Gimbse Camera vs FrontShot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gimbse Camera
Enhance architectural photos with professional alignment without complex editing. This app offers real-time perspective correction and intuitive controls to perfect your shots of buildings, cityscapes, and more.
- Perspective Assistant
- Real-time alignment
- Multiple perspective modes
- Adjustable focus and exposure
- Various color modes
- Composition guides
- Multiple aspect ratios
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Improve the presentation of real estate, cityscapes, exhibition stands, and much more with professional architectural photography! Gimbse offers the perfect alignment of your camera without complicated post-processing or additional technical equipment. How it works? Very simple: take a photo – done. The unique perspective assistant always has the recording situation in view and takes care of the detailed work in real time. So you can fully concentrate on your subject. Also profit from the intuitively designed interface of the great and professional functions with which the Gimbse camera app makes your pictures even better. PERSPECTIVE ASSISTANT The Perspective Assistant ensures that your pictures are always straight, no matter from which angle they were taken. But “straight“ doesn‘t just mean that people stand upright in the picture and the horizon is really horizontal. With the help of the various modes, you can freely choose which additional perspective tools you want to use for your subject. Perspective alignment has never been so easy! • Horizon It automatically does what many photographers usually do by hand or with gimbals: Hold the camera straight. • Automatic Let the Perspective Assistant automatically select between Architecture and Horizon modes to avoid extreme distortion at the edges of the image. • Architecture The mode for professional architectural photography – the perspective is automatically corrected to avoid falling lines. • Gallery In Gallery mode, photograph vertical or horizontal surfaces exactly from the front, even though the situation only allows a sloping shooting angle. The magnetic axis makes alignment easy and very accurate. • Easel For inclined surfaces such as flipcharts, screens or simply easels, there is also the Easel mode with the practical magnetic angle. • Rectangle With the magnetic frame, you can shoot rectangular objects of any kind as if they were taken from the front and crop them in their original proportions, (almost) regardless of the shooting angle. • Calibrate Also use the Calibrate mode with its magnetic axes to achieve even more precision in aligning your photos. Once performed, the calibration is always maintained. • Deactivated With this you can also take really skewed pictures. FOCUS • Automatic • Spot EXPOSURE • Lights • Automatic • Spot • Lock WHITE BALANCE • Cold • Neutral • Warm • Spot • Lock FOCAL LENGTH • Ultra Wide Angle (if available) • 20 mm (if available) • Wide Angle • 35 mm • 50 mm • Telephoto Lens (if available) • 80 mm • 135 mm • 200 mm • 300 mm COLOR MODE • Color (in gradations) • Black & White • Blue Filter • BW Neutral • Red Filter COMPOSITION • Empty • Frame • Crosshair • Grid • Golden Section • Golden Spiral ASPECT RATIO • Square • 7 : 6 • 5 : 4 • 4 : 3 • DIN A Format • 3 : 2 • Golden Section • 16 : 9 • Superscope • 21 : 9 • CinemaScope FILE TYPE (iOS 13 and higher) • L97JPEG 8 sRGB • JPEG 8 P3 • TIFF 16 sRGB (high memory requirement!) • TIFF 16 P3 (high memory requirement!) With the practical reset button, you can quickly reset Gimbse at any time to be ready for the next snapshot. Configure Gimbse conveniently in the settings. You can also have a comparison image saved for each shot. This shows a before/after comparison between the captured image and the version created by Gimbse. Discover the incredible new design options that Gimbse can offer you!
FrontShot
This app provides a real-time, straight frontal view of any flat surface, even when captured from an oblique angle. It simplifies capturing documents, walls, or posters perfectly aligned, with automatic and manual modes for ease of use.
- Real-time frontal view correction
- Handles horizontal, vertical, and slanted planes
- Automatic and manual orientation detection
- Tilt correction
- Document mode
- Eliminates shifting distortion
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A straight frontal view of the plane can be seen in real-time, even if the camera is pointed from an oblique direction. Operation is simple, and you can see a straight frontal view of any plane, such as a document or wall. [Background of FrontShot development] There are times when you want to shoot a straight frontal view of an object such as a document, wall, poster, or time-table. In cases like this, it is convenient if you can just point your camera from an oblique direction, and see the straight frontal view. FrontShot was developed to make this possible. Even if you point your camera from an oblique direction, any sort of plane --documents, walls, etc.-- can be viewed as a straight frontal image. [Features] Has three modes: horizontal plane, vertical plane, and slanted plane. - Can handle any plane The app can handle not only horizontal and vertical planes, but also slanted planes, and thus it is possible to see a straight frontal view of any plane. Naturally, it is also possible to see straight frontal views of ceilings. (Ceilings are regarded as horizontal planes.) - Simple operation Operation is extremely simple. For a horizontal plane, no special operation is necessary. Simply point the camera, and the straight frontal image will appear. For a vertical or slanted plane, the orientation of the plane must be designated (automatically or manually), but if the mode is set to automatic, a straight frontal image will appear just by pointing the camera, as with a horizontal plane. Operation is simple in manual mode too. Just point the camera in the direction of the plane, and press the button. A straight frontal image of the plane will appear. *In the automated mode for vertical and slanted planes, the system calculates the direction of the plane by recognizing the horizontal and vertical lines which appear. - Numerous convenient functions Numerous convenient functions are provided such as tilt correction and document mode. - Display in real-time Processing is performed at high speed using our unique technology, and this makes it possible to display straight frontal images in real-time. [Uses] The app can be used for a variety purposes including: documents, posters, whiteboards, time-tables, buildings, signs, pictures, lettering and pictures drawn on the ground, and online sale items (clothes, books, CDs, other flat items). [Use instructions] There is a "How to use FrontShot" item in the menu of the application, so please see there for details. (Others) * Also, elimination of shifting distortion is supported. * Only flat planes can be converted into a straight frontal view. The app cannot convert curved planes. * This app is the free version. It does not allow saving or sending. Also, watermarks and ads are displayed. If you wish to save, send and hide watermarks and Ads, purchase the product version via in-app purchase. * The in-app purchase price is subject to change without prior notice. * A trial version is available. If you watch video Ad, you can use the same features as the product version (including saving, sending and hiding watermarks and Ads) for a limited time at no charge (there are also limits on the number of images taken). You can view the video Ad any number of times. * In the future, however, the content of the trial version may be changed, or the trial may be discontinued, without prior notice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FrontShot at Free against Gimbse Camera's $12.99. FrontShot also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). Gimbse Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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
FrontShot is free to download; Gimbse Camera costs $12.99 up front. FrontShot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gimbse Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
FrontShot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gimbse Camera has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gimbse Camera ships an update every 4 weeks, FrontShot every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gimbse Camera | FrontShot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Kappertz | Rivac Inc. |
Customer experience
Gimbse Camera
FrontShot
In-app purchases
Gimbse Camera
No in-app purchases
FrontShot
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