Comparison

Fear Effect Cam vs Chaos Camera Lab

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fear Effect Cam

Easily create unsettling horror videos with this camera app. Apply cursed video filters to your footage for a chilling effect.

Highlights
  • Horror video creation
  • Cursed video filters
  • Easy to use camera
  • Footage editing
Features
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iHorrorCamera is a camera application that can easily shoot horror videos. You can easily shoot horror videos like a cursed video.

About

Chaos Camera Lab

Transform ordinary photos into unique, collectible color worlds with unpredictable effects. Remap colors, add digital grain, and explore 16 distinct styles. Save and reuse your custom looks for future edits.

Highlights
  • 16 distinct Chaos styles
  • Color remapping and textured grain
  • Reusable recipes with shareable codes
  • Recipe Lab for custom looks
  • 4:5 camera with zoom
  • Photo Library import
Features
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Chaos Camera Lab turns ordinary scenes into unpredictable, collectible color worlds. This is not a traditional filter camera. Chaos remaps the colors inside each photo, adds tactile digital grain, and gives every image its own strange visual character. Shoot with the built-in 4:5 camera or import a photo, then explore looks ranging from soft and dreamlike to stark, graphic, spectral, and broken. Explore 16 distinct Chaos styles: Chaos, Soft, Poster, Acid, Dream, Noir, Thermal, Prism, Solar, Xerox, Signal, Infra, Ghost, Bleach, Mosaic, and Emulsion. When you discover a look worth keeping, save its recipe. Each recipe preserves the preset, palette, tuning, name, and code behind the image, so you can apply the same visual logic to a completely different scene later. Features: • A focused 4:5 camera with tap to focus and multiple zoom choices • 16 visually distinct Chaos presets • Expressive color remapping and textured grain • Photo Library import for remixing existing images • Hold the result to compare it with the original • Reusable recipes with names, palettes, and shareable codes • Recipe Lab for building custom color looks • Chaos Roll sessions and stylized contact sheets • A local gallery and Recipe Passport • High-quality image export to Photos Chaos Camera Lab is made for fast experimentation, happy accidents, and photographers who want an image to become something unexpected. Your photos and recipes stay on your device. Chaos Camera Lab does not collect personal data.

Screenshots

Fear Effect Cam2 screens
Chaos Camera Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chaos Camera Lab at 5.0 against Fear Effect Cam's 4.5. Chaos Camera Lab also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Fear Effect Cam's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chaos Camera Lab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fear Effect Cam has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fear Effect Cam ships an update monthly, Chaos Camera Lab every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 10, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Fear Effect Cam versus Chaos Camera Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFear Effect CamChaos Camera Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (13 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasaharu TsukamotoRyan Walker

Customer experience

Fear Effect Cam

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

Chaos Camera Lab

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fear Effect Cam

No in-app purchases

None

Chaos Camera Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fear Effect Cam free?
Fear Effect Cam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chaos Camera Lab free?
Chaos Camera Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fear Effect Cam or Chaos Camera Lab?
Chaos Camera Lab is rated higher. Fear Effect Cam averages 4.5 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Chaos Camera Lab averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fear Effect Cam or Chaos Camera Lab have ads?
Fear Effect Cam shows ads; Chaos Camera Lab does not.
Which is updated more often, Fear Effect Cam or Chaos Camera Lab?
Fear Effect Cam ships an update monthly, and Chaos Camera Lab every 2 days. Most recently, Fear Effect Cam was updated on October 10, 2026 and Chaos Camera Lab on October 10, 2026.

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