Comparison

Glowi vs LibreCam

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

Head to head
About

Glowi

Enhance your photos and videos with precise lighting and color adjustments. Achieve flawless selfies and stunning visuals with smart brightness control and advanced RGB tuning.

Highlights
  • Smart brightness control
  • Gesture controls for brightness
  • Advanced RGB color tuning
  • Real-time color preview
  • Hexadecimal color codes
  • Intelligent text color matching
Features
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Glowi is your ultimate lighting app, designed to help you shine in every selfie, perfect your food shots, and create stunning visuals with just the right glow. Flawless Brightness Adjustment • Smart brightness control to enhance your natural skin tone • Quick screen brightness tweaks for on-the-go perfection • Gesture controls for effortless brightness adjustments Advanced Color Customization • Precise RGB tuning to find the perfect light for your complexion • Real-time color preview to match every mood and moment • Hexadecimal color codes for those who love creative control • Intelligent text color matching to keep everything looking seamless

About

LibreCam

Capture raw image data directly from your iPhone's sensor without any artificial processing. Offers manual controls for focus, ISO, and exposure, with options for custom color recipes and framed prints.

Highlights
  • Capture true Bayer DNGs
  • Single-frame HEIFs
  • Manual focus, ISO, exposure
  • Customizable color recipes
  • Framed print sharing
  • Apple Watch remote control
Features
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LibreCam is a manual RAW camera for iPhone that captures what the sensor sees, and nothing more. Shoot true Bayer DNGs, single-frame HEIFs, or both at once, with no fusion, no aggressive processing, no account, no tracking and no subscription. The stock camera applies Smart HDR, Deep Fusion, noise reduction, sharpening and tone mapping to every shot. LibreCam turns off everything that can be turned off, and is honest about what cannot. DNG: the true Bayer sensor readout. No fusion, no noise reduction, no tone mapping, no distortion correction. One frame, exactly as the sensor read it. HEIF: a single frame developed by the hardware ISP. No fusion, no HDR, no semantic tricks. LOOKS: nine fixed color recipes, applied to the HEIF as you shoot. Build your own with dials in the Look Editor, and import or export standard .cube files. The DNG is never touched. PRINT: share a shot as a framed print. Ink or paper matte, and a label with the exposure, camera, date, place and your name, set like a museum caption. A copy made for sharing; the photo itself stays as it is. LIBRECAM PRO: one purchase, no subscription, and only two things are paid: the Look Editor for your own recipes, and the Apple Watch remote. Everything else is free. FEATURES - Every physical lens on your iPhone. No digital zoom, ever. - The front camera too, with mirrored or true-to-sensor selfies. - An Apple Watch remote: shutter, readouts, framing assist. (LibreCam Pro) - Manual focus, shutter, ISO, exposure bias and white balance. Everything is automatic until touched. - Focus peaking: the sharpest edges glow amber while you focus. - Level: a horizon line that reports the tilt your photo will actually have. It never straightens anything. - Histogram: all three channels live on the glass, with marks for which one is clipping, and at which end. - Nine looks free; build your own with LibreCam Pro. - Print: a framed, captioned copy of any shot, ready to share. - Frame lock: 9:16, 2:3, 4:5 or 1:1 on the glass, the developed copy cropped to match. The DNG keeps the full frame. - Flash: off, auto or on. On auto, the bolt turns amber only when the scene will fire it. - Aperture on iPhone 18 Pro: f/1.48 to f/4 on the 24 mm lens in thirds of a stop, one tap each. Automatic until touched. - Shutter priority and ISO priority metering. - Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later: focus, aperture, shutter, ISO, EV, white balance and the lenses, right on the button. - Hardware shutter on the volume buttons. No shutter sound. - Add-only Photos access. No account, no tracking. - Optional location tagging, written into the photo on your device. A camera, not a computer.

Screenshots

Glowi3 screens
LibreCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glowi at none against LibreCam's 1. LibreCam's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. LibreCam sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Glowi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Glowi against 5.0 for LibreCam. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LibreCam has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Glowi versus LibreCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlowiLibreCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoreSpeed Inc.Timo Josten

Customer experience

Glowi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LibreCam

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Glowi

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LibreCam

One-time1
  • LibreCam Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Glowi free?
Glowi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LibreCam free?
LibreCam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Glowi or LibreCam?
Glowi and LibreCam are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Glowi or LibreCam have ads?
Neither Glowi nor LibreCam shows ads.

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