Comparison

Obscura vs Labe Editor

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

Head to head
About

Obscura

This camera app offers advanced manual controls for photography and videography. It provides a range of capture formats, live filters, and viewing aids to enhance your creative process. An optional subscription unlocks premium features.

Highlights
  • Manual exposure, focus, and white balance controls
  • RAW, ProRAW, HEIC, and JPEG capture formats
  • Live filters and custom preset creation
  • Grid, histogram, and focus peaking view aids
  • Video and Live Photo recording
  • Integrated photo library browsing and editing
Features
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Obscura V is a camera app packed full of features to help you take incredible photos. Obscura pairs a stunning design with intuitive controls that make taking photos a delight. — Over its 10+ years on the App Store, Obscura has been featured numerous times around the world, including as Editors’ Choice and App of the Day. — Design Obscura squeezes a bunch of powerful features into simple controls anyone can master. The interface balances aesthetics, ergonomics, and intuitiveness. You won’t want to use anything else. Controls can be reached with one thumb, and gestures and haptics combine to create a tactile experience that lets you stay focused on your subject. — Capture Modes & Formats Obscura captures photos, videos, Live Photos, and portraits. Photos can be captured in RAW, ProRAW, HEIC, and JPEG (on supported devices, see http://obscura.camera/compatibility). Capture images in multiple different aspect ratios, or apply filters live in camera for a wide variety of styles. — Camera Settings Obscura gives you control over exposure, focus, white balance, ISO, shutter speed, and flash, with intuitive controls that make you feel in control of your device’s camera. — Live Filters Obscura includes a bunch of great filters to give your photos instant style but you can also create your own and use them live in-camera. It’s very cool and very powerful. — View Options Obscura lets you display a grid, a spirit level, a histogram, focus peaking, a focus loupe, and exposure clipping highlights to help you understand every detail of what you’re shooting. — Photo Library Obscura has its own interface for browsing, rating, editing, and sharing images, but it’s fully integrated with your system photo library, so images captured with Obscura are available everywhere. — Obscura Ultra Obscura is free to use, with an annual subscription for premium features. See http://obscura.camera/ultra for full details. — I hope you love using Obscura as much as I’ve loved designing and building it. If you do, please consider subscribing to Ultra, leaving a review, or just sharing with a friend. All the best, Ben ———— Privacy Policy: http://obscura.camera/privacy Terms of use: http://obscura.camera/terms

About

Labe Editor

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Labe turns everyday photographs into considered editorial images, with a curated library of film, retro and analog effects that carry the texture and character of real media rather than the polish of an ordinary filter. SHUFFLE At the heart of Labe is Shuffle, a single button that reads the light and color of your photo and composes a complete, art-directed look for it, so you can keep what works, adjust what does not, and roll again whenever you want to see the image in a new direction. PRESETS YOU CAN TAKE APART Every preset is built from real layers that you can open, reorder, switch off and refine, from grain and halation to signal noise, CRT scanlines and dither, and any stack you shape can be saved as your own look and applied to the next photo in a single tap. CRAFTED CONTROLS Draw tone curves by hand for each channel, place the sharp area of a motion blur exactly where the eye should rest, guide the source of god rays across the frame, crop to the formats you publish in, and press and hold the photo at any moment to compare your edit with the original. REAL PROCESSING, NOT GENERATION Each effect is rendered as live mathematics on the pixels you actually captured, so nothing is invented, the image responds the moment you change a setting, and the result remains the photograph you took. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Labe works entirely on your iPhone and asks for no account, and your photos are never uploaded, never stored on a server and never used to train anything. EXPORT Finished images are rendered in high resolution and saved straight to Photos or shared as JPEG, HEIC or PNG, ready for a campaign, a cover or a feed that looks like no one else's. Labe is free, with every effect and every preset included and no subscription to manage.

Screenshots

Obscura4 screens
Labe Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Labe Editor at none against Obscura's 5. Obscura's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Obscura sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Labe Editor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obscura ships an update every 2 weeks, Labe Editor weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Obscura versus Labe Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObscuraLabe Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (277 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings277 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBen McCarthyEgor Finko

Bugs and requests

Obscura

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when trying to use Pro Raw mode
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between lenses
  • Manual settings randomly resetting
  • Photos not saving properly
  • Freezing and black screen issues

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save custom camera settings
  • Variable zoom function in pro mode
  • Separate manual control for exposure and ISO
  • Dedicated selfie button
  • Live audio capture for Live Photos

Labe Editor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Obscura

Subscriptions4
  • Obscura Ultra - Weekly$1.497 Days
  • Obscura Ultra - Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Obscura Ultra7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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  • Obscura Ultra Upgrade1 Year trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Obscura Ultra - One Time$74.99
None

Labe Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Obscura free?
Obscura is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Labe Editor free?
Labe Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Obscura or Labe Editor have ads?
Neither Obscura nor Labe Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obscura or Labe Editor?
Obscura ships an update every 2 weeks, and Labe Editor weekly. Most recently, Obscura was updated on October 31, 2026 and Labe Editor on October 29, 2026.

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