# Optika – Pro Manual Camera — user reviews

> 11 indexed App Store user reviews of Optika by Alex Sieroshtan, rated 4.30/5 from 23 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/optika-pro-manual-camera/id1337913746/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/optika-pro-manual-camera/id1337913746.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 17 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work from lockscreen

*2026-01-21*

Doesn’t work from lockscreen shortcut. Used to replace my camera app. But now every time I try to take a photo it tries to say I need to purchase it. I already have. Works fine when I unlock my phone and open the app.

**Developer response:** Hi, very sorry about this. The issue will be fixed in the next update, coming very soon

### 1/5 — App Support only available on “X”

*2024-02-08*

Immediate delete
Obligatory one star

**Developer response:** Email support also available in the app:  Settings / About / Support & Bugs

### 3/5 — Almost

*2018-02-06*

RAW images are not saving to camera roll on iPhone 7. JPG and HEIC work. Great UI. Would like shutter priority. Otherwise good start.

**Developer response:** Hi, thank you for the response, we are now about this issue and the new version with the fix already on Apple Review. RAW images saves to camera roll and looks like empties, but you can open it in another app with RAW support like Darkroom or Lightroom.

### 4/5 — Great app

*2018-08-02*

It's great app lightweight doesn't take up lots of memory space,easy and simple to use the UI,it's fast soon as I open it its already focusing.

only things I wish it had would be focus pecking and to zoom in/out with the option to have the zoom bar always on the screen maybe 1 click buttons to turn the screen brightness to 100% 

great work on the app! Tho

### 5/5 — The simplicity is so elegant

*2025-10-20*

Let’s me manuallly control my camera  like a pro.

### 5/5 — Excellent camera

*2025-06-26*

I like the UI and how all main controls can be easily adjusted with one finger

### 5/5 — Thanks for the application

*2024-02-08*

Thanks again and please keep working on the new features like “macro photography” and more in the future. 

With Kindest Regards-BR

### 5/5 — Excellent tool!

*2024-02-08*

Thank you very much!

### 5/5 — 👍🏻💛

*2020-02-17*

👍🏻💛🤍♥️💯

### 5/5 — Perfect camera app

*2018-08-23*

Thanks, perfect camera app for me. So clean and simple. Fast and easy manual settings

## Most praised reviews (1 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Simple + Effective = Powerful

*2018-02-02*

The controls for this manual camera app are intuitive and easy to use. Other manual camera apps I’ve used favored UI aesthetic over usability. The controls remind me of handling a physical DSLR. In about 90 seconds of trying it out, I understood the controls and was using them without thinking. That is the experience I want with a manual camera app. I want to be focused on taking the shot, not the setup process. 

As a suggestion, the Settings popover could use a landscape mode like the rest of the controls already have. And I think if the Settings popover is opened by tapping a button, then it should close by tapping a button. Maybe it could close by either sliding or tapping.

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