Disposable Life vs 07
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Disposable Life
Capture photos with an authentic disposable camera feel, complete with grain, light leaks, and film-edge stamps. Shoot limited 24-frame rolls, develop them frame by frame, and share rolls with friends for collaborative memory-making.
- Authentic disposable camera filter
- 24-shot rolls with slide-to-wind
- Private or shared rolls with friends
- Custom film-edge stamps
- Likes and comments on shared photos
- Lock Screen integration for active rolls
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Disposable Life is the shared disposable camera app where everyone contributes to the same film roll. Create one disposable camera roll and invite your friends with a join code. Give everyone a limited number of photos, just like passing around a real disposable camera. Whether you're at a music festival, vacation, wedding, road trip, camping weekend, concert, birthday, party, ski trip, beach day, or simply spending time together, everyone contributes to the same shared film roll. The best part? You decide when everyone gets to see the photos! Before your event begins, choose a reveal date. Set it for the morning after the festival, when everyone gets home from vacation, after your wedding, or whenever you want. Until then, nobody can see the photos. No spoilers. No scrolling through pictures while the event is still happening. No sending photos in group chats. When the countdown reaches zero, everyone unlocks the complete disposable camera roll at exactly the same moment. Just like collecting a freshly developed disposable camera from the photo lab, everyone experiences the memories together for the very first time. Inspired by disposable film cameras from the 1990s and early 2000s, every photo is automatically transformed with authentic film grain, warm vintage colors, nostalgic flash, subtle imperfections, retro film texture, and optional film date stamps. The result captures the feeling of real disposable film photography without needing a real film camera. Disposable Life recreates the complete disposable camera experience—not just the look. After every photo, you'll need to wind the film before taking the next shot, just like using a real disposable camera. Slowing down makes every frame feel valuable. Instead of taking hundreds of nearly identical photos, every click becomes intentional. Once your roll is complete, it's sent to the darkroom. Your memories stay hidden until the reveal date arrives, building anticipation while everyone stays present instead of constantly checking photos. Waiting is part of the experience, making the final reveal even more rewarding. Create private rolls just for yourself or shared rolls with friends. Choose exactly how many photos each person can take. Give everyone 5 photos, 10 photos, 15 photos, or recreate the classic disposable camera experience with 24 shots each. Once someone has used all of their photos, they're done until the roll is revealed. See who captured every photo, react with likes, leave comments, and enjoy discovering moments you never knew happened. Disposable Life is perfect for music festivals, concerts, vacations, road trips, camping, weddings, bachelor and bachelorette parties, birthdays, school trips, cabin weekends, family holidays, beach days, nights out, backpacking, and everyday memories. Features: • Shared disposable camera rolls • Private disposable camera rolls • Invite friends with a code or username • Choose your own reveal date • Everyone unlocks the roll together • Individual photo limits for every participant • Wind the film after every photo • Darkroom development experience • Authentic disposable camera filter • 1990s and early 2000s film camera style • Film grain, vintage colors, flash effects, and retro date stamps • Likes and comments on shared rolls • User profiles and usernames • Push notifications • Lock Screen widget • Fast on-device photo processing • Built for iPhone Disposable Life brings back everything people loved about disposable cameras while creating a completely new way to experience them together. One disposable camera. One shared film roll. One reveal. One collection of memories you'll never recreate. Download Disposable Life today and start your first shared disposable camera roll.
07
This app emulates a 2007 digital camera, offering a unique, uneditable photo development process. It captures images with a fixed aesthetic, allowing for focus and exposure lock before shooting. Import existing photos for a similar development treatment.
- Emulates 2007 digital camera aesthetic
- On-device image development
- Fixed, uneditable photo looks
- Two-stage shutter for focus lock
- Import photos for development
- Local photo storage and organization
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07 turns your iPhone into one fictional compact digital camera from 2007. Hold the shutter to focus, release to shoot, and watch each photograph develop through 07’s signature on-device image process. One camera. One look. Nothing to choose. 07 is not a filter you apply afterwards. There is no slider to move and no look to pick. Every exposure is metered as you take it and developed down one of three calibrated paths — ambient, flash, or low light — chosen from the light 07 measured and the ISO the camera actually captured at. Each frame is seeded from itself, so the same photograph always develops the same way. Take the picture, and the picture is the answer. Both of the iPhone’s cameras belong to 07. LENS turns the camera round without leaving the viewfinder: the rear lens carries the zoom ladder, and the front one sits at its own fixed wide and is mirrored in both directions, so the photograph on the card is the one you framed. IMPORT is the second door into the same process. It opens the system Photos picker, so 07 asks for no permission to read your library and receives only the photographs you choose there — up to 100 in a batch. Each one is read for its own exposure facts, developed down the same three paths, and written to the same card as a capture. It costs a frame exactly as a capture does. Every frame is kept in order on Card 01, the app’s private local card, under a four-digit counter that keeps climbing for the life of the camera and never rolls back. Review photographs in playback, see their capture details, add a warm date stamp, and share only when you choose. ALBUMS files frames under names you invent without moving them off the card. SELECT picks any number of frames at once, and SEND hands the whole set to a single share sheet. Optional Save to Photos makes add-only copies without browsing your library. 07’s two-stage shutter rewards a held half-press: focus, exposure, and white balance all lock before the frame is taken, the way a real one did. A quick tap still focuses and captures. Flash, zoom, timers, landscape shooting, direct-flash character, a flash that has to recharge, Card 01, albums, playback, sharing, and the complete 07-developed result are included from the first photograph. 07 includes 36 complimentary developed photographs. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited 07-developed photographs and permanent use of the full card. No subscription. No account. No ads. Camera permission is required to capture. Photos and location are optional. When location metadata is enabled, your current location is written into that photograph; an imported photograph carries the location its own file already recorded, and only while that same setting is on. Photographs are developed on the device; Photos copies may sync according to your Apple settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Disposable Life at none against 07's 1. Disposable Life also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. 07 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Disposable Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Disposable Life against 5.0 for 07. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Disposable Life | 07 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matias Ljostveit | Samuel Price |
Customer experience
Disposable Life
07
In-app purchases
Disposable Life
No in-app purchases
07
- Full 07 Camera$14.99








