Obscure vs Qwerty Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Obscure
Easily redact sensitive information from your photos before sharing. This app uses AI to automatically detect and obscure faces, text, and personal details, or allows for manual editing. Protect your privacy by blurring or blocking out private portions of images for safe social media sharing.
- Automatic face, text, and info detection
- Manual redaction editor
- One-touch email and phone number hiding
- Batch editing for multiple images
- Shortcuts integration for automation
- Blur, pixelate, or block sensitive areas
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Safely and securely share your photos! Obscure lets you quickly blur, pixellate or block out private portions of your images so that they are safe to share on any social platform. - Automatically detect & obscure faces, text, & personal info with advanced on-device AI - Redact all text from an image - Manually obfuscate any part of a picture with the easy to use editor - Find & hide email addresses and phone numbers with one touch - Edit multiple images in batches using the batch editor - Shortcuts action allows for easy redaction automation Just import an image, tap and drag over sensitive parts of the image then tap share. Use two fingers to pan and zoom to redact fine details. Works great for sharing screenshots! Obfuscate faces, license plates, and brand labels. Easily redact private parts of document images that you want to share. Redacted images can then be shared to any other app on your phone, or just save them back to your photo library. Obscure also works with Shortcuts, allowing you to easily setup an automated image processing pipeline. Long press the app icon to get quick shortcuts to your last taken image, the camera, or to paste an image you copied. Obscure is a one time purchase, no ads and no subscriptions! Privacy Policy: https://obscure.app/privacy Terms: https://obscure.app/terms
Qwerty Camera
This app allows children to take photos, organize them into albums, and learn basic typing skills. All photos are stored locally and are never uploaded or shared, ensuring a safe and private experience.
- Photo taking
- Playful album creation
- Typing practice
- Private photo storage
- No ads or in-app purchases
- No data logging or uploading
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Qwerty Camera lets you snap pictures, create playful albums and learn how to type on a keyboard in a fun and safe way. Pictures taken in Qwerty Camera are stored separately from the device' regular Camera roll and are never uploaded or shared in any way. Qwerty Camera comes with a set of simple yet powerful privacy promises: - We NEVER show ads or in app purchases - We NEVER log or upload any data - We require no accounts and NEVER ask for personal information - We do NOT even use the Internet connection of your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Obscure at 80% against Qwerty Camera's 0%. Obscure also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (30 vs 1). Qwerty Camera's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Qwerty Camera is free to download; Obscure costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Obscure holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Obscure has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Obscure's written reviews are positive against 0% of Qwerty Camera's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Obscure | Qwerty Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (30 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swift Fox Software LLC | Hibou AB |
Customer experience
Obscure
Qwerty Camera
In-app purchases
Obscure
No in-app purchases
Qwerty Camera
No in-app purchases
