M=Camera vs AcuiCam Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
M=Camera
Take full creative control of your mobile photography with advanced manual settings. Adjust ISO, shutter speed, focal length, and white balance for professional-quality shots. Supports various formats and lenses for a sophisticated shooting experience.
- Manual ISO control
- Manual shutter speed control
- Manual focal length adjustment
- White balance temperature control
- Ultra-wide camera lens support
- HEIC photo and HEVC video recording
- Live Photos functionality
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Full manual controllable camera app. - ISO, Shutter Speed - Focal Length (Focus) - Whitebalance (Temperature) - UltraWide Camera Lens - Full pixel photo shooting - HEIC photo, HEVC video - LivePhotos Why don't you try this sophisticated experience?
AcuiCam Pro
Capture stunning, high-quality images with extended dynamic range using a unique process that reveals intricate details, colors, and light. Organize your photos with an event album system and fine-tune your shots with a professional editor. Save images in various formats for sharing or printing.
- RealVision process with Gain Maps for EDR
- Workshop editor for fine-tuning images
- Event Album system for photo organization
- Supports Apple ProRAW, Deep Fusion, Macro
- Save images as HEIC, JPG, MP4, or PNG
- Intuitive and elegant user interface
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AcuiCam Pro RealVision - Close to reality Do you want to shoot images of the highest quality possible with an iPhone? - Then AcuiCam Pro is for you. AcuiCam Pro 1.7.4 works with all iPhone 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 Standard and Pro series running iOS 18.1 or later. It is the only app that offers: The unique RealVision process with Gain Maps in the ISO 21496-1 Standard to deliver EDR (Extended Dynamic Range). RealVision produces Quality Pixels that reveal details, colors, and light in your images, making them look close to the reality you experienced when you shot them. Further, RealVision will automatically add Gain Maps to the camera Viewfinder, older images or images from other apps or external cameras without a Gain Map. You can adjust the Gain Maps using the Workshop editor to get a balanced and natural result with EDR-capable displays, such as HDR and XDR displays with 1000 nits of brightness or more. The Event Album system. Here you can create albums to organise images from e.g. family gatherings, birthdays, travels, etc. This feature helps you keep all relevant photos from a specific event in one place, making it easier to find them within this app and the Photos app for further editing and/or sharing. You can create, rename and select to save to Album(s) in the Viewfinder and the Workshop, and select which Album(s) to view in Image Selector. But don’t just take our word for it - download AcuiCam Pro for free and see for yourself. AcuiCam Pro is a professional Camera & Editor app that is simple, elegant and intuitive. It supports Apple ProRAW, Deep Fusion, Macro and much more. AcuiCam Pro is designed to bring you into focus and let you compose and shoot stunning images. That means you can select the relevant RealVision Preset, point and shoot to get high-quality images without further editing. When you are a professional or dedicated amateur photographer who wants to fine-tune your images to perfection, use the built-in Workshop editor with a collection of custom-made enhancement tools. Each time you shoot an image, AcuiCam Pro processes it automatically. That means, “What you see is what you get” - in both the Viewfinder, Preview and the auto-saved HEIC image. You can share this image(s) directly with family, friends and the world by tapping the More and Share buttons in the Image Selector. You can select to shoot in either STD (Standard) or ProRAW mode. Then AcuiCam Pro saves a Master image you can edit non-destructively in the built-in Workshop editor. Try the fully functional Workshop editor and experience how to fine-tune your images to perfection and save 1 image a day for free. To get unrestricted access to save all your edited images, please use the in-app purchase. An edited STD or ProRAW Master image can be saved as a HEIC, JPG, or MP4 Still Image Movie for sharing or use on websites. Finally, you can save the Master image as a lossless PNG for high-quality printing. AcuiCam Pro cannot make poor images look good, but it can make great images appear close to reality! For info on Special Features & Tech, please scroll down to "Information" and click on our Developer Website link. Here you will find a complete list of special features and other valuable information about AcuiCam Pro, including our iPhone Photo Tutorial. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AcuiCam Pro at 100% against M=Camera's 60%. AcuiCam Pro also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. M=Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and AcuiCam Pro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AcuiCam Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of M=Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of AcuiCam Pro's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | M=Camera | AcuiCam Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | KANAME OHARA | Digital Arts ApS |
Customer experience
M=Camera
AcuiCam Pro
In-app purchases
M=Camera
- Full Feature$4.99
AcuiCam Pro
- Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$11.991 Year
- Donate$3.99
- Donate$8.99
- One Time Payment$24.99









