Locket vs Lucent Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Locket
Decorate your home screen with personal photos using simple widgets. This app uses on-device machine learning to intelligently focus on faces, preventing unwanted cropping on rectangular widgets. It's compatible with newer iPhone and iPad models.
- Home screen photo widgets
- On-device face detection
- Prevents face cropping
- Easy widget configuration
- Supports newer iPhones and iPads
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Simple widgets to decorate your home screen with your photos. - Open the App and grant full photo permission. - Add the widget to your homescreen. - In Jiggle Mode, tap on the widget to configure. Uses Apple's on-device machine learning on supported devices to focus on faces. This is particularly helpful on preventing face-cropping on the rectangular shaped widgets. - Supported on iPhone XS and newer and iPads released in 2018 and newer.
Lucent Camera
This app offers a classic black and white photography experience with granular control over lighting and composition. Manually adjust focus, ISO, exposure, contrast, and brightness to master your shots. Its simple interface provides gentle haptic feedback and optional grid lines for precise framing.
- Manual focus control
- Adjustable ISO and exposure
- Contrast and brightness settings
- Tap to auto focus
- Pinch to zoom
- Simple interface with haptic feedback
- Optional grid lines
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Lucent Camera is a classic black and white camera. It's interface lets you control every detail of the lighting and composition of your photographs. Features include: • Ability to manually focus the lens. • Ability to manually adjust iso and exposure settings. • Ability to set the contrast and brightness levels. • Tap to auto focus. • Pinch to zoom. • Simple interface with gentle haptic feedback. • Optional grid lines to line up your shots. • Totally private. Shooting in black and white can take your photography to the next level and Lucent Camera lets you control every detail to achieve mastery with the camera in your pocket.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lucent Camera at Free against Locket's $0.99. Lucent Camera also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Locket's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Lucent Camera is free to download; Locket costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lucent Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Locket's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lucent Camera's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locket | Lucent Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (23 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Davis | Benjamin Lucas |
Customer experience
Locket
Lucent Camera
In-app purchases
Locket
No in-app purchases
Lucent Camera
No in-app purchases
