Apollo vs Bothways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apollo
Capture precise before-and-after photos with this versatile tool. Overlay existing images from your gallery onto your live camera feed for real-time comparison and alignment. Ideal for professionals and hobbyists needing accurate visual documentation.
- Overlay gallery images on camera
- Adjustable transparency
- Real-time comparisons
- Precise alignment tool
- Ideal for various professions
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Apollo - Camera Overlay: The Versatile Tool for Precise Photography Discover Apollo - Camera Overlay, the ultimate app designed for anyone who needs to capture accurate before-and-after photos or those who require precise alignment in their work or hobbies. Initially crafted for animators and photographers, Apollo - Camera Overlay has proven to be a versatile tool used by a wide range of professionals and enthusiasts. Whether you're a hairdresser capturing client transformations, a scientist using your phone camera with a microscope, a construction manager documenting building progress, or an artist working on detailed projects, Apollo - Camera Overlay simplifies your tasks. Easily overlay any photo from your gallery on top of the camera image to instantly compare and contrast. Key Features: • Overlay images from your gallery on your camera feed • Adjustable transparency for precise alignment • Real-time before-and-after comparisons • Ideal for animators, photographers, artists, scientists, and more Join our diverse community of users and see how Apollo - Camera Overlay can enhance your work, projects, and hobbies with its easy-to-use and powerful features.
Bothways
Record video once and get both landscape and portrait versions simultaneously. Smart face tracking ensures subjects stay centered in the vertical frame. Ideal for creators posting to multiple platforms without re-editing.
- Dual simultaneous export
- Smart face tracking
- 4K & 1080p recording
- Pinch-to-zoom
- Cinema overlays
- Flexible output formats
- Front & back camera support
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Record once. Export twice. A true creator's camera. Bothways captures video from your iPhone camera and simultaneously writes two professionally formatted files: a 16:9 landscape version and a 9:16 portrait version, with a live Picture-In-Picture preview of the alternate format — both encoded in real-time using hardware-accelerated H.264. The portrait crop isn't a dumb center-slice. Bothways uses Apple's Vision framework to detect faces in every frame and smoothly tracks the subject, keeping them centered in the vertical frame. No face visible? It gracefully falls back to a center crop. Built for creators who post to YouTube and TikTok from the same shoot. Built for filmmakers who need both formats without re-editing. Built for anyone who's tired of choosing between landscape and portrait before they hit record. KEY CAPABILITIES - Dual simultaneous export — real-time AVAssetWriter, not a post-process re-encode - Smart face tracking — Vision framework detection with smooth EMA tracking - 4K & 1080p — shoot in up to 3840x2160 at 24, 30, or 60 fps - Pinch-to-zoom — smooth digital zoom up to 10x with live indicator - Cinema overlays — optional vignette and film grain effects on the live preview - Flexible output — export as .MOV or .MP4 with configurable bitrate - Front & back camera — works with both, including mirrored front camera - Metal GPU pipeline — hardware-accelerated crop, scale, and encode - Full audio — stereo AAC in both output files - One-tap save — both files go straight to Photos No subscriptions. No watermarks. No cloud upload. No accounts. Everything runs on-device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Apollo at Free against Bothways's $4.99. Apollo also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Bothways's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On 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
Apollo is free to download; Bothways costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bothways holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Apollo has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Apollo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bothways's.
Apollo ships an update every 2 weeks, Bothways every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Apollo | Bothways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maxim Yakovlev | James Martin |
Customer experience
Apollo
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In-app purchases
Apollo
No in-app purchases
Bothways
No in-app purchases









