Comparison

Campanion vs Bothways

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

Head to head
About

Campanion

Stay connected with your child's camp experience through a personalized stream of photos, albums, and updates. Advanced facial recognition technology automatically finds and delivers pictures of your camper, ensuring you never miss a moment. Easily download and share high-resolution images, and send letters directly to your child.

Highlights
  • Personalized camp photo stream
  • Face Finder technology for automatic photo tagging
  • Push notifications for new photos
  • Organized photo albums
  • Download and share hi-res images
  • In-app letter composition and delivery
Features
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Your Personalized Camp Adventure A curated stream brings together the content that's important to you. Join your child's journey with a personalized stream of camp photos, albums, and quick updates from camp. More Smiling, Less Searching Campanion's Face Finder technology sifts through thousands of photos to find your camper so you don't have to. Upload a photo of your camper, then let Face Finder do the rest, finding and delivering pictures of your child directly to you. And with push notifications of new tagged photos of your camper, you won't miss a moment. View Albums & Tagged Photos, Download & Share Free Hi-Res Images Campanion organizes photos from camp in easy-to-browse albums to help you feel connected while your camper is away. View albums and tagged photos from camp and download hi-res versions to share with family and friends — all with a few taps. Sending Letters Just Got Easier Compose letters in the app that get printed and hand-delivered to your camper. One app, a few taps, and voila – you've sent your camper a little love.

About

Bothways

Record video once and get both landscape and portrait versions simultaneously. Smart face tracking ensures subjects stay centered in the vertical frame. Ideal for creators posting to multiple platforms without re-editing.

Highlights
  • Dual simultaneous export
  • Smart face tracking
  • 4K & 1080p recording
  • Pinch-to-zoom
  • Cinema overlays
  • Flexible output formats
  • Front & back camera support
Features
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Record once. Export twice. A true creator's camera. Bothways captures video from your iPhone camera and simultaneously writes two professionally formatted files: a 16:9 landscape version and a 9:16 portrait version, with a live Picture-In-Picture preview of the alternate format — both encoded in real-time using hardware-accelerated H.264. The portrait crop isn't a dumb center-slice. Bothways uses Apple's Vision framework to detect faces in every frame and smoothly tracks the subject, keeping them centered in the vertical frame. No face visible? It gracefully falls back to a center crop. Built for creators who post to YouTube and TikTok from the same shoot. Built for filmmakers who need both formats without re-editing. Built for anyone who's tired of choosing between landscape and portrait before they hit record. KEY CAPABILITIES - Dual simultaneous export — real-time AVAssetWriter, not a post-process re-encode - Smart face tracking — Vision framework detection with smooth EMA tracking - 4K & 1080p — shoot in up to 3840x2160 at 24, 30, or 60 fps - Pinch-to-zoom — smooth digital zoom up to 10x with live indicator - Cinema overlays — optional vignette and film grain effects on the live preview - Flexible output — export as .MOV or .MP4 with configurable bitrate - Front & back camera — works with both, including mirrored front camera - Metal GPU pipeline — hardware-accelerated crop, scale, and encode - Full audio — stereo AAC in both output files - One-tap save — both files go straight to Photos No subscriptions. No watermarks. No cloud upload. No accounts. Everything runs on-device.

Screenshots

Campanion4 screens
Bothways4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Campanion at Free against Bothways's $4.99. Campanion also leads on ratings volume (40K vs 1). Bothways's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 66%). On rating, ads, device support 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

Campanion is free to download; Bothways costs $4.99 up front. Campanion sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Bothways asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Campanion against 5.0 for Bothways. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Campanion has 40K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Campanion's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bothways's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Campanion ships an update every 8 days, Bothways every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Campanion versus Bothways: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCampanionBothways
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.9 (40K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings40K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCampMinder, LLCJames Martin

Customer experience

Campanion

All ratings40,447 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral0.8%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews136 reviews
Positive66.2%
Neutral8.8%
Negative25.0%

Bothways

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Campanion

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App fails to load or get past splash screen
  • Notifications not working properly
  • Typing issues in email composer

Requested features

3 requests
  • Full-screen iPad support
  • Ability to manually correct tagged photos
  • Option to view all tagged photos in an album

Bothways

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Campanion

One-time4
  • Campanion Season Pass 2026$10.00
  • Campanion Season Pass 2026$20.00
  • Campanion Season Pass 2026$35.00
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  • Season Pass 2026 – $50.00$50.00
None

Bothways

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Campanion free?
Campanion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bothways free?
Bothways costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Campanion or Bothways?
Bothways is rated higher. Campanion averages 4.9 out of 5 from 40K ratings, while Bothways averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Campanion or Bothways have ads?
Neither Campanion nor Bothways shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Campanion or Bothways?
Campanion ships an update every 8 days, and Bothways every 2 days. Most recently, Campanion was updated on November 4, 2026 and Bothways on October 31, 2026.

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