Comparison

BadCam vs FLIM

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

Head to head
About

BadCam

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BadCam is a simple camera app inspired by old film cameras. You load a roll, take some photos, send the roll to the lab, and wait for the pictures. There are no previews and no retakes. The idea is to slow things down a little and make each photo feel worth a bit more. Features: • Two film rolls: color and black & white • Up to 24 shots per roll (you can eject a roll early and not use all exposures) • Film inspired photo processing • Optional date stamp • Lab developing timer • Albums for developed rolls • Save photos to your Photos library • No accounts or cloud storage Just photos worth waiting for.

About

FLIM

Capture and share photos with friends using a unique disposable camera experience. Photos develop together at a set time, creating a shared surprise. Enjoy a private feed focused on genuine connections.

Highlights
  • Signature film look applied at capture
  • 12-hour photo development window
  • Shared rolls with up to 50 friends
  • Private photo feed
  • Reactions, comments, and mentions
  • Invite-only access
Features
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FLIM is a disposable camera you share with your friends. Start a roll for the birthday, the trip, the night out, and everyone shoots into it. Nobody sees a frame until the whole roll reveals at once, twelve hours after it started, not even the person who took it. The waiting is what makes the reveal worth showing up for. Shots you take for yourself land in your Darkroom right away. FLIM is invite-only. You join with a code from a friend, so everyone you meet here is someone a friend chose to let in. Real film feel. Every photo gets FLIM's film look baked in at capture: warm color, fine grain where film puts it, and the soft red glow real film gives a bright window or a streetlight. No filters. No sliders. One look, applied the moment you shoot, the same for everyone. Share a photo and it goes out with the orange date stamp burned in, as a print, a story, or the full frame. Every roll you are in is yours to save, all of it. Rolls for your people. Start a shared roll with up to 50 friends and shoot into it together. Everyone's photos land in the same place, and the whole roll develops at once. Trips, parties, nights out, all revealed together. Watch a roll fill up as its reveal gets closer, with a countdown on your lock screen, then play it back one shot at a time. Near-identical shots stack, a frame that came out black or blurred is marked so the call is yours, and once you have watched a reveal it stays watched on any phone you sign into. Join with an invite code, comment on each other's photos, react with emojis. When the reveal ends, start another with the same group in one tap; everyone gets an invitation they can decline. A roll's code even gets a friend who is not on FLIM yet in, with the roll ready to shoot into. Chapters. On the first of every month, the month you shared arrives on your page as a cover. It plays like a reveal, fifteen frames picked on your phone, and ends on the month in numbers: your most reacted shot, your biggest fan, the hour you shoot at. You decide which numbers other people see. Every past month is already there, and any month can be shared as a contact sheet. A feed that's yours. Follow friends, see what they post, react and comment. Your photographs are seen by the people who follow you, and nobody else. Mention someone with @ to bring them into it. FLIM is invite-only, so everyone you see is someone a friend chose to let in. The friend who invited you is named before you join, and you follow them from the start. Find friends by who you already know: people who follow you, people in your rolls, the people your inviter brought in. No public like counts. No algorithm deciding what you look at. No strangers. FEATURES • One film look, applied at capture, no post-processing • Twelve hour development window, with a roll's shots revealing together • Shared rolls with up to 50 members, joined by invite code • A reveal that plays your roll back one shot at a time, with a lock screen countdown • Chapters: every month you shared, as a playable recap with the month in numbers • Exports with the date stamp burned in: print, story, or full frame • A private feed from the people you follow, and friend suggestions that say why • Reactions, comments, and @mentions on photos and posts • Photo tagging you can edit any time, and you can untag yourself from anything • Blocking and reporting, reviewed within 24 hours • One daily notification rounding up what friends posted, instead of one per photo • Email sign-in with a one time code, invite only • Dynamic Type up to the largest accessibility sizes, VoiceOver labels throughout You need an invite to join. If you do not have a code yet, ask the friend who sent you here.

Screenshots

BadCam4 screens
FLIM4 screens

Verdict

The call

BadCam and FLIM are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BadCam versus FLIM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBadCamFLIM
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMARIUS-MIHAI IANCUJeffrey Fernandez

In-app purchases

None

BadCam

No in-app purchases

None

FLIM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BadCam free?
BadCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FLIM free?
FLIM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BadCam or FLIM have ads?
Neither BadCam nor FLIM shows ads.

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