Retro Camera + vs SweetCamera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Retro Camera +
Transform your photos with a variety of vintage-inspired live camera filters and effects. Apply analog styles to new or existing pictures before sharing them on social media.
- Live camera filters
- Over 40 camera effects
- Timer function
- Flash mode
- Back and selfie camera support
- Gallery editing
- 30+ sharing options
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Bring your lovely photos to a whole new level with Retro Camera for Instagram™! Its live CAMERA FILTERS will turn your photos into wonderful MEMORIES! Remember the time when we couldn't wait to bring colours to our photos? We wanted fresh colours and clear lines, and now? WE CRAVE FOR RETRO! Vintage is elegant and chic, and we can only adore it! Are you nostalgic for those beautiful photos in grandma's photo albums? Would you like that analog style on your digital photos? Yes? This app is the right choice for you! ◄ RETRO CAMERA FOR INSTAGRAM™ FEATURES: ► - Live camera filters - Choose among 40 and more camera effects - Timer - Flash Mode - Back and Selfie Camera - Choose from gallery - 30+ sharing options supported (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc.) - The best hash tags for maximum likes Retro Camera for Instagram™ has various live camera filters, which you can use the way you want. Have fun taking pictures with those filters on, or edit your previously taken photos. One thing is for sure - YOU WILL HAVE FUN. Bring analog look to your photos before you share them: your friends are going to love it! ◄ LICENSE: ► Retro Camera for Instagram™ is copyright of Marko Petkovic BalkanboyMedia, all rights reserved. Photographs used for the icon and screenshots in the application are under Creative Commons Licence (CC BY-SA 2.0). Credits go to: Steve Rainwater - https://www.flickr.com/photos/steevithak/ This app is not affiliated, sponsored or endorsed by Instagram LLC. For any questions or concerns regarding license, please contact us at apps@balkanboymedia.com.
SweetCamera
Enhance your photos with a variety of sweet and cute filters, including popular pink and fairy-like options. This app allows for professional-level image processing with adjustable settings and effects, all while maintaining high resolution and offering easy sharing.
- 40+ free filters
- High-resolution shooting
- Professional image processing
- Blur effect
- Timer function
- Silent mode
- SNS sharing
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A camera application that makes the picture more sweet, cute and vivid! By adding a colorful filter, it makes a very sweet picture! Popular pink filter is one push. Why do not you add nice accents to the usual photos? *** Functions that all can be used free of charge in camera / album *** · 40 kinds of filters can be used freely. A cute, beautiful filter like a pink filter and fairy! - Shoot at the highest resolution the camera has! Clearly, you can leave a moment. You can easily process images like professionals and take pictures like professionals. (* You can set brightness, exposure time, saturation, color temperature, color, white balance, shadow, highlight, gamma value, contrast, color.) · Blur effect (peripheral blur) can be used. A piece more like a professional · Can reduce peripheral exposure. To one piece that makes the impact stand out · You can use the timer function. Please leave yes cheese on one of my memories · Clear light with flash function · Silent mode installation, this is safe even when you have to shoot silently. · Of course both front and back correspond - Image cutting processing can also be rotated. · Automatically perform camera shake correction! · Easy SNS share ******
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SweetCamera at none against Retro Camera +'s 1. SweetCamera also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Retro Camera + sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SweetCamera asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Retro Camera + against 4.4 for SweetCamera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 141 and 106 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Retro Camera +'s written reviews are positive against 64% of SweetCamera's.
Retro Camera + ships an update every 5 months, SweetCamera fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Retro Camera + | SweetCamera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (141 ratings) — better | 4.4 (106 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 63.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 141 — better | 106 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marko Petkovic | Masanari Takigawa |
Customer experience
Retro Camera +
SweetCamera
Bugs and requests
Retro Camera +
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SweetCamera
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cannot save photos even with full access
- Back/save buttons are not tappable on iPhone 15
- Save button is not tappable on iPhone X and later
- Save and back buttons overlap with status bar/battery icon
- App crashes immediately after opening
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- App does not open
- App closes immediately after opening
- App crashes when switching between front and rear cameras
- Photos are saved rotated 90 degrees
- App freezes during editing
Requested features
8 requests- Update to be compatible with latest iOS versions
- Fix button placement on newer iPhones
- Add percentage display for filter intensity
- Remove ads or reduce their frequency
- Improve app stability and prevent crashes
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- Fix the issue where buttons are not tappable
- Fix the issue where the app crashes on launch
- Add body-shaping features
In-app purchases
Retro Camera +
- Go pro$4.99
SweetCamera
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Retro Camera + free?
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