Analogue vs Technical Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Analogue
This app simulates the experience of developing black and white film in a traditional darkroom. It offers tools to adjust brightness, contrast, and add toning effects, along with a manual camera interface for a more deliberate photographic process.
- Develop film in a simulated darkroom
- Adjust image brightness and darkness (Dodge/Burn)
- Apply black and white toning effects
- Manual large-format camera simulation
- Adjust focus, tilt, and shift
- Layer-based effect editing
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Do you miss your old darkroom or ever wanted to try one yourself? Analogue is the first app where you truly go analog. By developing your photos as one did in a real darkroom, you will learn to see and understand what makes a great photo. DARKROOM For the first time you will develop the negative in a real darkroom. In a fun and intuitive way you will pick the strip that has the best time and contrast. And just like a real darkroom, you can make parts of the image brighter and darker by blocking or adding more light to the image. You will be presented in a very easy way with lots of tutorials on how to use the tools. The images will only be in black and white (but you may tone them). DARKROOM FEATURES + Develop either your images from your camera-roll or taken by the Large-Format camera + Only Black & White + Stripes - As in a real darkroom you'll have to find the best strip. It will be challenging, fun and very powerful + Crop / Rotate - Both crop and rotate the image in the same tool + Dodge - Make a selected part of the image brighter. + Burn - Make a selected part of the image darker + Blur - Enhance the background with some beautiful blurriness. + Tone - Tone the images with various strength. The toners that can be used are Selenium, Cyanotype and Sepia. + Layers - You can add as many effects as you want. Each effect will be treated as a layer that can be edited, deleted and changed its visibility. + Zoom - You can zoom the image ten times. This will make it really easy to make the detailed work. + Metal - Analogue uses Metal, the drawing is fast and very fluid. CAMERA By shooting with a large-format camera where the image is upside-down you will actually get more control over the image. The camera is only manual and back in the old days you could not even zoom with the camera, you had to walk. You will be forced to slow down the process and by doing so, your photographs will be so much better. At first it may feel a bit odd to look at the upside-down image and it can even be a bit challanging to know if you should move the camera to the left or right when framing the image. Sometimes you will even laugh at yourself, but the more you use it, the less you will even have to think about it. MORE CAMERA-MODELS Analogue has now added two more camera-models. + Medium-format which will produce a square image and just as the large-format camera it is manual. + Pinhole camera which is a real basic camera where you pretty much only shoot at what you see. Nothing to set up with, nor zoom. CAMERA FEATURES + Manual - Just as in a real old analog camera, it is only manual + Shutter / ISO - You will set these individually + Focus - With a beautiful crafted loupe, you will get full control over the sharpness + Tilt / Shift - Just as a large-format camera you will be able to straight up any lines + 4x5" - The negative's size will be in the 4x5-ratio as the most popular large-format camera does DIGITAL NEGATIVE For the first time, you can produce real digital negatives for your darkroom. Analogue will make it possible to print the images in 35-mm, 6x4.5, 6x6, 4x5" or 8x10" sizes. EXAMPLES Download free examples and view them in the darkroom to understand how to fully use the darkroom to its best. SHARE You can naturally share both the negatives and prints. You can optimize the resolution to lots of social media's sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Tag your photos with #analogueapp on instagram See what type of beautiful images that can be made at https://www.instagram.com/miiamapps/ SUPPORT We are eager to hear from you. We just love to hear both good stuff and bad stuff. And it's much likely that your opinion will be added into the next update. Please don't hesitate to contact us at: support@miiam.net
Technical Camera
This app offers advanced controls for still photography, allowing users to customize image quality, color space, and geotagging per album. It features unique tools like a framing preview, highlight/shadow alerts, and manual exposure settings for precise image capture.
- Album-specific image quality and settings
- Selectable image sizes including RAW
- Framing Previsor for telephoto simulation
- Highlight and shadow alerts
- Manual ISO, shutter speed, and focus
- Color managed capture to display
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The ultimate still photo app for the conscious image maker - works equally well for serious photography as for organized visual note taking. With a handful of unique features you'll not find anywhere else. Photos are saved to individual albums created with a specific purpose in mind. Such as different photo shoots or projects, visual shopping lists, recipes from the grandmother's cookbook, things for sale, monthly gas and electricity meter readings - the list is endless. These uses need different image qualities and sizes (you'll seldom make a large print of a meter reading, for example), so the app has: • Album specific image quality, color space (wide color capable devices only) and geotagging settings. • Selectable image quality with full, half, quarter, high color fidelity quarter HQ sizes and a super tiny 0.48 megapixel 800x600 JPG, as well as RAW and RAW+JPG on devices supporting RAW capture. The 800x600 JPG is up to 20 times smaller than a regular JPG, making it extremely gentle with your mobile plan's data allowance. • Color space can be set to Display P3, Adobe RGB or sRGB for JPG files and Adobe RGB or sRGB for RAW previews. • Home screen Quick Actions for selecting the last recently used three albums. Unique features include: • Framing Previsor for showing on the wide angle camera's image what the telephoto camera would see.* Also works with wide converters. • Highlight and shadow alerts. • Protective exposure metering. • Auto ISO with minimum, maximum and minimum shutter speed settings. • Real time distortion correction for wide angle converters via correction profiles, as well as a custom converter for other lenses.* • Selectable screen frame rate to balance between fluid experience and power saving, and to avoid flicker with lighting running on 50Hz mains frequency. • TIFF/EP compliant DNG files with support for wide color and full resolution embedded previews. * Utilizes the time-tested precise simulation and distortion correction engines of our Mark II Artist's Viewfinder app. Other notable features: • Manual control for ISO and shutter speed in 1/3 stop increments. • Manual focus with focus peaking. Selectable peaking color. • Exposure compensation up to +/-5 stops. • Exposure and focus lock. • Continuous and single AF modes. • Grid display with 2x2, 3x3 and 8x6 choices. • Luminance only Black & White mode. • Artist and copyright metadata. The copyright template supports tokens for the current year (so it's always up-to-date), artist name and the copyright symbol. • Four user-assignable Smart Function Keys to bring most-used functions to a single tap distance, with 7 functions to choose from. • Completely neutral viewing to avoid interfering with your color vision during composition. • Fully color managed, from capture to display, including color-correct display of wide color RAW images. Technical Camera only supports the back camera(s) in still photography mode. No videos or selfies. No fancy filters. The Framing Previsor requires a dual-camera device or a wide converter lens. The complete list of supported wide converter lenses can be found on the Tech Specs page: https://www.direstudio.com/technical-camera/tech-specs/ For more information we recommend to check out our Technical Camera How To's: https://www.direstudio.com/technical-camera/how-tos/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Analogue at $2.99 against Technical Camera's $19.99. Analogue also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). Technical Camera's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Analogue costs $2.99 and Technical Camera $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Technical Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Analogue has 110 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Analogue's written reviews are positive against 100% of Technical Camera's.
Analogue ships an update every 3 weeks, Technical Camera every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Analogue | Technical Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (110 ratings) | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcus Carlsson | DIRE Studio |
Customer experience
Analogue
Technical Camera
In-app purchases
Analogue
No in-app purchases
Technical Camera
No in-app purchases
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