Comparison

PhotosOne vs Knurl Camera

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

Head to head
About

PhotosOne

Capture, store, and organize your cherished memories with a beautifully designed camera and gallery app. Features an immersive preview, smart organization, and seamless recovery of deleted photos.

Highlights
  • Immersive camera preview
  • Sleek, modern interface
  • Smart photo organization
  • Unlimited custom albums
  • Recently deleted photo recovery
  • Performance enhancements
Features
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Bringing an innovative, lovely designed and significant improvement to capturing lifes most cherished moments, all in one easy to use, beautifilly designed piece of software. PhotosOne brings the ability to capture and store photos from the most elegant looking camera feature,and stores your photos in your gallary in the library tab, where you can create unlimited specific albums with your favorite photos and also easily access recently deleted photos for seamless recovery.PhotosOne brings your memories into focus with a modern camera experience and a beautifully refined design. Highlights: Immersive Camera Preview — See the world in vibrant detail with a redesigned camera preview that makes every shot come alive. LiquidGlass Design — Experience a sleek, modern interface that feels fluid, light, and perfectly at home on iPhone. Smarter Organization — Your photos and moments are easier to find, manage, and revisit. Performance Enhancements — Faster, smoother, and more reliable than ever. Why You’ll Love It: Simple & Elegant: A clean interface that stays out of your way so you can focus on the shot. Powerful Features: Take photos, preview instantly, and manage your gallery in one place. Built for iOS 26: Optimized for the latest iPhone devices and system design. Whether you’re capturing a quick moment or organizing years of memories, PhotosOne makes it effortless — and beautiful.

About

Knurl Camera

Capture unprocessed RAW image data directly from your device's sensor. Offers granular manual controls for ISO, shutter speed, and focus, allowing for complete creative freedom in post-processing.

Highlights
  • Bayer RAW capture
  • Full manual controls (ISO, Shutter, Aperture)
  • Physical control dials
  • Relative focus ring
  • Native focal length lenses
  • Exposure compensation scale
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Knurl is a camera for people who would rather develop the photo themselves. It captures true Bayer RAW: the sensor's own mosaic, written straight to a DNG with none of the computational photography that normally happens on the way. No multi-frame fusion, no tone curve, no sharpening. What lands in your library is undeveloped data with all of its latitude intact, ready for Lightroom or Photos to interpret however you like. THE CONTROLS ARE THE POINT A mode wheel you turn, with the real designations: P for program, Tv for shutter priority, Sv for ISO priority, M for full manual. Every position clicks. ISO and shutter move in thirds of a stop along the standard photographic ladders, on a dial that detents at every rung. Whole stops click harder than thirds, so you can count them by feel without looking. The ends of each ladder are the sensor's genuine limits rather than round numbers, which means base ISO, the cleanest the sensor gets, is actually reachable. Exposure compensation on its own scale, in thirds, with a firmer detent at zero. In manual it becomes the meter, because compensation has nothing left to act on when both controls are already fixed. An AF/MF switch and a focus ring you turn like a ring: relative, so touching it never jumps focus, and marked near to far rather than in invented distances. Three lenses, each at its native focal length, read from the hardware. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF Bayer RAW is 12 MP and does not permit zoom. The 48 MP path would mean Apple ProRAW, which is demosaiced and partially processed, so Knurl does not offer it. When the exposure you have asked for is not achievable, it says so rather than pretending. Your shots go to a Knurl album you can browse in the app, pinch to zoom, and swipe through. Volume buttons fire the shutter. Add the Control to your Action Button, Lock Screen or Control Center to open it without unlocking.

Screenshots

PhotosOne4 screens
Knurl Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Knurl Camera at 5.0 against PhotosOne's 3.0. Knurl Camera also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Knurl Camera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PhotosOne versus Knurl Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotosOneKnurl Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrady PollockDimitrios Zarkadas

In-app purchases

None

PhotosOne

No in-app purchases

None

Knurl Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PhotosOne free?
PhotosOne is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Knurl Camera free?
Knurl Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PhotosOne or Knurl Camera?
Knurl Camera is rated higher. PhotosOne averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Knurl Camera averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PhotosOne or Knurl Camera have ads?
Neither PhotosOne nor Knurl Camera shows ads.

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