Thrivestone vs Chaos Camera Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thrivestone
Explore a universe of interactive camera filters that tap into abstract and chaotic visual realms. This application generates unique, dynamic imagery for your photos and videos. Be aware of potential photosensitive warnings due to light flashes.
- Interactive camera filters
- Chaos-inspired visuals
- Dynamic photo effects
- Unique video generation
- Photosensitive warning
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Interactive camera filters that draw from the great seas of chaos. Photosensitive warning: This app creates flashes of light that could trigger seizures for people with visual sensitivities.
Chaos Camera Lab
Transform ordinary photos into unique, collectible color worlds with unpredictable effects. Remap colors, add digital grain, and explore 16 distinct styles. Save and reuse your custom looks for future edits.
- 16 distinct Chaos styles
- Color remapping and textured grain
- Reusable recipes with shareable codes
- Recipe Lab for custom looks
- 4:5 camera with zoom
- Photo Library import
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Chaos Camera Lab turns ordinary scenes into unpredictable, collectible color worlds. This is not a traditional filter camera. Chaos remaps the colors inside each photo, adds tactile digital grain, and gives every image its own strange visual character. Shoot with the built-in 4:5 camera or import a photo, then explore looks ranging from soft and dreamlike to stark, graphic, spectral, and broken. Explore 16 distinct Chaos styles: Chaos, Soft, Poster, Acid, Dream, Noir, Thermal, Prism, Solar, Xerox, Signal, Infra, Ghost, Bleach, Mosaic, and Emulsion. When you discover a look worth keeping, save its recipe. Each recipe preserves the preset, palette, tuning, name, and code behind the image, so you can apply the same visual logic to a completely different scene later. Features: • A focused 4:5 camera with tap to focus and multiple zoom choices • 16 visually distinct Chaos presets • Expressive color remapping and textured grain • Photo Library import for remixing existing images • Hold the result to compare it with the original • Reusable recipes with names, palettes, and shareable codes • Recipe Lab for building custom color looks • Chaos Roll sessions and stylized contact sheets • A local gallery and Recipe Passport • High-quality image export to Photos Chaos Camera Lab is made for fast experimentation, happy accidents, and photographers who want an image to become something unexpected. Your photos and recipes stay on your device. Chaos Camera Lab does not collect personal data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chaos Camera Lab at none against Thrivestone's 2. Chaos Camera Lab also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Thrivestone's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Thrivestone sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Chaos Camera Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chaos Camera Lab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thrivestone has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Thrivestone ships an update every 3 weeks, Chaos Camera Lab every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thrivestone | Chaos Camera Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Lemmon | Ryan Walker |
Customer experience
Thrivestone
Chaos Camera Lab
In-app purchases
Thrivestone
- Season 0: Filter Pack #1$3.99
- Season 0: Filter Pack #2$3.99
Chaos Camera Lab
No in-app purchases
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