Comparison

Spectre Camera vs PANinstORAMA

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

Head to head
About

Spectre Camera

This app uses AI to create stunning long exposure photographs, making it easy to capture professional-quality shots. Remove crowds, create light trails, and achieve silky smooth water effects effortlessly.

Highlights
  • AI-powered long exposures
  • Crowd removal
  • Light trail creation
  • Silky water effects
  • Live Photos and video support
  • Automatic scene detection
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Apple iPhone App of the Year, 2019 Introducing Spectre, from the makers of Halide, one of the top camera apps in the App Store. Spectre uses AI to help you make amazing long exposure photographs. Spectre can remove crowds, turn city streets into rivers of light, make waterfalls look like paintings, and much more. Until now, it was difficult to take long exposures: from keeping the camera steady to guessing the amount of light you need. Spectre takes care of all of that! WHAT YOU CAN DO • MAKE CROWDS DISAPPEAR: Spectre helps take photos of crowded, touristy places. Simply set a medium or long duration and take a shot to erase the crowd from a location. Capture the those special moments like you remember them. • RIVERS OF LIGHT: At night, AI scene detection automatically switches modes to draw beautiful light trails, for stunning nighttime city photography or light painting. • GORGEOUS WATER: Capture waterfalls, ocean waves, fountains and more with beautiful ghostly water. LIVE PHOTOS AND VIDEO Spectre’s intelligent computational shutter takes hundreds of shots over the span of a few seconds, and saves them in an accompanying live photo. That means you can pick a different frame as your photo, apply live-photo effects, and even use the long exposure as a live-wallpaper! ENDLESS SMARTS Spectre is a packed with powerful technology from by the team that brought you Halide. From machine learning-based scene detection to computer vision aided image stabilization, Spectre is jammed full of impressive technologies to get the best possible image. DESIGNED FOR HUMANS Spectre is meticulously designed. Its dark UI is gentle on the eyes when you shoot at night. Gorgeous glowing highlights infuse it with a unique style. Custom typefaces and iconography combined with unique, smooth controls make it as tactile and delightful as an actual physical camera. Like its sister app Halide, the app is easily usable with one hand, even on the largest iPhones. HIGH-TECH SHOWCASE Build with the latest tech, Spectre isn't just a long exposure camera — it’s the cutting edge technology showcase of one of the App Store’s foremost camera apps, Halide. Here’s just a few of the latest technologies that we use in Spectre: - DCI-P3 Wide Color Pipeline - Live Photos - Metal Graphics Acceleration - Tripod Detection - Siri & Shortcuts - AI Stabilization - Machine Learning & CoreML - Computer Vision COMPATIBILITY: Spectre’s smart Automatic Scene Detection requires iOS 12. AI-based stabilization features are available on iPhone 6S and later.* For the best experience, we recommend iPhone 8 or later. On iPhone 6, Spectre captures in lower resolution. ABOUT US We’re Ben and Sebastiaan, two friends living in the San Francisco Bay Area that love building fantastic apps for photography. We hope you love Spectre! We’d love your feedback to make it even better or any reports of bugs you run into. You can always contact us directly via email: support@halide.cam, on our Twitter: @halidecamera or Instagram: @halideapp Don’t forget to share your amazing results by tagging them with #SpectreShot so we can share them on our growing social media accounts!

About

PANinstORAMA

Easily create sliced panorama images for social media. This tool allows you to divide any image into multiple slices, choosing between square or portrait formats. Enhance your photos with various editing options before publishing.

Highlights
  • Slice images into 1-6 parts
  • Square or portrait slice format
  • Adjustable image quality
  • Rotate and straighten images
  • Flip images vertically or horizontally
  • Desqueeze anamorphic lens images
  • Live preview of slices
Features
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Slice any image into up to 6 slices to create sliced panoramas. Ideal for using Instagram albums to publish panorama images. Many tools and options available. OPTIONS - Number of Slices: 1 to 6 - Format of Slices: Square or Portrait - Image Quality: 70, 85 or 100 - Create a preview image (with black or white background) - Include Metadata (e.g. GPS Coordinates): Yes or No TOOLS - Rotate Image: in steps of 90 Degrees - Straighten Image: free or in steps of 0.05 Degrees - Flip Image: Vertically or Horizontally - Desqueeze Image (ideal when using an Anamorphic Lens): 1.33x or 1.5x - Live Preview of Slice Images

Screenshots

Spectre Camera4 screens
PANinstORAMA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PANinstORAMA at 5.0 against Spectre Camera's 4.3. PANinstORAMA also leads on monetization model (free vs paid). Spectre Camera's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 1). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Spectre Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PANinstORAMA sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PANinstORAMA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spectre Camera has 2.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spectre Camera ships an update every 3 months, PANinstORAMA every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Spectre Camera versus PANinstORAMA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpectre CameraPANinstORAMA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (2.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.4K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLux Optics IncorporatedMichael Klug

Customer experience

Spectre Camera

All ratings2,408 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral3.7%
Negative12.7%
Written reviews436 reviews
Positive45.6%
Neutral10.8%
Negative43.6%

PANinstORAMA

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Spectre Camera

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes on some devices
  • Compatibility issues with older iPhones
  • Focusing and stabilization problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Longer exposure time options
  • More manual control over settings
  • Raw image format support
  • Apple Watch remote support
  • Improved low-light performance

PANinstORAMA

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spectre Camera

One-time1
  • Spectre Pro$4.99
3 purchases

PANinstORAMA

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Spectre Camera free?
Spectre Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PANinstORAMA free?
PANinstORAMA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spectre Camera or PANinstORAMA?
PANinstORAMA is rated higher. Spectre Camera averages 4.3 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while PANinstORAMA averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Spectre Camera or PANinstORAMA have ads?
Neither Spectre Camera nor PANinstORAMA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spectre Camera or PANinstORAMA?
Spectre Camera ships an update every 3 months, and PANinstORAMA every 6 weeks. Most recently, Spectre Camera was updated on September 22, 2026 and PANinstORAMA on September 22, 2026.

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