Comparison

Easy Long Exposure Camera vs Fovea

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

Head to head
About

Easy Long Exposure Camera

Capture the passage of time in a single image with this app. Create stunning light trails, motion blurs, and starry skies. Convert existing videos into long-exposure photos with various blending modes and adjustable settings.

Highlights
  • Long exposure times (1-180s, Bulb mode)
  • Three blending modes: Light Trails, Motion Blur, Lighten
  • Create long exposures from videos
  • Live preview of blended image
  • Image stabilization
  • Post-capture brightness adjustment
  • Manual and auto focus
Features
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This app makes it easy to take long-exposure photos with your iPhone. Capture the passage of time in a single image—from city lights, starry skies, star trails, and fireworks to flowing waterfalls and rivers. Choose from three blending modes to create the look you want. 【Light Trails】 Adds up the light from each frame to draw trails from car headlights and brighten subjects that are too dark to see. Perfect for night scenes and faint auroras that are hard to see with the naked eye. 【Motion Blur】 Averages multiple frames to give waterfalls and rivers a smooth, silky appearance. It can create a slow-shutter effect even in bright conditions and can also make moving people less noticeable. 【Lighten】 Keeps only the brightest parts of each frame, so the background doesn’t wash out even during long exposures. Ideal for fireworks, star trails, and auroras that are clearly visible to the naked eye. 【Create from Video】 Turn videos you’ve already recorded into long-exposure photos. Choose the part of the video to use and blend it with Motion Blur or Lighten. Stabilization is also supported. Key Features ・Exposure times from 1 to 180 seconds, plus Bulb mode that you can stop whenever you choose ・Live preview of the blended image while shooting ・Image stabilization to reduce camera shake without a tripod (up to 3 seconds in the free version) ・Post-capture brightness adjustment from −2.0 to +2.0 EV, with the option to save multiple versions ・Auto and manual focus, plus pinch-to-zoom ・Switch between lenses and front/rear cameras ・3-second and 10-second self-timers ・Grid and level tools for composing your shot ・Shoot using the iPhone volume buttons or a compatible Bluetooth remote shutter ・Selectable image quality and JPG saving ・EXIF metadata including exposure time and ISO Great For ・Cityscapes and illuminated night scenes ・Starry skies and star trails ・Fireworks ・Auroras ・Car and train light trails ・Motion blur in waterfalls, streams, oceans, and clouds ・Making moving people less noticeable in busy locations The free version includes all the essential features you need to enjoy long-exposure photography. The Pro version is available as a one-time purchase and adds manual ISO control, ad removal, noise reduction, unlimited stabilization duration with Bulb mode support, full-resolution saving for photos created from videos (the free version reduces the long side to 2048 px), high-bit-depth 16-bit PNG saving, direct saving without the preview screen, and more. Tips for Better Results For standard long-exposure photography, mount your iPhone on a tripod or place it on a stable surface for sharper results. Image stabilization helps reduce camera shake when shooting without a tripod, but the edges of the resulting photo will be cropped slightly. Results and available lenses may vary depending on your iPhone model and shooting conditions.

