Comparison

Spectre Camera vs Streamplace

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

Streamplace

Watch live development streams and receive notifications when broadcasts begin. This application provides access to ongoing project updates and ensures you don't miss live events.

Highlights
  • Watch development livestreams
  • Receive live broadcast notifications
  • Stay updated on project progress
  • Access video content
Features
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Streamplace is live video and on-demand video for the open social web. Watch, stream, and publish with an account you already own, on a platform nobody can lock you into. WATCH ANYWHERE Live streams and full video libraries, in cinema-grade quality that adapts to your phone, your tablet, and your connection. Fast on the subway, sharp on Wi-Fi, with playback that keeps up when everyone shows up at once. GO LIVE FROM YOUR PHONE Start a broadcast in seconds. Stream to Streamplace and multistream to other platforms at the same time, then keep every broadcast in your archive as on-demand video your audience can watch later. SIGN IN WITH THE OPEN SOCIAL WEB Streamplace is built on the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. Log in with the account you already have. Your identity, your followers, and your videos live on the open web, not inside our app. Follow creators, share streams, and take your audience with you wherever you go. EVERY VIDEO IS SIGNED Each stream and video carries a cryptographic record of who made it and how it was edited, from the moment it leaves the camera. In a feed full of synthetic content, Streamplace lets viewers verify that a video is real and lets creators prove their work is their own. NO LOCK-IN, EVER Streamplace is open source and self-hostable. Your content and your audience are portable. Move to another provider, or run the software yourself, and everything comes with you. FREE, WITH NO ADS Public video on Streamplace is free to watch and free to publish. Video is delivered across an open, decentralized network, so anyone can run a node and help serve the streams they care about. MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN The same open platform runs natively on iOS, Android, web, Mac, Windows, and Linux. Start watching on your phone and pick up on your desktop, with your identity and library intact. FOR CREATORS AND STUDIOS Streamplace is the same infrastructure independent filmmakers, musicians, and studios use to build their own branded video platforms. Whether you are streaming to a few friends or publishing a catalog to a paying audience, it starts here. Streamplace is built in the open by a small team that believes open social will win. Read the code, run a node, or file an issue at stream.place.

Screenshots

Spectre Camera4 screens
Streamplace1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Streamplace at 5.0 against Spectre Camera's 4.3. Streamplace also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Spectre Camera's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Spectre Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Streamplace asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Streamplace 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 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spectre Camera ships an update every 3 months, Streamplace every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spectre Camera versus Streamplace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpectre CameraStreamplace
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (2.4K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.4K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB55 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLux Optics IncorporatedAquareum Inc.

Customer experience

Spectre Camera

All ratings2,408 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral3.7%
Negative12.7%
Written reviews437 reviews
Positive45.8%
Neutral10.8%
Negative43.5%

Streamplace

All ratings4 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

Streamplace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spectre Camera

One-time1
  • Spectre Pro$4.99
None

Streamplace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spectre Camera free?
Spectre Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Streamplace free?
Streamplace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spectre Camera or Streamplace?
Streamplace is rated higher. Spectre Camera averages 4.3 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while Streamplace averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Spectre Camera or Streamplace have ads?
Neither Spectre Camera nor Streamplace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spectre Camera or Streamplace?
Spectre Camera ships an update every 3 months, and Streamplace every 2 months. Most recently, Spectre Camera was updated on October 14, 2026 and Streamplace on October 7, 2026.

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