Spectre Camera vs Automatic Capture SlowMo Video
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
Automatic Capture SlowMo Video
Automatically record your sports training sessions in slow motion without manual control. The app detects your presence to start recording and stops when you leave the frame, creating separate clips for easy analysis and sharing.
- Automatic recording detection
- Automatic recording stop
- Slow-motion video capture
- Separate clips per appearance
- Easy sharing
- Real-time progress visualization
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Making progress in sport is hard. Sometimes we need a second pair of eyes to tell what aspects to focus on. But do you always have a couch or experienced friend with you? Maybe your videographer is always available? In fact, if you simply look at your technique in slow motion you may discover a lot. What if I told you that you could record each your training session in slow motion automatically with no effort and then analyze and share the results right away? You can literally see your progress in real time. This is what AutoCapture SlowMo app is created for. Just put your phone on tripod and show your performance in front of it. There is no need to control the camera any more. The app detects your presence and automatically starts recording, ensuring you never miss a moment. When you leave the camera frame recording is stopped so you don’t need to scroll a long video to find yourself on it. Each your appearance is a separate short slow-mo recording ready to be shared and analyzed. Editing the resulting videos? Forget about it! Just select the best attempt and share it with your friends or coach to get regular feedback. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Spectre Camera at 2.4K against Automatic Capture SlowMo Video's 2. Automatic Capture SlowMo Video's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Spectre Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Automatic Capture SlowMo Video sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Automatic Capture SlowMo Video holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spectre Camera has 2.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Spectre Camera ships an update every 3 months, Automatic Capture SlowMo Video fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spectre Camera | Automatic Capture SlowMo Video |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (2.4K ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lux Optics Incorporated | Yevhen Bondarev |
Customer experience
Spectre Camera
Automatic Capture SlowMo Video
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
Automatic Capture SlowMo Video
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spectre Camera
- Spectre Pro$4.99
Automatic Capture SlowMo Video
- Pro version3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pro version3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Coffee Tip$0.99
- Appreciation Tip$2.99
- Top Tip$9.99
Questions
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