# Hypocam — user reviews > 171 indexed App Store user reviews of Hypocam by pierre gougelet, rated 4.60/5 from 405 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hypocam/id1077991979/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hypocam/id1077991979.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 329 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 16 ## What do users think of Hypocam? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 📷 Excellent black and white photography - 🎨 Variety of filters and editing options - 👍 Intuitive and minimalist interface - 🖼️ Produces high-quality images - 💡 Innovative features like testing filters before shooting **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes on some devices - 🔍 Limited camera controls (e.g. no zoom, independent exposure/focus) - 🔀 Issues with saving/exporting photos - 🔍 Aspect ratio limitations **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when trying to restore purchases - Filters not saving at reduced intensity levels - Preview not matching captured image content **Most requested features** - Add volume button shutter release - Implement true cropping (not constrained) - Introduce color photography support - Improve exposure and structure management - Allow creating and saving custom filters ## Newest reviews (13 of 171) ### 2/5 — Abandoned and no longer relevant *2026-05-21* No exif data (no focal length, no shutter speed, no exposure information) is saved into the picture. No GPS location either. The app doesn’t let you choose which lens to use. It doesn’t let you choose the quality (e.g. resolution). It doesn’t offer an aspect ratio at shooting time. I could go on. Clearly at this point, and looking at its latest update, it can be considered abandonware. Which means that iPhones of the latest generations are severely underused by this app. Plus newer versions of iOS could break the app at any point. Not recommended. ### 4/5 — Schwarzweiß *2026-05-02* Ich finde die App gut weil man qualitativ gute Schwarzweißfotos ohne den Umweg über das Farbfoto machen kann. Ich hätte mir noch den Raw-Modus gewünscht um vielleicht noch eine bessere Auflösung zu haben. Ein Problem habe ich: Ich habe mir das Filter-Set im AppStore gekauft und musste aber später (nicht wegen der Filter) die App deinstallieren und wieder installieren. Danach waren die Filter weg. Das finde ich gar nicht gut. Vielleicht kann man mich dazu mal kontaktieren. ### 3/5 — câmera "lenta" *2024-10-28* o foco e a adaptação de luz são péssimos. fora isso, é ótimo. ### 3/5 — send help *2024-10-03* great app but please help i cant zoom in on this app and i don’t know why 😢😢😢😢 ### 4/5 — Telecomando Bluetooth *2024-06-21* La app è molto interessante ma non funziona con telecomandi Bluetooth. Aspettiamoci un aggiornamento software che superi questo inconveniente, dopodiché potremmo anche acquistare ulteriori filtri. ### 3/5 — Amazing monochrome camera needs work *2023-11-14* The B&W rendering is amazing. All I want to use and would be happy to pay a few $ for is the camera. But on my iPhone 14pro the framing fills the entire screen and I barely can see the shutter button. The please update! ### 3/5 — Aspect ratio of camera *2022-10-12* There is a lot to like about this app. I like the filter and noise options. But there is one basic thing that needs to be fixed. When taking a picture the whole screen is filled. This means that the vertical part of what the camera captures is accurate, but you don’t see everything the camera captures horizontally. That is, I’m seeing a 16x10 image, but camera captures 4x3. ### 3/5 — Aspect ratios *2022-08-09* Please add the option to see the actual 4x3 frame that is being recorded not a full screen image. Square format would also be welcome. ### 4/5 — Me encanta *2022-07-17* Personalmente me encanta! Sin embargo me falta una función en la que se puede cambiar la temperatura (tone) de la foto. El símbolo es una gotita y pone “tone”. Tengo todas las opciones de la app compradas y no me aparece, sin embargo a mis amig@s sii!!! ¿Hay alguna solución? Tengo la app actualizada… ### 4/5 — Presque au top *2021-09-05* Super appli pour faire des photos en noir et blanc mais deux défaut à noter, l appli ne prend pas la photo immédiatement mais 1s après avoir cliqué et l’aperçu de la photo est en pleine écran alors qu’elle se prend en 4/3 ### 4/5 — Best black and white app but… *2021-07-18* I really love this app and I’m glad you finally updated it. But when can we expect to have the option to switch lenses? For now I have to shoot in another app and edit in hypocam. I’d love to be able to shoot straight from the app but with only one lens that’s not an option 80% of the time. ### 5/5 — Crashes no more *2021-07-15, version 2.1.2* Thanks for the quick fix! It’s back to being a great app.. nice black and white flavours! ### 2/5 — Non funziona *2021-07-14* Non funziona iPhone 12 Pro **Developer response:** Please update your version ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t Export Photos *2026-03-26* Every time I try to export a photo the app crashes. Photos are not saved directly to your photo library, so the only way to access them is by export… loved the images, but can’t do anything with them!!! ### 1/5 — Upload Error *2025-08-30* Since weeks I can’t upload pictures into my gallery! I always receive the message „Sorry, an error occurred while trying to load your photo”. I really love this App but this is annoying especially when you paid for the pro Package! App Support via Website Not available as well( Error: Contact form not found.”) ### 1/5 — Pessima *2022-11-29* Si blocca in continuazione/non funziona ### 1/5 — New update flaw *2021-07-14* New update flaw will not let you edit photos from the photo album **Developer response:** Please update your version ### 1/5 — Crash on iPhone 12 pro *2021-07-14* useless to use filters on iphone 12 pro because it crashes every time **Developer response:** Please update your version ### 1/5 — Can’t Find Video *2021-04-26* Can’t find video or it is not working ### 1/5 — Worst App in the history of mankind *2021-04-20* Nothing works. When something finally works it terrible looking. I believe it charged me 33 dollars for a 3 dollar pack that did nothing. Contacting Apple. ### 1/5 — Gallery not working *2021-01-09* I bought this app and it does not work. I can‘t add pictures to the gallery ### 1/5 — No import possible *2020-08-01* Waste of time: pictures cannot be imported ### 1/5 — Can I skip the intro. *2019-10-27, version 2.0.5* It won't let me swipe past the fourth image. I like this on the android, though the problems with the ux are well-noted. I even purchased all tue extras, or most of them. Any idea what I Can do to run this2017 iPad Pro, latest ios. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Simples e fantástico! *2026-05-31* Excelente, pena que nao recebe mais update há 4 anos ### 5/5 — Muy buena *2023-08-07* La mejor que conozco, una birguería ### 5/5 — A B/W Photography App with Personality *2023-05-24* I can not easily express how much I love this app. It reignited my dying love for digital photography and is the best thing on my iPhone. This is not the most fully featured or easiest to use camera app. It lacks many commonly expected features—e.g. volume shutter, video, color, independent exposure and focus control, zoom / access to the second and third lenses, a timer. It is idiosyncratic in its design and has a definite learning curve. For me, none of this detracts from it. For starters, it makes taking really beautiful b/w photos fun and easy. Beyond that, it is wonderful in unquantifiable ways. It has a distinct character the way a well crafted physical object like an old fixed lens film camera might have. It has amazing features like being able to test out color filters and film grain textures before even taking the shot. It has a great design aesthetic. It has limitations and those limitations make it beautiful. So many of our digital experiences these days have the frictionless un-designed sameness of an airport. I suppose that’s fine and good for a ride share app or an e-commerce site where you just want to achieve an end with minimal effort, but photography is an inherently romantic and artistic act. We deserve not only to create beautiful images but to do so in beautiful ways with beautiful tools. Hypocam achieves this. (To be clear, I welcome new features and updates, and trust that if and when they come, it will be with respect for what is already great about the app) ### 5/5 — B&W mobile photography at its best *2023-04-13* Dear developers I’m a new beginner to photography. However I have an eye for snaps and I love black & white pictures. Your app as transformed how I look at photography and how I view images. A big thank you. There are no faults with the app. The only thing I would say is keep updating to offer more functions or filters. Or sometimes offer a free filter update. Thank you Anthony 2023 ### 5/5 — Great app but need one more thing… *2022-09-27* App is great but i definitly need the possibility to take pictures with the volume buttons. ### 5/5 — Melhor App P&B *2021-12-28* Adorei. Uso a anos já! ### 5/5 — Best BW App *2021-11-30* Great Apps and filter for black and white photos ### 5/5 — Now everything is ok *2021-07-17* Bug fixed. Now is ok **Developer response:** Please update your version ### 5/5 — I like *2021-07-16* Für einen überschaubaren Betrag kann man hier vielseitig mit SchwarzWeiß-Bildern spielen und hat viele Einstellungsmöglichkeiten mit vorzeigbaren Resultaten. Und ganz ohne Abo! 💪 ### 5/5 — Crash fixed! *2021-07-15, version 2.1.2* Works great again now guys, thank you so much. This really is a great app if you love taking black and white photos, give it a go. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-06.*