Mountain Mag Camera vs Tether
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mountain Mag Camera
This camera app is designed for digiscoping, allowing users to lock their iPhone lens to prevent unwanted auto-switching. Capture sharper outdoor footage with its purpose-built interface.
- Digiscoping camera functionality
- Lock iPhone lens
- Prevent auto-switching
- Capture sharper outdoor footage
- Purpose-built interface
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Mountain Mag Cam is a camera app built from the ground up for digiscoping. It's made to help you capture, share, and relive your most epic moments in the wild. Pick the lens you want and zoom all the way in and out without the camera switching lenses on you. It stays locked where you put it. Study your footage frame by frame, save your favorite settings so they're ready next time, and open straight into the app with the Camera Control button. Every photo and video saves right to your camera roll. Then there's Stasis. It's a one-of-a-kind, patent-pending stabilization algorithm, the first ever built from the ground up for digiscoping. Stasis Active Stabilization steadies your footage in real time as you shoot. Stasis Post Stabilization smooths out footage you've already captured. Both run right on your device, so they work anywhere, even with no cell reception. The epic moments don't wait. Never miss one again. Built in Bozeman, Montana by Epoch Outdoors. Mountain Mag Cam is free to download, and every feature is completely free to use. Saving your stabilized footage is the only thing that requires a subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tether
A social networking app focused on connecting with people you know through photos. It offers a chronological feed, mutual connections only, and a strict limit on connections, prioritizing privacy and a noise-free experience without ads or algorithms.
- Chronological feed
- Mutual connections only
- No ads or promoted content
- Post photos and react with emoji
- Private photos to connections
- Optional Face ID/Touch ID lock
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Capture the moments that matter — with the people who matter. Tether is a photo journal and a quiet social app in one. Share photos with the friends and family you actually know, and keep your private memories in a personal journal that's just for you. Social without the noise: - No ads or promoted content. Ever. - No algorithm — your feed is simply chronological. - Mutual connections only. No one-way follows, no follower counts. - 150 connections max — room for the people who matter, and no more. - Post in the last 7 days to see your feed — no lurking. - We will never sell your data. Your personal photo journal: - Save photos privately — memories you want to keep, not broadcast. - Choose for each photo: post it to your feed, or keep it just for you. - Browse it all in one place — Public, Private, or All. How it works: Sign in with your phone number. Find friends from your contacts. Post up to 10 photos, react with emoji, and leave comments — or save a photo privately to your journal. That's it. Privacy first: Your phone number is only used to sign you in and find people you know — it's never shown to other users. Your shared photos are visible only to your connections, and private journal photos are visible only to you. Optional Face ID / Touch ID lock. Put down the doom scroll. Pick up Tether.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tether at 5.0 against Mountain Mag Camera's 4.4. Tether also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). Mountain Mag Camera's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Mountain Mag Camera sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Tether sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tether holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mountain Mag Camera has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mountain Mag Camera ships an update every 2 weeks, Tether every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mountain Mag Camera | Tether |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Epoch Outdoors LLC | BRYANT BREWERTON ALLRED |
Customer experience
Mountain Mag Camera
Tether
In-app purchases
Mountain Mag Camera
- Mountain Mag Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Mountain Mag Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Mountain Mag Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
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- Mountain Mag Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
- Mountain Mag Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
- Mountain Mag Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- Mountain Mag Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- Mountain Mag Pro$49.991 Year
- Mountain Mag Pro Lifetime$24.99
- Mountain Mag Pro Lifetime$39.99
- Mountain Mag Pro Lifetime$99.99
Tether
- Tether+$2.991 Month
- Tether+$19.991 Year
Questions
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