Conota vs Open Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Conota
This app allows professionals to capture photos and simultaneously add essential information like location, timestamps, and project details as watermarks or file name data. It streamlines note-taking and photo management for on-site work, ensuring all necessary data is saved efficiently.
- Add GPS coordinates and location
- Include date and time stamps
- Watermark photos with custom data
- Add project and company names
- Support for multiple coordinate systems
- Customizable company logo
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The #1 camera app for field professionals - with over 4 million downloads. Conota Camera captures photos and adds GPS coordinates, timestamps, project names, and notes in one step, so you can focus on your work instead of your paperwork. Conota - GPS Camera & Timestamp Camera makes capturing pictures and taking notes more efficiently, combining both processes in one single app. There is no need to take notes on a piece of paper while taking pictures. Conota will add your inserted notes automatically both to the picture and to the file name. This will give you more time to concentrate on your work, while Conota will take care of saving your notes and pictures combined in a lossless format onto your phone. Conota works, so you can work! With Conota - GPS Camera & Timestamp Camera, you can add a project name, company name, notes and more information, for example a reference no. or chainage directly in the app while taking pictures. Additional relevant data for professionals, e.g. GPS coordinates / photo location (latitude and longitude and multiple other coordinate formats), GPS accuracy, altitude, address, date and time (timestamp) will be added by Conota. Information that can be added: - Project name - Taken notes - GPS coordinates / photo location (latitude and longitude & more) - GPS accuracy (in m or ft) - Altitude (in m or ft) - Date & time (timestamp) - Address - Compass direction - Customized company logo - Reference No. / Chainage Conota - GPS Camera & Timestamp Camera supports the following coordinate/grid systems: - WGS84 (latitude and longitude) - UTM - MGRS (NAD83) - USNG (NAD83) - State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83 - sft) - State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83 - ift) - ETRS89 - ED50 - British National Grid (OS National Grid) - Map Grid of Australia (MGA2020) - RD (RDNAPTRANS2018) - Irish Grid - Swiss Grid CH1903+ / LV95 - New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000 (NZTM2000) - Gauß-Krüger (MGI) - Bundesmeldenetz (MGI) - Gauß-Krüger (Germany) - SWEREF99 TM - MAGNA-SIRGAS / Origen-Nacional - SIRGAS 2000 - CTRM05 / CR05 - PRS92 - PT-TM06 / ETRS89 - STEREO70 / Pulkovo 1942(58) - HTRS96 / TM Conota - GPS Camera & Timestamp Camera is used by land surveyors, civil engineers, construction managers, architects, geologists, real estate agents, and other professionals world-wide. Become one of them! By using our app, you accept our Terms of Use. For information on how we handle your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/conota-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/conota-privacy
Open Camera
This pro camera application provides full manual controls for capturing high-quality photos and videos. Enhance your shots with features like HDR, exposure adjustments, zoom, timers, and grid overlays. Easily select resolutions and switch flash modes for professional-level results.
- Full manual controls
- HDR support
- Exposure adjustment
- Zoom functionality
- Timer options
- Grid overlays
- Resolution selection
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Open Camera is the pro camera app you need. With Open Camera, capture stunning photos and videos using full manual controls. Open Camera offers HDR, exposure, zoom, timers, and grid overlays. Pick your resolution, switch flash modes instantly. Open Camera — shoot like a pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Conota at 47% against Open Camera's 0%. Conota also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and ads (none vs shown). Open Camera's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Conota sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Open Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
Conota holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Conota has 91 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Conota's written reviews are positive against 0% of Open Camera's.
| Parameter | Conota | Open Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (91 ratings) — better | 2.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Conota e.U. | MAX EVANS |
Customer experience
Conota
Open Camera
In-app purchases
Conota
- No Conota watermark & no ads$4.991 Month
- Pro features, no signature & no ads$9.991 Month
- No Conota watermark & no ads7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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- Pro features, no signature & no ads7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Open Camera
No in-app purchases
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