Comparison

NeuralCam Aperture vs Even Longer

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

Head to head
About

NeuralCam Aperture

Enhance your mobile photography with AI-powered tools for professional portraits and stunning low-light shots. Features include intelligent portrait modes, advanced night photography, and smart editing to elevate your images.

Highlights
  • AI-powered Portrait Mode
  • Advanced Night Mode
  • AI Illumination
  • Quick-Editing Mode
  • 48MP AI Upscaled Photos
  • AI Background Replacement
Features
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Create stunning portraits and master DSLR-level photography with AI-driven features that help you capture remarkable shots in any lighting condition. NEW - Photo Coach: Your pocket portrait expert—blends ChatGPT's intelligence with NeuralCam's pro tools to guide you through composing, capturing, and perfecting professional portraits and other shots in real-time while building lasting skills. Auto-mode for multiple features: Auto-Portrait Mode: A fully AI-powered Portrait Mode without the limitations of the built-in portrait mode. Add professional depth to any portrait—works with all lenses, subjects, and distances, even in low light—with adjustable intensity for the perfect feel. Auto Night Mode on All iPhones, All camera lenses with manual brightness optimization for skin tones Auto AI Illumination: Brighter portraits without the flat HDR look Quick-Editing mode: Perfect your portraits with a few taps before saving AI & Classic editing controls: AI Portrait Blur strength AI Face Illumination strength AI Style type and strength with skin tone preservation Classic editing controls including exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, and more ------ MAIN FEATURES: PERFECT PORTRAITS, NIGHT & DAY ------- Best-in-class Night Mode: The original NeuralCam feature - now optimized for portraits on All iPhones, All Cameras Enhanced Daytime HDR: Capture brighter portraits with more detail and less noise 48 Megapixel AI Upscaled Photos: Professional-grade detail in every portrait AI-Enhanced Macro Mode: Perfect for creative portrait details Smart Color Grading: Elevate your portraits with AI styles based on professional photography Auto-Remove People: Clean backgrounds for your portraits Auto-Background Replacement: Studio-quality portrait backgrounds instantly Lock screen Widget: Never miss the perfect portrait moment
 ------- ADDITIONAL FEATURES ------- Auto and Manual Night Mode Auto and Manual Daytime Mode AI Enhanced Macro Mode (including Night Macro Mode) Manual Computational Photography Controls Multiple Capturing Modes: High Detail, Low Noise, Unprocessed Merging of 1-12 frames 24MP & 48MP AI Super-Resolution 12MP AI Detail Enhancement Multiple AI Brightening Modes - now including NeuralHDR specially tailored for daytime photos Classic Manual Photography Controls for White Balance, Exposure, and Focus Timer Tripod Mode - allows longer exposure time in really dark situations Gentle Torch - so you can lightly illuminate your scene if needed, in very low light Photo Format (HEIC/JPEG/TIFF) Grid Options Happy capturing! Send us any feedback and feature requests either by leaving a comment on this store page, or by writing us at: support@neural.cam Enjoy! Terms of Use: https://neural.cam/terms.html

