ObscuraFlex vs TiltShift3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ObscuraFlex
This app provides a high-resolution, right-side-up live feed of your large format camera's image plane. It enhances composition and focusing, offering greater detail and clarity than a standard ground glass. Use it to shoot stills, video, or reference images alongside your film negatives.
- High-resolution live feed
- Right-side-up image display
- Composition and focusing aid
- Supports various large format cameras
- Capture stills and video
- Reference image creation
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ObscuraFlex is a camera app designed for use with the ObscuraFlex™ large format camera viewfinder adapter for cameras including 4x5 Graflex, Linhof, Chamonix, and some vintage Polaroid cameras. The app provides a high resolution live feed of your large format camera's image plane (ie: ground glass) rotated to reverse the upside-down image created by any traditional optical system. When using the camera adapter as a composition and focusing aid for large format film photography the ObscuraFlex™ provides a greater level of detail and clarity than working with a standard ground glass, and with an image that's right-side-up! You can also use the adapter with this app (or other camera app) to shoot stills, video, or reference images to accompany your film negatives.
TiltShift3
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Tiltshift recreates the perfectly imperfect look of vintage large format tilt shift focusing and lens distortion. The basic controls help recreate these focusing effects using your phone's LiDAR. Once a photo is taken with this app you can change point of focus and the plane of focus. Swirl adds in a vintage lens radial blurring effect. Keep editing your image with color presets or create your own including using LUTs. Save your presents to reuse your settings. Tiltshift contains a more detailed features documentation within the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TiltShift3 at fortnightly against ObscuraFlex's every 5 weeks. ObscuraFlex's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). 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.
ObscuraFlex ships an update every 5 weeks, TiltShift3 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ObscuraFlex | TiltShift3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toby Wilkins | Jeffrey Rooney |
In-app purchases
ObscuraFlex
No in-app purchases
TiltShift3
No in-app purchases
Questions
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