Comparison

Expono Camera vs Long Exposure

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

Head to head
About

Expono Camera

Features
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Expono brings double exposure to your iPhone and makes it simple. Shoot your first frame, then watch it ghost over the live camera as you line up the second. You see the blend happen in real time, before you press the shutter, so you compose the final image instead of guessing at it. Double exposure works for both photo and video. Layer a portrait over city lights, blend a face into trees, or overlap two moving clips into one. The result is ready the moment you finish. FEATURES - Live double exposure: see both frames blend as you shoot - Works for photo and video, not just stills - 48MP photo capture - Front and back camera - Flash and torch - Built-in gallery to review and replay your shots Expono keeps the interface close to the camera you already know, then adds the one thing it was missing. Open it, point it, shoot.

About

Long Exposure

Create stunning long exposure photos with this app that simulates real-world physics. It stacks hundreds of live frames to achieve effects like motion blur, light trails, and low-light enhancement, allowing you to stop the capture when it looks perfect.

Highlights
  • Motion blur effect
  • Light trail creation
  • Low light enhancement
  • Live exposure building
  • Adjustable presets
  • Manual camera controls
  • Live histogram
Features
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Long exposure photography, without the guesswork. An iPhone shutter physically cannot stay open for thirty seconds. So this app does what a long exposure actually is: it stacks hundreds of live frames on the GPU and blends them in linear light, the way the physics wants it done. The result is a real long exposure โ€” and you watch it form on screen while it happens. THREE WAYS TO STACK Motion Blur โ€” averages every frame into smooth, flowing movement. Waterfalls turn to mist. Clouds smear across the sky. Crowds become ghosts. Light Trail โ€” keeps the brightest pixel from each frame. Headlights draw ribbons through traffic, sparklers write in the air, stars arc across the night sky. Low Light โ€” adds frames together to gather light a single shot could never collect. The more frames land, the further noise falls away, and dark scenes come back clean instead of grainy. STOP WHEN IT LOOKS RIGHT Most long exposure tools ask you to commit to a duration up front, then leave you waiting blind. Here the exposure builds live in front of you. Watch the trails grow, watch the water go silky, and end the shot the moment it looks right. Not there yet? Pick the exposure back up and keep stacking from exactly where you left off. Nothing is thrown away until you say so. TOOLS THAT TELL YOU THE TRUTH โ€ข Live histogram that updates as the exposure builds โ€ข Zebra clipping warning marks blown highlights before you lose them โ€ข Running frame count and total exposure time, always on screen โ€ข Review the finished frame full size before anything is saved SEVEN SCENE PRESETS Waterfall, Traffic, Star Trails, Fireworks, Light Painting, Night Scene, and Empty the Street โ€” the last one averages a busy scene until the people walking through it simply disappear, leaving the street to itself. Every preset is a starting point, not a cage. Adjust anything after loading one. MANUAL CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT IT โ€ข Lock exposure, white balance and focus so brightness and color never drift mid-stack โ€ข Manual ISO, or let the app work it out from the scene โ€ข Set exposure length, or hold the shutter open and decide by eye โ€ข 3 and 10 second self-timer for tripod work BUILT PROPERLY โ€ข 16-bit float accumulation, so nothing bands or clips partway through the stack โ€ข sRGB is linearized before blending and re-encoded afterwards โ€” highlights stay honest instead of turning to grey mush โ€ข Saved to your photo library as HEIC with real EXIF: total exposure time, ISO, capture mode, and the exact number of frames stacked โ€ข Full resolution. No watermark. No account. โ€ข iPhone and iPad WHAT IT IS GOOD AT Silky waterfalls and coastlines. Car light trails on a night road. Star trails and the Milky Way. Fireworks caught as complete bursts instead of fragments. Writing in the air with a torch. City streets after dark, without pushing ISO until the noise eats the shot. Clearing tourists out of a landmark photo. A tripod or a steady surface will always give you the cleanest result โ€” that is true of every long exposure ever taken, on any camera.

Screenshots

Expono Camera4 screens
Long Exposure4 screens

Verdict

The call

Expono Camera and Long Exposure 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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Expono Camera versus Long Exposure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpono CameraLong Exposure
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRayan AniBahtiyar Polat

In-app purchases

None

Expono Camera

No in-app purchases

None

Long Exposure

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expono Camera free?
Expono Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Long Exposure free?
Long Exposure is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Expono Camera or Long Exposure have ads?
Neither Expono Camera nor Long Exposure shows ads.

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