About

Even Longer

Capture professional-grade long exposure photos with full manual control. Shoot in high resolution, including 48 MP and Apple ProRAW, with advanced features like frame averaging and light trails. Automate captures and control remotely via Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • 48 MP and Apple ProRAW support
  • Full manual control (ISO, shutter, focus, WB, EV, aperture)
  • Frame averaging for silky water and cleaner night shots
  • Light trails and star trails capture
  • RAW output (DNG, ProRAW, TIFF, HEIC, JPEG)
  • Remote control via Apple Watch and companion app
  • Automated capture scheduling
Features
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Even Longer is a professional long-exposure camera for iPhone and iPad — and the first long-exposure app on the App Store to shoot 48 MP and Apple ProRAW. You set the exposure — a duration or a frame count. The camera captures a continuous frame sequence to that target and merges it live on the GPU, under full manual control. Thirty seconds or three hours is a number you enter, not a shutter you hold. What lands in your library is a real RAW. iPHONE 18 PRO VARIABLE APERTURE Supported from day one: an aperture button and ruler on the camera screen, every stop the lens offers, and the f-number in your files. On iPhones with a fixed iris the control simply stays hidden. 48 MP AND APPLE PRORAW Long exposures at the sensor's full 48-megapixel readout, and merged results written as Apple ProRAW. Maximum resolution works in frame averaging with ProRAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPEG on iPhones with a 48 MP sensor; ProRAW needs a ProRAW-capable iPhone. RAW OUTPUT, AND SHADOWIQ Merged results save as RAW (DNG), Apple ProRAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPEG — with a fallback order you control. When a lens or mode can't produce the format you picked, the camera saves the next one it can and tells you why, without ever changing your choice. The RAW is worth the wait: dramatically more detail in the shadows and cleaner blacks than any earlier version, and ShadowIQ goes further still: shadow detail with even less noise, and no need to bracket exposures any more. WHAT YOU CAN SHOOT • Frame averaging — silky water, cleaner night shots, crowds that fade away (a computed ND filter) • Light Trails — traffic, light painting, fireworks • Star Trails — with a celestial overlay that projects the pole, constellations and the expected trails onto your viewfinder before you commit FULL MANUAL CONTROL ISO, shutter, focus, white balance, EV and aperture — with live histogram, grid and spirit level overlays, tap-to-focus and a loupe. Per-lens focal length, sensor size and crop factor are measured on your hardware, so your metadata is right. PLAN AND AUTOMATE Schedule a capture for sunset or astronomical night on the built-in sun-altitude timeline, run the intervalometer for sequences, and let interim saves protect long exposures against interruptions. REMOTE CONTROL AND APPLE WATCH Pair the Even Longer Remote app (iPhone, iPad or Mac) and control the camera from a distance: live viewfinder, full manual control, live progress, and finished files delivered to the controller. Pairing is TLS-secured on your local network; an off-grid hotspot mode works in the field without any router. The Apple Watch app — live viewfinder, shutter, progress — comes with the app. THE APP, AND PRO — READ BEFORE BUYING Even Longer is a paid app: one purchase, no ads, no data collection, nothing sold on. It gets you the whole camera — every accumulation mode, JPEG and HEIC output including 48 MP, variable aperture, histogram, grid and spirit level, the Apple Watch app and the iPad layout. PRO is an optional in-app purchase that upgrades this app — monthly, yearly, or once and forever. The subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them. These features are NOT included without PRO: RAW (DNG), Apple ProRAW and TIFF output, ShadowIQ, the celestial overlay, remote control, scheduled capture, the intervalometer, interim saves and anamorphic desqueeze. They are marked PRO in the app. Entitlements are checked on device, so PRO keeps working where there is no signal. TWO APPS, ONE CAMERA • Even Longer — this app: the camera, paid, with the optional PRO upgrade. • Even Longer Remote — the controller for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It needs an Even Longer camera with remote control (PRO) switched on. Built for photographers who plan the shot — and want the file to be worth the wait. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.even-longer.cam/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.even-longer.cam/privacy

Screenshots

NeuralCam Aperture4 screens
Even Longer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: NeuralCam Aperture at Free against Even Longer's $3.99. NeuralCam Aperture also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 227). Even Longer's advantage is chart position (#164 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

NeuralCam Aperture is free to download; Even Longer costs $3.99 up front. NeuralCam Aperture sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Even Longer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NeuralCam Aperture holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NeuralCam Aperture has 2.1K ratings behind it against 227, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of NeuralCam Aperture's written reviews are positive against 56% of Even Longer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NeuralCam Aperture ships an update every 2 weeks, Even Longer every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
NeuralCam Aperture versus Even Longer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeuralCam ApertureEven Longer
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (2.1K ratings) — better4.1 (227 ratings)
Positive reviews50.9% of reviews56.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.1K — better227
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#164 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeural Cam SRLMario Tomiak

