Motion Camera vs Fovea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Motion Camera
Create stunning long exposure photos with adjustable exposure times. This app offers an instant preview to see your results immediately, perfect for capturing unique motion blur effects. A tripod is recommended for optimal clarity.
- Long exposure simulation
- Instant preview
- Adjustable exposure length
- Motion blur effects
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Turn your iPhone into a professional DSLR and create stunning long exposure masterpieces with ease! Motion Camera is designed for photographers who demand the ultimate image quality. Forget heavy tripods and ND filters. With our advanced computational photography technology, you can capture silky waterfalls, mesmerizing light trails, and crystal-clear night scenes—all from the palm of your hand. Core Features: Silky Long Exposure: Simulate slow shutter effects for smooth, fluid motion in water and clouds. Light Trails Mode: Exclusive algorithm to capture city lights and traffic flow, freezing brilliant moments in time. Motion Blur Optimization: Create natural dynamic blur while maintaining the sharpness of your main subject. Intuitive Controls: Manually adjust professional parameters to ensure every shot matches your creative vision. Whether for landscape or urban street photography, Motion Camera is your ultimate companion for sculpting light and shadow.
Fovea
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Fovea is a manual camera that explains what your eye already knows. Take full control of exposure, focus and white balance, shoot true RAW and add live film looks. An insight overlay tells you in plain English what your settings will do to the photo, and a shot journal records every shot and learns what your best ones have in common. Free to download. Pay once to unlock everything. No subscription, no account. Nothing is applied to your photo unless you choose it. The viewfinder and the saved photo go through the same rendering, so what you see is exactly what you get. INSIGHT OVERLAY • Notes on motion blur, depth of field, noise and clipping as you shoot • Warnings for camera shake, clipped highlights and crushed shadows • Golden hour and blue hour alerts • Tap any insight for the detail and a tip • Choose how much it says, or turn it off • 23 built-in guides, from exposure basics to long exposure, that work offline LONG EXPOSURE • Timed exposures from 1 to 30 seconds, and Bulb • Blur for water, clouds and moving crowds • Trails for car lights, stars and fireworks • Low Light stacks frames to cut noise in the dark • Watch the exposure build on screen as you shoot MANUAL CONTROLS • Every lens on your iPhone, including the front camera • Auto, ISO priority, shutter priority and full manual • Manual focus with focus peaking and zebra stripes • White balance presets, or Kelvin and tint • Separate focus and exposure points, with AE/AF lock • Exposure meter and a live readout of the settings the camera is using • Histogram in luma, RGB or zones, with a log scale • Grid, spirit level, flash, self-timer and four aspect ratios • Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later: zoom, exposure, ISO, shutter and white balance from the side button RAW AND FORMATS • RAW (DNG), ProRAW, HEIF and JPEG • Full 48 MP HEIF, JPEG and ProRAW on supported iPhones • Natural processing skips multi-frame fusion and heavy sharpening, for a cleaner, less smoothed file • Set RAW noise reduction and sharpening yourself, or leave them off • RAW shots are saved with a graded HEIF that carries your look and crop • Graded photos keep Display P3 colour and HDR LOOKS AND EFFECTS • More than 40 looks: film stocks, cinematic, warm, cool, mono and instant • Preview every look on your own scene before you pick it • Import your own .cube LUTs • Grain, bloom, halation and vignette, live in the viewfinder • Before and after tones show what a look does to your shadows and highlights MORE WAYS TO SHOOT • Three-shot exposure bracketing • Intervalometer, with a timelapse video made on your iPhone • Calculators for depth of field, hyperfocal distance, exposure, ND filters and sharp stars, with one tap to put the answer on the camera SHOT JOURNAL AND PROFILES • Every shot logged with its ISO, shutter, white balance, focus, lens, look and effects • Rate your shots and Fovea shows you what your best ones have in common • Set the camera up from any past shot in one tap • Syncs between your devices through your own iCloud account • Save a full setup (mode, values, format, look and effects) and switch to it in one tap FREE AND UNLOCK Free: lens switching, exposure compensation, AE/AF lock, priority modes, white balance presets, the histogram, the whole insight overlay, live effects, HEIF and JPEG, and two looks. The one-time unlock adds full manual, Kelvin white balance, manual focus, peaking and zebra, RAW and ProRAW, Natural processing, long exposure, bracketing, the intervalometer, the calculators, the full look library with LUT import, the shot journal and setting profiles. Restore it on any iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account. PRIVACY Fovea collects no data. No analytics, no tracking and no account. Your photos and journal stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. Some features depend on the cameras in your iPhone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Motion Camera at none against Fovea's 1. Motion Camera also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). Fovea's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months). On price 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. Fovea sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Motion Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Motion Camera ships an update every 6 months, Fovea every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Motion Camera | Fovea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHI HAO CHIU | Nigel Douglass |
In-app purchases
Motion Camera
No in-app purchases
Fovea
- Fovea Pro$5.99
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