Spectre Camera vs PoseLoop
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!
PoseLoop
Capture continuous, high-quality photos of yourself or groups without a photographer. Set your device, choose intervals, and step into the frame for hands-free, real photo captures.
- Continuous photo capture
- Real photos, not video screenshots
- Hands-free capture
- Customizable intervals
- Start delay
- Save directly to Photos
- Minimal camera interface
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Ditch video screenshots and capture continuous, full-quality photos while you pose. PoseLoop helps you take better photos of yourself, your partner, your family, or your group without needing anyone behind the camera. Instead of recording a video, posing for a while, and screenshotting frames later, set your iPhone anywhere, choose your timing, and step into the frame. PoseLoop captures real photos automatically at the interval you choose, then saves them to Photos. Use a tripod, lean your phone against a wall, prop it against a water bottle, or place it wherever you can frame the shot. PoseLoop is built for solo photos, couples, families, groups, travel, outfit shots, profile pictures, and creator photoshoots. Why PoseLoop - Continuous photo capture while you pose - Real photos instead of video screenshots - Hands-free capture with the front or back camera - Custom intervals for every pose - Start delay so you can get in position - Set a photo count or loop until stopped - Save every shot straight to Photos - Clean, minimal camera experience - One-time purchase with no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads Perfect for - Solo photos and outfit shots - Couples photos without asking a stranger - Family photos where everyone is included - Group shots with no one stuck behind the camera - Travel photos and scenic moments - Content creators and social posts - Profile pictures and portraits - Tripod photoshoots - Any moment where you want more than one chance to get the shot Pay once. Set your phone anywhere. Start the loop. Keep posing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PoseLoop at 100% against Spectre Camera's 46%. PoseLoop also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Spectre Camera's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 1). On ads, monetization model 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
Spectre Camera is free to download; PoseLoop costs $0.99 up front. Spectre Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PoseLoop asks for nothing beyond the download.
PoseLoop 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. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Spectre Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of PoseLoop's.
| Parameter | Spectre Camera | PoseLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (2.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #182 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lux Optics Incorporated | Benjamin Staab |
Customer experience
Spectre Camera
PoseLoop
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
PoseLoop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spectre Camera
- Spectre Pro$4.99
PoseLoop
No in-app purchases









