Comparison

Cam vs Coincidence Camera

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

Head to head
About

Cam

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Cam Era turns your iPhone into the digital camera you grew up with. no ugly skin sharpening. no janky HDR. no computational photography. skip the over-processing. your photos come out looking like they were taken on a camera, not a phone. choose between 4K, HD, and SD resolution. add bloom, chromatic aberration, film grain, and lens vignette for the full analog look. burn the date into your photos like a real camera date-back. choose your font, color, format, and style. skeuomorphic design with physical shutter button, zoom rocker, flash toggle. tap to focus. add stickers because why not. no two cameras look the same.

About

Coincidence Camera

This camera app offers both automatic and fully manual controls for photography. Users can create and apply custom color looks, add effects like grain and bloom, and utilize advanced features for precise exposure and focus adjustments. It's designed with an analog instrument aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Automatic and manual camera controls
  • Custom LUT creation and application
  • Real-time exposure and focus adjustments
  • Grain, bloom, and sharpening effects
  • False color and focus peaking
  • Multiple aspect ratios and built-in level
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Coincidence is a camera that meets you where you are: automatic when you want to take a photo, fully manual when you want to make a photo. Point and shoot with real-time auto exposure and focus, or take over completely. Use Exposure Comp for quick brightness changes, or switch to Full Manual for shutter speed, ISO and color temperature dials. Tap to focus with single-shot precision. Exposure Comp is built to behave like the native Camera app, so moving between auto and manual never feels like two different cameras. BUILD YOUR OWN LOOK Most camera apps let you apply someone else's LUT. Coincidence lets you build your own: highlights, shadows, fade, saturation, curves, selective hue and saturation, split toning and color temperature. Then save it as a real .cube file you can rename, share, or drop straight back into your next shot. Add grain, bloom and sharpening on top for texture, and see the whole look live before you press the shutter. Double-tap the viewfinder to flip between two LUTs of your choice. SISTER APP: COLOR PAL Want a look fast? Color Pal turns any photo into a LUT based on its colors. Open that LUT in Coincidence straight from Color Pal and start shooting with it right away. SHOOT WITH INTENT Switch between your iPhone's lenses at their native focal lengths Full-screen false color to judge exposure at a glance Focus peaking that highlights in-focus edges after you tap to focus A Macro button that snaps focus close, and puts it back with a second tap Multiple aspect ratios A built-in level, so horizons stay horizons Volume-button shutter Left, center or right shutter placement, with buttons you can reorder Every capture carries accurate EXIF, with no silent rewrites AN INSTRUMENT, NOT AN APP Cream panels, dial-red accents, monospaced readouts. Coincidence is styled after analogue camera instruments, not modern touchscreen chrome. Controls are built to be read at a glance and adjusted by feel. One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no data collected.

Screenshots

Cam4 screens
Coincidence Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cam at $2.99 against Coincidence Camera's $5.99. Cam also leads on chart position (#192 vs unranked). Coincidence Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 days). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Cam costs $2.99 and Coincidence Camera $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cam ships an update every 11 days, Coincidence Camera every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Cam versus Coincidence Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamCoincidence Camera
Price$2.99 — better$5.99
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank#192 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMax RetikJOSHUA DANIEL HOOVER

In-app purchases

None

Cam

No in-app purchases

None

Coincidence Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cam free?
Cam costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coincidence Camera free?
Coincidence Camera costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cam or Coincidence Camera have ads?
Neither Cam nor Coincidence Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cam or Coincidence Camera?
Cam ships an update every 11 days, and Coincidence Camera every 5 days. Most recently, Cam was updated on October 31, 2026 and Coincidence Camera on October 31, 2026.

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