Glitch Fx vs ca
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glitch Fx
Create unique and striking glitch art with powerful pixel sorting and RGB color displacement. Apply these effects to your images, with the option to mask specific areas for precise control.
- Pixel sorting glitch effects
- RGB color displacement
- Masking tool for specific areas
- Unique and beautiful glitch art creation
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[Glitch Fx] enables you to create an unique and beautiful glitch effect with powerful pixel sorting and RGB color displacement. ● Create beautiful glitch effect by pixel sorting. ● Apply RGB color displacement for more dramatic effect. ● Apply glitch effect to specific area of image with powerful masking tool.
ca
This app transforms your camera's live feed into unique, pixelated images and videos using cellular automata. Customize patterns with various color palettes, directions, rules, and resolutions for a retro aesthetic.
- Cellular automaton image interpretation
- Pixelated output with unique patterns
- Black and white or retro color palettes
- Selfie and split camera modes
- Video recording
- Customizable automaton parameters
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The successor of probably the nerdiest camera app ever made, ca-mera+ uses a cellular automaton to interpret the colors of your camera stream. The resulting images are pixelated and contain unique patterns created by cellular automata. The output can be black and white, or one of several retro color palettes (CGA 4 and 16 colors, 1-bit RGB, etc.). This app provides "selfie" and "split" modes, records video, and lets you change the appearance of the pictures by controlling the automaton application direction, its rules, the resolution, the input brightness, and the input fidelity (i.e. to which extent the cellular automaton is allowed to run freely).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ca at monthly against Glitch Fx's every 13 months. ca also leads on ratings volume (52 vs 5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, 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
Glitch Fx costs $2.99 and ca $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Glitch Fx against 4.8 for ca. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ca has 52 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Glitch Fx ships an update every 13 months, ca monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glitch Fx | ca |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 88.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 52 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | #198 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dongwook Cho | Fritz Menzer |
Customer experience
Glitch Fx
ca
In-app purchases
Glitch Fx
No in-app purchases
ca
No in-app purchases
