Comparison

Remote Cam X vs Pocket Editor

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

Head to head
About

Remote Cam X

This application allows you to remotely control an iPhone camera to capture photos and videos. It enables you to operate a secondary device's camera from your own iPhone or iPad.

Highlights
  • Remote camera control
  • Capture photos
  • Record videos
  • Secondary device operation
  • iPhone and iPad compatible
Features
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Control another iPhone camera remotely and take videos or pictures.

About

Pocket Editor

Edit photos privately and offline with powerful AI tools. Enhance, restore, and apply filters without uploading your images, ensuring your pictures remain on your device. Enjoy a seamless editing experience anywhere, anytime, with no internet required.

Highlights
  • 100% on-device editing
  • AI-powered photo restoration
  • AI-driven enhancement and upscaling
  • Automatic skin smoothing
  • 11 one-tap filters
  • Manual fine-tuning sliders
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Pocket Editor is a beautiful photo editor that runs entirely on your iPhone. Touch up a selfie, restore an old photo, or give any picture a fresh new look — without ever uploading it anywhere. Most editing apps quietly send your photos to a server somewhere in the cloud. This one doesn't. Every filter, every adjustment, and even the AI runs right on your device. Your photos never leave your phone. They're yours, and they stay that way. And because everything runs on your device, it works anywhere — on a plane, on the subway, or far off the grid. No internet needed. No account to create. No subscription to cancel. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Restore Face (AI) — bring blurry, grainy, or older photos of faces back to life with crisp, natural detail. • Enhance (AI) — sharpen and upscale your whole photo for a clean, high-resolution result. • Beauty — gentle skin smoothing that finds the face automatically, so the background stays sharp. • Filters — 11 one-tap looks, from bright and vivid to timeless black & white. • Fine-tune — exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpness, all on simple sliders. • Auto — one tap to instantly balance color and light. BUILT FOR PRIVACY • 100% on-device — no cloud processing, ever. • Your photos never leave your iPhone. • Works fully offline, even in airplane mode. • No account, no sign-up, no email required. • No ads. No tracking. Nothing about you is collected. • Uses Apple's secure photo picker, so the app never needs access to your whole library. SIMPLE AND FAST • Snap a selfie in the app, or pick any photo from your library. • Press and hold to compare before and after. • Undo and redo any step. • Pinch to zoom in and check every detail. • Save to Photos or share in a single tap. The AI runs on the Apple Neural Engine — the same chip behind on-device intelligence across iPhone — so results are fast and stay completely local. No subscriptions. No hidden paywalls. Just a great photo editor that respects your privacy. Pocket Editor. Your photos. Your phone. Your business.

Screenshots

Remote Cam X3 screens
Pocket Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket Editor at Free against Remote Cam X's $0.99. Remote Cam X's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Pocket Editor is free to download; Remote Cam X costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Remote Cam X against 5.0 for Pocket Editor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Remote Cam X versus Pocket Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemote Cam XPocket Editor
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKip MorganSilverGrid Technology LLC

Customer experience

Remote Cam X

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pocket Editor

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

In-app purchases

None

Remote Cam X

No in-app purchases

None

Pocket Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remote Cam X free?
Remote Cam X costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Editor free?
Pocket Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Remote Cam X or Pocket Editor?
Remote Cam X and Pocket Editor are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Remote Cam X or Pocket Editor have ads?
Neither Remote Cam X nor Pocket Editor shows ads.

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