BitCam vs Old Photo Scanner

A blast from the past! Capture your photos with a unique 1-bit camera: only pure black and pure white pixels, no grayscale! BitCam's interface is delightfully old school, featuring chunky buttons and mechanical sounds the likes of which haven't graced your screen in over 40 years. In Camera mode, three different pixel resolutions let you experiment, and an 8-color mode brings you a little closer to the current day while preserving the distinct aesthetic. Or jump over to the editor to dither any photo from your library and experiment with resolutely modern colors & gradients. Clean, high resolution PNG output means you can print those files, use them in digital collages, or other art projects. You can also now run BitCam natively on your iPad, and your Mac! And on Mac, you can install a system extension to use BitCam in any app that uses the camera: Zoom, FaceTime, Google Meet, WebEx, Photo Booth, etc. The camera mode is entirely free and unlimited. The editor mode offers a 3 day trial, after which it requires a one-time in-app purchase for full access, on all of your account's devices.

Old Photo Scanner turns your iPhone into a fast, hands-free scanner for printed photos. Hover over a photo and it is detected, captured, and cropped automatically - no shutter button. Slide the next print in and keep going. There is no account to make, no server to upload to, and no subscription. The photos you scan land in your own Photos library and stay yours. NO ACCOUNT. NO CLOUD. NO ONE WATCHING. - No sign-up: no email, no password. Open the app and start scanning - No upload: the app has no network access, so your family photos never leave the phone - No tracking: no analytics, no ad identifiers, no crash reporters - No ads, in the free version or anywhere else - The app asks only to add scans and to create the album they go into; it never browses your library - Photos you bring in come only from the ones you pick in the system picker TWENTY A DAY, FREE FOR GOOD - Scanning, cropping, captions and recordings are never counted - Up to 20 photos into Photos every day, free, with no trial clock and no card - One optional unlock, paid once, if you ever want the daily limit gone. No subscription, ever - Free scans are full resolution and unmarked YOUR PHOTOS, YOURS FOREVER - Scans go into your own Photos library, in a named album under Scanned Photos, backed up by your iCloud like everything else - Detection, correction and dictation all run on the device. No signal needed - Export your whole library as a single file, with captions and recordings, to keep a backup or move to another iPhone - Delete the app and the photos stay in Photos, exactly where you put them SCAN WITHOUT TAPPING - Automatic detection, capture, and cropping - a stability ring shows exactly when the shot fires - Full-resolution photos from the camera, never video frames - Smart re-arm prevents duplicate captures, so you can scan a whole stack of prints in one continuous session - Live glare hint helps you tilt away from reflections on glossy prints FAITHFUL TO THE PRINT - Perspective-corrected and deskewed, with only a mild white-balance correction - Sepia stays sepia - the lighting is corrected, never the print itself - Saved as high-quality HEIC KEEP THE STORY, NOT JUST THE PHOTO - Record a voice or video note about a single print - Or narrate a whole album while you page through it, and every print keeps the part about itself - Write a caption in your own words, by typing or dictation - Dates printed in the border are read and filled in for you ALBUMS INSTEAD OF A PILE - Every scan lands in a named collection you can come back to, with an All grid of everything you have scanned - Photos from the same scene sit together, so a stack sorts itself as you go - Add photos already on your phone by picking them, without rescanning what you have digitized REVIEW AND FIX - Swipe between prints full screen, pinch to zoom, drag down to close - Re-crop with draggable corner handles and a magnifier loupe, rotate, or delete - Originals are kept until you finish, so any crop can be redone - Interrupted sessions are restored automatically on next launch