About

Fovea

Features
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Fovea is a manual camera that explains what your eye already knows. Take full control of exposure, focus and white balance, shoot true RAW and add live film looks. An insight overlay tells you in plain English what your settings will do to the photo, and a shot journal records every shot and learns what your best ones have in common. Free to download. Pay once to unlock everything. No subscription, no account. Nothing is applied to your photo unless you choose it. The viewfinder and the saved photo go through the same rendering, so what you see is exactly what you get. INSIGHT OVERLAY • Notes on motion blur, depth of field, noise and clipping as you shoot • Warnings for camera shake, clipped highlights and crushed shadows • Golden hour and blue hour alerts • Tap any insight for the detail and a tip • Choose how much it says, or turn it off • 23 built-in guides, from exposure basics to long exposure, that work offline LONG EXPOSURE • Timed exposures from 1 to 30 seconds, and Bulb • Blur for water, clouds and moving crowds • Trails for car lights, stars and fireworks • Low Light stacks frames to cut noise in the dark • Watch the exposure build on screen as you shoot MANUAL CONTROLS • Every lens on your iPhone, including the front camera • Auto, ISO priority, shutter priority and full manual • Manual focus with focus peaking and zebra stripes • White balance presets, or Kelvin and tint • Separate focus and exposure points, with AE/AF lock • Exposure meter and a live readout of the settings the camera is using • Histogram in luma, RGB or zones, with a log scale • Grid, spirit level, flash, self-timer and four aspect ratios • Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later: zoom, exposure, ISO, shutter and white balance from the side button RAW AND FORMATS • RAW (DNG), ProRAW, HEIF and JPEG • Full 48 MP HEIF, JPEG and ProRAW on supported iPhones • Natural processing skips multi-frame fusion and heavy sharpening, for a cleaner, less smoothed file • Set RAW noise reduction and sharpening yourself, or leave them off • RAW shots are saved with a graded HEIF that carries your look and crop • Graded photos keep Display P3 colour and HDR LOOKS AND EFFECTS • More than 40 looks: film stocks, cinematic, warm, cool, mono and instant • Preview every look on your own scene before you pick it • Import your own .cube LUTs • Grain, bloom, halation and vignette, live in the viewfinder • Before and after tones show what a look does to your shadows and highlights MORE WAYS TO SHOOT • Three-shot exposure bracketing • Intervalometer, with a timelapse video made on your iPhone • Calculators for depth of field, hyperfocal distance, exposure, ND filters and sharp stars, with one tap to put the answer on the camera SHOT JOURNAL AND PROFILES • Every shot logged with its ISO, shutter, white balance, focus, lens, look and effects • Rate your shots and Fovea shows you what your best ones have in common • Set the camera up from any past shot in one tap • Syncs between your devices through your own iCloud account • Save a full setup (mode, values, format, look and effects) and switch to it in one tap FREE AND UNLOCK Free: lens switching, exposure compensation, AE/AF lock, priority modes, white balance presets, the histogram, the whole insight overlay, live effects, HEIF and JPEG, and two looks. The one-time unlock adds full manual, Kelvin white balance, manual focus, peaking and zebra, RAW and ProRAW, Natural processing, long exposure, bracketing, the intervalometer, the calculators, the full look library with LUT import, the shot journal and setting profiles. Restore it on any iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account. PRIVACY Fovea collects no data. No analytics, no tracking and no account. Your photos and journal stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. Some features depend on the cameras in your iPhone.

Screenshots

Easy Long Exposure Camera4 screens
Fovea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fovea at none against Easy Long Exposure Camera's shown. Fovea also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). Easy Long Exposure Camera's advantage is iOS requirement (16 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Easy Long Exposure Camera sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Fovea sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Long Exposure Camera ships an update monthly, Fovea every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Easy Long Exposure Camera versus Fovea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy Long Exposure CameraFovea
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (952 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings952 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOsawa ShunsukeNigel Douglass

Bugs and requests

Easy Long Exposure Camera

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes during image processing
  • Photos come out completely overexposed
  • Inability to save photos in free version

Requested features

4 requests
  • Wider range of ISO settings
  • Support for RAW/ProRAW image capture
  • Improved image quality and resolution
  • More exposure time options beyond 30 seconds

Fovea

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Easy Long Exposure Camera

One-time2
  • Support for Development$2.99
  • Pro Edition$7.99
1 purchases

Fovea

One-time1
  • Fovea Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Easy Long Exposure Camera free?
Easy Long Exposure Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fovea free?
Fovea is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Easy Long Exposure Camera or Fovea have ads?
Easy Long Exposure Camera shows ads; Fovea does not.
Which is updated more often, Easy Long Exposure Camera or Fovea?
Easy Long Exposure Camera ships an update monthly, and Fovea every 9 days. Most recently, Easy Long Exposure Camera was updated on November 3, 2026 and Fovea on November 1, 2026.

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