Comparison

1 vs UFO Camera

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

Head to head
About

1

Features
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Stop filtering your photos after the fact. Point your camera at the world and step into a different era in real time - a late-night VHS tape wobble, a glowing phosphor arcade screen, a nostalgic handheld summer. 1-Bit Wonder is a live retro camera. No waiting, no post-processing, no rendering screen. The effect lives inside your viewfinder at full frame rate. What you see is exactly what you capture. Swipe through 82 hand-tuned lenses across 9 creative families: • PIXEL - Step into 8-bit nostalgia. Dithered textures, retro handheld screens, classic game console colors, and risograph print styles. • VHS - Capture the warmth of analog. Tracking tears, retro tape bleed, and worn-out cassette wobbles. • CRT - Bring back the high-voltage glow of retro TV monitors, scanlines, and arcade screens. • CONSOLE - 1990s console and handheld rendering: low-poly 3D with warping textures, four-color handheld LCD screens, and DOS-era palettes. • GLITCH - Distort reality with pixel sorting, datamosh drift, and time-bending slit-scans. • GLOW - Drown your shots in dreamy light-trails, neon halos, and low-fi waveforms. • B&W - High-contrast halftone grids, newspaper print, engraving lines, and ink textures. • FILM - Six real film stocks: Super 8 grain, halation, expired-emulsion color shifts, and tungsten-balanced night film. • EXPO - The experimental room housing our strangest visual distortions. Shoot live, or open a photo or video you already have and run any lens over it. Snap high-quality HEIC stills or record lo-fi videos with full audio. Since every lens renders instantly, your shots are finished and ready to share the second you press the shutter. Perfect for socials, music videos, or everyday aesthetics. RUNS ENTIRELY ON YOUR DEVICE Every lens is rendered on your iPhone's GPU. No account, no upload, no cloud queue, and nothing to wait for. 1-Bit Wonder works in airplane mode. NOW IN 50 LANGUAGES The app and the App Store listing are fully localized. Step out of the clean, digital present. Grab 1-Bit Wonder and start shooting. --- UNLIMITED ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION • Unlock the complete library of all 82 lenses, every feature, and future updates. • Choose weekly or yearly (the yearly plan includes a 3-day free trial), or buy lifetime access once. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel your subscription any time in Settings inside the app, or in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.n1apps.com/1bitwonder/privacy-policy

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UFO Camera

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The truth is out of focus. UFO Camera turns perfectly good iPhone video into terrible UFO evidence from the 2012–2014 era. Record a sighting or import a clip, point out the subject, and let deliberately bad camerawork do the rest. BRING YOUR OWN MYSTERY Record normal video or import from Photos. Trim clips to 30 seconds or less, with portrait and landscape footage kept in its original proportions. REAL TRACKING. QUESTIONABLE FRAMING. Select a subject to track through your footage, then add lag, drift, shaking, and poorly timed reframing. Prefer pure chaos? Skip tracking and apply the effects directly. If tracking loses your subject, the app tells you. FOUR WAYS TO MISS THE MOMENT • 2012 Flip Phone: low resolution, choppy motion, hunting focus, and crushed shadows. • Area 51 Tourist: aggressive zoom, shaking, delayed tracking, and panic reframing. • Government Leak: monochrome, heavy compression, and scan lines. • My Uncle Recorded This: warm color, chroma bleed, blur, and erratic framing. DIAL DOWN THE EVIDENCE Adjust Evidence Quality from Convincing to Completely useless. Compare Original and Processed footage, toggle a timestamp, and keep or mute the original audio. Preview the first five seconds before exporting the complete clip. READY TO SHARE Save the finished video to Photos or open the iOS share sheet. Processing happens on your iPhone, with no account or video uploads. One recoverable edit lets you pick up where you left off. START FREE. GO PRO ONCE. Preview every preset for free. Make unlimited watermarked exports with 2012 Flip Phone. A one-time UFO Camera Pro purchase unlocks all four presets and removes the watermark. No subscription. Restore purchases using the same Apple Account. UFO Camera is a comedy video editor for entertainment. It does not generate aliens, detect UFOs, or verify the authenticity of footage. Privacy: https://ufo-camera.tinyinternet.dev/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

14 screens
UFO Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

1 and UFO Camera 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 Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. 1 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and UFO Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
1 versus UFO Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter1UFO Camera
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiotr BoronJoshua Tonga

In-app purchases

3 purchases

1

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$49.99
1 purchases

UFO Camera

One-time1
  • UFO Camera Pro$4.99

Questions

Is 1 free?
1 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UFO Camera free?
UFO Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 1 or UFO Camera have ads?
Neither 1 nor UFO Camera shows ads.

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