Comparison

Radiant Camera vs Liquid Lens

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

Head to head
About

Radiant Camera

This app uses intelligent AI scene detection and real-time tone mapping for pro-level photo and video editing. It enhances captured pixels without generating new ones, offering a fast, intuitive, and private editing experience.

Highlights
  • AI scene detection
  • Real-time tone mapping
  • Pro-level photo and video editing
  • On-device AI processing
  • Speed-editing mode
  • Non-destructive saving
  • RAW/ProRAW/HEIC/JPEG switching
Features
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Every photo has a best version of itself. Radiant Camera finds it — with intelligent AI scene detection, real-time tone mapping, and pro-level photo and video editing built on Apple's native AV Foundation. One purchase. No subscription. No ads. No gimmicks. SHOOT SMARTER. LOOK RADIANT. There's the camera that ships with your phone — and then there's the one built by photographers. Radiant Camera takes award-winning image science and brings it directly into your viewfinder. It's fast, intuitive, and completely native. Every tap, every swipe, every pixel — designed to feel familiar, but perform far beyond. SMART SCENE DETECTION On-device AI analyzes what's in the frame and applies the right correction automatically: • Landscape — Vivid skies, richer greens, balanced exposure for beaches, mountains, forests, and cities • Landscape Night & Winter — Preserves mood in low light; recovers highlights and tint in snow • People — Lifelike faces with depth, face-aware exposure, and accurate skin tone • Portrait Studio — Dedicated corrections for studio backgrounds, plus groups • Newborn & Baby — Soft enhancement that corrects redness cameras introduce in infant skin • Animals — Sharpening, depth, and color correction for texture and detail • Food & Drink — Depth and tint correction that makes your plate pop • Flowers & Plants — Accurate vibrancy with purple fidelity correction • Underwater — Recovers color and detail lost to depth and water • Black & White — Tonal detail and contrast in monochrome • Auto Radiant — Natural correction for everything else ASSISTIVE AI, NOT GENERATIVE AI Radiant Camera enhances the pixels you captured — it doesn't invent new ones. Detail, color, and tone are refined like digital dodging and burning: developing what's there, not fabricating something new. Your images stay authentic. SHOOT → SWIPE → SHARE 1. Capture with the built-in camera; the Radiant editor opens automatically 2. On-device analysis provides context-aware refinements that preserve natural tone, texture, and mood 3. Swipe through scene-matched styles — audition quickly with Lenses 4. Fine-tune with a single slider — or open advanced tools for precision 5. Save non-destructively to your camera roll and share anywhere All tools work in speed-editing mode driven by a single thumb — one of the fastest editing experiences you'll find. EVERYTHING INCLUDED • Customize recipes with the streamlined Lens Editor • Full toolset with custom LOOKs and built-in hybrid editing • Enhance and share photos and videos • Real-time tone mapping and adaptive highlight protection • One-tap RAW / ProRAW / HEIC / JPEG switching • Export 16-bit TIFF or PNG for printing or wide dynamic range displays • Non-destructive, metadata-safe saves to your camera roll • No ads and no watermarks PRIVATE BY DESIGN All processing — including AI — runs locally on your device. No images, face data, or personal information are uploaded, stored, or used to train algorithms. Sharing only happens when you choose it. Your image, your light, your story. BUY ONCE, OWN IT One purchase. Every feature. No subscription, no hidden charges. Optimized for iPhone 14 Pro and later. Terms: https://radiantimaginglabs.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy: https://radiantimaginglabs.com/privacy-policy/

About

Liquid Lens

Transform your phone's camera into a live effects studio. Apply real-time distortions, color grades, and glitches directly in the viewfinder. Edit existing photos with the same powerful tools.

