Comparison

(Not Boring) Camera vs Flipcorder

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

Flipcorder

Capture your day in short clips and relive them as an unedited home movie. Apply retro VHS or clean MiniDV looks to your footage. Earn stickers and track your filming streaks.

Highlights
  • Daily video diary recording
  • Unedited home movie playback
  • Retro VHS and MiniDV filters
  • Sticker collection and rewards
  • Filming streak tracking
  • Home Screen widgets
Features
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Flipcorder is your retro camcorder for daily video diaries. Film your day 20 seconds at a time, and tonight relive it as one unedited home movie, like an old camcorder tape. One price, paid once: no subscription, no watermark, no ads, nothing locked. Record Daily Flips • Experience the unique daily tape: everything you film lands on today’s dated 30-minute cassette, in order, for a true retro camcorder feel. • Easily record 20-second “flips” with a simple tap, each stopping and saving automatically with a calm countdown. • You always have control to record longer flips, but the day's tape is always limited to 30 minutes. One Unedited Home Movie • Watch your day as a single, unedited home movie, playing back exactly as you filmed it - authentic video the way it used to be. • Apply classic VHS looks with bleeding color, tracking wobble, and a date stamp, or the crisp, clean look of MiniDV. • Change a tape’s look at any time: the original footage is never touched, so the choice stays yours. • Tap the picture to watch a tape full screen, and every flip keeps the local time where it was filmed, so the date stamp still reads right after a trip. • Hop from flip to flip, or wind the cassette round with your finger to find a moment. Stickers and the Camcorder Bag • Earn stickers as you film: first flips, full tapes, days on tape and a few hidden surprises. A new one slaps onto the viewfinder, then hops onto today’s cassette, and its tape keeps it. • Keep them in your camcorder bag, with your Home Video Club card, this week on tape, your spare tapes and your sticker sheet. • A kind streak counts the days you film. Spare tapes, earned with a full week of flips, cover the odd day off, and Put it in the bag pauses the count while you’re away. • Share your bag, your week or a new sticker as a little card, tall or square. Cards never show your footage. A Theme for Every Day • Today’s blank cassette offers a theme of the day. Tap Take the theme and it becomes the tape’s label, carried on the end card of your saved movie. Theme of the day can be switched off in Settings. Save and Share Memories • Save your whole tape to Photos as one movie with a title card, either with the chosen camcorder look rendered in or as clean 1080p video, ready to share. Never a watermark over your footage. Rather just the flips? Turn off Title and end cards in Settings. • Turn on Remember where flips were filmed, and Photos can show where a saved tape was filmed. The movie file itself never carries the place. • Turn on gentle reminders if you like: a quiet morning nudge or an afternoon check-in while today’s tape is blank, and an evening note when it’s ready to play. • Put today’s tape on your Home Screen as a cassette, with one tap to open the camcorder or play your day’s movie, plus Streak, This week and Next sticker widgets for the Home Screen, and Streak on the Lock Screen and in StandBy too. Built for iPhone Duo • Unlock exclusive features for iPhone Duo, where the fold acts as the power switch, a camera lens is on the cover, and the subject sees a live retro preview with a REC light on the outer screen. • Close your iPhone Duo to instantly save a flip, simplifying your recording process and keeping you focused on the moment. In Your Language • Flipcorder speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese. The camcorder’s own lettering, like REC and PLAY, stays as printed. Flipcorder is a one-time purchase, with no subscriptions, in-app purchases, ads, watermarks or accounts. There’s no Pro version: everything above is included. Your videos stay on your phone until you save or share them. Anonymous usage stats help make the app better: never your footage or anything you type, and Settings > Share usage stats turns them off. Open Flipcorder tomorrow morning and make your first home movie memory.

Screenshots

(Not Boring) Camera4 screens
Flipcorder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: (Not Boring) Camera at Free against Flipcorder's $4.99. (Not Boring) Camera also leads on ratings volume (5.6K vs 21) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). Flipcorder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On 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

(Not Boring) Camera is free to download; Flipcorder costs $4.99 up front. (Not Boring) Camera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Flipcorder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flipcorder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: (Not Boring) Camera has 5.6K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of (Not Boring) Camera's written reviews are positive against 86% of Flipcorder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

(Not Boring) Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, Flipcorder every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
(Not Boring) Camera versus Flipcorder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter(Not Boring) CameraFlipcorder
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.6 (5.6K ratings)5.0 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.0% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.6K — better21
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
Best chart rank#207#11 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNot Boring Software LLCLotus Apps, LLC

Customer experience

(Not Boring) Camera

All ratings5,229 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews452 reviews
Positive69.0%
Neutral9.3%
Negative21.7%

Flipcorder

All ratings12 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
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

Flipcorder

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
None

Flipcorder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is (Not Boring) Camera free?
(Not Boring) Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flipcorder free?
Flipcorder costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, (Not Boring) Camera or Flipcorder?
Flipcorder is rated higher. (Not Boring) Camera averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5.6K ratings, while Flipcorder averages 5.0 from 21 ratings.
Do (Not Boring) Camera or Flipcorder have ads?
Neither (Not Boring) Camera nor Flipcorder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, (Not Boring) Camera or Flipcorder?
(Not Boring) Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, and Flipcorder every 2 days. Most recently, (Not Boring) Camera was updated on November 8, 2026 and Flipcorder on November 6, 2026.
Which is more popular, (Not Boring) Camera or Flipcorder?
(Not Boring) Camera currently peaks at #207 in the App Store charts, and Flipcorder at #11. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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