Negative Image Camera vs Positive View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Negative Image Camera
Capture unique, art-like photos by reversing image colors. This camera app offers an easy way to create visually striking images with inverted colors, perfect for artistic expression.
- Invert image colors
- Capture unique photos
- Create art-like images
- Easy photo editing
- Special effects camera
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A simple camera that can take photos with the colors of the image reversed. By inverting colors and inverting negative and positive images, you can capture unique images and tasteful art-like images. Let's take photos with interesting effects This is for people who want to take easily edited photos.
Positive View
Transform your phone into a live viewer for photographic negatives. Instantly see positive images from color or black-and-white film in real time. Ideal for quickly previewing, selecting, and referencing your film scans.
- Live negative viewing (color & B&W)
- Automatic color balancing
- Brightness, contrast, warmth controls
- Freeze, zoom, and pan frame
- Save positive image to Photos
- Calibration for illumination and lens
- Use second device as light panel
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Positive View turns your iPhone camera into a high quality live viewer for photographic negatives. Place a color or black-and-white film over an even light source, point the camera at it, and Positive View displays a positive image in real time. Use it to quickly see the images, select the best ones for scanning, or make a quick reference image. Features: • Live color and black-and-white negative viewing • Automatic color balancing, with a lock for consistent viewing • Brightness, contrast, and warmth controls • Freeze, zoom, and pan a frame for closer inspection • Save the current positive to Photos • Calibrate for even illumination and to counter lens falloff • Turn a second device into a plain white light panel Camera processing happens on your device. Positive View has no ads, accounts, analytics, or tracking. Images are saved only on your device and only when you tap Save. For best results, use an even, diffused light source with low flicker and keep the film flat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Positive View at none against Negative Image Camera's shown. Positive View also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Negative Image Camera's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Negative Image Camera against 5.0 for Positive View. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.
Negative Image Camera ships an update every 3 months, Positive View fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Negative Image Camera | Positive View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryouhei Azuma | Mikhail Rybakov |
Customer experience
Negative Image Camera
Positive View
In-app purchases
Negative Image Camera
No in-app purchases
Positive View
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Negative Image Camera free?
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