Comparison

Technical Camera vs Silver B&W 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

Silver B&W Camera

Capture stunning black & white or color photos and videos with advanced manual controls. Offers RAW and ProRAW formats, customizable B&W transformations, and various video resolutions and frame rates.

Highlights
  • Manual focus and exposure
  • B&W and color photo modes
  • RAW and ProRAW capture
  • Customizable B&W color transformation
  • 4K and Full HD video recording
  • Manual white balance
  • Image stabilization
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Color and black & white camera app with ProRAW and RAW formats and manual control support for every photography enthusiastic. You can take great B&W photos where color is transformed to grayscale just the way you want. And you can take great color photos — even in RAW or ProRAW format and you can control the camera with manual focus and exposure settings. Users in over hundred countries have downloaded this camera app. Color adjustment sliders for B&W transformation and quick access mode buttons are shown on screen alongside preview window. After settings are selected preview window can be expanded to full screen for better viewing if so desired. Great photo features include • ability to shoot B&W or color photos (default mode can be selected in settings) • sliders to set how light or dark red, green and blue color are transformed to grayscale • quick access buttons to select color mode, natural b&w transformation or any single color channel to grayscale transformation • exposure bias +/- • manual exposure (ISO and shutter speed) • manual white balance • manual focus • zoom with control buttons or pinch gesture • flash mode selection • camera lens selection if device has multiple cameras • image stabilization setting (automatic or off) • RAW and ProRAW mode (**) (see additional information on www.ahola.dev/raw) • JPEG and HEIC photo formats (**) Also great video features • 4K, Full HD and 720p video (*) • 60, 50, 30, 25 and 24 fps (*) • video stabilization standard, cinematic or off (*) • color and B&W • H.264 and HEVC video file formats (*) This app is free download and is ad supported. If paid version is previously downloaded or in app purchase of full version is made at any time then no ads are shown. ** Note about app privacy: Ahola Development does not collect any user data or track users in any way. All data collection and user tracking is done by ad framework used in app. This framework is Google AdMob and it operates in confinement set by Apple in iOS and iPadOS systems restricting access to user private and personal data. ** (*) Actual available settings are depending on a device capabilities and selected combination of settings. For example cinematic stabilization mode may not be usable or available. Mismatching settings are downscaled to best available device capability. 4K video with 24, 25 or 30 fps on iPhone 11 Pro and later devices. HEVC video mode requires supported device. (**) HEIC and ProRAW requires supported device otherwise feature can not be used.

Screenshots

Technical Camera4 screens
Silver B&W Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Silver B&W Camera at Free against Technical Camera's $19.99. Technical Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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

Silver B&W Camera is free to download; Technical Camera costs $19.99 up front. Silver B&W Camera sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Technical Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Silver B&W Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Technical Camera has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, Silver B&W Camera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Technical Camera versus Silver B&W Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTechnical CameraSilver B&W Camera
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (17 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB9 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDIRE StudioAhola Development

Customer experience

Technical Camera

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

Silver B&W Camera

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Technical Camera

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Silver B&W Camera

One-time2
  • Free Trial (no ads)Free
  • Full Version (no ads)$1.99

Questions

Is Technical Camera free?
Technical Camera costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Silver B&W Camera free?
Silver B&W Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Technical Camera or Silver B&W Camera?
Silver B&W Camera is rated higher. Technical Camera averages 4.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Silver B&W Camera averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Technical Camera or Silver B&W Camera have ads?
Silver B&W Camera shows ads; Technical Camera does not.
Which is updated more often, Technical Camera or Silver B&W Camera?
Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, and Silver B&W Camera every 3 months. Most recently, Technical Camera was updated on September 6, 2026 and Silver B&W Camera on September 7, 2026.

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