
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    FiLMiC Pro
    FiLMiC Pro unleashes the maximum dynamic range of your mobile device with 10-bit SDR capture capability and a new LogV3 gamma profile that enables the ultimate color grading experience for filmmakers. With the most 10-bit options available to filmmakers, FiLMiC Pro is the ideal Mobile Cinema Camera app for your devices. Shoot in landscape or portrait, square, 4:3, widescreen, super widescreen, and more for the perfect aspect ratio to tell your story, however intimate or epic in scale. Professional-grade manual arcs give you precise control over the full range of your image, allowing you to pull focus like a Hollywood pro, as well as perform variable speed zoom moves for maximum creative control. Control the whole look and feel of your film with granular control of white balance, isolated temperature & tint controls, and a host of easy presets for all of the most common shooting environments.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Adobe Photoshop Camera
    Imagine if the magic of Photoshop was inside your camera. With Photoshop Camera, it really is. It’s an intelligent camera app that suggests the best lenses and filters for your photos—before you even take the shot. And with new lenses added all the time, there’s no end to the fun you’ll have. Scroll through stunning insta-worthy lenses and camera effects to apply before or after the shot. It’s really easy to swap them in and out, so you don’t have to worry about changing your mind. And you can keep your favorites to use again and again. Photoshop Camera is packed with amazing AI-powered features that help you take gorgeous selfies, food and scenery shots, and more. Quick fixes like portrait relighting and distortion removal mean you can post images that look like you spent way more time on them than you did.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Photographer's companion
    This application will help you to abandon the automatic mode of your cameras that does not do everything and control everything. For more experienced photographers, it can simplify the settings by doing the calculations for you. In any case, it is not a magic application to make beautiful pictures every time, but it will allow you to find a basic setting to refine to get the best picture you think. It is aimed at professional or amateur photographers (basic knowledge is required) and offers the tools to calculate the alternative/equivalent exposure (manages the ND filter and long exposures). Calculate the depth of field, hyperfocal, and simulation of Bokeh. Calculate the field of view. Calculate the shutter speed to freeze the motion of a subject. Capture/Photograph sunrise/sunset, the golden hour, and the blue hour. Get the position of the sun, time of sunrise/sunset, golden hours, blue hours, and monthly calendar.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Photographer's companion Pro
    This is the ad-free version of the Photographer's companion app. This application will help you to abandon the automatic mode of your cameras that does not do everything and control everything. For more experienced photographers, it can simplify the settings by doing the calculations for you. In any case, it is not a magic application to make beautiful pictures every time, but it will allow you to find a basic setting to refine to get the best picture you think. It is aimed at professional or amateur photographers (basic knowledge is required) and offers the tools to calculate the alternative/equivalent exposure (manages the ND filter and long exposures). Calculate the depth of field, hyperfocal, and simulation of Bokeh. Calculate the field of view. Calculate the shutter speed to freeze the motion of a subject. Capture/Photograph sunrise/sunset, the golden hour, and the blue hour. Get the position of the sun, time of sunrise/sunset, golden hours, blue hours, and monthly calendar.
    Starting Price: $4.44 one-time payment
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    Camera FV-5 Lite

    Camera FV-5 Lite

    Camera FV-5

    Camera FV-5 is a professional camera application for mobile devices, that puts DSLR-like manual controls in your fingertips. Tailored to enthusiasts and professional photographers, with this camera application you can capture the best raw photographs so that you can post-process them later and get stunning results. The only limit is your imagination and creativity! All photographic parameters are adjustable and always at hand: exposure compensation, ISO, light metering mode, focus mode, white balance and program mode. Make stunning timelapses (even bracketed/HDR timelapses) and time-controlled picture series. All camera functions are assignable to volume keys. You can adjust EV, ISO, color temperature and more using volume keys. Devices with hardware camera shutter keys are also supported. In background photo and RAW developing and processing allows a smooth, uninterrupted camera operation.
    Starting Price: Free
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    FiLMiC Firstlight
    FiLMiC Firstlight is a revolutionary photo camera from the makers of the class-leading FiLMiC Pro HD video camera that makes live photography fun and creative. Firstlight filters are inspired by the amazing legacy of 19th and 20th-century photography. Each filter pack is based on the films and photographic processes that created over a century of legendary images. First­light com­bines cus­tom film sim­u­la­tions, adap­tive film grain, and FiLMiC Pro’s fa­mous live an­a­lyt­ics to of­fer an ad­vanced but ap­proach­able front end cam­era ex­pe­ri­ence like no oth­er. Fast, easy, and in­tu­itive, First­light lets you en­vi­sion and cap­ture your best mo­ments in cam­era, with­out hav­ing to spend hours edit­ing your pho­tos lat­er. Shoot and share, it’s that easy. Fast, in­tu­itive fo­cus and ex­po­sure con­trols, tap the screen to set fo­cus/ex­po­sure, and tap again to lock. Cross-swipe man­u­al con­trols, the most in­tu­itive way to man­u­al­ly ad­just fo­cus and ex­po­sure.
    Starting Price: Free
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    xpression camera

