RNI Colibri vs Lucent Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RNI Colibri
Enhance digital photos with intelligent color adjustments designed by film photography enthusiasts. Achieve subtle yet impactful color harmony and emotional depth in your images with minimal effort.
- Intelligent color harmony enhancement
- Subtle and intelligent color pop
- Film photography inspired rendering
- Emotional essence creation
- Minimal editing effort
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SHORT: This little app has been designed by film photography aficionados to make your digital photos look nicer with minimal editing effort. Find out more at www.reallyniceimages.com and don't hesitate to email support@reallyniceimages.com if having any issues or suggestions. LONG: Use RNI Colibri to magically enhance the colour harmony of your digital photos. Make your colours pop in a subtle and intelligent manner. RNI Colibri uses the same innovative rendering engine as its sibling RNI Flashback. But unlike Flashback it has been trained on quite a narrow selection of the finest slide scans. This makes for a totally different colour rendering and allows to easily enhance the bland colours of digital. A picture is worth a thousand words, so please check image samples to find out what this mighty little app can do for you. Unlock colour. Create an emotional essence in your photography with RNI Colibri. — #RNIColibri Tag your photos with #RNIColibri for a chance to get featured in RNI’s official newsletter, blog and Instagram @reallyniceimages. Find out more at reallyniceimages.com
Lucent Camera
This app offers a classic black and white photography experience with granular control over lighting and composition. Manually adjust focus, ISO, exposure, contrast, and brightness to master your shots. Its simple interface provides gentle haptic feedback and optional grid lines for precise framing.
- Manual focus control
- Adjustable ISO and exposure
- Contrast and brightness settings
- Tap to auto focus
- Pinch to zoom
- Simple interface with haptic feedback
- Optional grid lines
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Lucent Camera is a classic black and white camera. It's interface lets you control every detail of the lighting and composition of your photographs. Features include: • Ability to manually focus the lens. • Ability to manually adjust iso and exposure settings. • Ability to set the contrast and brightness levels. • Tap to auto focus. • Pinch to zoom. • Simple interface with gentle haptic feedback. • Optional grid lines to line up your shots. • Totally private. Shooting in black and white can take your photography to the next level and Lucent Camera lets you control every detail to achieve mastery with the camera in your pocket.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lucent Camera at Free against RNI Colibri's $3.99. Lucent Camera also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%). RNI Colibri's advantage is ratings volume (70 vs 5) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Lucent Camera is free to download; RNI Colibri costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for RNI Colibri against 4.6 for Lucent Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RNI Colibri has 70 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of RNI Colibri's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lucent Camera's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RNI Colibri | Lucent Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (70 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RNI | Benjamin Lucas |
Customer experience
RNI Colibri
Lucent Camera
In-app purchases
RNI Colibri
No in-app purchases
Lucent Camera
No in-app purchases
Questions
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