Backdrop vs Timestamp Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Backdrop
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Pick a Look and the camera changes. Point it at a street and the street is already painted in oil, or broken into dots, or drawn by hand. You are not previewing a filter. That is the picture, and the shutter keeps it. THE LOOKS Brush. Painted stroke by stroke, coarse to fine, as you move. Mosaic. Rebuilt from its own colours. Cells split where there is detail. Drawn. The world drawn instead of photographed. Flat colour, inked lines. Matter. The picture as a field of grains that drift and settle. Fur. Combed strands that follow what the camera sees. Dither. Tone traded for dots on one fixed grid, nothing in between. Halftone. Print dots on a square or hex grid, in four shapes. Fluted. Seen through ribbed glass. The world arrives in strips. Water. Refraction and caustics, the scene read through moving water. Code. Digital rain over katakana, lit by whatever the camera sees. The list grows. New Looks arrive in updates. TAP OR HOLD Tap the shutter for a photo. Hold it to record, up to ten minutes. Video renders in the background at full quality, one frame at a time, using the exact settings you shot with. TUNE ANYTHING Every Look has its own knobs. Size, grain, relief, speed, depth, whatever that Look actually has. Drag the handle at the edge of the screen and the picture changes under your thumb. Tap a knob to put it back. BRING YOUR OWN Choose from Photos to run something you already have through a Look. For video, trim it first, pick the frame, then render. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, nothing to sign in to. No servers. What you shoot sits in the Shelf on your device. Saving a copy to Photos is a switch, off until you turn it on. BACKDROP PREMIUM Dither, Water, Halftone and Drawn are free, and they record video too. Premium opens every Look, including the ones added later, and takes the Backdrop mark off everything you shoot. Monthly and annual. Payment goes to your Apple Accou renews unless you turn it off at least 24 hours befo Manage or cancel in Settings, Apple Account, Subscri Privacy: backdrop.wiki/privacy Terms: backdrop.wiki/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ iPhone. iOS 18 and later.
Timestamp Camera
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Timevera is a timestamp camera that adds the date and time as you take a photo. Keep a photo record of meals, workouts, study sessions, and everyday life. Photos save automatically to your photo library. Keep taking pictures without a save confirmation screen. Choose a stamp style, font, size, and position, then preview it before shooting. Each topic keeps its own stamp settings. New photos are automatically grouped under your selected topic. Browse your albums and select multiple photos to share or export. Basic shooting and topic albums are free. Free photos include a small Timevera watermark. A one-time Timevera Premium purchase removes the watermark from new photos and unlocks additional stamp styles, date formats, seconds display, and calendar browsing.
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Verdict
Backdrop and Timestamp Camera are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Backdrop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Timestamp Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Backdrop | Timestamp Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shekhar Upadhaya | Hyeon mo Gu |
In-app purchases
Backdrop
- Backdrop Premium โ Weekly$4.997 Days
- Backdrop Premium โ Monthly$11.991 Month
- Backdrop Premium โ Annual$39.991 Year
- Backdrop Premium โ Lifetime$79.99
Timestamp Camera
- Timevera Premium$3.99