    xpression camera

    xpression camera

    xpression camera is an award winning virtual camera app which allows users to instantly transform into anyone or anything with a face with a single photo without any processing time. xpression camera enables users to redefine their onscreen persona in real-time, while chatting on apps like Zoom, live streaming on Twitch, or creating a YouTube video. xpression camera reflects your facial expressions on any photo in real-time to create content, including videos, GIFs, memes and more. Images can be from the web, camera roll, or social media. You can become any image with a face -- pictures, paintings, stuffed animals, dolls, artwork, comics, cartoons, sculptures, illustrations, pets, or a star in a movie or TV clip. Change your appearance or your background instantaneously.
    Starting Price: $8 per month
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    Luma AI

    Luma AI

    Luma AI

    Photorealistic, high quality 3D, now for everyone. Luma is a new way to create incredible lifelike 3D with AI using your iPhone. Easily capture products, objects, landscapes and scenes wherever you are. From your captures create cinematic product videos, impossible camera moves for TikTok, or just relive the moment. No Lidar or fancy capture equipment necessary, all you need is an iPhone 11 or newer. For the first time, now you can: - Capture 3D scenes with intricate details, reflections, and lighting and share with everyone. Bring people where you are! - Capture products in 3D and showcase them on your website exactly how they appear in real life. No more "fake 3D". - Capture 3D game assets in unmatched quality and bring them to Blender, Unity or your 3D engine of choice.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Phereo

    Phereo

    Phereo

    Phereo app takes the world of amazing 3D pictures to your mobile. Use your Android phone to capture and view vibrant moments of your life in an all-dimensional way. Discover and share gorgeous 3-dimensional shots from around the globe. Turn everyday life into unique and imaginative pieces and create your own gallery to share with everyone. Check our featured galleries for more quality content. As a first of its kind, it’s yours to improve. With your help, we can make 3D photography become mainstream. For devices without support stereo, you can view 3D photos in anaglyph, side-by-side and wiggle modes. The largest 3D picture gallery available, view and share pictures, high-quality 3D photos, easy upload, social sharing, create your gallery, and save pictures to your SD card. Native 3D mode (only for compatible devices), Google Cardboard, anaglyph, parallel/crossed. wiggle, and mono.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SnapSnapSnap

    SnapSnapSnap

    SnapSnapSnap

    SnapSnapSnap is a revolutionary app that allows you to shoot professional-quality real estate photos using only your iPhone. It’s super simple to use (literally just point and shoot) yet it produces professional quality imagery that’ll make your marketing sizzle! SnapSnapSnap is perfect for real estate professionals and property managers who are looking for an easy solution to take stunning photos simply by using their phones. The app is free to download, you only pay for the images that you wish to be edited. SnapSnapSnap is the fastest, simplest, and most cost-effective way to shoot stunning real estate photos on your iPhone. We’ve dialed in all the settings that a professional photographer uses so all you have to do is take your shots and then send us which photos you want to be professionally edited. We’ll then send you back eye-catching images within 24 hours that’ll wow your buyers.
    Starting Price: $1.60 one-time payment
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    Phlow

    Phlow

    Phlow

    Phlow is a mobile camera app that allows users to take RAW photos, apply artistic, travel, and natural film presets, and edit camera rolls. Phlow also offers live video color grading and high resolution exports.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Cooraft

