Simple RAW Camera vs RAW Experience
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple RAW Camera
Capture professional-grade photos with RAW image support, offering Apple ProRAW or Adobe DNG formats. Easily share your high-resolution images via email or file sharing with your computer.
- RAW image capture
- Apple ProRAW support
- Adobe DNG format
- HEIC capture
- Email file sharing
- Mac/PC file sharing
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This is the simplest but professional use camera. RAW capture available, file format is Apple ProRAW or adobe DNG. Apple ProRAW format is available for iPhone 12 Series and later. Once you capture photo, then you can send raw file through mailer. Or File Sharing is available where your iPhone and Mac/PC connected. Open Finder to find your iPhone, then you can drag and drop to pull RAW data. And also, HEIC capture is available.
RAW Experience
This app simulates digital camera color filter patterns, showing how images are captured and converted to RGB. It supports various filter types and can save the resulting image with the applied filter to your photo gallery.
- Simulates digital camera color filter patterns
- Demonstrates image capture and RGB conversion
- Supports Bayer, Quad Bayer, X-Trans, and more filter types
- Works as a normal camera app
- Saves images with applied filters to photo gallery
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RAW Experience app simulates color filter patterns used in digital cameras to demonstrate how the picture is captured, and also how it is converted to full color RGB one via demosaicing algorithm. The app supports Bayer (most popular, used in iPhone, also known as RGGB), Quad Bayer (used in iPhone 14 Pro 48MP main camera), X-Trans, CYGM, CYYM, RGBE, RGBW and RYYB color filter patterns. RAW Experience also works as normal camera app — you can save the resulting image to iPhone Photo Gallery (with the current filter applied).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RAW Experience at 100% against Simple RAW Camera's 55%. RAW Experience also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). Simple RAW Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (83 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Simple RAW Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and RAW Experience sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RAW Experience holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple RAW Camera has 83 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Simple RAW Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of RAW Experience's.
Simple RAW Camera ships an update every 2 months, RAW Experience every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple RAW Camera | RAW Experience |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (83 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KANAME OHARA | Kostiantyn Medvedenko |
Customer experience
Simple RAW Camera
RAW Experience
In-app purchases
Simple RAW Camera
- Full feature option$3.99
RAW Experience
- Pro Upgrade$2.99
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