Comparison

Chromaform vs Oqra Cam

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

Head to head
About

Chromaform

Features
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Chromaform is a professional-grade RAW photo editor for photographers who demand precision, speed, and total creative control — with a full suite of on-device AI tools that never send your photos to the cloud. REAL-TIME RAW EDITING Open DNG, CR3, NEF, ARW, and other major camera RAW formats with true RAW processing. Exposure and recovery work directly from sensor data — no clipping, no compromise. Every adjustment renders live on the GPU through a Vulkan pipeline (vkdt + MoltenVK) and Metal-accelerated Core Image. COMPLETE ADJUSTMENT TOOLKIT • Light: Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows + an interactive per-channel Tone Curve • Color: Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation • Effects: Texture, Clarity, Dehaze, Vignette • Detail: Sharpening, Noise Reduction, and Neural Denoise • Optics: Chromatic Aberration removal Fine-tune any slider with +/− buttons and reset any section with one tap. COLOR GRADING Cinema-style color wheels for shadows, midtones, and highlights. Grade the whole frame, or apply grades selectively to the foreground, background, or a gradient region. ON-DEVICE AI TOOLKIT • Generative Erase — remove unwanted objects and let the model paint in a clean background • Smart Masking — tap any subject to select it with Segment Anything Model 2.1, then adjust just that region • Recolor Clothing — automatically detect garments and recolor them to any hue • Relight — add up to five virtual lights and drag them across the scene to reshape the lighting • Portrait — face-aware adjustments • Match — transfer the look of any reference photo with neural analysis • Auto Adjust — one tap analyzes the scene with Apple's Vision framework (classification, face detection, saliency) for optimal exposure, white balance, and color MASKING & GRADIENTS Combine subject masks with linear, radial, and rectangular gradient masks. Paint masks in or out by hand, feather the edges, and apply any adjustment or color grade to the masked area only. PRESETS & LUTS Nine built-in looks: Natural, Vivid, Film Warm, Film Cool, Cinematic, B&W Classic, B&W High Contrast, Vintage Fade, and Matte. Import your own .cube 3D LUTs for custom film emulations. CREATIVE EFFECTS Add atmosphere with the Water tool — rain drops and streaks. PIPELINE CONTROL See every stage of the processing pipeline and toggle any phase on or off to understand exactly how your edit is built. CLIPPING VISUALIZATION Toggle the Clip overlay to see blown highlights (red) and crushed shadows (blue) — essential for exposure-critical work. NON-DESTRUCTIVE WORKFLOW Your originals are never modified. Edits are stored as lightweight recipes — reopen any image with your edits intact, or reset to original at any time. PROJECT-BASED ORGANIZATION Group photos into projects, rate with stars, filter by rating, and copy, paste, or batch-apply edit recipes across an entire shoot. Review full-screen in the loupe with pinch-to-zoom. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The entire pipeline runs on-device with MoltenVK and Metal. Your photos never leave your device. Privacy Policy: https://chromaform.art/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Oqra Cam

This app allows you to shoot photos with the aesthetic of film photography. Choose from ready-made presets or customize color, grain, and tonal response to create your unique style. Share your custom looks with others via QR codes or links.

Highlights
  • Film-inspired photo presets
  • Customizable color, grain, and tone
  • Live preview in viewfinder
  • Shareable custom recipes (QR/link)
  • RAW and ProRAW capture
  • Live Photos and Film Clips
  • Lock Screen control
Features
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Oqra is an iPhone camera app built around the imaging characteristics of film photography. Shoot with ready-made presets, or adjust physical properties such as color, grain, halation, and tonal response to create a photographic style of your own. Every photo is developed on your device. PICK A LOOK. POINT AND SHOOT. Choose a recipe and compose with a live preview of its character in the viewfinder. Every shot comes out developed, with no separate editing step. MAKE LOOKS YOURS. Recipes can bring back the familiar colors of film or explore bolder colors and textures. They are tools for creating a look, not copies of specific film stocks. Start from a preset or build your own: shape color, grain, halation, and the response from shadows to highlights, or go deeper with individual emulsion layers, dye settings, and H&D response curves. In-app guides explain each control as you explore. SHARE THE RECIPE, NOT JUST THE PHOTO. Export a photo as a poster on white or black paper. Oqra Morse, the line of dots along its edge, carries the recipe, so anyone with Oqra can import the poster and shoot with the same look. Live Photos and Film Clips become moving posters. You can also share recipes as QR codes or links, and scan a friend’s code to add it to your collection. FILM CHARACTER. RAW DETAIL. Capture and develop Apple ProRAW or RAW DNG, up to 48 MP on supported iPhones and cameras. Turn on Keep RAW Original to save the DNG with your developed photo, then change its recipe later in the Album. Choose M, L, or XL HEIC files to balance size and detail. KEEP THE MOMENT MOVING. Capture Live Photos with the look in both the still and the motion, or record Film Clips up to 30 seconds long. READY FROM THE LOCK SCREEN. Open Oqra from its Lock Screen control, or assign it to Camera Control on supported iPhones. Your selected recipe is ready when the camera opens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN. Every photo is developed on your iPhone. No Oqra account, and nothing is uploaded for processing. Live Photos, Film Clips, and unlimited custom recipes require a one-time in-app purchase. No subscription. REQUIRES iOS 18 or later. iPhone 12 or newer, or iPhone SE (3rd generation). Apple, iPhone, Live Photos, ProRAW, and Camera Control are trademarks of Apple Inc. DNG is a trademark of Adobe Inc. Oqra is an independent product and has not been authorized, sponsored, or approved by Apple Inc.

Screenshots

Chromaform2 screens
Oqra Cam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Oqra Cam at every 4 days against Chromaform's every 9 days. Chromaform's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Chromaform sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Oqra Cam sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chromaform ships an update every 9 days, Oqra Cam every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Chromaform versus Oqra Cam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChromaformOqra Cam
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChromaform, Inc.匡明 秦

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Chromaform

Subscriptions2
  • Chromaform Pro$2.991 Month
  • Chromaform Pro$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Chromaform Pro Lifetime$59.99
3 purchases

Oqra Cam

One-time3
  • A Small Print$2.99
  • A Medium Print$4.99
  • A Large Print$9.99

Questions

Is Chromaform free?
Chromaform is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Oqra Cam free?
Oqra Cam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chromaform or Oqra Cam have ads?
Neither Chromaform nor Oqra Cam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chromaform or Oqra Cam?
Chromaform ships an update every 9 days, and Oqra Cam every 4 days. Most recently, Chromaform was updated on October 31, 2026 and Oqra Cam on November 6, 2026.

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