Comparison

Recreate Cam vs Surface Camera

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

Head to head
About

Recreate Cam

This app allows you to overlay any photo from your gallery onto your camera screen, acting as a live guide for precise and perfectly aligned shots. It's ideal for recreating memories, achieving flawless compositions, and capturing photos with unmatched accuracy.

Highlights
  • Overlay gallery photos on camera screen
  • Live guide for precise shots
  • Recreate memories and compositions
  • Track transformations (fitness, age)
  • Create before-and-after comparisons
  • Mimic cinematic scenes and iconic shots
Features
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Recreate Cam is a powerful photography app that lets you overlay any photo from your gallery onto your camera screen, turning it into a live guide for precise, perfectly aligned shots. Whether recreating memories or achieving flawless compositions, this app helps you capture photos with unmatched accuracy. Endless Possibilities with Recreate Cam: • Track fitness, hair, or age transformations. • Create stunning before-and-after comparison shots. • Recreate cinematic scenes with accurate composition and angles. • Bring childhood photos back to life with modern recreations. • Mimic iconic shots from your favorite content creators. • Enhance your travel photography with precision framing. Take your photography to the next level—whether for personal memories or professional projects, Recreate Cam makes every shot purposeful and precise. Download Recreate Cam today and start capturing memories like never before!

About

Surface Camera

Features
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A film camera for iPhone. Choose your film. Compose the frame. Make the photograph. Surface brings eight distinct film profiles to your iPhone, with the look visible in the viewfinder before you shoot. Add blur or light leaks, take control of focus and exposure, and save directly to Apple Photos. FIND YOUR FILM Four black-and-white profiles: Selenium 400, Bromide 125, Metol 125, and Palladium 3200. Four color profiles: Chroma 100, Tonal 400, Radian 400, and Prism 100. Your chosen profile becomes part of the photograph at capture. Editing refines that photograph while keeping its film. SHAPE THE FRAME Position blur and adjust its strength. Add a light leak, then randomize it to explore a different color and pattern. Tap to focus, adjust exposure, and use focus peaking. Flash, a timer, and slow shutter are close at hand. EDIT IN SURFACE Adjust Exposure, Contrast, Blacks, Whites, Saturation, Warmth, Tint, Grain, Halation, and Vignette. Crop and straighten, undo and redo, and save your edits back to Photos. ONE PHOTO LIBRARY Captures and edits live in Apple Photos. Browse your Surface photographs, import photos for editing, share favorites, and manage your collection without maintaining a second library. CAPTURE YOUR WAY Choose HEIC, JPEG, or Apple ProRAW on supported iPhones. Capture at 12, 24, or 48 MP depending on your hardware and settings. ProRAW supports 12 or 48 MP. Open the viewfinder from Siri, Shortcuts, the Lock Screen, or Control Center. MADE FOR YOUR IPHONE Film rendering and editing happen on your device. No Surface account, ads, or tracking. Apple services handle purchases, optional iCloud Photos sync, and location-name lookup. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. Requires iOS 18 or later. Camera features vary by iPhone model. MEMBERSHIP Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Purchases are handled by Apple. Subscriptions renew unless canceled through your Apple Account settings. Local prices are shown before purchase. Privacy Policy: https://surfacecamera.app/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Recreate Cam4 screens
Surface Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Recreate Cam at none against Surface Camera's 3. 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. Surface Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Recreate Cam asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Recreate Cam versus Surface Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecreate CamSurface Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVladislav AntonovCarlos Tarrats

In-app purchases

None

Recreate Cam

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Surface Camera

Subscriptions2
  • Surface Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Surface Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Surface Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Recreate Cam free?
Recreate Cam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Surface Camera free?
Surface Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Recreate Cam or Surface Camera have ads?
Neither Recreate Cam nor Surface Camera shows ads.

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