Comparison

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic vs RAW Power

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

Head to head
About

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic

This app offers a unique analog-style photography experience on mobile devices. It provides a variety of vintage camera simulations, advanced editing tools, and the ability to create and share custom presets. Users can capture and edit photos with a focus on artistic expression and authentic visual aesthetics.

Highlights
  • Analog-style camera simulations
  • Manual camera controls
  • Extensive editing suite
  • Customizable presets
  • Multiple exposure feature
  • RAW format capture and editing
Features
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Hipstamatic is a world-class photography app and Apple’s original App of the Year! Shoot beautiful authentic photography and become part of the world’s most creative community, exclusively on iPhone. • Apple’s very first App of the Year • The original photo filter app • The inventor of square filtered mobile photos • Plus, all of the features below :-) — CLASSIC CAMERA Digital photography has never looked so analog. Shooting Classic provides beautifully rendered skeuomorphic cameras that transform your experience as you swipe through lenses, flashes, and films. ■ Use Multiple Exposure to shoot multiple images in one shot and get amazing artistic results ■ — PRO CAMERA For the mobile photographer looking for a minimal capture interface with maximum control, shooting Pro gives you ultimate creative control. ■ Manually control focus, white balance, exposure, shutter speed, ISO, and aspect ratio ■ — DARKROOM EDITING SUITE A full editing suite including over 20 professional adjustment tools and 12 signature presets. • Classic Lens, Film, and Flash • Crop • Straighten & Rotate • Skew • Exposure • Clarity • Definition • Exposure • Clarity • Definition • Highlights • Shadows • Vibrancy • Fade • Curves (RGB + Red + Green + Blue) • Temperature • Tint • Depth of field • Texture • Grain • Vignette • Before & After view by holding down image in edit view • Undo & Redo by swiping left and right ■ Choose the overall mood of your image with Hipstamatic's signature Lenses, Films, and Flashes, then fine tune with extensive editing tools ■ — FAVORITE PRESETS Create your own Favorite Presets and even share your signature look with others. If you are looking for inspiration hit the shuffle button and explore a world of serendipitous beauty. • 12 World-class presets • Customize and edit presets • Save new presets • Presets are synchronized across your devices with iCloud • Share any favorite preset with other photographers ■ Define your signature looks, then quickly apply them to your photos with Copy/Paste support ■ — NATIVE WORKFLOW Hipstamatic is fully synchronized with your photo library. Tap on any photo to instantly edit it, and see and organize your photos in either Hipstamatic or Apple Photos. • Runs natively on iPhone and iPad • No need to import, just tap and edit • Quickly Favorite or Delete photos • Always full resolution • Save as Separate Files (default) and keep your originals untouched • Save as non-destructive Versions and streamline your photos with the original safely embedded within the Hipstamatic version (works best with iCloud Photo Library) • Browse folders created in the Photos app • Fully synchronized with Photos app and iCloud Photo Library • View detailed metadata • View shared image details across social networks (likes, comments, etc.) • Capture and edit in RAW format ■ Shoot on iPhone and edit on iPad with fully native support and synchronized Favorite Presets via iCloud ■ — HipstaMart™ Shop Browse amazing filter packs available for purchase via the In-App store created by the world’s most talented photo makers. Collaborations from top fashion and street photographers to famous artists like Salvador Dali with new packs available monthly. PrintLab™ Get real physical prints delivered straight to your door. We built this service in 2010 because no service would print square photos, and today PrintLab is still the best square format printing service in the world. Shipping to over 200 countries! • Print Prints (4”, 7”, 10”) • 30” Gallery Prints • Aluminum Prints (10” or 20”) • Birch Wood Prints (10” or 20”) — LET'S MAKE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS TOGETHER Help us make Hipstamatic the best app ever. Send your thoughts & comments to feedback@hipstamatic.com or message us anywhere @Hipstamatic Thanks and welcome to the HipstaFamily!

About

RAW Power

This app offers advanced RAW image processing and organization for your photo library. It allows for precise, non-destructive editing with a wide range of tools, and syncs changes across devices. Manage albums, filter images, and enhance photos with features like Depth Effect.

