FotoWare (Legacy) vs Magic Canny (Custom Camera)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FotoWare (Legacy)
Access and manage your digital assets from anywhere. Search, preview, and upload content to your archives, and receive notifications for new additions. This companion app connects to your existing FotoWare Digital Asset Management system.
- Search and preview archive content
- Set up content alerts
- Upload files from device
- Add metadata to files
- Connect to FotoWare SaaS or on-premise server
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FotoWare for iPhone is a companion app for users of a FotoWare SaaS solution or the on premise FotoWeb 8.0 Digital Asset Management system. It allows you to search and preview content in your archives and set up Alerts (search agents) so you can be notified of new content in archives. You can also upload files from the Pictures library on your iPhone or iPad to any archive that you can access and add required metadata to the files in the process. Connecting to the FotoWare demo server FotoWare for iPhone can connect to FotoWare SaaS or any FotoWeb 8.0 server. You will be asked to specify a server connection on first startup, and you can change the server address and login credentials later in the iPhone’s Settings menu. To test the app with FotoWare, signup for a trial here: https://signup.fotoware.cloud/ When you start the app, use the host name provided in the registration page, e.g. "yourname.fotoware.cloud". Leave the "Use legacy login" off.
Magic Canny (Custom Camera)
This app allows you to customize photos and videos with a variety of effects. Apply face filters, stickers, and text, or edit existing media by adjusting colors, changing backgrounds, and cropping.
- Customizable face effects
- Background filters
- Sticker decoration
- Real-time color adjustment
- Virtual hair dyeing
- Aspect ratio and rotation tools
- Photo cropping
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The Camera App That Lets You Customize Your Way: "Magic Canny" With the camera, you can freely combine face effects, background filters, stickers, and text to create recordings. Additionally, you can apply various filters, adjust colors, and perform diverse editing functions on photos and videos stored in your album. -Main Features • Apply fun effects to your face using the camera. • Transform into various characters such as a clown, cute teddy bear, or cat. • Add stickers to decorate your own photos, and you can also apply stickers to photos saved in your album. • Adjust brightness, contrast, and exposure in real-time to make your photos more vibrant. • Virtually dye your hair! You can freely change it to various colors like red, green, blue, and blonde. • Change the background of your photos with various color filters. • Change the aspect ratio of your photos or rotate them, and easily crop out unwanted parts. • Load photos saved in your album and add stickers and filter effects to create even more creative images. Access Permission Information • "Magic Canny" requests the following permissions for smooth service provision. [Required Access Permissions] Photos: Used for saving or loading and editing photos. Microphone: Used for recording sound in videos. Camera: Used for capturing photos or videos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FotoWare (Legacy) at none against Magic Canny (Custom Camera)'s shown. FotoWare (Legacy) also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.6). Magic Canny (Custom Camera)'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FotoWare (Legacy) against 5.0 for Magic Canny (Custom Camera). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
FotoWare (Legacy) ships an update every 5 months, Magic Canny (Custom Camera) every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FotoWare (Legacy) | Magic Canny (Custom Camera) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FotoWare | Myeong Su Seon |
Customer experience
FotoWare (Legacy)
Magic Canny (Custom Camera)
In-app purchases
FotoWare (Legacy)
No in-app purchases
Magic Canny (Custom Camera)
No in-app purchases
Questions
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