Comparison

Senko vs y2kam

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

Head to head
About

Senko

This camera app offers a streamlined shooting experience with advanced photographic controls. Capture images in various RAW formats and apply custom color-graded filters. Adjust settings like white balance and zoom easily from a single action bar.

Highlights
  • SenkoRAW, ProRAW, HEIC, JPEG capture
  • Custom color graded filters
  • Environmentally driven noise and saturation
  • Post-capture photo editing
  • All-in-one action bar for controls
Features
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Senko is a camera app that combines the elegance of a point-and-shoot experience and blends it with the photographic power available in your iPhones. - Capture the way you want to - Shoot in SenkoRAW (zero proccesssing), ProRAW, HEIC, and JPEG - Capture how you envision the shot - Shoot with custom color graded filters - Capture the rhythm of the environment - Noise and Saturation are dynamically driven by your environment not your fingers - Capture in RAW, edit in Post - Photo labs lets you edit your photos the way you want to afterwards - All in one Action bar - Toggle white balance, filtering, zoom levels from one location Thats it, thats the shot. If you can see it, you can shoot it. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

y2kam

Capture photos with the authentic grainy, over-sharpened, and lo-fi aesthetic of early 2000s digital cameras. Select your year between 1995-2005 to adjust the visual style and add period-correct date stamps.

Highlights
  • Authentic Y2K camera filters
  • Adjustable year from 1995-2005
  • Period-correct resolutions
  • Digital zoom and flash toggle
  • Amber-orange date stamps
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
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Remember when your MySpace pics looked crunchy, grainy, and kinda iconic? This app brings that exact Y2K vibe straight to your iPhone. No fake vintage “presets” here — we’re talking real-time filters that mimic the quirks of early 2000s cameras: - Over-sharpened halos & lens blur - Grainy CCD noise (both luma and chroma, baby) - Flashy bloom on highlights - Chunky pixelation & lo-fi resolutions - Subtle lens warps + chromatic aberration - Amber-orange date stamps, straight off a 2002 Kodak - Browse painfully through taken pictures using the camera buttons You can even pick your year from 1995–2005 and watch the vibes shift from 640×480 cyber-café selfies to slightly “high-res” 2005 mall-rat pics. - Save shots to your camera roll in period-correct resolutions. - Use digital zoom, toggle flash, and slap that time stamp in the corner like it’s your AIM profile pic. The Best Part - No ads. - No in-app purchases. - No nonsense. Just pure throwback energy, like apps used to be — one download, full vibes, end of story. Shoot like it’s the 2000s, post like it’s 2025.

Screenshots

Senko4 screens
y2kam3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Senko at Free against y2kam's $0.49. Senko also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). y2kam's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 17.4). On ratings volume, ads 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

Senko is free to download; y2kam costs $0.49 up front. Senko sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. y2kam asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Senko holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Senko's written reviews are positive against 63% of y2kam's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Senko versus y2kam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSenkoy2kam
PriceFree — better$0.49
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.415.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven SarmientoJeroen Keij

Customer experience

Senko

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

y2kam

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Senko

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Membership (Weekly)$1.997 Days
  • Pro Membership (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Pro Membership (Yearly)$34.991 Year
None

y2kam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Senko free?
Senko is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is y2kam free?
y2kam costs $0.49, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Senko or y2kam?
Senko is rated higher. Senko averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while y2kam averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Senko or y2kam have ads?
Neither Senko nor y2kam shows ads.

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