Nostalgia Cam vs Camera Lens
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nostalgia Cam
Capture photos with the authentic look and feel of classic 35mm film. Choose from a variety of film stocks and camera styles, with real-time previews and editing tools for a vintage aesthetic.
- Authentic 35mm film emulation
- Live preview with effects
- Import photos from library
- Adjustable film parameters
- Multiple vintage camera styles
- Full resolution export
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Nostalgia Cam brings the warmth and texture of classic 35mm film to your iPhone. Choose from a curated library of legendary film stocks recreating the unique color science, grain pattern, and tonal response of real-world counterparts. CAMERA - Disposable cameras, vintage rangefinders, instant cameras, and medium format bodies - Live preview with film effects applied in real time LAB - Import any photo from your library - Cycle through film stocks with side-by-side comparison - Fine-tune Exposure, Warmth, Film Intensity, Grain, Fade, Vignette - Export in full resolution Every frame looks filmed, not filtered. Whether it's a snowy brownstone, a candlelit dinner, or a getting-ready selfie, Nostalgia Cam gives your photos the warmth, character, and color of real 35mm film. No subscriptions. No watermarks. Just photographs that look like memories. Nostalgia Cam is inspired by classic film stocks. Not affiliated with Kodak, Fujifilm, Lomography, or any other manufacturer.
Camera Lens
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Camera Lens is a familiar Photo and Video camera designed to keep partly broken iPhones useful. Disable individual physical camera lenses that shake, fail to focus, or no longer work. Camera Lens remembers disabled lenses and never adds them to its capture session. When enabled, unavailable zoom-level replacements can use digital zoom on a working lens to preserve familiar zoom choices. Features: • Photo and Video capture with familiar camera controls • Hard exclusion of disabled wide, ultra-wide, telephoto, and front cameras • Optional synthetic replacements for unavailable zoom levels • Per-lens continuous, single, locked, or manual focus controls • Per-lens focus range and remembered manual focus position • Per-lens video stabilization choices based on device support • HEIF/JPEG photos and HEVC/H.264 video formats • Capability-aware resolution, frame rate, HDR, flash, torch, timer, grid, level, exposure, and aspect-ratio controls • Recent photo, Live Photo, and video browsing with sharing • Camera Lens control for the Lock Screen on supported iPhones Privacy: Camera Lens has no account, ads, analytics, or third-party SDKs. It does not upload your photos, videos, settings, or personal information. Photos access is used only for saving captures and browsing your own library. Optional location access adds metadata to captures. Camera Lens does not repair damaged hardware. Results depend on which physical cameras remain usable on your iPhone.
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Verdict
Nostalgia Cam and Camera Lens are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Nostalgia Cam | Camera Lens |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Talal Nabulsi | Luke Rehmann |
In-app purchases
Nostalgia Cam
No in-app purchases
Camera Lens
No in-app purchases









