Comparison

Cameratic vs First Phone Camera

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

Head to head
About

Cameratic

This app allows you to apply a variety of live filters and creative adjustments as you capture photos. It helps you achieve a desired aesthetic, from vintage tones to retro moods, with the ability to save custom styles and add overlays or timestamps.

Highlights
  • Live filter previews
  • Custom style creation
  • Creative adjustments
  • Overlays and timestamps
  • Save favorite filter setups
  • Vintage and retro looks
Features
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Cameratic is a creative camera app for capturing moments with personality. Instead of taking a photo and figuring it out later, Cameratic lets you explore live looks as you shoot — from soft vintage tones to dreamy retro moods, nostalgic date stamps, and playful color treatments. The result is a photo that already feels warm, expressive, and worth keeping. Cameratic is made for the kinds of shots you want to remember: casual selfies, everyday moments, nights out, weekend memories, and the little in-between scenes that feel better with a little character. With Cameratic, you can preview multiple live filter looks at once, build your own custom styles, fine-tune each look with creative adjustments, add overlays and timestamps, and save your favorite filter setups for later. Whether your style leans vintage, retro, hip, dreamy, candid, or a little imperfect in the best way, Cameratic helps your photos feel more like memories and less like edits. Capture the moment. Keep the mood.

About

First Phone Camera

Features
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No subscription · No login · No ads · No server. A camera inspired by 2000s Korean phone photos. All 10 base looks and 3 skins are included. Extra looks, photo booth, camcorder and skin/icon packs are optional in-app purchases, with a one-day trial for each pack. ■ Your phone-camera years First Phone, Night Flash, Cafe 2009, Mini Homepage, School Trip, Homepage Blue, Rainy SMS, Digicam, MP3 Player and PC Room recreate tiny-sensor softness, color noise, sharpening, bloom and grain. The viewfinder and saved photo use the same film engine. Adjust intensity, softness, noise and saturation. ■ Dates and captions Choose LCD or pixel date stamps, four corner positions, date formats, time and a short caption. Use the time machine to pick a date. An optional setting also synchronizes the photo metadata date. ■ Silent and 12MP capture Silent mode saves a video frame as a photo and mutes shutter, timer and save sounds. Sound mode uses the same phone-camera resolution with a soft click that follows the Ring/Silent switch. 12MP uses photo capture capped at 12.5MP and may play the system shutter sound. Actual dimensions depend on your device and camera. Choose Era look, Era size or Modern quality. Live Photo is available in 12MP mode on supported devices. ■ Four-shot photo booth — optional pack One tap takes four photos and saves a strip. Choose from 12 original frames, draw, add stickers and captions, and export a long strip, grid or story. The booth pack also includes extra photo-card templates. ■ Develop photos and videos again Pick up to 20 photos or videos. Videos can be up to three minutes each, with audio preserved. Pause and resume recording, shoot 15 fps phone-cam video, or use the camcorder pack with REC, timecode and captions. Originals and recipes stay locally within a 500MB default limit. Oldest originals are removed at the limit; saved Photos assets remain. Retained originals can be developed again after reopening the app. ■ Cards and recipe sharing The included album card adds a caption, BGM title and privacy badge in square or story format. Extra templates, draggable stickers and optional now-playing title entry are available. BGM is text only; music is not added to the export. Share a look recipe as a QR code. ■ Make it your camera FP-09, DIGI-K and CY-04 are included. The optional pack adds FLIP-02, SWV-06 and TCH-08 with distinct shutter sounds, plus six app icons. Selfies, zoom, focus, exposure, flash, 3/5/10-second timers, grids, level, volume shutter, HEIF/JPEG, EXIF, an optional album and film-roll mode are supported. Location tags are saved only when enabled. ■ Quick launch and memories Today's Phonecam and On This Day widgets, controls that open the app from Control Center or the Lock Screen, and an Action Button shortcut. On supported devices, Camera Control changes the look and intensity. Photos and videos are processed on this iPhone and saved to Photos. No account, server upload, advertising or tracking. Supports Korean, English and Japanese.

Screenshots

Cameratic3 screens
First Phone Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: First Phone Camera at none against Cameratic's 1. Cameratic's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cameratic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. First Phone Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cameratic ships an update every 5 days, First Phone Camera every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Cameratic versus First Phone Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCameraticFirst Phone Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph KimSungho Park

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cameratic

One-time1
  • Cameratic Pro$5.99
None

First Phone Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cameratic free?
Cameratic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is First Phone Camera free?
First Phone Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cameratic or First Phone Camera have ads?
Neither Cameratic nor First Phone Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cameratic or First Phone Camera?
Cameratic ships an update every 5 days, and First Phone Camera every 2 months. Most recently, Cameratic was updated on October 15, 2026 and First Phone Camera on October 16, 2026.

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