Comparison

Obscure vs CaptureDSLR

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

CaptureDSLR

Control your DSLR or mirrorless camera remotely via USB. Monitor real-time images, adjust settings like exposure and white balance, and transfer photos directly to your phone. This app enables shooting without an SD card, saving images instantly to your mobile device.

Highlights
  • USB camera control
  • Real-time image monitoring
  • Exposure and white balance adjustment
  • Shooting mode control
  • Direct photo transfer to phone
  • SD card-free shooting
Features
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This is an App that controls the DSLR camera via USB. After connecting to the camera, you can monitor the camera's real-time image and control the camera's: exposure, file format, white balance, shooting mode, ratio, etc. It also supports transferring photos taken on the camera to the mobile phone, so that the camera can take pictures without inserting a SD card, and the photos will be saved to the mobile phone after taking them. This is the first version of the App. Currently it only supports Sony cameras. Canon and Nikon will also support it in the future, so stay tuned!

Screenshots

Obscure4 screens
CaptureDSLR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Obscure at 4.8 against CaptureDSLR's 3.0. Obscure also leads on price ($2.99 vs $6.99) and ratings volume (30 vs 4). CaptureDSLR's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Obscure costs $2.99 and CaptureDSLR $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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 4, 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 74% of CaptureDSLR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Obscure versus CaptureDSLR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObscureCaptureDSLR
Price$2.99 — better$6.99
Rating4.8 (30 ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better74.1% of reviews
Number of ratings30 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwift Fox Software LLCHFS

Customer experience

Obscure

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

CaptureDSLR

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral7.4%
Negative18.5%

In-app purchases

None

Obscure

No in-app purchases

None

CaptureDSLR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obscure free?
Obscure costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CaptureDSLR free?
CaptureDSLR costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Obscure or CaptureDSLR?
Obscure is rated higher. Obscure averages 4.8 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while CaptureDSLR averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Obscure or CaptureDSLR have ads?
Neither Obscure nor CaptureDSLR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obscure or CaptureDSLR?
Obscure ships an update every 2 months, and CaptureDSLR every 2 months. Most recently, Obscure was updated on November 2, 2026 and CaptureDSLR on October 30, 2026.

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