GhostCam vs Breaking News Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GhostCam
Create "fake" ghost photographs with customizable ghost elements. Adjust the number, opacity, and size of ghosts, and precisely position them to fit your scene. Save your spooky creations directly to your device's photo library.
- Create fake ghost photos
- Customize ghost number, opacity, and size
- Select ghost placement area
- Save photos to library
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By using this GhostCam, you can take "Fake" ghost photographs. [Main Features] - Enable to specify number, opacity and size of ghosts. - Enable to select the area of ghost conforming with the scene of photographies. - Enable to save your ghost photographies to your photo library.
Breaking News Camera
Transform your photos into "Breaking News" style images. Easily create and share compelling visuals that look like they belong on the front page. Perfect for adding a dramatic flair to your pictures.
- Create Breaking News style images
- Share created images
- Photo editing tool
- Dramatic visual effects
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With Breaking News Camera, you can create images look like Breaking News. Let's create and share the images!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Breaking News Camera at 4.7 against GhostCam's 2.3. Breaking News Camera also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (27 vs 3). GhostCam's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
GhostCam costs $0.99 and Breaking News Camera $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Breaking News Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Breaking News Camera has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of GhostCam's written reviews are positive against 65% of Breaking News Camera's.
GhostCam ships an update every 15 months, Breaking News Camera every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GhostCam | Breaking News Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tahito Aoki | Daiki Shimizu |
Customer experience
GhostCam
Breaking News Camera
In-app purchases
GhostCam
No in-app purchases
Breaking News Camera
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is GhostCam free?
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