Comparison

(Not Boring) Camera vs Lightpop

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

Lightpop

Enhance your photos and videos with supernatural brightness and vibrant colors. AI-powered person extraction allows for selective editing of subjects and backgrounds, creating scroll-stopping content. Add ultra-bright borders for an illusion of depth.

Highlights
  • Supernatural brightness enhancement
  • AI person extraction for selective editing
  • Color enhancement for vibrant visuals
  • Ultra-bright border configurations
  • Supports high-resolution images and videos
  • HDR encoding for compatible displays
Features
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Engineered to make your content outshine everything else on the screen. With such supernatural bright 'light', your posts are sure to 'pop' off the feed. Lightpop Turns Your Content Into a Scroll-Stopping Masterpiece. Lightpop: • Lightpop’s proprietary technology drastically alters the true lumen brightness of your content, controlling the nits of individual pixels, making it appear brighter than anything else on-screen. This is accomplished by encoding your media in HDR and maximizing brightness values to super-natural levels, so that they can 'pop' off the screen of any compatible OLED device. Colorpop: • Our Colorpop technology increases chroma in a natural, photo-real way: enhancing color depth without overexposure or filters. Every frame glows with vibrance that feels cinematic yet authentic. The colors changes are symbiotic to brightness changes, with various Lightpop modes allowing for brightness to be adjusted based on the color of each area of your image or video. Person Extraction: • Our AI automatically detects and isolates YOU (or any person) in every frame, allowing for separate editing of the background scene and the foreground subjects. With this, you can apply rich color enhancement or brightness modification only to the background—and a much more natural effect to your skin or clothes. The result is stunning, vibrant content that looks beautifully enhanced without ever looking overly-edited. Border Configurations: • Lightpop supports ultra-bright borders to further enhance your contents ability to pop off the page. This works in conjunction with the Person Extraction technology, allowing for the border to go above the background, but beneath the primary subject, allowing you to pop further out of your content, not just with brightness, but with depth illusion. — Lightpop is compatible with images and videos. Lightpop does not limit content resolution, allowing for edits in the highest standard resolutions. Lightpop is intended for devices with OLED displays. Images are encoded in HEIC and have an optimized SDR fallback for devices without OLED display. Videos are encoded in MP4, have an optimized SDR fallback, and use PQ internally and HLG externally. All Media Encodings are designed for maximum compatibility with HDR-enabled social media platforms. — Lightpop Pro Membership Subscription Information: Lightpop is free to use for image editing. Video editing will requires the optional Lightpop Pro Membership. The cost and renewal period for Lightpop Pro Membership can be found inside the app. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. By subscribing to Lightpop Pro you agree to our Terms of Service and have read and understand our Privacy Policy. Our Terms of Service can be found at: https://tanzaniteapps.com/Lightpop/TermsOfService.html Our Privacy Policy can be found at: https://tanzaniteapps.com/Lightpop/PrivacyPolicy.html — Lightpop™ is a term of Tanzanite Industries LLC. X™ and the X logo are trademarks of X Corp. Lightpop is not affiliated with X.

Screenshots

(Not Boring) Camera4 screens
Lightpop2 screens

Verdict

The call

(Not Boring) Camera and Lightpop both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Lightpop's written reviews are positive against 70% of (Not Boring) Camera's. Lightpop also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). (Not Boring) Camera's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 8) and chart position (#36 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads 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

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 and Lightpop sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for (Not Boring) Camera against 4.6 for Lightpop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: (Not Boring) Camera has 5.2K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of (Not Boring) Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lightpop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

(Not Boring) Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, Lightpop every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
(Not Boring) Camera versus Lightpop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter(Not Boring) CameraLightpop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5.2K ratings)4.6 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#36 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNot Boring Software LLCTanzanite Industries, LLC

Customer experience

(Not Boring) Camera

All ratings5,229 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews436 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral9.6%
Negative20.6%

Lightpop

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Lightpop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
1 purchases

Lightpop

Subscriptions1
  • Lightpop Pro (Onyx)$3.997 Days

Questions

Is (Not Boring) Camera free?
(Not Boring) Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lightpop free?
Lightpop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, (Not Boring) Camera or Lightpop?
Lightpop is rated higher. (Not Boring) Camera averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while Lightpop averages 4.6 from 8 ratings.
Do (Not Boring) Camera or Lightpop have ads?
Neither (Not Boring) Camera nor Lightpop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, (Not Boring) Camera or Lightpop?
(Not Boring) Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, and Lightpop every 2 days. Most recently, (Not Boring) Camera was updated on October 22, 2026 and Lightpop on October 13, 2026.

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