Image Expert vs CameraPixels Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Image Expert
Easily enhance your photos with a variety of editing tools and creative filters. Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation, or apply unique looks like vintage and noir. Crop, rotate, and smooth skin for polished results.
- Brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments
- Modern filter presets
- Filter intensity control
- Crop and rotate with aspect ratios
- Skin smoothing and red-eye cleanup
- Undo/redo functionality
- JPEG, PNG, HEIC export
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Turn the photo you took into the image you imagined. Image Expert gives you a focused photo studio for iPhone and iPad, with thoughtful controls for light, color, composition, and the finishing touches. START WITH A PHOTO Open an image from Photos or Files, use the camera, or explore the included sample photo. Pinch to inspect details and double-tap to zoom or fit your image. SHAPE LIGHT AND COLOR Balance tone and color with Auto Enhance, then fine-tune exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, warmth, tint, vibrance, and saturation. Add sharpening or a vignette and use the histogram to inspect your edits. FIND YOUR LOOK Explore color, black-and-white, and film-inspired looks. Adjust a filter's strength and save your own combinations of filters and adjustments as reusable looks. Add film grain or give highlights and shadows their own color with color grading. REFINE THE FRAME Crop to common aspect ratios, zoom and reposition your photo, rotate, and use composition guides to find your framing. Soften a photo with blur, smooth portrait texture, or correct red-eye. EXPLORE WITH CONFIDENCE Compare your work with the untouched original. Undo and Redo restore both the image and its controls, and even Reset can be undone while the photo is open. The adaptive layout gives your photo and tools room on iPad, with support for larger text and accessible controls. EXPORT YOUR FINISHED COPY Preview your photo, check its pixel dimensions and actual file size, and choose JPEG, lossless PNG, or HEIC where supported. Set compression quality for JPEG and HEIC, choose whether to include photo metadata, and save a copy to Photos or share to Files and other apps. Editing happens on your device. No account, subscriptions, or in-app purchases are required. Your original photo stays unchanged. Export a finished copy before closing your photo or leaving the app; editing sessions are not saved as projects.
CameraPixels Lite
This app offers advanced manual controls for mobile photography and videography. It provides features like bracketing, slow shutter, and time-lapse modes, along with tools for macro and HDR photography. The intuitive interface helps users focus on capturing the perfect shot.
- Manual photography and videography controls
- Exposure and focus bracketing
- Slow shutter and time-lapse modes
- Macro photography support
- Professional HDR capabilities
- ISO/Shutter priority modes
- Histogram and clipping warnings
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CameraPixels is a unique manual photography app. The premium tools and intuitive UI make CameraPixels the best choice for professional mobile photographers. CameraPixels participated in Berkley Eclipse Megamovie 2017 thanks to its extensive raw bracketing. All-in-one ============= CameraPixels is all-in-one capture solution, that supports multiple photo and video capture modes. Among them are Bracketing, Slow Shutter and Time-lapse modes. CameraPixels has the most advanced bracketing available on the iOS platform, which includes exposure and focus bracketing. Best for macro photography ============= With CameraPixels you can capture the best macro shots, be it a single image or a series of images, called focus bracketing, which can later be combined into one all-in-focus photo (requires external app for focus stacking). If you have an external macro lens, let CameraPixels save its name to the EXIF data for you, so later you can always remember which lens was used. Currently CameraPixels supports Olloclip™, Loupe System™ and Moment™ lenses. Best for professional HDR photography ============= CameraPixels has the most advanced exposure bracketing on iOS. With up to 15 images per bracket you can capture even the most difficult lighting situations. CameraPixels support auto-, iso and shutter-brackets, with an optional flash frame. The captured images can be used to create stunning HDR photos using your favorite professional HDR software. Intuitive UI ============= CameraPixels has a simple and efficient UI. The most important information is always in front of your eyes, and this allows you to avoid surprises like an unexpected flash fire or the wrong output photo or video format. Stop being distracted by the uncertainty of the settings, concentrate on your capture! ISO/Shutter priority modes ============= CameraPixels is among a few photography apps that support advanced exposure modes like ISO and Shutter priority. These modes are indispensable during dynamic photography when there is no time for adjusting manual exposure. Histogram and clipping warnings ============= The histogram is a great tool to estimate your exposure. It can show you if the photo has under-exposed or over-exposed areas. Clipping warnings, on the other hand, can show you exactly where those under and over-exposed areas in your photo are. Depth capture ============= On dual/triple-camera devices, CameraPixels can capture depth information alongside the colour photo. If the photo has depth information, in the preview window, two additional buttons appear (depth and portrait) that allow you to inspect the depth of the image and apply it to simulate an aperture. Presets ============= CameraPixels was designed for professional photographers that value efficiency of their workflow. The unlimited presets, including the possibility to expose them to Widget make CameraPixels the ultimate photography tool. Features overview ============= - UI optimized for manual capture - RAW and ProRAW (on supported devices) photo capture - Auto, manual and semi-automatic (ISO- and Shutter-priority) exposure modes - Photo, Burst, Portrait, Slow Shutter, Exposure Bracket, Focus Bracket, Video and Time-lapse - Clipping warnings to highlight under- and over-exposed areas in real time - Focus peaking and loupe during the manual focus adjustments - Single or series of Exposure Brackets with up to 15 images per bracket. AEB, ISO- and Shutter-brackets are available. - Single or series of Focus Brackets with up to 100 images per bracket - Adjustable photo and video resolution - Adjustable photo and video quality - Advanced photo processing (Smart HDR and Deep fusion on supported devices) - Unlimited presets with the possibility of exposing them to the widget - Advanced intervalometer - Multiple framing options
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CameraPixels Lite at 4.3 against Image Expert's 2.8. CameraPixels Lite also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 50%) and ratings volume (46 vs 4). Image Expert's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. CameraPixels Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Image Expert asks for nothing beyond the download.
CameraPixels Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CameraPixels Lite has 46 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Image Expert's written reviews are positive against 74% of CameraPixels Lite's.
Image Expert ships an update every 3 months, CameraPixels Lite every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Image Expert | CameraPixels Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (46 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 73.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 46 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 福恩 毛 | Natalya Petrenko |
Customer experience
Image Expert
CameraPixels Lite
In-app purchases
Image Expert
No in-app purchases
CameraPixels Lite
- Full resolution pack$7.99
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