Comparison

Cameratic vs Cameo Waves

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

Cameo Waves

This app offers advanced manual camera controls and on-device AI editing for photographers and filmmakers. It provides professional tools for capturing and enhancing images and videos without uploading your data.

Highlights
  • True RAW+ capture
  • Live histogram and focus peaking
  • On-device semantic masking
  • Portrait relighting tools
  • LOG color profile for video
  • Computational photography modes
Features
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Cameo Waves is the precision camera for people who care how light feels. Shoot with real manual control — shutter, ISO, exposure, focus, and white balance — then finish with on-device AI that never uploads your images. Clean, calm chrome. Pro tools when you want them. Nothing in the way when you don’t. LIGHT COACH • Live, on-device tips when highlights clip or the frame is too dark • One-tap apply of suggested exposure • On iOS 26+, refined by Apple Intelligence — free, private, on-device • Built for learning light — not another filter pack SYSTEM CITIZEN • Hardware Camera Control and capture button support • Siri & Shortcuts — take photo, toggle video, open camera • VoiceOver-friendly controls across the viewfinder CAPTURE LIKE A PRO • True RAW+ with DNG when your device supports it • Live histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking, and electronic level • Tap to focus · hold to lock AE/AF • Burst, bracketing, and real time-lapse video • Pinch zoom, aspect guides, and film looks INTELLIGENT EDITING — ON DEVICE • Semantic masking: Sky Pop and selective color without affecting the rest of the frame • Portrait relighting: studio-style Contour, Stage Light, Soft, Rim, and Golden Hour • Super-resolution to recover detail in crops • Object cleanup, noise reduction, and one-tap Magic Enhance • Film simulations from Portra to Cinematic CINEMA-READY VIDEO • Dual front + back recording on supported iPhones • Teleprompter and a soft screen ring light for talking-head takes • In-app studio — trim, film looks, social reframes, captions, cover frames, anamorphic de-squeeze, slow-mo, and export • LOG color profile for grading in DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro • ProRes 422 on supported iPhones • 4K capture and live audio monitoring so you never clip CAMEO AI STUDIO • Prompt-to-still and motion clips, on-device • Image Playground on supported iPhones; a cinematic local look as fallback • Hand off into the photo editor or video studio CREATIVE COMPUTATIONAL MODES • Silky Water & light trails — multi-frame stacks that simulate an ND filter • Star Trails for night-sky motion • Macro Assist for close-up lens and focus WORKFLOW THAT TRAVELS • Import professional .cube LUTs • Save exposure + film looks as shareable Cameo Presets and recipe cards • Scan a recipe QR or open a .cameo file to apply a look • Pro EXIF viewer — lens, aperture, shutter, ISO — plus copyright and location edits CAMEO WAVES PRO Unlock full manual controls, RAW, advanced AI, LOG/ProRes, computational modes, LUTs, presets, clean exports, and no watermark. Built for photographers and filmmakers who want control without complexity. All AI runs on-device. Your work stays yours. Privacy Policy: [https://textwaves.org/privacy-policy/](https://textwaves.org/privacy-policy/) Terms of Use (EULA): (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

Screenshots

Cameratic3 screens
Cameo Waves4 screens

Verdict

The call

Cameratic and Cameo Waves are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cameratic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cameo Waves sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cameratic against 5.0 for Cameo Waves. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cameratic ships an update every 5 days, Cameo Waves every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Cameratic versus Cameo Waves: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCameraticCameo Waves
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoseph KimTextWaves Inc

Customer experience

Cameratic

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cameo Waves

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cameratic

One-time1
  • Cameratic Pro$5.99
2 purchases

Cameo Waves

Subscriptions1
  • Cameo Waves1 Month trial$9.991 Month
One-time1
  • Cameo Waves$39.99

Questions

Is Cameratic free?
Cameratic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cameo Waves free?
Cameo Waves is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cameratic or Cameo Waves?
Cameratic and Cameo Waves are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cameratic or Cameo Waves have ads?
Neither Cameratic nor Cameo Waves shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cameratic or Cameo Waves?
Cameratic ships an update every 5 days, and Cameo Waves every 4 days. Most recently, Cameratic was updated on October 15, 2026 and Cameo Waves on October 9, 2026.

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