Comparison

Moca vs Retro Pixel Camera

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

Head to head
About

Moca

This camera app is designed for street photography with a minimalist interface and intuitive gesture controls. It offers a buttonless capture experience and classic focus ring emulation for a seamless shooting process.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free UI
  • Buttonless capture
  • Gesture controls
  • Customizable borders
  • Classic focus ring emulation
  • Customizable control panel themes
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Capture the decisive moment! Moca is a camera app dedicated to street photography, made and tested by real street photographers. - Distraction Free - Moca features a simplistic UI that allows you to focus on taking the decisive moment, it's simple yet elegant, with customizable photo borders to make you feel artistic. - Buttonless Capture - Buttons displayed on LCD can never give you the same level of user experience as a physical button, so why restricting your finger to the shutter button that you can't touch and feel? Moca frees your mind by allowing tapping anywhere on the screen to capture a photo, you can fully expose your style without worrying about mis-tapping. - Gesture Control - Moca fully utilizes the powerful gesture feature to provide a smooth function control: - single tap to take a photo - long press to adjust exposure at the pressed point (can be disabled) - swipe up/down for control panel - swipe left/right can be customized to adjust filter or exposure compensation - Reincarnation of Classic - Moca lets you choose how you want to focus using a single focus tab, mimicking the class focus ring with a modern approach. - A la carte - Customizable control panel themes from the classic: painted silver, black chrome, and moca.

About

Retro Pixel Camera

This camera app applies real-time dither shaders and retro color palettes to your photos as you shoot. Adjust pixel scale, contrast, and other settings live on the viewfinder. Import existing photos to apply the same artistic filters.

Highlights
  • Real-time dither shader effects
  • Twelve live effect options
  • Thirty-eight color palettes
  • Adjustable pixel scale and contrast
  • Import and edit existing photos
  • iPad Split View and Slide Over support
Features
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PIXELADO Dither the world, live in the viewfinder. Pixelado is a camera that renders every frame through a real-time dither shader. Pick an effect, pick a palette, and the viewfinder is already the photo. Nothing to apply afterwards. TWELVE LIVE EFFECTS Floyd-Steinberg and Atkinson error diffusion, Bayer 4x4 and 2x2 ordered dither, blue-noise stipple, per-channel RGB dither, ordered halftone, posterize, CRT scanlines, and a Sobel ink edge pass. Plus two retro hardware palettes, CGA and C64, that clamp every frame to a classic 4-color or 16-color set. THIRTY-EIGHT COLOR PALETTES Hand-graded palettes, from clean monochrome and graphite to neon, sunset, and deep contrast. Every one of them is free. DIAL IT IN Pixel scale, contrast, shadows, highlights, and sharpness, all live on the preview. Five effects take a tint color, so you can push a dither into any two-tone you want. Your settings are stored per effect, so switching back never loses your numbers. A CAMERA THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY Volume button shutter, rule-of-thirds grid, tap to focus, flash, zoom, front camera, and your last shot one tap from the editor. BRING YOUR OWN PHOTOS Import anything from your library and run it through the same shader, with the same sliders. BUILT FOR IPAD Split View and Slide Over are supported, and the camera preview keeps the right aspect ratio at every window size. COMPLETELY FREE Every effect, every palette, every slider. No subscription, no unlocks, no ads. PROCESSED ON YOUR DEVICE Your photos are processed on your device with Metal and never uploaded. Shoot in pixels. PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE: Apple App Store User Agreement - Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://tahatuna.com/pixeladoprivacy For more information, please visit https://tahatuna.com For support, send an email to: ios@tahatuna.com

Screenshots

Moca4 screens
Retro Pixel Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Moca at none against Retro Pixel Camera's 2. Moca also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Retro Pixel Camera sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Moca asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Moca ships an update every 6 days, Retro Pixel Camera every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Moca versus Retro Pixel Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMocaRetro Pixel Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHAOZHE XUAli Taha Tuna

Customer experience

Moca

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Retro Pixel Camera

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Moca

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Retro Pixel Camera

Subscriptions1
  • Pixelado Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
One-time1
  • Pixelado Pro Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Moca free?
Moca is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Retro Pixel Camera free?
Retro Pixel Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Moca or Retro Pixel Camera have ads?
Neither Moca nor Retro Pixel Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Moca or Retro Pixel Camera?
Moca ships an update every 6 days, and Retro Pixel Camera every 11 days. Most recently, Moca was updated on November 3, 2026 and Retro Pixel Camera on November 14, 2026.

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