Comparison

Screen Live vs Knurl Camera

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

Head to head
About

Screen Live

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Turn your favorite videos into Live Photo wallpapers that move on your lock screen. Pick the part you love, choose how the motion plays out, and save it to Photos in seconds. Free to use. VIDEO TO LIVE PHOTO - Import any video from your library. Longer videos? Choose the 5-second part you want. - Frame it your way: drag and pinch the video to choose exactly which area becomes your wallpaper. - Built for iOS 18 and the lock screen's Live Photo animation. SHAPE THE MOTION - Select the range of the video that becomes the animation. - Choose how the frames are spaced: Even, Soft, Strong, Extreme, Reverse or S-curve. Each one gives the animation a different feel. - Preview the animation before you save it. FINE-TUNE EVERY FRAME - See which frames of the source video are used. - Tap any frame to replace it and compose your own Live Photo. SAVE AND SET - Saved straight to your Photos app. Then open it, tap Share, and choose "Use as Wallpaper". Important notice: iOS decides whether a Live Photo can animate on the lock screen. Videos with flashes or rapid scene changes may not play the motion. For the best result, use calm clips with smooth, continuous motion.

About

Knurl Camera

Capture unprocessed RAW image data directly from your device's sensor. Offers granular manual controls for ISO, shutter speed, and focus, allowing for complete creative freedom in post-processing.

Highlights
  • Bayer RAW capture
  • Full manual controls (ISO, Shutter, Aperture)
  • Physical control dials
  • Relative focus ring
  • Native focal length lenses
  • Exposure compensation scale
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Knurl is a camera for people who would rather develop the photo themselves. It captures true Bayer RAW: the sensor's own mosaic, written straight to a DNG with none of the computational photography that normally happens on the way. No multi-frame fusion, no tone curve, no sharpening. What lands in your library is undeveloped data with all of its latitude intact, ready for Lightroom or Photos to interpret however you like. THE CONTROLS ARE THE POINT A mode wheel you turn, with the real designations: P for program, Tv for shutter priority, Sv for ISO priority, M for full manual. Every position clicks. ISO and shutter move in thirds of a stop along the standard photographic ladders, on a dial that detents at every rung. Whole stops click harder than thirds, so you can count them by feel without looking. The ends of each ladder are the sensor's genuine limits rather than round numbers, which means base ISO, the cleanest the sensor gets, is actually reachable. Exposure compensation on its own scale, in thirds, with a firmer detent at zero. In manual it becomes the meter, because compensation has nothing left to act on when both controls are already fixed. An AF/MF switch and a focus ring you turn like a ring: relative, so touching it never jumps focus, and marked near to far rather than in invented distances. Three lenses, each at its native focal length, read from the hardware. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF Bayer RAW is 12 MP and does not permit zoom. The 48 MP path would mean Apple ProRAW, which is demosaiced and partially processed, so Knurl does not offer it. When the exposure you have asked for is not achievable, it says so rather than pretending. Your shots go to a Knurl album you can browse in the app, pinch to zoom, and swipe through. Volume buttons fire the shutter. Add the Control to your Action Button, Lock Screen or Control Center to open it without unlocking.

Screenshots

Screen Live4 screens
Knurl Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Knurl Camera at none against Screen Live's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Screen Live versus Knurl Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreen LiveKnurl Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDMITRIJS JUSKOVSDimitrios Zarkadas

In-app purchases

None

Screen Live

No in-app purchases

None

Knurl Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Screen Live free?
Screen Live is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Knurl Camera free?
Knurl Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Screen Live or Knurl Camera have ads?
Screen Live shows ads; Knurl Camera does not.

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