Comparison

Camera Remote vs Pro Cam

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

Head to head
About

Camera Remote

Control your iPhone camera remotely using your Apple Watch. Frame your shot, adjust settings like flash and timer, and take photos or Live Photos directly from your wrist. Review captured images instantly on your watch.

Highlights
  • Remote iPhone camera access
  • Viewfinder on Apple Watch
  • Flash control
  • Shutter timer
  • Live Photo capture
  • On-watch photo review
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Use your Apple Watch as a viewfinder with the Camera app. - Use Apple Watch to remotely access your iPhone camera and take a photo - Camera allows you to control the flash, set a shutter timer, and take a Live photo - Review your shots right on Apple Watch

About

Pro Cam

Capture professional-quality photos with advanced controls for brightness, exposure, and zoom. Choose from various formats including RAW for maximum image quality. Ideal for both aspiring and seasoned photographers.

Highlights
  • Custom brightness and exposure controls
  • Support for JPG, PRO, RAW, and HEIF formats
  • Multiple zoom options
  • Timer for up to 200 shots
  • ProRaw format capture
  • Time lapse functionality
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Pro Cam is a camera for people who want the negative, not the filter. It shoots true sensor RAW, gives you real manual control, and develops every photo on the phone with a full RAW editor. Nothing is ever baked into your original. SHOOT • One button per real lens, labelled with its true equivalent focal length (ultra wide, wide, telephoto), plus a classic 50 mm framing. No digital zoom, ever: what you frame is what the sensor records. • Bayer RAW and Apple ProRAW as DNG, or HEIF, JPEG and TIFF. • Manual focus with a focus-distance and depth-of-field readout. The control is violet in auto and turns blue the moment you take over; tap to hand it back. • Shutter priority with a live ISO readout. Tap the ISO to lock it. • Press and hold the shutter to lock exposure, recompose, release to shoot, like the half-press on a camera. • Live histogram with highlight protection in auto, and an exposure gain preference if you like your negatives a little under. • Daylight and tungsten white balance, self-timer, interval shooting for time lapses, flash only when you ask for it. • A subject mask is saved next to every photo (LiDAR or on-device machine learning), ready for selective edits. • Open the camera from Camera Control, the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action button, and shoot with the phone still locked. DEVELOP • Auto Development: pick a preset and every shot is developed with it the moment it is taken. Star the preset you want as default. • After each shot the frame freezes and the developed photo fades in, so you judge the picture, not the preview. • A complete RAW editor on the phone: exposure and tone, tone curve, film simulations and LUTs, colour grading wheels with a vectorscope, hue and saturation curves, denoise, lens corrections, crop, straighten and rotate, with per-control reset and a full edit history. • Everything is non-destructive. Edits live in Adobe-compatible XMP sidecars next to the DNG, so Lightroom, Camera Raw and Bridge read them, and your RAW file is never modified. KEEP • A fast gallery of your shots, newest first, with search, sorting and the last six frames always one tap away from the viewfinder. • Optional iCloud library: your gallery, edits and masks sync to Lighthouse on Mac and iPad, where you can keep working on the same negatives. • Share the whole gallery privately with another iCloud account, read-only or read-write. • Save to Files, share, copy and paste development settings between photos. Your photos stay yours: analysis, masks and search run on the device. Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/81015424 Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pro Cam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Camera Remote at none against Pro Cam's 2. Camera Remote also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). Pro Cam's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (48% vs 20%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Pro Cam sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Camera Remote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pro Cam holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 69 and 170 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Camera Remote's written reviews are positive against 48% of Pro Cam's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Camera Remote ships an update every 8 months, Pro Cam every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Camera Remote versus Pro Cam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamera RemotePro Cam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (69 ratings)4.2 (170 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews48.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings69170 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApple Inc.RainbowFactory LTD

Customer experience

Camera Remote

All ratings69 ratings
Positive68.1%
Neutral15.9%
Negative15.9%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative40.0%

Pro Cam

All ratings170 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.3%
Negative14.7%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive48.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative45.2%

Bugs and requests

Camera Remote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pro Cam

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes when pressing the shutter button
  • App requires subscription to use
  • App requires full photo library access
  • App shows 'Unable to capture depth' error
  • No camera image displayed
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  • No viewfinder or image on iPhone 12 mini
  • Automatic facial enhancements applied unnecessarily
  • Slow motion feature lacks reverse capability
  • App crashes frequently

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow use without paying for pro
  • Add reverse capability to slow motion
  • Include 0.5x feature on SE models
  • Improve handling of full phone storage
  • Allow selected photo access only
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  • Update to allow flipping screen and taking video

In-app purchases

None

Camera Remote

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pro Cam

Subscriptions2
  • Camera Pro$9.997 Days
  • Camera Pro Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Camera Remote free?
Camera Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pro Cam free?
Pro Cam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Camera Remote or Pro Cam?
Pro Cam is rated higher. Camera Remote averages 4.0 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Pro Cam averages 4.2 from 170 ratings.
Do Camera Remote or Pro Cam have ads?
Neither Camera Remote nor Pro Cam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Camera Remote or Pro Cam?
Camera Remote ships an update every 8 months, and Pro Cam every 3 weeks. Most recently, Camera Remote was updated on September 19, 2026 and Pro Cam on October 8, 2026.

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