Dog Vision Cam vs A«iD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dog Vision Cam
Explore your surroundings through a unique, canine-inspired visual filter. This app creatively adjusts color, contrast, and detail to simulate how dogs might perceive the world, offering an unusual and playful camera experience.
- Live dog-inspired camera filter
- Adjustable vision strength
- Soft Focus control
- Shadow Boost
- Night Vision mode
- Capture photos and record videos
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Dog Vision Cam – See the World in a Canine-Inspired View What if you could explore your surroundings with a dog-inspired perspective? Dog Vision Cam transforms your live camera feed into a stylized view inspired by canine perception. Instead of simply applying a dull grayscale filter, the app reshapes color, contrast, softness, and shadow detail to create a unique visual experience that feels playful, unusual, and alive. Dogs do not see the world the same way humans do. Their vision is believed to be more limited in color, with stronger emphasis on blue and yellow tones, less fine detail, and better usefulness in dim light. Dog Vision Cam turns this idea into an interactive camera experience for curious minds, pet lovers, and anyone who enjoys creative live filters. Adjust the image in real time and create your own perfect dog-inspired look. Whether you want a subtle canine mood or a stronger artistic interpretation, Dog Vision Cam gives you direct control. Features • Live dog-inspired camera filter in real time • Adjustable Dog Vision strength • Soft Focus control for reduced fine detail • Shadow Boost for brighter dark areas • Eye Curvature for a more curved lens feeling • Night Vision mode for darker environments • Invert mode for unusual visual effects • Saturation and Color Overdrive controls • Ultra-wide support on compatible devices • Switch between front and rear camera • Capture photos and record videos Dog Vision Cam is not meant to be a strict scientific simulator. It is a creative and educational interpretation of how the world might feel through canine-inspired eyes. Perfect for • Dog lovers • Curious kids and families • Creative photography fans • Experimental video makers • Anyone who wants to see everyday life in a new way Discover a different kind of vision. Open the camera, tune the effect, and step into a playful dog-inspired world with Dog Vision Cam.
A«iD
This app synthesizes video in real time, reacting to audio input. It offers a modular chain of effects to manipulate visuals, allowing for custom masks and intricate distortions. Create unique, psychedelic visual experiences inspired by vintage video synthesizers.
- Audio-reactive video synthesis
- Modular effects chain
- Customizable masks (SVG, PNG, PDF)
- Real-time feedback and distortion
- Color manipulation and remap
- CRT phosphor and DV tape emulation
- Edge detection and raster effects
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A«iD is an audio-reactive video synthesizer inspired by Eric Siegel's legendary EVS Electronic Video Synthesizer from the 1970s. ——— THE CHAIN ——— Modules process the video signal in real time. Stack them in any order, tap to open controls, drag to reorder, long-press to bypass. GEOMETRY SOURCE — Generate a synthetic shape and composite it over the signal. Circle, diamond, bar, cross, ring, triangle, hexagon — or load your own SVG, PNG, or PDF as a custom mask. Position, size, hue, and edge softness are all independently audio-modulatable. FEEDBACK — Route the processed signal back into itself. Pinch and rotate on the canvas to control zoom and spin in real time. KEYER — Unified luma and chroma key in a single module. Cut foreground from background by luminance or isolate a color as a matte. Tap the eyedropper to sample any color directly from the screen. Pairs visually with COMPOSITE in the chain — the signal knows where it's going. COMPOSITE — Layer the processed chain behind a clean camera cut using luma and chroma mattes simultaneously. COLOR MATRIX — Rotate, invert, and cross-channel the RGB color space. Strange colors guaranteed. HUE LFO — Oscillate the hue channel at tempo-synced rates. Psychedelic pulsing locked to the beat. PHOSPHOR DECAY — Emulate CRT phosphor persistence. Past frames linger like burned afterimages. BURN ECHO — Additive frame echo that saturates toward white. Motion leaves a scorched trail. DV TAPE — Analog dropout and compression artifacts from the era of consumer DV camcorders. HALATION — Film halation glow on bright areas. Warm blooming on highlights. CHROMA SMEAR — Horizontal chroma bleed and compression fringing. SCAN DISPLACE — Rutt/Etra-inspired raster displacement. Each scanline shifts horizontally by audio frequency content mapped to vertical position — bass warps the bottom, treble the top. The entire frame becomes a spectrum warp field. EDGE OUTLINE — Sobel edge detection with colored glow, inspired by Stephen Beck's Direct Video Synthesizer. Flat areas go dark; edges light up in the chosen hue and bloom outward. COLORMAP — Remap luminance to color. Five palettes: Thermal (heat vision), Psychedelic (full hue rotation, classic Siegel PCS), Phosphor (P1 green CRT), Ice, and Neon. Every pixel's brightness becomes a new color. RASTER BEND — Distort the scan lines. Warp the geometry of the image itself. MIRROR — Fold, flip, and tile the frame into kaleidoscopic symmetry. TILE — Repeat, scale, and rearrange the frame in a grid. POSTERIZE — Reduce color depth. Hard edges, flat planes, screen-print aesthetics. TRANSFORM — Rotate, scale, and reposition with full affine control. CHANNEL MIX — Blend and cross-route RGB channels independently. ENCODER — NTSC-style composite encoding. Color bleeding and luminance separation. ——— AUDIO REACTOR ——— Every knob can be wired to the live audio signal. A»iD listens constantly and extracts amplitude, bass, mid and treble bands, beat phase, BPM, onset triggers, and spectral centroid. Seven LFOs run at BPM subdivisions. Open the Patch Bay to wire any source to any parameter in any module. Stack multiple sources on one knob. Set amount and polarity per patch. ——— RANDOMIZE ——— Shake the device (or hit the die) to randomize the whole chain. Palette Lock freezes hue and saturation through dice rolls. Sleeper Mode locks each module's bypass state — sleeping modules stay asleep, active modules stay awake. Everything re-rolls around your intention. ——— SYNC & CONTROL ——— ABLETON LINK — Lock BPM and beat phase with Ableton Live, AUM, Loopy, and any Link-compatible app on your network. MIDI — Auto-learns CC from any wired or Bluetooth MIDI controller. Long-press any knob to assign. OSC — Receive /aid/ messages from TouchOSC or Max/MSP over Wi-Fi.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: A«iD at Free against Dog Vision Cam's $1.99. A«iD also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). Dog Vision Cam's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On rating, 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
A«iD is free to download; Dog Vision Cam costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dog Vision Cam against 5.0 for A«iD. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A«iD has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Dog Vision Cam | A«iD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philippe Zay | JOEL CHRISTOPHER RAKOWSKI |
Customer experience
Dog Vision Cam
A«iD
In-app purchases
Dog Vision Cam
No in-app purchases
A«iD
No in-app purchases









