Comparison

iSky vs SkyFiCam

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

Head to head
About

iSky

Transform your surroundings into living art using your device's camera. Experience the world through the styles of famous paintings in real-time. Pause, play, and share your artistic creations with others.

Highlights
  • Real-time neural network style transfer
  • 5 famous painting styles
  • Live video pause and play
  • Share creations
  • Tap to change styles
Features
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iSky provides you a window into the world through the eyes of 5 different paintings: Van Gogh's Starry Night, Mosaic, Leonid Afremov's Rain Princess, Natasha Westcoat's Candie and Francis Picabia's Udnie. The app uses your iOS device rear camera, and applies realtime neural network style transfer of the camera scene. Neural networks are trained in PyTorch, and transferred to Apple's CoreML via an ONNX intermediary. Please note that performance may be slower on older Apple devices. - Tap the screen to alternate between 5 different painting styles. - Pause and Play live video. - Share with with everyone using the share button! Turn your world into art, and share it with the world!

About

SkyFiCam

Features
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SKYFI turns your camera into a cinematic sci-fi viewfinder. Point it at any open sky and an on-device neural network identifies the sky region in real time, replacing it with stunning procedural effects while leaving buildings, trees, and people untouched. EVERYTHING RUNS LOCALLY Every frame stays on your device. SkyFi uses Apple's Core ML, Vision, and Metal frameworks to segment the sky, render effects, and record video — all on the Neural Engine and GPU. No frames are uploaded. No accounts. No tracking. FOUR LENSES • Original Feed — clean, unfiltered live camera. • Chaotic Sky — three glowing UAPs drift across the sky, ringed by FLIR targeting brackets. Inspired by the publicly released Navy GIMBAL / Tic-Tac / GOFAST footage. • UFO Monolith — a real-time raymarched obsidian slab floats above the city, lit by a cyan fresnel edge glow. Foreground objects occlude the lower edges automatically. • Debug Sky Tint — visualizes the sky-mask in red so you can see exactly what the AI sees. FLIR ↔ COLOR TOGGLE Tap the chip in the HUD to flip the entire feed between full color and Navy-thermal-style black-and-white. Pair it with the Chaotic Sky lens for the iconic Pentagon-footage look, or with the Monolith lens for a 2001-style cinematic monochrome. LIVE VIDEO RECORDING Tap the shutter to record at 60fps with the lens effect and FLIR filter baked into the saved file. Videos save to your Photos library and match the on-screen aspect (9:16 portrait or 16:9 landscape). SMART AND HONEST • If you're indoors or pointing at a wall, SkyFi tells you ("NO SKY DETECTED") and falls back to the unmodified camera instead of faking effects. • Live telemetry shows segmentation latency, frame rate, and processor usage so you can see the AI working. • Thermal-aware: under heavy load the segmenter throttles automatically to keep the device cool and the preview smooth. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT SkyFi isn't a static-filter app. The neural network re-segments your sky every few frames using Apple's DETR Resnet-50 semantic segmentation model. The lens effects are procedurally generated with Metal SDF shaders — there are no canned video assets, every frame is computed on the fly. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 16 or later. Apple Neural Engine recommended (iPhone XS or newer) for best performance. PRIVACY Camera access is required for the live preview. Photo Library "add only" access is required to save recordings. No data is collected, transmitted, or shared. Open the camera privacy section in iOS Settings to revoke access at any time.

Screenshots

iSky4 screens
SkyFiCam3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: iSky at 3 against SkyFiCam's 1. iSky also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iSky versus SkyFiCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriSkySkyFiCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUltralytics LLCSuwitcha Sugthana

In-app purchases

None

iSky

No in-app purchases

None

SkyFiCam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iSky free?
iSky is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SkyFiCam free?
SkyFiCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iSky or SkyFiCam have ads?
Neither iSky nor SkyFiCam shows ads.

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