Play Prank Camera vs Ugly Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Prank Camera
Capture surprising reactions from family and friends with this app. It allows you to record videos of their surprised faces using various fun patterns and effects. Surprise and entertain your loved ones with interactive features.
- Record surprised reactions
- Five surprise patterns
- Face fortune-telling surprise
- Two-person face fortune-telling
- Game surprise
- Complementary afterimage effect
- 3D stereogram effect
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If I get a family and a friend to perform application, the face at which they were surprised can be photographed to an animation! Let's surprise and enjoy a family and a friend. There are five kinds of patterns. No.1 Let's surprise using face fortune-telling! No.2 Let's surprise using two persons' face fortune-telling! No.3 Let's surprise using a game! No.4 Let's surprise using a complementary afterimage! No.5 Let's surprise using the picture which is visible to 3D! ------------------------------------ 家族、友達にiPhoneを見せて驚いた顔を動画に撮ろう。 友達へのサプライズとして楽しめるよ。 5種類のパターンがあります。 No.1 顔占いをして驚かそう! No.2 2人の顔占いで驚かそう! No.3 ゲーム中に驚かそう! No.4 補色残像で驚かそう! No.5 立体に見えるステレオグラムで驚かそう! ------------------------------------ 用视频将你的家人、朋友看到苹果手机(iPhone)受到惊恐的样子拍摂下来。 当作一个惊喜让朋友高兴高兴。 有5种模式。 No.1 脸相占卦来惊吓! No.2 両人的脸相占卦来惊吓! No.3 游戏中来惊吓! No.4 补色余象来惊吓! No.5 立体图象来惊吓!
Ugly Camera
Transform your selfies into hilarious and distorted images or videos with a variety of live effects. Easily create funny faces, duplicate features, or completely transform your appearance in real-time before capturing your photo or video.
- Funny face distortion effects
- Live preview filters
- Photo creation
- Video creation
- Animated GIF creation
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Take funny photo ! Ugly Camera creates funny ugly face picture or movie in a very few steps. What you should do is just take photo. - Several effects that result in ugly funny faces; distort, duplicate and transform your face. - Live filters; watch the result before even taking the picture. - You can create Photo, Video and Animated GIF. Ugly Camera is million downloaded popular camera app. Try this ugly selfie camera now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Play Prank Camera at none against Ugly Camera's 1. Play Prank Camera also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Ugly Camera's advantage is ratings volume (127 vs 32). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Ugly Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Play Prank Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Play Prank Camera against 4.4 for Ugly Camera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 127 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Play Prank Camera's written reviews are positive against 72% of Ugly Camera's.
Play Prank Camera ships an update every 5 weeks, Ugly Camera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Prank Camera | Ugly Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (32 ratings) | 4.4 (127 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews | 72.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 127 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 2ka | KANAME OHARA |
Customer experience
Play Prank Camera
Ugly Camera
In-app purchases
Play Prank Camera
No in-app purchases
Ugly Camera
- All Filters(Full feature)$2.99
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