Comparison

Chaos Camera Lab vs CamVerse

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

Head to head
About

Chaos Camera Lab

Transform ordinary photos into unique, collectible color worlds with unpredictable effects. Remap colors, add digital grain, and explore 16 distinct styles. Save and reuse your custom looks for future edits.

Highlights
  • 16 distinct Chaos styles
  • Color remapping and textured grain
  • Reusable recipes with shareable codes
  • Recipe Lab for custom looks
  • 4:5 camera with zoom
  • Photo Library import
Features
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Chaos Camera Lab turns ordinary scenes into unpredictable, collectible color worlds. This is not a traditional filter camera. Chaos remaps the colors inside each photo, adds tactile digital grain, and gives every image its own strange visual character. Shoot with the built-in 4:5 camera or import a photo, then explore looks ranging from soft and dreamlike to stark, graphic, spectral, and broken. Explore 16 distinct Chaos styles: Chaos, Soft, Poster, Acid, Dream, Noir, Thermal, Prism, Solar, Xerox, Signal, Infra, Ghost, Bleach, Mosaic, and Emulsion. When you discover a look worth keeping, save its recipe. Each recipe preserves the preset, palette, tuning, name, and code behind the image, so you can apply the same visual logic to a completely different scene later. Features: • A focused 4:5 camera with tap to focus and multiple zoom choices • 16 visually distinct Chaos presets • Expressive color remapping and textured grain • Photo Library import for remixing existing images • Hold the result to compare it with the original • Reusable recipes with names, palettes, and shareable codes • Recipe Lab for building custom color looks • Chaos Roll sessions and stylized contact sheets • A local gallery and Recipe Passport • High-quality image export to Photos Chaos Camera Lab is made for fast experimentation, happy accidents, and photographers who want an image to become something unexpected. Your photos and recipes stay on your device. Chaos Camera Lab does not collect personal data.

About

CamVerse

Features
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Your camera. Your universe. Transform your camera into dozens of live cinematic experiences. No editing. No post-processing. Point, shoot, become the character — every effect is rendered live as you shoot, and processed entirely on your device. Nothing is ever uploaded. HERO MODES VINTAGE — Six real film stocks: Kodak Gold, Fuji, disposable, Polaroid, faded black & white, and the early-2000s digicam look. Grain, halation, light leaks, and a glowing date stamp. COLOR SWAP — Recolor yourself in real time while the world stays real — or flip it and recolor the background. Solid tints, rainbow cycles, and hue shifts. LIVE NEWS — Become the reporter. Your name on the chyron, a breaking-news ticker, a full broadcast studio in your pocket. MOTO RIDER — Real GPS speed, live elevation, trip distance, and a recording timer. Every ride documented like a pro motorcycle vlog. No action-cam app needed. SHADOW DANCE — Your glowing silhouette against a cinematic background. Dance, move, perform — every frame is a movie poster. VHS HORROR — Found footage meets horror cinema. Terror text on corrupted tape. Something is wrong with this recording. HORROR POV — You're inside the horror movie. Jitter, grain, atmosphere — every corridor looks like a film scene. GLITCH TV — Distort reality with live RGB splits, scanlines, and digital corruption. CINEMA HALL — Watch yourself on the big screen inside a theatre. Every video looks like a trailer. ART MODES PENCIL SKETCH — Pencil, charcoal, red charcoal, color charcoal, sepia, or ballpoint — drawn on textured paper with grain. PAINTING — Pointillism, poster, hex tiles, and dream glow. PRINTING — Classic, stencil, propaganda, pop art, newspaper, vintage pink, and photocopy — real halftone print looks, live. DIRTY LENS — Shoot through fog, frost, dust, smudges, or raindrops running down the glass. MIRROR FX & SPLIT — Kaleidoscope and mirror reflections, split-screen tiling, and delayed clone panels. CINEMATIC MODES SINGLE COLOR — Keep one color, everything else turns grey. Cinema color grading, live, in-camera. THERMAL — Full thermal-imaging simulation with iron, rainbow, and arctic palettes. X-RAY — Inverted radiograph. Everything reads like film on a lightbox. VHS TAPE — Soft glow, chroma fringe, and tape grain. One slider from fresh tape to worn. SECURITY CAM — Night vision, black & white, color CCTV, or fisheye doorbell. SPORTS MODES CRICKET HUD — Live scoreboard. Tap SIX, FOUR, WICKET for animated overlays. Film your local match like a broadcast. FOOTBALL BROADCAST — Live match overlay. Tap GOAL, CARD, PENALTY for broadcast events. VLOG MODES Plus Echo Army, Mirror Ghost, Glitch Art, Silent Movie, Afterimage, Party Dance, DreamScape, Chroma Wash, MoodBoard, and more. BUILT FOR CREATORS Cricket commentators. Horror filmmakers. News satirists. Motorcycle vloggers. Dance creators. Football fans. Film photographers. Whatever you make, CamVerse gives you a professional look with zero setup. Point. Shoot. Post. FREE TO EXPLORE Every effect is free to try. Go CamVerse Pro to remove the watermark and unlock full control. CAMVERSE PRO Remove the CamVerse watermark from your photos and videos Fine-tune colors, intensity, and overlays on every mode Available as Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime PRIVACY Everything is processed live on your device. Your photos and videos are never uploaded — nothing leaves your phone. TECHNICAL 1080p output on all modes Real GPS speed & elevation (Moto Rider) Pose detection (Shadow Dance) iOS 17 or later Your camera. Your universe. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/camverse-live-camera-effect/privacy-page

Screenshots

Chaos Camera Lab4 screens
CamVerse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chaos Camera Lab at none against CamVerse's 3. Chaos Camera Lab also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). 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. CamVerse sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Chaos Camera Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chaos Camera Lab ships an update every 2 days, CamVerse weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Chaos Camera Lab versus CamVerse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChaos Camera LabCamVerse
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB8 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRyan WalkerAnkit Raj

In-app purchases

None

Chaos Camera Lab

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

CamVerse

Subscriptions2
  • CamVerse Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • CamVerse Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • CamVerse Pro Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Chaos Camera Lab free?
Chaos Camera Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CamVerse free?
CamVerse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chaos Camera Lab or CamVerse have ads?
Neither Chaos Camera Lab nor CamVerse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chaos Camera Lab or CamVerse?
Chaos Camera Lab ships an update every 2 days, and CamVerse weekly. Most recently, Chaos Camera Lab was updated on October 10, 2026 and CamVerse on October 25, 2026.

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