Technical Camera vs Grid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Grid
Wirelessly transfer photos and RAW files from your Ricoh GR camera to your device. Automatically add GPS locations to your shots and manage camera settings. Explore your photos on a map and export GPS tracks.
- Wireless photo and RAW file transfer
- Live and track-based geotagging
- Camera settings and firmware updates
- Browse photos on a map
- Export GPS tracks as GPX
- Customizable camera recipes
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Connect your Ricoh GR over Bluetooth and WiFi to browse your camera's photos, download full-resolution JPGs and RAW files straight to your library, and add GPS locations to every shot. All without cables or pulling the SD card. - Wireless photo transfer Browse your camera roll right from your phone. Select what you want and download JPGs or RAW (DNG) files in the background, with live progress and Live Activities. Keep browsing or switch apps while your photos ar being downloaded. - Geotagging, two ways Live: streams your iPhone's precise GPS to the camera over Bluetooth, so location is written straight into each photo as you shoot. GPS Track: records a low-power location trail in the background (no camera connection needed) and automatically adds the matching location when you download photos that don't have one. - Recipes Create your own recipes and send them to one of the three slots in your Ricoh GR IV. Or download an existing recipe. - See it on a map Browse your photos by location, revisit a trip's route, and export your GPS tracks as GPX. - Stay on top of your camera Battery level, storage space, and firmware version at a glance with a heads-up when a firmware update is available. Free to try for 7 days. After that, connecting, browsing, and geotagging stay free. Downloading photos to your library requires a one-time unlock. No subscription, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Grid at Free against Technical Camera's $19.99. Grid also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). Technical Camera's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 2.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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
Grid is free to download; Technical Camera costs $19.99 up front. Grid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Technical Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Technical Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Technical Camera has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Technical Camera's written reviews are positive against 67% of Grid's.
Technical Camera ships an update every 4 months, Grid every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Technical Camera | Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIRE Studio | Lucas Raggers |
Customer experience
Technical Camera
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In-app purchases
Technical Camera
No in-app purchases
Grid
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