Comparison

Arrow Camera vs SortCam

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

Head to head
About

Arrow Camera

Capture practical photos like receipts and labels separately from your main photo library. Organize images into albums before shooting or manage them within the app. Photos are stored locally on your device with no ads or cloud syncing.

Highlights
  • Separate photo storage
  • Organize photos into albums
  • Capture directly to albums
  • Review and manage photos
  • Local storage only
  • No ads or cloud sync
Features
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Arrow is a second camera for practical photos: receipts, labels, work shots and references you want to keep separate from your personal photo library. CHOOSE WHERE PHOTOS GO Pick an album before you shoot. Find your photos inside Arrow, move them between albums, or import photos as copies. PREPARE A USEFUL COPY Crop a photo, Blur part of a photo or Mark up something worth noticing. Add a Timestamp or text Watermark. Save your edits as a new copy while keeping the original. MAKE SOMETHING YOU CAN SHARE Use Before & After to compare two photos, Contact sheet to bring selected photos together, or Make PDF to prepare a document. Share or export the result to a destination you choose. KEEP TEMPORARY PHOTOS ORGANIZED Use Auto Delete to schedule temporary photos to move to Recently Deleted when Arrow next refreshes. Find deleted photos in Recently Deleted and restore them while available. SET UP YOUR NEXT SHOTS Configure Timestamp and Watermark Actions for new captures. Save Location is optional: when enabled and permitted, it saves available location information with new photos. You can use the camera without it. YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY STAYS LOCAL No account is required. Arrow stores your photo library on your device; you choose when to share or export photos. Usage analytics, diagnostics and optional Feedback are described in our Privacy Policy. Your photos are not attached to those reports. Nine tools for practical photos: Crop, Blur, Mark up, Timestamp, Watermark, Before & After, Contact sheet, Make PDF and Auto Delete.

About

SortCam

Features
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Take a photo and it lands in the right album. No more digging through thousands of shots to file them later. SHOOT INTO ANY ALBUM • Tap the camera button on an album and every photo you take is saved straight into it. • Photos keep their full EXIF details: phone model, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and capture time, saved as HEIC. • Optionally save where each photo was taken. FIND ANY MONTH • Albums are grouped by month, with the capture date and time on every thumbnail. • Step through one month at a time, or pick a start and end month. • Show only photos, videos or screenshots, with a count for each. SELECT A WHOLE ROW IN ONE SWIPE • Swipe across your photos to select many at once, just like in the Photos app. The grid scrolls for you at the edge. • Select a whole month with one tap. • Add your selection to an album, remove it from the album, or delete it. ALBUM NAMES MADE ON DEVICE • When you create an album, Apple Intelligence looks at your selected photos and suggests three names, with the dates in front. • Photos are analyzed on your iPhone. If they have a location, the coordinates are sent to Apple Maps to look up place names. • Name suggestions require iOS 27 and an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on. DATE STAMPS • Stamp the date and time onto new photos in one of four styles: Retro, Modern, Tech or Cute. KEEP IT TIDY • See at a glance how many of your albums each photo is in, or spot photos that aren't in any album. • Hide albums you don't use, and reorder the rest by name, by size or by hand. • Create albums with Siri or the Shortcuts app. • Available in English and Traditional Chinese. SortCam works with the albums already in your Photos library. Adding a photo to an album never makes a copy, and deleting an album keeps its photos.

Screenshots

Arrow Camera4 screens
SortCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Arrow Camera at every 3 days against SortCam's every 8 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arrow Camera ships an update every 3 days, SortCam every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Arrow Camera versus SortCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArrow CameraSortCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWebcut GmbHSHU HAN CHEN

In-app purchases

None

Arrow Camera

No in-app purchases

None

SortCam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Arrow Camera free?
Arrow Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SortCam free?
SortCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Arrow Camera or SortCam have ads?
Neither Arrow Camera nor SortCam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Arrow Camera or SortCam?
Arrow Camera ships an update every 3 days, and SortCam every 8 days. Most recently, Arrow Camera was updated on October 31, 2026 and SortCam on October 31, 2026.

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