Comparison

Technical Camera vs Crown & Flint

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

Crown & Flint

This app helps analog photographers manage their film, track camera settings, and meter light accurately. It allows users to record detailed metadata for each shot and organize their film collection from purchase to archival. The interface is optimized for ease of use, even for left-handed operation.

Highlights
  • Accurate light meter
  • Record camera and lens settings
  • Track film stock and metadata
  • Manage film collection lifecycle
  • Reference images for film identification
  • Optimized for left-handed operation
Features
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Level up your analog photography with Crown + Flint. Meter the light, keep track of camera settings, record location and reference images, manage your collection of film. LEVEL UP YOUR ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY - Accurate light meter uses your iPhone camera's advanced scene analysis to ensure perfect exposures. - Master your equipment, learn its strengths & quirks, and improve your skills by recording equipment settings with each shot. COLLECT METADATA - Film stock - Rated speed, and special notes - Camera and lens settings, and lens filters - Time, date, and location - Reference image for correlating with your film TRACK YOUR FILM - Know what film is loaded into which camera. - Manage your collection of film, from purchase, storage, shooting, development, and archival. - Reference images let you quickly identify your films after development. GETS OUT OF YOUR WAY - Optimized for left-handed operation so you don't have to put your camera down. - As easy to operate as a hand-held meter. - Never lose time fiddling with impossible settings, because Crown + Flint knows all about your equipment Free app version lets you record up to 5 rolls of film. When you're ready for more, upgrade in-app to unlimited films with Pro Mode

Screenshots

Technical Camera4 screens
Crown & Flint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Crown & Flint at Free against Technical Camera's $19.99. Crown & Flint also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months). Technical Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On ratings volume, ads, 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

Crown & Flint is free to download; Technical Camera costs $19.99 up front. Crown & Flint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Technical Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Technical Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Technical Camera's written reviews are positive against 88% of Crown & Flint's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, Crown & Flint every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Technical Camera versus Crown & Flint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTechnical CameraCrown & Flint
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (17 ratings) — better4.7 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings17 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIRE StudioDon Goodman-Wilson

Customer experience

Technical Camera

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

Crown & Flint

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative6.3%

In-app purchases

None

Technical Camera

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Crown & Flint

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$19.99

Questions

Is Technical Camera free?
Technical Camera costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crown & Flint free?
Crown & Flint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Technical Camera or Crown & Flint?
Technical Camera is rated higher. Technical Camera averages 4.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Crown & Flint averages 4.7 from 16 ratings.
Do Technical Camera or Crown & Flint have ads?
Neither Technical Camera nor Crown & Flint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Technical Camera or Crown & Flint?
Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, and Crown & Flint every 9 days. Most recently, Technical Camera was updated on November 2, 2026 and Crown & Flint on November 3, 2026.

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