    Cooraft

    Cooraft

    Turn your selfies and daily photos into gorgeous studio shots, creative and artistic animations, and renderings in just one tap. It’s like magic, professional photography, 2D to 3D, face animation, sketch to realistic, and more. Cooraft brings the power of AI to your fingertips, transforming ordinary images into stunning works of art. With Cooraft, you can animate a face photo with fun expressions and create artistic emojis. You can also apply a variety of artistic styles to your photos, from 3D cartoons to classical paintings. Beyond just stylizing portraits, Cooraft can convert various inputs such as sketches, drawings, paintings, and line art into new renderings that are realistic, 3D, or artistically inspired. Turn a selfie into a studio-grade portrait video. create a series of professional portrait shots from a single face image. Convert any photo into a variety of artistic styles.
    Starting Price: Free
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    LumaFusion

    LumaFusion

    LumaTouch

    LumaFusion is a powerful multitrack video editor used by mobile journalists, filmmakers, and professional video producers to tell compelling video stories. LumaFusion is a powerful multitrack video editor used by mobile journalists, filmmakers, and professional video producers to tell compelling video stories. If you are a professional or aspiring producer, journalist, or filmmaker, if you have a video story that’s begging to be told, if you want to use the latest technology for iPhones and IPads; LumaFusion is the premier professional video editing and effects app for you. If you’re not a “Pro” yet, our video tutorials, world-class free support, and an incredible community of video enthusiasts and professionals on our forums will help you get there. LumaFusion is produced by the original creators of the award-winning Pinnacle Studio App, and this time we’ve created the most powerful tool ever for mobile video editing.
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    ProMovie Recorder
    ProMovie Recorder is a feature-rich yet easy-to-use video camera App for your iPhone and iPad. Take control of exposure, focus, frame rate, and every other aspect of video recording right at your fingertip. Take full advantage of your device's videography capability and create professional clips. An In-App Purchase is required to record videos without the 'ProMovie Recorder' watermark.
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    Xamera Camera

    Xamera Camera

    Xamera Camera

    Xamera Camera makes it easy to apply consistent camera filters, using any webcam or meeting app. Xamera is a privacy first product - your camera feed is processed on your Mac. This app is actively supported, and receives multiple updates per month with bug fixes, and new features. # Key Features Camera Filters that highlight you, and hide your camera background - fullscreen camera image filters - tint and blur background - image background - color background - color grading controls Advanced Privacy - Unique AI powered webcam privacy features that help protect your privacy when working remote - hide camera when you're not the only person in view - hide camera when you leave camera view # Seamless Integration Xamera works with basically any app that allows picking a virtual camera.
    Starting Price: $5/month
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    Camera FV-5

    Camera FV-5

    Camera FV-5

    Camera FV-5 is a professional camera application for enthusiasts, power users, professionals, and everyone in-between. Features a modern and fast camera experience that puts DSLR-like manual camera controls at your fingertips. Supports switching to any rear and front cameras, with manual controls for every camera. Fast and simultaneous capture in JPEG and DNG formats, for complete flexibility in post-processing. Many options like shutter, zoom, exposure, white balance or camera switching are assignable to the volume keys. Complete control over the exposure, metering, white balance, focus and sensitivity. Disabled by default for privacy reasons, will embed the location of each photo by using GPS or celular network location systems. If enabled, the last taken picture will be displayed for quick review.
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    BeautyCam

    BeautyCam

    Portrait Photography Pro

    BeautyCam helps you see a more beautiful self. Full body mode, plus aesthetic filters, equals an effortless fashion shoot. BeautyCam AI art generates animated photos with one click. Beautify function lets you shoot photos stress-free. The smartphone is better than a DSLR. Be the main character in each shot. The ultimate secret of Instagram aesthetic photos is naturally glowing skin. Restore your true beauty with a mirror-like shooting experience. With features such as one-tap auto-retouching, skin/hair correction, slimming, leg-lengthening, spot removal, and more, you can look as good as you feel. This new function brings you trending makeup looks, a variety of lip tints, blushes, colored contacts, etc. With it, you can skip makeup. Light up your face with soft light and avoid the unwanted silhouette. Make every selfie look fancy with high-quality AR makeup. You can now blur the background and erase the bypassers with one tap.
    Starting Price: Free
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