Kipi Camera vs DoubleHalf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kipi Camera
Capture life's moments with a retro aesthetic. This app offers various creative modes and filters to emulate vintage DV and CCD effects, allowing for easy adjustment and unique visual textures. Enjoy real-time previews and a simple interface for creating distinctive photos and videos.
- DNG mode for re-adjustable filters
- Customizable .cube and LTU presets
- Double Exposure, Half Frame, Long Exposure
- Emulates DV and CCD effects
- Real-time effect preview
- Simple and easy-to-use interface
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「Kale Basic」 is a software that allows you to shoot films Live、 An application for recording videos. You can use it to record the beautiful moments in life, enjoy the retro style visual texture and atmosphere. • DNG mode retains the captured film and allows for re adjustment of filters, exposure, and white balance, without fear of using the wrong camera. • Support customization of .cube and LTU, with official presets available at will. • Multiple creative modes: Double Exposure, Half Frame, Long Exposure and Swirl Focus. More updates coming soon. • Emulation real DV and CCD effects, taking you back to the millennium in a second. • Provide a variety of retro style filters and effects, allowing you to create different visual effects as you please. • Support real-time preview of effects, allowing you to easily capture your favorite images. • Dynamic Photos are here, featuring Bubble Stamps and Glazed Palettes. *FXN *FUJI-X *XT-30 *mini-c *GR2 *TI-135 *Classic-X *KD-120 *GR *mini-8 *Classic-U *503CW *FNC *FXS *NOKIA *mini-25 *KD-80 *500CM *5S *mini-12 *CCD *POLA 「Kale Basic」 is carefully crafted by a small team dedicated to image simulation technology. We are committed to providing users with authentic, high-quality, and fun retro effects. In the future, we will launch more DV, CCD, and film effects to help you achieve what you want at low cost! If you like retro style, and if you want to take different videos and photos, click to download 「Kale Basic」 now! About Kale PRO Subscription - The fee will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation - Your subscription will automatically update unless you turn off automatic updates at least 24 hours before the end of the usage period - Your account will be charged again within 24 hours before the end of use - You can go to the "Apple ID" in the system settings to manage subscriptions and turn off automatic updates Terms of Use: https://tok-cam.web.app/Kalin/termsOfUse.html Privacy policy: https://tok-cam.web.app/Kalin/privacyAgree.html
DoubleHalf
This app emulates a vintage film camera, combining half-frame and double-exposure techniques to create unique, composited images. It offers manual focus and various film styles for a retro photographic experience.
- Double exposure effect
- Half-frame camera simulation
- Manual focus control
- Multiple film emulators
- Flash and exposure settings
- Volume button shutter
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DoubleHalf is a double-exposure half-frame film camera emulator for iPhone. Half-frame cameras split one frame of 35 mm film into two tall pictures side by side. Double exposure takes the same roll of film and runs it through the camera twice. DoubleHalf does both of these: four captures composited into a single frame. FIXED EVERYTHING There is no autofocus, no HDR, and no computational processing. White balance is pinned. You point it and you press it, and you find out later what you got. With the flash on, exposure is pinned dark and the lamp carries the picture, so a subject falls off hard into black. Turn the flash off and the camera meters the room instead. FOCUS There is no autofocus, so you choose a distance and commit to it. Press the focus button to cycle between near, medium and far. Near pulls in close, medium sits around arm's length, and far finds infinity — the lens is set there once, when you choose it, and then stays put. FILM EMULATOR SETTINGS Ember 64 - dense reds, deep blacks Prism Three - separated primaries, hard colour Night Bloom - cold light, red halation glow Violet Field - greens shift to magenta Scorch 200 - harsh, blown-out halation False Summer - false-colour infrared None - just an out of focus iPhone camera! A CAMERA, NOT AN APP Hold it sideways like a compact or upright like a phone. The back is a camera: a screen, four exposure lights that count your shots, three buttons for focus, film and flash, and a shutter. Turn it and the buttons stay exactly where they are — only the lettering turns to face you. Nothing to swipe, nothing to pinch. ALSO The volume buttons work as a shutter release. Shot upright, a frame is two tall pictures side by side; shot sideways, two wide ones stacked. Finished frames save straight to your photo library. Every saved photo carries its settings in EXIF: film, flash, focus, exposure, zoom. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, and no network access at all.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DoubleHalf at 5.0 against Kipi Camera's 4.3. DoubleHalf also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Kipi Camera's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. Kipi Camera sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. DoubleHalf asks for nothing beyond the download.
DoubleHalf holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kipi Camera has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kipi Camera | DoubleHalf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 英瑜 许 | Brian Ellis |
Customer experience
Kipi Camera
DoubleHalf
In-app purchases
Kipi Camera
- Kipi PRO Monthly$1.991 Month
- Kipi PRO - lifetime$6.99
DoubleHalf
No in-app purchases









