ZAP CAM vs Rewind Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZAP CAM
This app offers a professional photography experience with a focus on authentic retro styles, eliminating the need for post-editing. It provides a variety of popular filters and a user-friendly interface, allowing users to enjoy the moment of capture.
- Authentic retro photography
- One-tap editing
- Popular filter effects
- Real-time filter preview
- Save original negatives
- Adjustable exposure compensation
- Composition grids
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ZAP CAM is an iPhone camera that looks like film and feels like Camera. Pick a look. See it live. Shoot. That's the whole process. Looks • About 60 film, instant, toy, black-and-white, food, and night styles • Live preview • All looks are free. No membership wall on filters. Camera • Tap focus, exposure, white balance, flash • Multiple focal lengths • Grid and volume-button shutter • Instant-style borders • Photos save into a ZAP CAM album, grouped by look If you already know the iPhone camera, you already know this one.
Rewind Camera
Capture moments with a unique, unpredictable film aesthetic. This app simulates the experience of shooting with vintage cameras and developing film, offering a surprise with each developed roll. Discover unexpected beauty and the soul of a forgotten moment.
- Simulated film rolls with unique looks
- No filters or previews
- Surprise development of each frame
- Multiple film types (Classic, Half-Frame, Double Exposure, Plastic, Chaos)
- Manual print finishing options
- In-app gallery for saved photos
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Point. Shoot. Magic. Rewind is a chaos film camera. You pick the kind of roll and take the photo — the rest is out of your hands. Rewind chooses the film stock, the camera, and how every frame develops, all hidden until your roll comes back. No filters. No preview. No retakes. You shoot a roll, you wait for it to come back, and then you meet every frame for the first time. Some are beautiful. Some are strange. None of them are quite what you expected — the soul of a moment already gone. THE RULES • You take the photo. Rewind decides the look. • No filters, no presets — the look is never yours to pick. • No cherry-picking — a roll is all or nothing, the good and the strange. • You never see a frame until it develops. THE FILM — every roll is a different world: • CLASSIC — clean, timeless color and black & white. • HALF-FRAME — two moments paired into one frame. • DOUBLE EXPOSURE — one frame, two lives. • PLASTIC — toy-camera softness, light leaks, happy accidents. • CHAOS — one of a kind, never the same twice. • FILM OF THE MONTH — a fresh curated stock, every month. THE WAIT Rolls don't develop on the spot. You shoot, you set it down, and it comes back when it's ready — the way film always did. The anticipation is the whole point. WHY REWIND • A real, seeded film look — not a filter dropped on a JPEG. • Real film fingerprints: grain, halation, the odd light leak. • Finish the print by hand — push/pull, print balance, density. You shape the print, never the look. • A Gallery for the frames you love, built to be looked at. • Point and shoot — the look is the only thing out of your hands. REWIND+ Free to shoot — a roll every month. Go unlimited with Rewind+ ($5.99/month or $49.99/year): every camera and film, double exposures and CHAOS whenever you want, faster developing, member-only stocks, and the Film of the Month. Rewind is quiet on purpose. It's for the photo you forgot you took — the one that comes back better than you remember. SUBSCRIPTION Rewind+ is an auto-renewable subscription: $5.99/month or $49.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://rewindcamera.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://rewindcamera.io/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rewind Camera at 100% against ZAP CAM's 50%. Rewind Camera also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). ZAP CAM's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. ZAP CAM sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Rewind Camera sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rewind Camera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of ZAP CAM's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rewind Camera's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZAP CAM | Rewind Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 233 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 勋 李 | Rewind Camera LLC |
Customer experience
ZAP CAM
Rewind Camera
In-app purchases
ZAP CAM
- ProMonthly$3.991 Month
- YearMonthly$9.991 Year
- 10 AI Edit Credits$4.99
- Lifetime$5.99
- 30 AI Edit Credits$12.99
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- 100 AI Edit Credits$29.99
Rewind Camera
- Rewind+$5.991 Month
- Rewind+ (Yearly)$49.991 Year









