Comparison

Koloristika vs Loopcam.lol

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

Head to head
About

Koloristika

This app captures photos using raw sensor data, bypassing computational photography to deliver authentic film-like results. It offers advanced editing tools based on photochemical processes and allows for sharing unique looks via short codes.

Highlights
  • Bypasses computational photography for raw sensor data
  • Film-inspired photochemical editing tools
  • RAW + JPG capture
  • Non-destructive RAW editor with six sliders
  • DRX Dynamic Range Extension
  • Tone Seed for sharing looks
  • Scout Mode with focal length equivalents
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Your phone finishes every photo before you see it. Face detection, scene recognition, exposure blending, a neural network deciding what your sky should look like. Koloristika keeps the negative, a RAW, and develops it with color made for cinema. It comes from The Brim® Industrial Imaging Bureau, the cinema color-science lab that has defined what "cinematic" looks like since 2014. Color for IMAX features, global campaigns, Netflix and Apple TV+ series. Every shot is saved as a RAW and a JPEG, paired. Your edits sit on top of the RAW and never touch it, so you can change the look tonight or a year from now. Reframe to a longer simulated lens in real millimeters, in cinema or photo formats, and the RAW is never cut. Auto Horizon straightens up to ten degrees at capture. If you disagree, put it back. Nothing else is built this way. MONOLITH. Not a black & white mode. A new kind of photograph, and a world first: the first panchromatic black & white RAW from a color sensor. It never makes a color photo. It builds the black & white straight from the sensor data, every color counted by how bright it looks to the eye, like black & white film. One 16-bit channel, no color noise. Neutral, Red, Yellow, Green and Blue filters go into the negative, like glass on the lens. Long-press any older Koloristika RAW to make a mono negative from it. No AI. DOUBLET. The first app to make a true double-exposure RAW. The two frames are added at the sensor-data level, before the picture is built, and saved as one negative. DSTOCK. Seven years of R&D. Every stock is measured from motion picture film. SILVERLITH. Bleach bypass built in film density, the way a lab does it. Slide it the other way and only the dye moves. FORMULATIONS. F1, F2, F3. Set your look before the shot. Change it after. THE EDITOR. Six sliders modeled from film: density, exposure, upper density, temperature, tint and subtractive saturation. Horizontal for big moves, vertical for fine ones. Saved as you go. DRX. Two extra stops from one shot, two renders fused by luminance. Not HDR, not bracketing. CLR. Color Locus Reset. Color noise that falls outside real color is walked back to the edge of what light can be. The grain stays. ON SET. Scout Mode adds cinema and photo ratios and simulated lenses beyond the one on your phone. Chromogram reads the seven dominant hues of the frame live and sizes each by how much of the frame it fills. Turn on FrameStamp when you export. TONE SEED. A whole edit in eight characters, short enough to text to the DP. GALLERY. Chronological, with a badge on every thumbnail. Calendar view. Map view. EXPORT. JPEG or TIFF. Full or half resolution. 8-bit or 16-bit. QUICK ACCESS. Open the camera from the Lock Screen, Control Center, or Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later. 36 shots free, no clock. Then a subscription, monthly or yearly. Your photos stay on your device. Location is off until you turn it on. No accounts with us, no tracking, no ads. iCloud sync is optional and runs on your own account. The negative is yours. So is everything you make from it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.thebrim.pictures/koloristika-privacy.html

About

Loopcam.lol

Features
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Loopcam is a camera for tiny looping videos — gif loops. A 2026 rebuild of the 2011 original. Record a loop, dress it up with filters and stickers, and post it. Follow friends to see their loops, tap LOL on the ones you love, and talk in the comments. • Shoot short looping videos with a tap • Filters and a pile of stickers • A feed of loops from people you follow • Explore to find new people • LOLs, comments, and follows • Share loops anywhere with the share sheet Loopcam first lived on the App Store 2011–2014. This is its revival — the same idea, rebuilt for today's iPhone.

Screenshots

Koloristika4 screens
Loopcam.lol3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loopcam.lol at none against Koloristika's 2. Loopcam.lol also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Koloristika's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Koloristika sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Loopcam.lol asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Koloristika ships an update every 5 days, Loopcam.lol every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Koloristika versus Loopcam.lol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKoloristikaLoopcam.lol
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHE BRIM - FZCOTor Rauden Kallstigen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Koloristika

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
None

Loopcam.lol

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Koloristika free?
Koloristika is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loopcam.lol free?
Loopcam.lol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Koloristika or Loopcam.lol have ads?
Neither Koloristika nor Loopcam.lol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Koloristika or Loopcam.lol?
Koloristika ships an update every 5 days, and Loopcam.lol every 2 days. Most recently, Koloristika was updated on October 28, 2026 and Loopcam.lol on October 29, 2026.

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