Comparison

Technical Camera vs Christmas Selfie Photo Camera

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

About

Christmas Selfie Photo Camera

Easily create festive holiday photos in seconds. Capture selfies and add a touch of Christmas spirit to share with friends and family. Show your love for your country with custom tags.

Highlights
  • Retake photos
  • Share photos
  • Save photos to gallery
  • Festive photo editing
  • Country-specific hashtags
Features
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Celebrate 25 December with Christmas Selfie. Christmas Selfie is a fun and simple way to make beautiful photos in seconds. Celebrate Christmas with your friends by sharing your photos With The country You Belongs. Take Selfie and Share with friends and family With "# Tag " To Show Your Love With the Country you Belongs With. A Beautiful Way to Show your Love with your Country. #Merry Christmas Selfie #U.S America #Australia #Canada #Germany #France #Russia #Brazil #Spain #Mexico #Nigeria #Indiana #England #Switzerland and many more...... ****************** Features: * Retake Photos * Share photos with friends and family * Save Photos to Gallery * NOTE ABOUT CAMERA ACCESS: Please grant camera access when the app launches to take selfies and make it Christmas Selfie for you.

Screenshots

Technical Camera4 screens
Christmas Selfie Photo Camera2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Christmas Selfie Photo Camera at Free against Technical Camera's $19.99. Christmas Selfie Photo Camera also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Technical Camera's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 39 months). On rating, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Christmas Selfie Photo Camera is free to download; Technical Camera costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Technical Camera against 5.0 for Christmas Selfie Photo Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Technical Camera has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, Christmas Selfie Photo Camera every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Technical Camera versus Christmas Selfie Photo Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTechnical CameraChristmas Selfie Photo Camera
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (17 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 39 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIRE StudioWaleed Khalid

Customer experience

Technical Camera

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Christmas Selfie Photo Camera

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Technical Camera

No in-app purchases

None

Christmas Selfie Photo Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Technical Camera free?
Technical Camera costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Christmas Selfie Photo Camera free?
Christmas Selfie Photo Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Technical Camera or Christmas Selfie Photo Camera?
Christmas Selfie Photo Camera is rated higher. Technical Camera averages 4.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Christmas Selfie Photo Camera averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Technical Camera or Christmas Selfie Photo Camera have ads?
Christmas Selfie Photo Camera shows ads; Technical Camera does not.
Which is updated more often, Technical Camera or Christmas Selfie Photo Camera?
Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, and Christmas Selfie Photo Camera every 39 months. Most recently, Technical Camera was updated on November 2, 2026 and Christmas Selfie Photo Camera on November 4, 2026.

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