PlaneApp vs barecam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlaneApp
Capture minimalist photos of building facades with perfectly straight lines. This app automatically removes perspective and lens distortions in real-time, allowing you to preview the final image before taking the shot. You can also import existing photos for correction or manually adjust the framing.
- Automated perspective correction
- Real-time distortion removal
- Import photos for editing
- Manual framing adjustments
- Minimalist facade photography
- Share photos directly
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Also got a pedantic sense of aesthetics? Plane App allows you to capture minimalist photos of building façades. Straight lines stay straight in a fully automated way. Get rid of perspective effects and radial lens distortions on the fly. Discover the hidden beauty of every city with #planeapp. Plane App uses computer vision algorithms to detect planes that are framed by orthogonal lines. Rectifying your camera feed in real time enables you to see how your photo will turn out before even capturing it. The algorithm does not only correct perspective effects but also radial lens distortion. That way, the straightness of lines in your scene will be preserved in your final photo. Just zoom out and see the actual transformation that is applied or let Plane App crop your photos to their ideal frame. You think you can do better than the algorithm? Drag the markers to four corner points of your object in order to refine the automatic correction. You've got these amazing pictures of ancient façades from your last trip to Rome on your DSLR? Just import them to Plane App and transform them to minimalist pieces of art. And of course you can directly share them with your friends and followers.
barecam
This app captures photos directly from your camera sensor with minimal processing, offering raw data or a curated signature look. It provides manual controls for ISO, shutter speed, exposure, white balance, and focus, with an editor that preserves the original RAW file.
- Bayer RAW (DNG) capture
- Signature HEIC output
- Manual ISO and shutter control
- Adjustable exposure and white balance
- Manual focus control
- Non-destructive RAW editor
- RAW Max 48MP ProRAW
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barecam shows you what your camera actually saw. Your iPhone takes a beautiful photo, but it's not quite yours. Before you ever see it, frames are stacked, faces are guessed at, skies are repainted and shadows are lifted. barecam stays out of the way. One exposure, read straight off the sensor. TWO WAYS TO SHOOT • Bayer RAW: the sensor's own 12-bit data, saved as a DNG with nothing added. Open it in Lightroom, Capture One or Photos and make it yours. • Signature: barecam's own look, made for people who want a finished photo. Warm, quiet colour, a soft film curve, fine grain and a gentle glow around lights. It's developed from the RAW and saved as a HEIC. WITH BAYER, NONE OF THIS • Deep Fusion • Smart HDR • Tone mapping • Sharpening • Semantic rendering • Photographic Styles FIVE DIALS, ON GLASS • ISO and shutter across your camera's full range • Exposure up to ±3 stops • White balance from 2500 to 9000 K, kept as metadata in RAW • Manual focus • Every dial has an Auto stop, one swipe away AN EDITOR THAT NEVER TOUCHES THE RAW • Tone, colour, grain, halation and crop, with a live RGB histogram • Save as a new photo, or apply the edit to the original and revert it any time • Every edit is developed from the RAW, and the DNG underneath stays exactly as shot ALSO (promise I'm not yelling) • RAW Max: ProRAW at 48 MP on the main camera • HEIF and JPEG with eight Looks: Epic, Wasteland, Sodium, Postcard, Haze, Mood, Tempo and Sunday • A gallery that shows only the photos you took with barecam • Shoot from the lock screen, or with the volume buttons • On iPhone Duo, unfold for a live histogram and instrument panel beside the lens • Grid and level One price. No account, no subscription, no tracking. barecam makes no network calls, so your photos never leave your iPhone unless you share them. I hope it makes you fall in love with your camera again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PlaneApp at 89% against barecam's 0%. PlaneApp also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (4.5 vs 1.0). barecam's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On ads 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
PlaneApp is free to download; barecam costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PlaneApp holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlaneApp has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of PlaneApp's written reviews are positive against 0% of barecam's.
PlaneApp ships an update every 5 months, barecam every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlaneApp | barecam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Huettl | Don Bytyqi |
Customer experience
PlaneApp
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In-app purchases
PlaneApp
No in-app purchases
barecam
No in-app purchases









