Comparison

Lumo vs 07

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

Head to head
About

Lumo

Achieve the popular Canon G7X digital camera aesthetic on your iPhone photos with a single tap. This app applies authentic flash, grain, and color science for a nostalgic, Y2K-inspired look, perfect for social media and vlogs. Get instant, high-quality results without complex editing.

Highlights
  • One-tap G7X transformation
  • Authentic flash, grain & color science
  • Nostalgic compact-camera feel
  • Works on existing photos
  • Instant results, no waiting
Features
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Get the Canon G7X look on every photo — without the $700 camera. Lumo turns your iPhone photos into the dreamy, slightly-grainy, perfectly-lit shots flooding your TikTok feed. The same look every creator, content girl, and Y2K aesthetic obsessive is chasing. Now in your pocket. What you get: One-tap G7X transformation Authentic flash, grain & color science That nostalgic compact-camera feel Works on photos you've already taken No upload, no waiting — instant results Whether you're posting to Instagram, building a vlog aesthetic, or just want your photos to look like they were taken on a 2010s digital camera, Lumo nails the look in seconds. Stop editing for hours in Lightroom. Stop buying overpriced presets. Get the G7X aesthetic in one tap. — Lumo Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription: • Mini — 50 credits/month • Standard — 100 credits/month • Pro — 250 credits/month Subscriptions are billed monthly and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.lumoedit.com/privacy.html

About

07

This app emulates a 2007 digital camera, offering a unique, uneditable photo development process. It captures images with a fixed aesthetic, allowing for focus and exposure lock before shooting. Import existing photos for a similar development treatment.

Highlights
  • Emulates 2007 digital camera aesthetic
  • On-device image development
  • Fixed, uneditable photo looks
  • Two-stage shutter for focus lock
  • Import photos for development
  • Local photo storage and organization
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07 turns your iPhone into one fictional compact digital camera from 2007. Hold the shutter to focus, release to shoot, and watch each photograph develop through 07’s signature on-device image process. One camera. One look. Nothing to choose. 07 is not a filter you apply afterwards. There is no slider to move and no look to pick. Every exposure is metered as you take it and developed down one of three calibrated paths — ambient, flash, or low light — chosen from the light 07 measured and the ISO the camera actually captured at. Each frame is seeded from itself, so the same photograph always develops the same way. Take the picture, and the picture is the answer. Both of the iPhone’s cameras belong to 07. LENS turns the camera round without leaving the viewfinder: the rear lens carries the zoom ladder, and the front one sits at its own fixed wide and is mirrored in both directions, so the photograph on the card is the one you framed. IMPORT is the second door into the same process. It opens the system Photos picker, so 07 asks for no permission to read your library and receives only the photographs you choose there — up to 100 in a batch. Each one is read for its own exposure facts, developed down the same three paths, and written to the same card as a capture. It costs a frame exactly as a capture does. Every frame is kept in order on Card 01, the app’s private local card, under a four-digit counter that keeps climbing for the life of the camera and never rolls back. Review photographs in playback, see their capture details, add a warm date stamp, and share only when you choose. ALBUMS files frames under names you invent without moving them off the card. SELECT picks any number of frames at once, and SEND hands the whole set to a single share sheet. Optional Save to Photos makes add-only copies without browsing your library. 07’s two-stage shutter rewards a held half-press: focus, exposure, and white balance all lock before the frame is taken, the way a real one did. A quick tap still focuses and captures. Flash, zoom, timers, landscape shooting, direct-flash character, a flash that has to recharge, Card 01, albums, playback, sharing, and the complete 07-developed result are included from the first photograph. 07 includes 36 complimentary developed photographs. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited 07-developed photographs and permanent use of the full card. No subscription. No account. No ads. Camera permission is required to capture. Photos and location are optional. When location metadata is enabled, your current location is written into that photograph; an imported photograph carries the location its own file already recorded, and only while that same setting is on. Photographs are developed on the device; Photos copies may sync according to your Apple settings.

Screenshots

Lumo4 screens
074 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: 07 at 5.0 against Lumo's 3.5. Lumo's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Lumo sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and 07 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

07 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Lumo versus 07: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLumo07
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (6 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better2
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBento Studios LLCSamuel Price

Customer experience

Lumo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

07

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Lumo

Subscriptions3
  • Mini – 10 Images/Month$4.991 Month
  • Standard – 20 Images/Month$7.991 Month
  • Pro – 50 Images/Month$14.991 Month
One-time3
  • Starter – 50 Credits$4.99
  • Popular – 150 Credits$9.99
  • Pro – 400 Credits$19.99
1 purchases

07

One-time1
  • Full 07 Camera$14.99

Questions

Is Lumo free?
Lumo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 07 free?
07 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lumo or 07?
07 is rated higher. Lumo averages 3.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while 07 averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Lumo or 07 have ads?
Neither Lumo nor 07 shows ads.

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