NightShooting vs Night Camera HD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NightShooting
Capture stunning night photos and starry skies with this camera app. It uses advanced techniques to reduce noise and correct blur, allowing for beautiful handheld shots even in low light. Features include manual controls, penlight art, and adjustable shutter sound.
- Handheld night scene shooting
- Penlight art and bulb shooting
- Starry sky photography
- Automatic blur correction
- Adjustable shutter sound
- Manual camera settings (Shutter Speed, ISO, White Balance)
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A classic camera app with more than 5 million downloads, selected as one of iTunes’ Best Apps of the Year. NightShooting is ideal for photographing night scenes and the night sky. ◎ Capture surprisingly beautiful night scenes even when shooting handheld. ◎ Use Bulb mode to photograph light painting and starry skies. Light painting can even be captured handheld without a tripod. (Hold the device firmly with your arms close to your body and avoid excessive movement.) ◎ Capture even very dark night scenes clearly and brightly. ◎ Photograph illuminations and fireworks with a vivid sense of atmosphere. Even without camera knowledge, the simple shooting wizard can choose the settings for you. Then anyone can take a photo simply by pressing the shutter. 【Details】 NightShooting is a camera app for taking beautiful night photographs. Night scenes with insufficient light inevitably contain a great deal of noise. Even at dusk, when the scene appears bright enough, photos can contain a surprising amount of noise. Long exposures reduce noise, but normally require a tripod to prevent blur. NightShooting solves this problem. Composite processing (multi-shot noise reduction) dramatically reduces noise, while automatic alignment makes beautiful handheld night photography possible. The app also supports triggering the shutter with a remote control’s volume button, helping reduce camera shake even further. When photographing a sleeping child in a dark room or a pet, the shutter sound can be disruptive. NightShooting therefore lets you adjust the shutter volume within the permitted range. High-quality PNG images can also be sent by email. Support is available on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NightShooting —————————————————— ■ Camera features —————————————————— In addition to automatic settings, DSLR-style manual controls are available: • Shutter speed • ISO sensitivity • White balance (color temperature and tint) • Zoom • Self-timer —————————————————— ■ Photo editing —————————————————— Choose from a wide variety of easy presets, or fine-tune individual parameters for more detailed editing: • Brightness • Contrast • Saturation • Color balance • Tone curve • Sharpness —————————————————— ■ Free-version limitations —————————————————— The free version has the following limitations: • Image-size limits when saving, transferring to other apps, sharing, or emailing (larger images are reduced) • Some shooting settings are restricted • RAW-data saving is restricted • Banner advertisements are displayed Purchasing the full version in the app removes these restrictions. ※ Before purchasing, please make sure the free version works correctly on your device.
Night Camera HD
Capture professional-quality photos in low-light conditions with advanced manual controls for exposure, ISO, and focus. Take high-resolution, uncompressed images with real-time histograms and customizable aspect ratios.