Highlights
  • Real-time camera effects
  • Distortion and color grading
  • Stackable effects
  • Adjustable effect intensity
  • Edit existing photos
  • Exposure control
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Liquid Lens is a camera built around one idea: layer effects live, save the look, shoot it again in one tap. Most camera apps make you pick a single filter. Liquid Lens lets you stack chromatic aberration, film grain, warped glass, and a hand-tuned gradient map all at once — and watch it composite in real time on your screen before you ever press the shutter. When you land on a combination you love, save it as a named preset and it's one tap away forever. No rebuilding your look shot by shot. EVERYTHING RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE Every effect is a custom Metal shader running locally through your GPU. Nothing is uploaded, nothing routes through a server — your photos and video never leave your phone. That also means zero lag between moving a slider and seeing the result on screen. LAYER YOUR EFFECTS, LIVE Combine any number of effects at once and see the composited result in the viewfinder in real time — not a preview render, not a "processing" screen. What you see is what gets captured, at full 48MP resolution. SAVE YOUR LOOK AS A ONE-TAP PRESET Dial in a stack of effects exactly how you want it, then save it and name it. Every slider value, every palette choice, and your warp level are stored together. Tap a saved Look and your entire stack snaps back instantly — no more re-dragging six sliders to match a look you had yesterday. EDIT PHOTOS FROM YOUR LIBRARY, TOO Effects aren't just for new shots. Pull any photo from your camera roll into the same live editor — same sliders, same presets, same Metal pipeline — and apply your layered look to photos you already have. 20+ EFFECTS TO STACK Color grading: Chromatic Aberration — edge-weighted RGB split Halation — warm highlight bloom Hyper — saturation that pushes color while crushing shadows Pink & Glow — a two-part beauty grade (faded-film color shift + dreamy highlight bloom) Blacks — shadow crush Oil Slick — drifting thin-film iridescence on highlights Solar — Sabattier tone-inversion on highlights Gradient Maps — 10 cinematic color-grade palettes (Sunset, Vapor, Ocean, Neon, Aurora, Ice, Acid, Rose, Noir, Matcha) Texture & distortion: Grain — animated film grain Sharpen Zoom Blur — radial motion blur from center Mesh — live 3D wireframe displacement Chrome — liquid-metal relief effect Polar — polar coordinate warp Trails — light trail smearing Ripple — animated water rings Fractal — reeded shower-glass refraction Marble — flowing ink/marble domain warp Warp — 4-level reverse-fisheye distortion, tap to cycle BUILT FOR ACTUALLY TAKING PHOTOS Full-resolution capture Photo and video capture, front and back camera Drag-to-adjust exposure control (-2 to +2 EV), right on the live preview Three aspect ratios: 4:5, 5:7 and 9:16 Flash for back camera, simulated screen-flash for front camera selfies Built-in gallery for everything you shoot in-app ONE PRICE, NOTHING ELSE TO BUY $2.99, once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account required.

Screenshots

Radiant Camera4 screens
Liquid Lens4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Liquid Lens at 100% against Radiant Camera's 0%. Liquid Lens also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Radiant Camera's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (17 vs 26.5). On ratings volume, ads 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

Radiant Camera is free to download; Liquid Lens costs $2.99 up front. Radiant Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Liquid Lens asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Liquid Lens holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Radiant Camera's written reviews are positive against 100% of Liquid Lens's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Radiant Camera ships an update every 5 months, Liquid Lens daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Radiant Camera versus Liquid Lens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRadiant CameraLiquid Lens
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings34 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRadiant Imaging Labs LPSydney Bryn

Customer experience

Radiant Camera

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Liquid Lens

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Radiant Camera

Subscriptions2
  • 1-month subscription$2.991 Month
  • 1-year subscription$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime access$39.99
None

Liquid Lens

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Radiant Camera free?
Radiant Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Liquid Lens free?
Liquid Lens costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Radiant Camera or Liquid Lens?
Liquid Lens is rated higher. Radiant Camera averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Liquid Lens averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Radiant Camera or Liquid Lens have ads?
Neither Radiant Camera nor Liquid Lens shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Radiant Camera or Liquid Lens?
Radiant Camera ships an update every 5 months, and Liquid Lens daily. Most recently, Radiant Camera was updated on October 24, 2026 and Liquid Lens on October 24, 2026.

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