Camare Experimental Camera vs 36 Frames Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Camare Experimental Camera
This app offers unique image filters and simulations for creative photography. Combine multiple exposures and filters to create one-of-a-kind images. It also features an experimental editor and supports using multiple lenses simultaneously.
- Unique image filters
- Single, dual, and multi-exposure photography
- Film-sensor simulations
- Border-framing filters
- Experimental editor/post-processor
- Multi-lens support
- Adjustable image aspect ratios
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Camare is a creative photography app with unique image filters you can combine to take photos. You can creatively take single, dual, or multiexposure photographs like no other apps. It is the first to provide program cards for storage and files but also to use with all compatible photo apps. App includes by default 17 creative filters (Nerve, Dolce, Bewi, Sqare, Booty, Geoh, Ouibak, Moop, Dnaz, Semi, Morkmall, Habaen, Bomber Baba, Herate, Gulbul, Karbad Bob, Cainswoe), 10 film-sensor simulations, and 12 border-framing filters. In-app packages are available and offer multiple extra combinations of filters and user interface skins. They enable me to focus more on the app development and of its functionalities. There is also an experimental editor / post-processor, still in its infancy but offers myriads of creative results. This app was originally developed for my personal experimental photographic works and is constantly being updated: an app from a photographer for photographers. It also lets you use more than one lens at once for dualphotography or multiphotography. Its tens of creative filters are of three types you can combine to your desired effect: - input saturators (aka insaturators) - frame and skins (aka frameskins) - film simulators (aka filmulators) You can also modulate them using the easily accessible color-coded variator. Once taken, the basic whole-screen editor lets you rerender the last photograph with a new filter combination. Image aspect ratios can be changed at capture or at output and you can save three presets for your future shots.
36 Frames Camera
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One roll. Thirty-six frames. No preview, no retakes, and no way to see a single photo until the roll comes back from the lab. 36 Frames is a film camera for your iPhone. You load a roll, and from the first frame to the thirty-sixth there is nothing to look at but the counter. You can't check the shot. You can't delete the bad ones. You shoot, you trust it, and you move on. It's how photography felt before there was a screen on the back of the camera. When the roll is full, or whenever you decide you're done with it, you send it to the lab. Standard developing takes two to five working days. Express comes back in about an hour. The look is identical either way; the only thing you ever trade is time. Then one day the roll is ready, the contact sheet arrives, and you finally see what you spent your week shooting. Keep the good ones. That's the whole app. WHAT YOU GET One roll, thirty-six frames. The counter is the only feedback there is. No preview, no retakes, no recovery. Nothing you shoot can be viewed until the roll is developed. Not previewed, not reviewed, not undeleted. Two ways to wait. Standard developing in two to five working days, never coming back on a weekend. Express in about an hour. Both are free, and neither one looks better than the other. Two films. Colour 400 and Mono 400, each with its own grain, colour rendering and tone. The look is applied when the roll is developed, not when you shoot, so you never get to preview it either. A camera worth holding. Every lens on your iPhone, a viewfinder that shows exactly what gets captured, a shutter speed dial from 1/1000 of a second to a full second, optional manual focus with focus peaking, a rule-of-thirds grid and a horizon level. One tap is the shutter. Short rolls are fine. Send any time after the first frame. The lab develops only the frames you actually shot. Widgets, Lock Screen and Siri. See how far into the roll you are and when the next one is ready, jump straight to the shutter from Control Center or the Action Button, and ask Siri about a roll. Put your developed photos on the Home Screen with the Album widget. Choose your app icon. Keep the original yellow camera on your Home Screen, or pick Kumquat, Raspberry, Plum, Juniper, Kiwi or two-tone black and chrome. Free for everyone. Keepers go to Photos. Developed frames save at full resolution with the real capture details: date, place, lens, exposure. They sort into your library where they belong. Ask the lab for a white border, or for the date or the frame number stamped in the corner. In a hurry? There's a Rush option that develops a roll on the spot, free and unlimited. The app will gently point out that rushing every roll rather defeats the point. WHERE YOUR PHOTOS GO Nowhere. "Sending the roll to the lab" is this app's language for a wait that runs entirely on your own phone. Undeveloped frames live in the app's private storage, developing happens on the device, and nothing is ever uploaded. There's no account to make, no sign-up, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. It works in airplane mode. The wait is real, though. It isn't a progress bar you can skip by relaunching. WHAT IT COSTS Free to download, and your first two rolls are free, one on each film, so you get a proper feel for it. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited rolls, forever. Nothing metered, and nothing that expires. Buy it once and the app keeps working. Made in Stockholm. iPhone only, iOS 18 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 36 Frames Camera at Free against Camare Experimental Camera's $0.99. Camare Experimental Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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36 Frames Camera is free to download; Camare Experimental Camera costs $0.99 up front. Camare Experimental Camera sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and 36 Frames Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Camare Experimental Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, 36 Frames Camera every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Camare Experimental Camera | 36 Frames Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 584 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Loopr | Hjalmar Hallin |
In-app purchases
Camare Experimental Camera
- Luckyfloy Now Pack$0.99
- Konoff Sevan Pack$0.99
- Oldlymp Ksa Package$0.99
36 Frames Camera
- Full app unlock$4.99
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