UWACAM vs Surface Interval
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UWACAM
Capture stunning underwater photos and videos with professional-grade tools. Features automatic color processing, manual controls, and AI analysis for marine life identification.
- Automatic UWACOLOR processing
- Manual control of exposure, focus, white balance
- LOG format support for color grading
- Built-in and custom LUTs
- Vizalyzer AI marine life analysis
- User-friendly interface for underwater use
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UWACAM is the leading professional app for underwater photo and video, now available in Version 2.6. Designed for DIVEVOLK Seatouch cases and developed with award-winning underwater cinematographer Matthias Lebo, this app is easy to use, with large, clear controls for effortless, stunning video and photo captures. Packed with pro features, UWACAM provides automatic UWACOLOR* processing (real-time or postprocessed) to enhance colors, supports LOG format (incl. Apple Log and Apple Log 2 on compatible devices), built-in LUTs, manual mode, user presets, histogram, focus peaking, zebra, configurable overlays and much more. Integrated Vizalyzer AI analyzes your captures for marine life information (Internet and subscription required). Highlights: • UI designed for underwater, action sports and other challenging environments • Easy to use in DIVEVOLK Seatouch cases or with touchscreen-compatible gloves • Perfect for scuba diving, snorkelling, watersports and sports action • Choose AUTO Mode (great for beginners) or PRO Mode with full manual control • UWACOLOR dynamically adaptive color processing — real-time or postprocessed, also with 4K, high frame rates and HDR/Rec.2020 Recent additions: • Postprocessing effects: Spotlight, Twist and Sphere • Postprocessing styles: Black & White or Sepia • Flip and Mirror — independently flip or mirror photos and videos • Photo Double Exposure — combine two photos creatively • Customizable Imprints (watermarks) — position, size, opacity, rotation; built-in set included • Highly configurable grid overlay (rows, columns, thickness, colors) • Level overlay with optional auto-fade and adjustable threshold • Touch guard against inadvertent wake-up • Grid view alongside the existing list view in playback • Portuguese language support (Portugal and Brazil) Capture & creative tools: • Easy zoom with three different speeds • Video and photo in all device resolutions, frame rates and color spaces • Focus peaking, zebra, LOG (incl. Apple Log / Log 2), built-in and custom LUTs • Manual control of exposure, focus, white balance, tint and more • Magnifier for macro • Self timer with configurable picture count and interval • Batch UWACOLOR postprocessing • Photo Flash and Video Torch in quick access • Camera Blending for improved macro on compatible devices UI, settings & storage: • Customizable parameters and easy-to-use menus • User presets, multi-page quick access, histogram • Configurable overlays: center point, rule of thirds, safe area, grid, level, aspect ratio and more • Built-in compass overlay • Optional GPS coordinates (satellite-derived or manual) • Rotation lock and upside-down portrait in PRO mode • Store captures to photo library, files or in-app — grid/list browsing, share, delete • Media list rebuild from existing files or Photos library • SMPTE timecode (off, record run, local time or UTC) • Sleep mode with optional touch guard • UWACAM Widget for the lock screen Free download — no capture feature limitations. Subscribe to disable the watermark on subsequent captures (UWACOLOR captures made without subscription carry a permanent watermark) and to enable Vizalyzer AI image analysis. Feedback or issues? Email support@uwacam.com — we're happy to help! *No color processing or filter can fully restore colors lost to spectral absorption. For best results we recommend using a video light if available. End-User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Surface Interval
This app automatically enhances underwater videos by restoring lost colors and editing them into short, watchable clips. It processes footage directly on your device without uploading, offering customizable reel lengths and resolutions for sharing.
- Automatic underwater color restoration
- Automatic video trimming and assembly
- On-device processing, no uploads
- Customizable reel length and resolution
- Built-in music tracks
- Supports various camera file formats
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Underwater video comes back blue, and a dive comes back as forty minutes nobody is going to watch. Surface Interval does both jobs by itself: it puts the red back, and it cuts the dive down to one reel worth watching — on the phone, with nothing uploaded anywhere. HOW IT WORKS Add the videos from a dive, from Photos or from a card reader through Files. They land in a folder for that day, which you can rename to the site you dived. Open the folder and tap "Make a reel of this folder", or pick a few videos and make a reel of just those. The app does the rest. It measures each video and puts back the color the water took — shallow, mid, deep or night, read from the footage itself rather than from a preset you have to guess at. It finds the moments worth keeping, trims them, leaves them in the order they were shot, dissolves between them and lays a track underneath. You get two choices: how long, from 5 seconds to 3 minutes, and whether it is made in 4K for YouTube. Then save it to Photos. WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT IT The correction is measured, not guessed. Footage a camera already corrected is recognized and left alone, so it is never corrected twice. Videos still in iCloud are streamed, not downloaded. A 4K original never has to come down to your phone before it can be used. Vertical and horizontal footage are kept in separate folders, so a reel never mixes the two. A reel interrupted by a phone call or a hot phone carries on from the shot it had reached, instead of starting again. There is no account and no sign-in, and the app makes no network call of its own; a purchase goes through Apple. Your footage is read where it already sits and is never copied anywhere. WORKS WITH DJI Osmo Action, GoPro, Insta360, iPhone — anything that writes an ordinary video file. Reels are saved to Photos at 1080p, or in 4K for YouTube. MUSIC Eight tracks are built in, and 45 more come from Apple on a tap in Settings, on iOS 26.4 and later. One is picked to suit each reel. They come from Pixabay under its Content License: nothing to credit, nothing to pay, and only ever mixed under your own footage. FREE, TWO REELS A DAY Two reels a day are free, each with a small watermark in the corner. Week, Year or Lifetime lifts the limit and lets you turn the watermark off. Week and Year renew automatically until you cancel. Terms of Use: https://ligrimp-lang.github.io/surfaceinterval-site/terms.html Surface interval: the time between dives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Surface Interval at every 2 days against UWACAM's every 2 weeks. Surface Interval also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). UWACAM's advantage is ratings volume (61 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. UWACAM sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Surface Interval sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Surface Interval holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UWACAM has 61 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
UWACAM ships an update every 2 weeks, Surface Interval every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UWACAM | Surface Interval |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (61 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bumbayaya GmbH | RUSTAM ISMAILOV |
Customer experience
UWACAM
Surface Interval
In-app purchases
UWACAM
- Weekly3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Monthly3 Days trial$29.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Surface Interval
- Diver.Today, monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Week$9.997 Days
- Diver.Today, yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Year$29.991 Year
- Diver.Today, for life$49.99
- Lifetime$49.99









