Comparison

Technical Camera vs Water Reflection 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

Water Reflection Camera

Features
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Turn your camera into a magical water surface! THREE MODES: • Ripple - Dynamic water waves with natural movement • Calm - Soft, dreamy blur like a peaceful lake • Mirror - Perfect crystal-clear reflection FEATURES: • Adjust water line position anywhere • Switch between vertical & horizontal reflections • Real-time preview - what you see is what you save • Simple one-tap capture Perfect for landscapes, architecture, travel photos, and creative portraits.

Screenshots

Technical Camera4 screens
Water Reflection Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Water Reflection Camera at Free against Technical Camera's $19.99. Technical Camera's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases, 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

Water Reflection 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, Water Reflection Camera every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Technical Camera versus Water Reflection Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTechnical CameraWater Reflection Camera
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIRE StudioRyouhei Azuma

In-app purchases

None

Technical Camera

No in-app purchases

None

Water Reflection Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Technical Camera free?
Technical Camera costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Water Reflection Camera free?
Water Reflection Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Technical Camera or Water Reflection Camera have ads?
Water Reflection Camera shows ads; Technical Camera does not.
Which is updated more often, Technical Camera or Water Reflection Camera?
Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, and Water Reflection Camera every 2 months. Most recently, Technical Camera was updated on October 8, 2026 and Water Reflection Camera on September 25, 2026.

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