Comparison

(Not Boring) Camera vs Project Indigo

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

Head to head
About

(Not Boring) Camera

Capture unique, honest, and inspiring photos with a playful camera interface. Offers professional-level controls, natural image processing, and customizable color grading with LUTs. Enjoy a tactile, 3D interface and one-second capture from lock screen.

Highlights
  • SUPER RAW™ capture
  • 3D LUT color grading
  • Customizable camera interface
  • HDR support
  • 3D camera interface with haptics
  • Manual pro controls
  • One-tap fast capture
Features
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"The most fun camera app I've used in forever." — The Verge "My go-to for iPhone photography" — Washington Post "It’s so fun to use." —MKBHD Capture unique, honest, inspiring photos like the Pros in a fun, playful camera. SUPER RAW™ No AI or over-processed photos. Just natural grain, sharper images, & film-like exposures. Save Raw digital negative files (DNG) for processing in other tools like Darkroom, Lightroom, or Photoshop. Or capture using Apple's professional-level ProRaw. SKIP THE EDITS From snap to share. !Camera is the first camera app to enable professional color grading with 3D LUTs (”lookup tables”) used in high-end workflows by professional photographers to achieve realistic film simulations and unique cinematic looks. Use !Camera’s presets, add LUTs from your favorite creators, or make & import your own! New Styles and pro collaborations released every season. MAKE IT YOURS Customize every part of your camera to fit your vibe. Share colorways with others. HDR Extend your photo’s dynamic range with HDR to save additional highlight detail and color depth. LOVE THE FEEL Click. Tick. Snap. First fully-3D camera interface with dynamic lighting, sounds, & custom haptics that evokes the feel of holding a real camera. PRO CONTROL Use Auto mode for easy captures or switch to Manual for full control over exposure, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and focus with pro-level tools like focus peaking, histogram, and zebra stripes. ONE-TAP FAST From lock screen to first snap in under 1 second. Add shortcuts to your lock screen, home screen, widgets, camera control, control settings, wherever. 100% PRIVATE We collect nothing. We store nothing. We share nothing. Plans: https://notbor.ing/plans Support: https://notbor.ing/support Terms: https://notbor.ing/terms Privacy: https://notbor.ing/privacy

About

Project Indigo

This app offers advanced computational photography with manual controls for a natural, SLR-like image look. It captures bursts of photos to create high-quality images with reduced noise and enhanced dynamic range, suitable for both casual and professional users.

Highlights
  • Computational photography pipeline
  • Natural image look (SLR-like)
  • Full manual camera controls
  • Photo and Night modes
  • Super-resolution for zoom
  • Macro mode
  • Live viewfinder with histogram and zebra striping
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Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page. Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads. For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer. A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range. PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted. Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise. NATURAL LOOK Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them. PRO CONTROLS Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray. Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped. SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active. MACRO MODE Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots. VIEWFINDER Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images. LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form: - AI Denoise is a variant of the AI-based denoising from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll. - Remove Reflections is a variant of the technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. It tries to remove reflections when shooting through plate glass windows covering most of the camera field of view. - Face Dewarp corrects warp on faces near the edge of images captured using wide-angle lenses. It uses DNG or JPEG as input and saves a JPEG to your camera roll.

Screenshots

(Not Boring) Camera4 screens
Project Indigo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: (Not Boring) Camera at 4.6 against Project Indigo's 3.8. (Not Boring) Camera also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 45%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). Project Indigo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. (Not Boring) Camera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Project Indigo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

(Not Boring) Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: (Not Boring) Camera has 5K ratings behind it against 702, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of (Not Boring) Camera's written reviews are positive against 45% of Project Indigo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

(Not Boring) Camera ships an update every 10 days, Project Indigo every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
(Not Boring) Camera versus Project Indigo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter(Not Boring) CameraProject Indigo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5K ratings) — better3.8 (702 ratings)
Positive reviews70.4% of reviews — better45.2% of reviews
Number of ratings5K — better702
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.2 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB347 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNot Boring Software LLCAdobe Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

(Not Boring) Camera

All ratings4,950 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews422 reviews
Positive70.4%
Neutral10.2%
Negative19.4%

Project Indigo

All ratings702 ratings
Positive64.1%
Neutral11.5%
Negative24.4%
Written reviews1,183 reviews
Positive45.2%
Neutral15.7%
Negative39.1%

User reviews

(Not Boring) Camera

From 5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Customizable camera experience
  • 🎨 In-camera processing with LUTs
  • 🎥 Satisfying and natural film-like photos
  • 🔍 Excellent manual controls
  • 🎨 Aesthetically pleasing UI

Room to improve

  • 🔍 No digital zoom
  • 🎥 No video or slow-motion mode
  • 🔥 Phone gets too hot during use

Project Indigo

From 702 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Excellent image quality
  • 🚀 Powerful processing algorithms
  • 🔍 Impressive zoom and detail enhancement

Room to improve

  • 🔥 Overheating issues
  • 🔋 Battery drain
  • 🐛 Focusing problems
  • 🚫 Incompatible with some regions/devices

Bugs and requests

(Not Boring) Camera

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Inability to focus on nearby subjects

Requested features

2 requests
  • Video and slow-motion mode
  • Brightness matching between viewfinder and final image

Project Indigo

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Shutter sound cannot be disabled
  • AI-based features causing loss of detail

Requested features

3 requests
  • Support for higher resolution photos
  • Improved tap-to-focus functionality
  • Better optimization for battery and thermal performance

In-app purchases

5 purchases

(Not Boring) Camera

Subscriptions4
  • Super !Boring Monthly$7.991 Month
  • !Camera Plus Yearly$14.991 Year
  • !Camera Plus Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
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  • Super !Boring Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • !Camera Plus Lifetime$59.99
None

Project Indigo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is (Not Boring) Camera free?
(Not Boring) Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Project Indigo free?
Project Indigo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, (Not Boring) Camera or Project Indigo?
(Not Boring) Camera is rated higher. (Not Boring) Camera averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while Project Indigo averages 3.8 from 702 ratings.
Do (Not Boring) Camera or Project Indigo have ads?
Neither (Not Boring) Camera nor Project Indigo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, (Not Boring) Camera or Project Indigo?
(Not Boring) Camera ships an update every 10 days, and Project Indigo every 3 weeks. Most recently, (Not Boring) Camera was updated on September 23, 2026 and Project Indigo on September 24, 2026.

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