Comparison

LayerCam vs ALIGNCAM Onion Skin

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

Head to head
About

LayerCam

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A transparent camera that lets you easily recreate the same composition. LayerCam is a camera app that overlays past photos and videos as semi-transparent guides while shooting. Previously taken photos and videos can be displayed as guides, allowing you to easily match the same angle and composition. It supports both photo and video overlay shooting. ●Use cases Growth records: pets, children, and plants using fixed-point photography
 Before & after: fitness, DIY, gardening comparisons Cosplay & toy photography: recreate poses and scenes
 Memory recreation: family and travel photos in the same composition ●Features ・Overlay photos and videos while shooting ・Semi-transparent guide display ・Fixed-point shooting support ・Photo capture ・Video capture ・Simple and intuitive interface ・Create videos from photos Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ALIGNCAM Onion Skin

Features
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ALIGNCAM is a camera built for one thing: getting the next photo to line up with the last one. Repeat photography, stop motion, growth records, product reshoots — anything where every frame has to match. ONION SKIN The previous photo sits semi-transparent over the viewfinder. Line it up, then shoot. Pick any photo as the reference, flip its orientation freely, and match the same angle and framing on the first try. STEP SEQUENCE Give a guide circle a direction and a step distance. Every time you press the shutter, the guide advances one notch — a track to shoot stop-motion and displacement sequences along. Adjustable ghost count, step back to reshoot, resume after a break. GUIDES Thirds, halves, multi-cell grids, golden ratio, spiral, diagonals, plus your own lines and circles. Eight scene slots remember a whole set-up and switch between them in one tap. Level snapping keeps things straight whether you hold the phone upright or sideways. STRAIGHTEN WHILE SHOOTING The perspective pad corrects while you frame: pull a tilted building upright, square up a poster shot from the side. What you see is what you get, with nothing to fix afterwards. FILM FILTERS AND CONTROL PAD Eleven film recipes preview live and are baked in when you shoot. The pad beside the shutter controls temperature and saturation with one thumb, or switches to focus — drag to focus where you want. EDIT ROOM Draw two lines to straighten perspective (the whole canvas warps; the surroundings stay). Remove white edges while keeping the ratio. Crop to the viewfinder ratio. The result can go straight back in as an onion-skin reference. FLIPBOOK Pick a batch of photos and string them into a stop-motion clip. Speed curves, hold on the first and last frame, four click sounds, and a wheel where you can see the rhythm frame by frame. Export straight to your photo library. Every photo and setting stays on your device. No account, no tracking, no network needed.

Screenshots

LayerCam4 screens
ALIGNCAM Onion Skin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ALIGNCAM Onion Skin at none against LayerCam's 3. ALIGNCAM Onion Skin also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. LayerCam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per 7 days. ALIGNCAM Onion Skin asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
LayerCam versus ALIGNCAM Onion Skin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLayerCamALIGNCAM Onion Skin
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkane ChojiWEI-MING KAO

In-app purchases

3 purchases

LayerCam

Subscriptions2
  • LayerCam Pro - Weekly$0.497 Days
  • LayerCam Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • LayerCam Pro - Lifetime$11.99
None

ALIGNCAM Onion Skin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LayerCam free?
LayerCam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ALIGNCAM Onion Skin free?
ALIGNCAM Onion Skin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LayerCam or ALIGNCAM Onion Skin have ads?
LayerCam shows ads; ALIGNCAM Onion Skin does not.

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