Highlights
  • Advanced RAW processing
  • Non-destructive editing
  • Photo library organization
  • Cross-platform editing
  • Batch processing
  • Depth Effect enhancement
  • LUT support
Features
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OVERVIEW — ADVANCED RAW: Unlock the power of Apple's RAW engine with easy-to-use controls. Develop images with the same outstanding RAW processing in Apple’s Aperture professional photo app. Unique adjustments let you improve your images in ways that can't be done in any other app. — ORGANIZE: RAW Power is a complete photo app to organize and manage your photo library. Fully compatible with iCloud Photo Library, so all changes are synced. Every image and every change is available to every app on your iPhone or iPad. — RATE & FILTER: Filter albums by file type, rating, flag, and edit state. Ratings and Flags sync over iCloud Photo Library! — FILES.APP: Store images in the Photos library or Files.app. Use our new Share extension to import from other apps directly into RAW Power’s Files container. Same non-destructive editing, rating, and filtering features! (iCloud syncing is not supported). — NOT JUST RAWs: RAW Power is great with JPEGs, with many tools missing from the Photos app. Plus an innovative Depth Effect for photos shot on iPhones with a dual camera system. — EDIT CROSS-PLATFORM: Edit on iOS and continue on the Mac (or vice-versa) using RAW Power 3 for macOS.
 — BATCH PROCESSING: Apply presets, paste adjustments, and export multiple images. Export to the photo library or to Files.app. Using iOS 16 or later? You may be interested in Nitro Photo. It includes masking, XMP support, synchronized Pan and Zoom and many other features. Search for 'Nitro Photo' on the App Store. ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY — Zoom up to 800% for extremely precise adjustments. — Create and rename albums, delete images from albums and the library, and move images into albums. Full access to your folder hierarchy. — Display file name, exposure information, flash status, and location with a map. REAL-TIME EDITING — Full non-destructive editing. All changes stored in the iOS Photo Library and iCloud Photo Library, so you can edit on one device and continue on another, without loss of quality. Even between Mac and iOS! — Optimized for small screens. Choose which adjustments to show by default and in what order — Unparalleled highlight recovery with Boost and Recovery sliders. Real-time control of Apple's RAW engine, including Noise Reduction, Black Point, Gamut Mapping and more — Auto Enhance, Auto White Balance, Auto Levels and Auto Curves. Apply them to multiple images at once! — Apply presets, and Copy / Paste Adjustments to one image or many — Histogram with Clipping Indicators and Hot Pixels Overlay — LUTs (Look up tables) with built-in looks and film simulations. Add your own! — Crop and Straighten, Rotate and Flip, White Balance with sampler and auto — Highlights, Shadows, Vibrancy, Local Contrast and incredible Lighten and Darken sliders — Curves and Levels. Curves has Linear and Lab modes, and samplers — Depth Effect to enhance photos shot with the dual camera system — Chromatic Aberration to correct lens artifacts, Perspective, Black & White, Vignette with a controllable center point — All sliders are real-time and GPU accelerated — High-precision, deep color imaging engine — Export JPEG, PNG, and TIFFs (8- and 16-bit) to Files.app or Photos.app COMPATIBILITY — Compatible with hundreds of cameras, including iPhone RAW images. (EXTENDED SUPPORT REQUIRES iOS 14. Full List at https://www.gentlemencoders.com/extended-raw/index.html) RAW support is downloaded in the background by Apple. Your device must be on WiFi and plugged in to get updates. — Great with JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, and most DNGs — Video Tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7l78rOzFxaHG-e5AT-MGWQ) RAW POWER for MAC RAW Power is also available on the Mac App Store as a Photos Extension and standalone app with Photos Library support. Rated 4.5 stars worldwide! ABOUT GENTLEMEN CODERS Gentlemen Coders was founded by a former Senior Director of Engineering at Apple. For more information, visit www.gentlemencoders.com.

Screenshots

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic4 screens
RAW Power4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Classic Camera by Hipstamatic at $4.99 against RAW Power's $12.99. Classic Camera by Hipstamatic also leads on chart position (#55 vs unranked) and ratings volume (4.6K vs 874). RAW Power's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic costs $4.99 and RAW Power $12.99 up front. Classic Camera by Hipstamatic sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. RAW Power asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Classic Camera by Hipstamatic has 4.6K ratings behind it against 874, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Classic Camera by Hipstamatic's written reviews are positive against 61% of RAW Power's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic ships an update every 3 months, RAW Power every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic versus RAW Power: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClassic Camera by HipstamaticRAW Power
Price$4.99 — better$12.99
Rating4.7 (4.6K ratings) — better4.6 (874 ratings)
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews — better60.7% of reviews
Number of ratings4.6K — better874
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#55 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHipstamatic, LLCGentlemen Coders

Customer experience

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic

All ratings4,546 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews1,659 reviews
Positive63.1%
Neutral9.0%
Negative27.9%

RAW Power

All ratings874 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews328 reviews
Positive60.7%
Neutral8.5%
Negative30.8%

Bugs and requests

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Photos not saving properly
  • Viewfinder not aligning correctly
  • Inability to change ISO settings without crashing
  • Purchased items disappearing from the app
  • Syncing issues between devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for iPhone 14 Pro camera
  • Improve RAW file handling
  • Implement batch photo editing
  • Provide better organization for purchased items
  • Introduce an undo/redo function

RAW Power

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Classic Camera by Hipstamatic

One-time10
  • Williamsburg Starter HipstaPak$0.99
  • Portland HipstaPak$0.99
  • Shibuya HipstaPak$0.99
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  • Camden HipstaPak$0.99
  • Mission Hipstapak$0.99
  • Dali GoodPak$0.99
  • Soho HipstaPak$0.99
  • Bondi HipstaPak$0.99
  • Wicker Park HipstaPak$0.99
  • RetroPak One$1.99
None

RAW Power

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Classic Camera by Hipstamatic free?
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is RAW Power free?
RAW Power costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Classic Camera by Hipstamatic or RAW Power?
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic is rated higher. Classic Camera by Hipstamatic averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4.6K ratings, while RAW Power averages 4.6 from 874 ratings.
Do Classic Camera by Hipstamatic or RAW Power have ads?
Neither Classic Camera by Hipstamatic nor RAW Power shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Classic Camera by Hipstamatic or RAW Power?
Classic Camera by Hipstamatic ships an update every 3 months, and RAW Power every 2 months. Most recently, Classic Camera by Hipstamatic was updated on November 7, 2026 and RAW Power on November 6, 2026.

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