Comparison

Time vs ProCam Instrument

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

Head to head
About

Time

Capture moments you missed with a time machine feature, allowing you to retake photos and edit them later. Apply real-time filters, adjust aspect ratios, and even convert videos into pictures. Customize controls and remove ads with in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Time Machine for retaking photos
  • Real-time filters (60+ types)
  • Video to picture conversion
  • Editable aspect ratios
  • Customizable volume button/shake gestures
  • Ad removal option
Features
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It's okay to miss a definitive moment. You can retake it until the moment you launch the application with the Time Machine function. You can change the moment of taking, zoom, filter, aspect ratio, orientation later. In the past mode, a picture can be taken with frame-advance or slow playback. Also, recorded videos can be read and turned into pictures. 60 kinds of real-time filter installed. Color change 17, effect 10, transformation 10, face recognition 12, other 11. You can edit the photographs, change the rotation,trimming,filter,deformation(10 types),color and square. Aspect ratios of three types (1: 1, 4: 3, 16: 9) can be switched. For animals and babies, who cannot communicate, you can change shutter sounds to gain their interest. ◆in-app purchases option settings ・Remove Ads Advertisement will disappear. ・volume switch and shake gesture Assign a function to the volume button and shake gesture (shutter, favorite, pause, change brightness of the screen). ・temporally save if app stop in background,temporarily save the movie automatically.You can check the video at next startup. ・Startup setting You can choose startup page with three kinds(camera,album,setting). ・Change icon Band of the icon disappears.

About

ProCam Instrument

Features
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ProCam Instrument is a manual camera for people who already know what they want the picture to be. THE NUMBERS ARE THE INTERFACE ISO, shutter, white balance, exposure, focus and iris sit live above the shutter. Touch one and it comes off automatic onto a ruler that stops where the sensor stops — so what you dial is what the hardware can actually do. Pin the shutter and it is shutter priority; pin ISO too and it is manual, with the meter's needle showing how far off you are. WHAT IS WRITTEN IS YOUR CHOICE One control decides the file: HEIF, JPEG, Apple ProRAW, or Bayer RAW straight off the sensor with Apple's processing switched off. Or develop it with ProCam's own scene-linear pipeline — wavelet denoise, guided-filter tone mapping, halo-limited sharpening — and merge a bracket into one frame with multi-frame RAW fusion. MEASURE, DON'T GUESS Histogram, RGB parade, waveform, vectorscope, focus peaking, zebras and false colour all run on the GPU against the live signal. A focus magnifier punches the monitor in while you set focus. Frame guides, safe areas and anamorphic desqueeze change the viewfinder and never the file. FOR MOVING PICTURES Apple Log and Log 2, HLG, ProRes and ProRes RAW where the hardware offers them. Clip naming, QuickTime timecode, slate metadata, clip length and size limits that roll into the next clip, pause and resume, markers you can drop mid-take, a proxy copy, pre-roll that keeps the seconds before you pressed record, and a clean feed on a second screen. DRIVES A BODY WOULD HAVE Exposure and focus bracketing, focus stacking, an intervalometer, long exposure that builds in front of you, a night stack, and a star-trail mode that keeps the brightest each pixel has ever been. EVERY LENS, EVERY FEATURE The back lenses are one camera: changing focal length ramps the zoom instead of tearing the session down, so a lens change works mid-recording and nothing is gated on which lens you are on. Settings → System → Camera Capabilities reads every capability off the hardware at runtime and tells you what this iPhone can and cannot do — no guessing from the model name. THE REST A gallery with a metadata inspector that shows what the file actually says; a non-destructive editor with curves, HSL, colour grading, masks and lens corrections; Siri and Shortcuts; Lock Screen and Control Center capture; a second iPhone as a remote; and a hardware self-test that sets every control, reads it back from the sensor, and reports what passed. PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs. Nothing leaves your iPhone. Location is written into a photo's EXIF only when you switch Location Tagging on.

Screenshots

Time4 screens
ProCam Instrument4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ProCam Instrument at none against Time's 1. ProCam Instrument also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ProCam Instrument asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Time versus ProCam Instrument: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimeProCam Instrument
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAyumu KinoshitaSUKRU UTKU POYRAZ

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Time

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
None

ProCam Instrument

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time free?
Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ProCam Instrument free?
ProCam Instrument is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time or ProCam Instrument have ads?
Time shows ads; ProCam Instrument does not.

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