Comparison

KAMRA vs Grade Studio

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

Head to head
About

KAMRA

This app simulates the look and feel of analog film photography with realistic grain, halation, and color grading. It offers multiple film stocks and randomized effects for unique results with every shot.

Highlights
  • 8 hand-tuned film stocks
  • Realistic grain structure
  • True halation and bloom effects
  • Randomized tone and light balance
  • Live graded viewfinder
  • Adjustable soft focus
  • Multiple lens options
Features
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KAMRA. Film camera. No excuses. Eight hand-tuned stocks — Kodak Gold, Fuji C, Velvia, Ilford, Portra, and more. Each one built with its own grain structure, halation, colour curves, and shadow tint. Applied the moment you shoot. Grain that reads the light. Coarser in the shadows. Finer in the highlights. Animated every frame. Halation that bleeds warm and red from your highlights — not a glow filter. Physics. Every frame gets a randomized tone, light balance, and shadow depth. Same scene. Never the same photo. KAMRA shoots like film feels. — 8 colour-graded film stocks — Real luminance grain · ISO 100 to 3200 — True halation & bloom — Live graded viewfinder — Randomised light leaks per shot — Soft focus with adjustable bloom — 0.5× · 1× · 2× lens switching — Self-timer · flash support — Home screen widget

About

Grade Studio

Features
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Professional color grading for every photo — the ones you shoot and the ones you already have. NEW: AI LOOKS An AI editor that runs entirely on your iPhone. It grades your photo in 14 styles — golden hour, teal & orange, Portra, Fuji Chrome, nordic cool, B&W and more — and picks its top 3 for that exact shot. Not a filter pasted on top: sky, skin and shadows are each handled on their own, adapted to your photo. MATCH ANY PHOTO Love the colors in a picture? Pick it as a reference and Grade Studio brings those colors to your photo — sky to sky, skin to skin. GRADE WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Import any photo and move the color pad. It measures your image and moves it toward the look you choose, so a warm shot barely shifts and a cold one travels the whole way. Fine-tune with Intensity and Dehaze, compare before and after with a split view, and layer the pad on top of an AI look. SHARE THE LOOK, NOT THE PHOTO Every look becomes a short code. Send it to a friend and it lands on their photo, adapted to it. SHOOT THE LOOK, SKIP THE EDITING Prefer to get it right in camera? Pick one of 56 hand-built film and cinema grades, see it live in the viewfinder, and capture the photo already graded at full resolution. • Signature grades — Editorial, Cinematic, Bleach Bypass, Noir, Nordic, Amber, Kinfolk, Monaco and more • Film emulations — warm consumer stocks, fine-grain portrait looks, punchy slide film, rich black & white • Cinema grades — teal & orange, midnight, golden hour, log-inspired flat profiles • Digital profiles — Crystal, Vivid, Graphite, Natural Each look is a real color pipeline — tone curves, split toning, channel mixing, grain — not an overlay. BUILT LIKE A CAMERA • Ultra-wide, wide and telephoto lenses • Front and rear capture, flash and composition grid • HDR capture for wider dynamic range • Save Original: keep an untouched copy next to the graded shot • Instant-print style frame • Set a default look so the app opens ready to shoot PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything — the AI editor included — runs on your device. Your photos are never uploaded, and there is no account to create. FREE TO START Grading, AI Looks, look codes and the camera with a set of free grades — all free, no limits on use. GRADE STUDIO PRO Save your graded photos, unlock the full catalogue of 56 grades, remove the watermark and get the instant-print frame. Monthly or annual subscription — annual saves the most, and a free trial is available on eligible plans. Have an offer code? Redeem it in Settings. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRqlr4Uit78Xe5Gv6X_6PSxrHPH8C9hmlHXxsZWGRyuAfDixL4ybQRTNlYoU3iBwSBkkrb_f_EfJbtO/pub Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQaAbgbo1QkH3j1XQyA_uU-2hC4z9ULLQZz-MqtSpPL-bR3s7952Y5KB9yqu-Tq3qhCsRweRZsLi2VI/pub

Screenshots

KAMRA3 screens
Grade Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: KAMRA at every 3 weeks against Grade Studio's every 2 months. Grade Studio's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). 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. KAMRA sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Grade Studio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KAMRA ships an update every 3 weeks, Grade Studio every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
KAMRA versus Grade Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKAMRAGrade Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.218.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size141 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDornell MisterLiviu Iorga

In-app purchases

1 purchases

KAMRA

One-time1
  • KAMRAKAMRA PREMIUM$5.99
2 purchases

Grade Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Grade Studio Pro$2.991 Month
  • Grade Studio Pro$19.991 Year

Questions

Is KAMRA free?
KAMRA is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grade Studio free?
Grade Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do KAMRA or Grade Studio have ads?
Neither KAMRA nor Grade Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KAMRA or Grade Studio?
KAMRA ships an update every 3 weeks, and Grade Studio every 2 months. Most recently, KAMRA was updated on October 24, 2026 and Grade Studio on October 24, 2026.

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