- Manual exposure up to 1 second
- Manual ISO setting
- Residual light enhancement
- Real-time histograms (luminance, luminosity, RGB)
- High-resolution PNG output
- Tap to focus and expose
- Self-timer
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Night Camera HD - the expert for professional nighttime shots on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. AppAdvice 4.5/5 stars review: "Night Camera HD is a tool that every inclined mobile photographer should have." Thanks to the manual setting options for light exposure up to 1 second *, separate residual light- and ISO enhancement, Night Camera HD is perfect for taking pictures in a dark, insufficiently lit environment. Even during daylight, your pictures are clearer, with less interference, due to the extended exposure times. Take high-resolution photos in PNG format without visual loss. Forget about the loss of quality experienced with other cameras apps caused by image compression artifacts. Regardless whether you take night-, scenery- or other photographs, the picture quality you are able to achieve with Night Camera HD will surprise you. You can easy tap to focus and tap to exposure at the same time. After selecting the desired setting, you can easily lock it to prevent changes despite movement. Only here you can get luminance, luminosity and RGB histograms in real time to recognize over- and underexposure in time. The self-timer, which is imperative for nighttime shots, enables you to take un-blurred pictures. With the aid of the volume buttons you can take pictures with volume up (+) and fade the HUD-elements in- and out with volume down (-). Of course you can also block the white balance separately and edit it if necessary. Standard image formats (4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9 and 3:1) can be edited live. The full-screen mode is activated for narrow image formats, enabling maximum display use. This feature can also be deactivated. The histogram adapts to all image formats. The up to 6x digital live zoom can be edited in the settings to enable a greater precision level during targeted zooming. Of course diverse alignment grids (e.g. Rule of Thirds, Golden Spirals and Golden Triangle) as well as a virtual horizon are available as overlays. Various real-time color filters complete this app. The most important functions: - Shutter speed control - Up to 1 second * exposure time - Manual ISO setting - Manual focus - Residual light enhancement - Real-time luminance histogram - Real-time luminosity histogram - Real-time RGB histogram - Self-timer - Volume Up (+) Photo Capture - Volume Down (-) HUD Hide - 6x digital live zoom - Tap to focus - Tap to exposure - White balance-lock - Manual white balance - Manual exposure adjustment - Various alignment grids - Virtual horizon - Aspect ratios: 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 16:9 and 3:1 - Full-screen mode - Eco mode - Diverse color filters in real-time - Take HD photos - Landscape and portrait mode - Supports front and back camera - Supports LED-continuous light - Supports EXIF-data - Supports sharing via Facebook, Twitter *) Only on supported devices ---------- Please note that a minimum amount of light is still required. For delayed exposure times the preview is also delayed accordingly. We recommend stabilizing the device or a steady hand for taking optimal pictures with long light exposure times. ---------- Follow @NightCameraHD on Twitter and don’t forget to tag your photographs with #NightCameraHD. "Night Camera HD" is available on Facebook as well. We are looking forward to requests, suggestions and above all, Likes. Of course an iPad Version is available as well. Just search for "Night Camera HD" in the iPad App Store. Follow us: http://twitter.com/NightCameraHD Like us: http://www.facebook.com/NightCameraHD Visit us: http://www.clidoapps.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NightShooting at Free against Night Camera HD's $12.99. NightShooting also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Night Camera HD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (61% vs 41%). On rating, update cadence, 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
NightShooting is free to download; Night Camera HD costs $12.99 up front. NightShooting sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Night Camera HD asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for NightShooting against 4.4 for Night Camera HD. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Night Camera HD has 338 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of NightShooting's written reviews are positive against 61% of Night Camera HD's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NightShooting | Night Camera HD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) | 4.4 (338 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.6% of reviews | 61.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 338 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio ra,labo. | Nico Schroeder |
Customer experience
NightShooting
Night Camera HD
Bugs and requests
NightShooting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Night Camera HD
Reported bugs
14 issues- App crashes immediately after taking a photo
- Photos fail to save or save incorrectly
- App crashes on startup or during operation
- Settings panel unresponsive or stuck in middle of screen
- Image orientation issues in landscape mode
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- App freezes when adjusting settings
- Photos display with wrong location metadata
- Incompatibility with iOS 8+ and newer iPhone models
- Virtual horizon and histogram freezing
- Share button not functioning
- Unable to delete photos without crashing
- Blurry zoom functionality
- Purple-tinted screen on some devices
- Settings changes not applying properly
Requested features
16 requests- Video recording functionality
- Longer exposure times (up to 30 seconds or 2 minutes)
- Silent/mute shutter sound option
- Automatic photo saving to camera roll
- RAW format support
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- Panorama mode
- Time-lapse feature
- Slow-motion video
- Timer/self-timer for hands-free shooting
- Batch export of photos
- Multi-language support (Chinese, Thai, etc.)
- Noise reduction/denoise filter
- Histogram display
- Manual shutter speed control
- Support for both front and rear cameras
- Apple Watch app integration
In-app purchases
NightShooting
- Free trial ticketFree
- NightShooting Genuine Version$9.99
Night Camera HD
No in-app purchases
Questions
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