Comparison

Quick Night Camera vs Lumen

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

Head to head
About

Quick Night Camera

Transform dark photos and videos into bright, daytime-like images in real-time. Adjust light and dark levels with intuitive touch controls and apply a night-vision effect for enhanced brightness. Easily create inverted, negative-style images.

Highlights
  • Real-time night-vision photos
  • Brighten dark images
  • Adjust light and dark graph
  • Night-vision effect slider
  • Create negative-style images
  • Save to camera roll
  • Photo sharing options
Features
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ā–  With Real-Time Night-Vision Monitor, you can take night-vision photos at high speed. 惻 Change a dark image taken at night, dusk, backlight, etc. into a bright image like daytime. 惻 Combine with the night-vision effect to make it even brighter. 惻 Change a bright image taken in the daytime or in a bright environment into a dark image such as at night or at dusk. 惻 Free control of light and dark of photos and videos by touch operation on the light and dark graph. 惻 Easy creation of interesting negative-style images by reversing the light and dark. [Settings] - Brightness Graph: Anchor points are controlled by touch operation - Night Vision Effect: Adjust the degree of night-vision effect with the slider control [Output] - Save to camera roll: photos - Photo sharing: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, ... [Important] Unlike infrared cameras, iPhone / iPad cannot take pictures in a completely dark environment. In dimly lit environments, this app brightens your photos with night vision correction. However, the darker the image, the worse the image noise. This is the same for the human eye.

About

Lumen

Features
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Lumen is an on-device AI camera for still photos. It reads the scene live and tunes focus, exposure and tone for you, then finishes each photo with a hand-crafted, film-inspired color look. Still photography only: Lumen does not record video. TWO MODES • AI Ā· 12MP: scene-aware processing plus your chosen film look. The preview is WYSIWYG, so what you see is what you get. • MAX (Pro): the largest photo size iOS offers for your lens (24MP on iPhone 17 Pro) with the phone's native processing. Lumen's AI finishing and film looks are not applied in MAX. AI CAPTURE: QUALITY OR SPEED In the Ā·Ā·Ā· menu you choose how AI mode balances processing and waiting time. Quality is the default; Speed asks iOS to trade a little processing for a shorter wait after the shutter. FILM LOOKS 14 looks (including Off), inspired by classic analog film: from neutral and soft to warm golden tones, high-contrast black & white, silvery monochrome and sepia, plus punchy street looks like Hard Light and Midnight Glow. Off, Standard and Classic are free; the other looks come with Lumen Pro. Swipe the strip to compare. STYLE CONTROLS (Pro) Fine-tune any look with strength, tone, color, warmth and grain, and add a Texture layer: Soft Skin, Glow or Film. Start from 10 built-in style presets or save your own. Quick Adjust gives you three sliders on the camera screen; the Pro Editor has the full panel. MACRO, BUILT IN (Pro) Macro switches to the ultra-wide lens itself instead of digitally cropping the main camera. Focus Peaking colors the sharpest edges as you shoot, so you always know what's in focus once depth of field gets razor-thin. Turn on Focus Stacking and Lumen shoots a few frames at different focus distances and merges them into one photo, sharp from front to back, entirely on your iPhone. Best with a steady hand or a small tripod. FOCUS TRIGGER (free) Tap a small detail, hold the shutter and rock the phone gently. Lumen watches that exact spot and fires the moment it's sharp. LUMEN BUDDY (Pro) A small mascot watches the live view and gives short, friendly tips on sharpness, keeping the horizon level and framing. When it recognizes your subject it may suggest a film look. Buddy only advises; it never touches the shutter or your settings. PORTRAIT (Pro, LiDAR devices) Background blur built on your iPhone's LiDAR depth data. Choose an f-stop from f/1.4 to f/8 and Lumen scales both the blur and the depth-of-field zone. Requires iPhone 12 Pro or later Pro models. LOW-LIGHT (Pro) Not Apple's Night mode: Lumen allows exposures of up to half a second so the sensor can use a lower ISO, then adds noise reduction and gentle shadow recovery. Hold steady after the shutter click. PRO MANUAL AND RAW (Pro) Control shutter speed, ISO, white balance and focus by hand, and shoot a DNG alongside the JPEG for editing in Lightroom, Darkroom or any RAW editor. BUILT FOR SPEED AND CONTROL • A calm camera screen: shutter and zoom up front, the look strip folds away by itself. Swipe up on the look label for Quick Adjust. • Tap to focus and meter anywhere, with an exposure slider next to the focus box. • Zoom presets that follow your iPhone's lenses, plus pinch. • Camera Control on iPhone 16 and 17: click to shoot, swipe to zoom. • Responsive Capture where your iPhone supports it, so you can keep shooting while the previous photo finishes processing. • Full EXIF preserved; photos are saved to your Photos library in a dedicated album. FREE AND LUMEN PRO Free: AI mode, the Off, Standard and Classic looks, tap-to-focus, zoom, flash and Focus Trigger. Lumen Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription, and unlocks all film looks, style controls, MAX, Pro manual with RAW, Portrait, Low-Light, Macro with focus stacking, Focus Peaking and Buddy. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no tracking. Your photos never leave your phone unless you share them.

Screenshots

Quick Night Camera4 screens
Lumen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lumen at Free against Quick Night Camera's $1.99. Lumen also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months). Quick Night Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Lumen is free to download; Quick Night Camera costs $1.99 up front. Lumen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Quick Night Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Night Camera ships an update every 4 months, Lumen every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Ā· 2 level
Quick Night Camera versus Lumen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick Night CameraLumen
Price$1.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasanori KatsutaMario Steenbergen

In-app purchases

None

Quick Night Camera

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Lumen

One-time1
  • Lumen Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Quick Night Camera free?
Quick Night Camera costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumen free?
Lumen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Quick Night Camera or Lumen have ads?
Neither Quick Night Camera nor Lumen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Night Camera or Lumen?
Quick Night Camera ships an update every 4 months, and Lumen every 6 days. Most recently, Quick Night Camera was updated on October 20, 2026 and Lumen on October 25, 2026.

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