Comparison

GR WORLD vs HLiiC Cam

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

Head to head
About

GR WORLD

This app enables remote camera control and image import from compatible GR series cameras to your smartphone. Organize photos into albums, display them as a widget, and even send location data to your camera for geotagging.

Highlights
  • Import images to smartphone
  • Organize photos into albums
  • Display images as a home screen widget
  • Remote shutter release
  • Set self-timer
  • Send location information to camera
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GR WORLD is an app that allows you to import images and perform shooting remotely by connecting a GR series camera to a smartphone. 【Feature】 1. Import images, Album, Widget You can import taken images to your smartphone. The images can be organized into albums, or displayed as a widget on the smartphone home screen, allowing you to enjoy viewing them just like a digital photo frame. 2. Remote shooting You can remotely release the camera shutter and set the self-timer. 3. Send location information to the camera. Location information acquired from the smartphone can be sent to the camera to record location information on images captured by the camera. Location information is acquired and sent to the camera even when the application is in the background or the smartphone is in sleep mode. 【Supported Digital Cameras】 RICOH GR IV RICOH GR IV HDF RICOH GR IV Monochrome RICOH GR III RICOH GR III HDF RICOH GR IIIx RICOH GR IIIx HDF RICOH GR II 【Supported OS】 iOS 16 - 18, iOS 26 * Operation is not guaranteed on all devices. * Operation is confirmed on these devices as of January 2026, but this information may be changed at any time in the future without prior notice. 【Note】 For detail about GR WORLD, refer to the website. https://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/products/app/gr-world/

About

HLiiC Cam

Features
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Before photography was common, a profile was how many people kept a likeness. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettists worked by eye with a pair of scissors, cutting a face in profile from black paper, laying it on a pale ground and setting it in a small frame. Another path led to color. In a lecture in London in 1861, James Clerk Maxwell took three black-and-white pictures made through red, green and blue liquid filters, projected each through its own colored lantern onto one screen, and the colors of a tartan ribbon returned. HLiiC Cam brings both of these early imaging methods to the phone, as two cameras. Profile Studio Point the camera at a face in profile and the viewfinder shows the silhouette live. Press the shutter and the full silhouette is kept in the app's own album, exactly as framed, never cropped for you. Then swipe through the style page to give the same outline another medium; each one names the period or maker it follows: · Historical: cut-paper bust, gold-ground glass (églomisé), shell cameo, jasperware medallion, painted on convex glass, bronzed silhouette, portrait miniature · Media: cyanotype print, photogenic dye print, sun-faded paper, positive–negative pair, Risograph two-color, layered paper relief, neon tube, woodcut, colored shadows, aggregate silhouette · Line & comic: outline (after Lavater), graphite contour, graphite portrait, light-and-shade sketch, manga screentone, low-poly Thirteen mounts complete the picture: black lacquer with gilt liner, papier-mâché with ormolu, wide gilt frame, turned ebony, turned ivory, gold pendant, rope-twist brooch and pendant, octagon card, museum mat, hairline aluminum, rounded sticker and double rule. The nineteenth-century frames are kept for the historical styles and cyanotype; they do not go around a neon tube. In the quick editor, a saved silhouette can take another color scheme or frame, or be flipped, and then exported to Photos. TriColor Lab With the camera fixed on a tripod, change the filter in front of the lens, red, green, blue, and take one black-and-white frame through each. The app aligns the frames and adds them back in their own colors to make one color photograph. Shoot with the iPhone, guided step by step, or pick separation shots from another camera in your library; DNG, HEIC and JPEG originals keep their EXIF. After compositing, the red, green and blue records can be viewed one by one and exported as 16-bit TIFF, and a photograph of a color chart solves a correction matrix for your own set of filters. No filters at hand? Open How it works: the app runs four built-in test frames through the method on the spot, separating, coloring the light and adding, one step at a time. Everything is processed on the device. No sign-up, no ads, no uploads, no data collected. The interface is in English and Simplified Chinese, follows the system language, and can be switched from the home screen. HLiiC is a studio in Nanjing, founded in 2020, devoted to the research and practice of nineteenth-century handmade photography.

Screenshots

GR WORLD4 screens
HLiiC Cam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: GR WORLD at 15.0 against HLiiC Cam's 17.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
GR WORLD versus HLiiC Cam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGR WORLDHLiiC Cam
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (75 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews13.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings75 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRICOH IMAGING COMPANY,LTDNanjing Hengli Image Technology Co., Ltd.

Bugs and requests

GR WORLD

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • VPN disrupts camera connection
  • Edited photos not shown as recent

Requested features

3 requests
  • Live view for remote shooting
  • Background photo sync
  • Ability to upload presets from app to camera

HLiiC Cam

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

GR WORLD

No in-app purchases

None

HLiiC Cam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GR WORLD free?
GR WORLD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HLiiC Cam free?
HLiiC Cam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GR WORLD or HLiiC Cam have ads?
Neither GR WORLD nor HLiiC Cam shows ads.

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