Pixel+ Camera vs Pixellate Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel+ Camera
Transform your phone into a feature-rich camera with versatile shooting modes and manual controls. Apply 30 live filters in real-time and enhance your photos with a built-in editor. Offers advanced features for both casual and professional photographers.
- Multiple shooting modes (landscape, macro, sports, night, etc.)
- 30 live filters with real-time preview
- Manual controls for shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and focus
- Focus assist for precise manual focusing
- Continuous shooting (timelapse)
- In-app photo editor with enhancement tools
- Smart dial for quick access to settings
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Pixel+ Camera turns your phone into features packed SLR camera but with the ease of point and shoot camera. Pixel+ Camera allows you to shoot in different modes such as landscape mode, macro mode, sports mode, night scene, sunset scene, or other modes according to the scene conditions; moreover you can beautify your photos with its built-in 30 live filters. Professional users that prefer manual camera would be happy that Pixel+ Camera offer manual controls to adjust shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and lens focus (manual focus) independently. SHOOT MODES • Automatic: Auto exposure mode sets shutter speed and ISO automatically. • Manual: Manual exposure mode allows you to adjust shutter speed and ISO. • Landscape: Shoots the entire range of scenery in sharp focus with vivid colors. • Portrait: Shoots subjects at the front, and soften the skin tone. • Sports/Action: Shoots fast motion at faster shutter speed to reduce motion blur. • Macro: Shoots close-ups of small objects such as flowers and food. • Night Scene: Shoots night scenes clearly at slower shutter speed. • Sunset: Shoots sunsets and sunrises scene vividly with it's natural red and yellow color. • Soft Focus: Makes objects stand out by softening the area around focus point. • Miniature: Makes miniature scene by simulating tilt-shift lens effect. MANUAL CONTROLS Full independent control of: • Exposure Compensation • Shutter Speed • ISO • White Balance • Lens focus FOCUS ASSIST Focus assist helps you to see the object that you want to manually focus clearly by zooming in the focus area. LIVE FILTERS Beautify your photos with 30 live filters which you can see the filter effect in real-time. CONTINUOUS MODE (TIMELAPSE) Capture series of photos automatically by setting the time interval and number of photos that you want to take. QUICK PREVIEW Peek through your latest shots quickly with preview dial, moreover you can swipe your photo to share, edit, or delete while previewing it. SMART DIAL With smart dial button you can quickly preview your recent photos, adjust lens focus, change shoot modes, or adjust the other settings quickly and easily with just one hand. PHOTO EDITOR Camera Px comes with in-app photo editor so you can enhance your photo further. • Apply photo filter • Adjust brightness, contrast, highlights, and shadows • Adjust vibrancy, saturation, temperature, and tint • Apply vignette effect • Rotate and crop photo • Adjust color tone • Add stickers • Add textures • Add drawing on photo • Add text to photo
Pixellate Camera
Capture photos with a retro, 4-color dithered aesthetic. Adjust camera settings in real-time or import existing images to apply unique color schemes and advanced metadata.
- Retro 4-color dithered aesthetic
- Adjust zoom, sharpness, contrast, brightness
- Import and filter existing photos
- Create custom color schemes
- Advanced metadata with geotagging
- 4x upscaled or pixel-perfect saves
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Shoot in four colors. Pixellate is a live camera with the eye of a 1998 handheld. Every frame in the viewfinder is dithered down to four colors you can choose. Pick a palette, dial in brightness, contrast and dither, and shoot. Zoom in and out, flip to the front camera, and capture Live Photos and video in the same four colors as your stills. • Live four-color viewfinder for stills, Live Photos and video • 25 built-in palettes, or mix your own from any four colors • Brightness, contrast, dither and zoom controls • Import any photo, crop it, and pixellate it • Save upscaled copies for your library, or pixel-perfect 160 x 144 originals for homebrew projects • Optional geotagging and full capture metadata • Open the camera from Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pixellate Camera at 100% against Pixel+ Camera's 45%. Pixellate Camera also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Pixel+ Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (79 vs 7). On price and ads 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. Pixel+ Camera sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Pixellate Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pixellate Camera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel+ Camera has 79 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Pixel+ Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pixellate Camera's.
Pixel+ Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, Pixellate Camera every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel+ Camera | Pixellate Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (79 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AverSys Mobile | Zachary Coleman |
Customer experience
Pixel+ Camera
Pixellate Camera
In-app purchases
Pixel+ Camera
- Scene Modes$4.99
- Premium Filters$4.99
- Essential Pack Promo$5.99
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- Essential Pack$7.99
Pixellate Camera
No in-app purchases
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