Comparison

Mellow Film vs HyperCam Trigger

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

Head to head
About

Mellow Film

This app offers a collection of vintage film effects and tools to enhance your photos. Create custom looks with detailed adjustments, add classic date stamps, and experience analog camera controls. Analyze your editing style with an intelligent gallery.

Highlights
  • Exceptional film stock LUTs
  • Custom film preset creation
  • Classic date stamp overlay
  • Intuitive analog camera controls
  • Intelligent gallery with metadata
  • Precision manual editing tools
Features
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Make life look like film. Mellow Film brings cinematic color and film texture to everyday photos and videos. Choose a look, make it yours, and keep the moments that matter. 16 ORIGINAL LOOKS Explore Film, DigiCam, Cinema and Mono. Preview each look on your camera image and find your favorite mood. YOUR COLOR. YOUR WAY. Fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, tint, grain, fade and vignette. Save your adjustments as film presets to return to your favorite look. FILM COLOR IN MOTION Record videos with your selected look and color adjustments. Grain and vignette carry through to saved videos. Switch between photo and video while keeping your shooting settings. FROM A PHOTO TO A KEEPSAKE Edit photos in your gallery and finish them with print, instant-photo or stamp frames. Adjust the paper color, margins and postmark details to suit the moment. A VINTAGE FINISH Add an orange date stamp to your photos and adjust its size and position. Use the zoom dial, exposure controls and shutter feedback as you shoot. KEEP YOUR MOMENTS CLOSE Browse photos and videos together. Zoom into photos, revisit your filter settings, and play, seek or share videos from the gallery. See photos made with Mellow Film on Instagram @mellowfilmcamera.

About

HyperCam Trigger

This app acts as an intelligent iPhone camera, automatically capturing photos triggered by lightning, motion, or sound. Frame your scene, arm the desired event, and let the app capture unexpected moments.

Highlights
  • Lightning, motion, and sound triggers
  • Automatic photo capture
  • Local gallery for results
  • Adjustable sensitivity and analysis zones
  • RAW and ProRAW support
  • Optional cloud upscale
Features
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Capture what your reflexes miss. HyperCam Trigger is an iPhone camera for moments that are difficult to time by hand. Frame the scene, choose lightning, motion or sound, arm the trigger and let the event request the photo as soon as the camera is ready. HyperCam must stay open and armed; the manual shutter remains one tap away. HOW IT WORKS • Frame the shot with the iPhone camera. • Arm the event you are waiting for. • Review the result in HyperCam’s local gallery. BUILT FOR UNPREDICTABLE MOMENTS Use HyperCam for storms from a safe location, pets and action, solo creator shots, sudden sounds, device movement, smiles, stable tripod scenes and time-lapse changes. Sensitivity, cooldown, analysis zones and field presets help adapt the trigger to the scene. LOCAL BY DEFAULT Captures and gallery data stay on the iPhone by default. No HighRoad account is required. Photos leave the device only when you export or share them, or explicitly confirm an optional Cloud Upscale request to an endpoint you configured. ADVANCED PHOTO WORKFLOWS Compatible iPhones can use RAW or ProRAW, HDR brackets, Night Boost, Ultra Detail, Focus Stack, local Super Resolution and document workflows. Availability and speed depend on the device, format, light, storage and thermal state. HyperCam cannot guarantee every event will be captured. Detection and camera readiness both matter. Frame it. Arm it. Let the moment happen. HyperCam Pro is an optional in-app purchase. It unlocks the advanced photo workflows listed above on compatible iPhones. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mellow Film4 screens
HyperCam Trigger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mellow Film at none against HyperCam Trigger's 3. Mellow Film also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HyperCam Trigger sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Mellow Film asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mellow Film against 5.0 for HyperCam Trigger. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mellow Film ships an update every 5 days, HyperCam Trigger every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mellow Film versus HyperCam Trigger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMellow FilmHyperCam Trigger
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJONGHYUN KIMHighRoad Software

In-app purchases

None

Mellow Film

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

HyperCam Trigger

Subscriptions2
  • HyperCam Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • HyperCam Pro Yearly$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • HyperCam Pro Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is Mellow Film free?
Mellow Film is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HyperCam Trigger free?
HyperCam Trigger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mellow Film or HyperCam Trigger?
Mellow Film and HyperCam Trigger are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mellow Film or HyperCam Trigger have ads?
Neither Mellow Film nor HyperCam Trigger shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mellow Film or HyperCam Trigger?
Mellow Film ships an update every 5 days, and HyperCam Trigger every 10 days. Most recently, Mellow Film was updated on October 31, 2026 and HyperCam Trigger on October 31, 2026.

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