WaybackCam vs FILCA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WaybackCam
This camera app transports you to the early 2000s with a pixelated, retro digital aesthetic. Choose from six classic devices to frame your shots, applying filters like 18-bit color and posterization. Export photos with or without the device frame.
- Simulates early 2000s digital camera look
- Six classic device emulations
- 18-bit color and posterization filters
- Export with or without device frame
- Pinch to zoom
- Hardware volume button capture
- In-app gallery and sharing
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WaybackCam is a camera that takes you back to the early-2000s digital era. Pick a device. Frame your shot through its tiny pixelated LCD. Watch the world get filtered through 18-bit color, posterized, and squished onto an old phone or digicam screen. Six classic devices, each with its own look: • M*torola *azr V3 (2004) — the flip phone everyone had • i*od Nano 5G (2009) — three colors, clickwheel chrome • Ga*e B*y Camera (1998) — 4-shade green, swappable palette • Casi* QV-10 (1995) — the first consumer digital camera • S*ny DSC-T1 (2003) — slim ultra-portable • L* Ch*colate VX8500 (2006) — the slider you'd flip out Two export modes: keep the device frame and blurred backdrop, or just the viewfinder content. Pinch to zoom, hardware volume button to capture, swipe through your gallery, share straight from the app. WaybackCam is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the brands depicted. Devices are stylized references for nostalgia.
FILCA
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FILCA is not a filter app — it's a whole 2000s digital camera in your pocket. Silver body, black-bezel LCD, engraved buttons, a D-pad, and that motor sound when the lens barrel slides out. Press the on-screen shutter and it fires like the real thing. ■ 20 FILM LOOKS From the core four — DAY OUT, DAY IN, NIGHT OUT, NIGHT IN — measured from real film photos, to MONO, an old-TV broadcast look, a faded travel negative, and a 13-film collection of pastels, golden hour, café tones, blue hour, wine-bar evenings and Y2K digicam. Pick your film for the light you're in. ■ EVERY FILM IS A DIFFERENT CAMERA Each film has its own lens and darkroom character — not just color. Corners that sink into black, dreamy pro-mist glow, purple fringing and a flash hotspot, CRT scanlines, toy-lens edge blur, coarse silver grain. Two films never feel like the same machine. ■ EVERY SHOT IS DEVELOPED, NOT FILTERED Each photo goes through a full darkroom pipeline: lens distortion, halation glow around lights, film grain, vignette, dust, and the occasional light leak. Exposure and color drift a little on every frame — no two photos ever come out the same. ■ A REAL CAMERA, NOT A CAMERA UI - Shooting modes: Auto, Program, Twilight, Twilight Portrait, High Sensitivity - Self-timer, burst shooting, zoom rocker - Brightness dial, hand-shake simulation for that honest 2000s blur - Date stamp — or engrave your own message - On-screen OSD menu straight out of a 2005 compact camera ■ 10 FREE SHOTS Your first roll is on us. Shoot 10 photos free, then subscribe for unlimited developing. No account. No ads. Your photos never leave your phone. ■ SUBSCRIPTION FILCA Monthly — $0.49 per month, auto-renewable. It lifts the 10-shot limit so you can shoot and develop without a count, on all 20 film stocks and in every shooting mode. There is no free trial. The subscription renews at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and you can manage or cancel it anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://monttecarlo.com/filca/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WaybackCam at none against FILCA's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. FILCA sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.49 per month. WaybackCam asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | WaybackCam | FILCA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dohyun Lee | MONTECARLO |
In-app purchases
WaybackCam
No in-app purchases
FILCA
- FILCA Monthly$0.491 Month









