Lucent Camera vs Simple Black And White Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lucent Camera
This app offers a classic black and white photography experience with granular control over lighting and composition. Manually adjust focus, ISO, exposure, contrast, and brightness to master your shots. Its simple interface provides gentle haptic feedback and optional grid lines for precise framing.
- Manual focus control
- Adjustable ISO and exposure
- Contrast and brightness settings
- Tap to auto focus
- Pinch to zoom
- Simple interface with haptic feedback
- Optional grid lines
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Lucent Camera is a classic black and white camera. It's interface lets you control every detail of the lighting and composition of your photographs. Features include: • Ability to manually focus the lens. • Ability to manually adjust iso and exposure settings. • Ability to set the contrast and brightness levels. • Tap to auto focus. • Pinch to zoom. • Simple interface with gentle haptic feedback. • Optional grid lines to line up your shots. • Totally private. Shooting in black and white can take your photography to the next level and Lucent Camera lets you control every detail to achieve mastery with the camera in your pocket.
Simple Black And White Camera
Capture unique, artistic black and white images with this straightforward camera app. It's designed for users who want to create easily editable photos with interesting visual effects.
- Black and white binary image capture
- Artistic image effects
- Unique photo creation
- Easily editable photos
- Simple user interface
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A simple camera that can take black and white binary images. You can take unique black and white images or tasteful art-like images. Let's take photos with interesting effects This is for people who want to take easily edited photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lucent Camera at none against Simple Black And White Camera's shown. Lucent Camera also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Simple Black And White Camera's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
Simple Black And White Camera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lucent Camera has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lucent Camera ships an update every 2 months, Simple Black And White Camera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lucent Camera | Simple Black And White Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Lucas | Ryouhei Azuma |
Customer experience
Lucent Camera
Simple Black And White Camera
In-app purchases
Lucent Camera
No in-app purchases
Simple Black And White Camera
No in-app purchases
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