Xer vs CamBe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xer
This app offers advanced photo editing capabilities with multiple layers, allowing for precise adjustments, effects, and text overlays. Create artistic photo montages and enhance images with a wide range of tools for daily editing needs.
- Multiple-layer editing
- Real-pixel editing
- Perspective transformations
- Color eraser
- Extensive photo effects
- Text layer addition
- Project auto-save
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Xer is a versatile photo editor to make excellent photos basing on multiple-layer editing. It is to meet all the daily demands for photo editing: rotation, cropping, flipping, applying photo effects, adding text, making artistic or funny photo montages, etc. Whenever it can help, it's trying to be sufficient and handy. Features: + Real-pixel editing. + Create projects with photos or a blank background. + Multiple-layer editing: Tap on a layer to select it. + Add new layers from the photo album or the camera. + Move, rotate, flip a layer, zoom in/out to edit with accuracy. + Move up a layer with a double-tap. + Change a layer's width or height. + The only app in the App Store capable of performing perspective transformations. + Color eraser: Quickly erase a layer's background color. + Eraser: Erase on a layer with desired size and offset. + Add transparency to a layer. + Copy a layer or the whole image. + Crop a layer. + Delete a layer. + Add a text layer. + Control your photos: Contrast, Saturation, Brightness, Tint, Exposure, Blur, USM, Vibrance, Gloom, Vignette, Gamma, Bloom, Sepia Tone, Posterize, Hue Adjust, etc. + Apply combined photo effects with convenience. + Project auto-save. + Save or mail. + Share to SNS. THE ONLY TIP: ALWAYS SELECT A LAYER BEFORE DOING ANYTHING TO IT. See the demo on the support website.
CamBe
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Every photo you take is rendered with an 80s film look — warm tones, lifted blacks, soft grain, gentle vignette. But the moment you press the shutter, it starts fading. Slowly. Irreversibly. HOW IT WORKS Photos live only inside CamBe. Each time you open your album, the app calculates exactly how much time has passed since each shot was taken and renders the current fade state in real time. 0–3 months — Film original. Warm, grainy, alive. 3–8 months — Blues pull back. A pink-red drift sets in. Contrast softens. 8–12 months — Detail blurs. The image starts dissolving. After 1 year — Terminal state. Almost white. A faint ghost of what was there. WHAT YOU CAN DO · Shoot with a built-in film look · Watch your photos age over real calendar time · Import photos from your camera roll — if timestamp data exists, they get sorted by when they were actually taken and rendered with the fade they've already earned · Export the current faded state to your camera roll at any point · Delete a photo permanently WHAT YOU CAN'T DO Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ You can't slow it down. You can't speed it up. You can't restore the original. That's the point. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Xer at 9.0 against CamBe's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Xer | CamBe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志明 丁 | MING-TA HSIEH |
Bugs and requests
Xer
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes frequently during editing
- Eraser tool causes app to crash or malfunction
- Layers disappear randomly during work
- Undo function doesn't work properly
- Unresponsive buttons and controls
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- Tutorial exit button unresponsive on iOS 8
- Photos won't load or get stuck loading
- Image quality drastically decreases on import
- Erased content reappears before crashing
- App circles back to instructions instead of functioning
- Photos move around uncontrollably on screen
Requested features
10 requests- Layer tab/panel for easy layer management and visibility
- Ability to add more than 3 layers
- Save and resume projects functionality
- HD/high-quality image export options
- Undo functionality that actually works
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- Individual side adjustment for canvas resizing
- Comprehensive user instructions and tutorials
- Button labels and icon descriptions
- Ability to delete and reload pictures
- Smart layer selection without moving other layers
CamBe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Xer
No in-app purchases
CamBe
No in-app purchases