Customer experience

NeuralCam Aperture

All ratings2,141 ratings
Positive83.7%
Neutral4.3%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews1,369 reviews
Positive50.9%
Neutral10.5%
Negative38.6%

Even Longer

All ratings226 ratings
Positive75.7%
Neutral8.0%
Negative16.4%
Written reviews123 reviews
Positive56.1%
Neutral11.4%
Negative32.5%

User reviews

NeuralCam Aperture

From 2.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Impressive low-light performance
  • 🚀 Brighter and more detailed photos
  • 👍 Useful for older iPhones without night mode
  • 👍 Responsive developer
  • 👍 Good value for money

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes during photo processing
  • 🐛 Laggy viewfinder and slow processing
  • 🐛 Overexposed highlights and blown-out details
  • 🐛 Noisy images with loss of detail
  • 🔋 Long shutter speeds require steady hand

Even Longer

From 227 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 📸 Excellent long exposure photography capabilities
  • 🎨 High-quality image output with RAW support
  • 🖼️ Frame averaging and parallel bracketing features
  • ⭐ Superior results compared to competitor apps
  • 🎯 Intuitive and minimal user interface

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive pricing model with multiple tiers
  • 🔐 Misleading 'free lifetime' promotional offers
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
  • ❌ Photos not saving to camera roll
  • 📺 No camera preview before shooting

Bugs and requests

NeuralCam Aperture

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on iPhone 6S and older models
  • Selfie camera not supported on some devices
  • Orientation issues when phone is locked
  • Inability to save photos at full resolution

Requested features

5 requests
  • Manual camera controls (ISO, white balance, etc.)
  • Automatic orientation correction
  • Longer exposure and astrophotography support
  • Improved macro and ultra-wide camera performance
  • Faster processing and background processing

Even Longer

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • App crashes after ~200 photos in interval mode
  • Blank camera screen until photo is taken
  • Photos not found in camera roll or files
  • App crashes on iPhone 17 Pro Max after upgrade
  • Pro membership not reinstating after crashes
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  • Autofocus crosshairs take 3+ seconds to appear
  • Shutter button becomes unresponsive
  • Red/magenta color cast on subsequent photos
  • Exposure preview doesn't match final output
  • Photos appear blurry despite tripod use
  • App requires service connection for Pro features
  • Focus system behaves differently in night mode
  • Charged incorrect amount during purchase
  • Subscription charged despite 'free' promotion

Requested features

12 requests
  • Camera level function for alignment
  • HDR support for better dynamic range
  • 48MP RAW file support for newer iPhones
  • Apple Watch app for remote shooting
  • Better exposure preview matching final output
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  • Astrophotography mode with star tracking
  • 16:9 aspect ratio option for star trails
  • Individual image saving option without stacking
  • Fine-tune focus buttons for night mode
  • Higher ISO control options
  • Better user guides and tutorials
  • Multi-device license support

In-app purchases

7 purchases

NeuralCam Aperture

Subscriptions6
  • NeuralCam Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • NeuralCam Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
  • PhotoCoach Weekly$4.997 Days
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  • PhotoCoach Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • PhotoCoach Yearly$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • 48MP AI Super-resolution$3.99
3 purchases

Even Longer

Subscriptions2
  • PRO Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • PRO Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is NeuralCam Aperture free?
NeuralCam Aperture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Even Longer free?
Even Longer costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NeuralCam Aperture or Even Longer?
NeuralCam Aperture is rated higher. NeuralCam Aperture averages 4.4 out of 5 from 2.1K ratings, while Even Longer averages 4.1 from 227 ratings.
Do NeuralCam Aperture or Even Longer have ads?
Neither NeuralCam Aperture nor Even Longer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NeuralCam Aperture or Even Longer?
NeuralCam Aperture ships an update every 2 weeks, and Even Longer every 8 days. Most recently, NeuralCam Aperture was updated on November 8, 2026 and Even Longer on November 7, 2026.

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