Comparison

CRT Camera vs Camera Lens

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

Head to head
About

CRT Camera

Features
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Photograph CRT televisions and monitors with fewer refresh bands. CRT Camera is an iPhone camera built specifically for CRT displays. Match the shutter duration to 50 Hz or 60 Hz, watch the result in the live preview, and fine-tune the exposure before you shoot. FEATURES β€’ 50 Hz and 60 Hz presets β€’ Live fine-tuning with slider and step controls β€’ Shows the shutter duration actually applied by the camera hardware β€’ Clear Confirmed, Approximate, and Adjusted status labels β€’ Portrait and landscape capture β€’ Review, save, or retake after every shot β€’ HEIC and JPEG output β€’ On-device processing CRT Camera helps reduce the dark bands and refresh artifacts that often appear when photographing retro televisions, arcade monitors, and other CRT screens. Results depend on the display, signal, lighting, and camera hardware, so artifacts may not disappear completely. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your photos stay on your iPhone. There are no accounts, ads, tracking, uploads, watermarks, or capture limits

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Camera Lens

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Camera Lens is a familiar Photo and Video camera designed to keep partly broken iPhones useful. Disable individual physical camera lenses that shake, fail to focus, or no longer work. Camera Lens remembers disabled lenses and never adds them to its capture session. When enabled, unavailable zoom-level replacements can use digital zoom on a working lens to preserve familiar zoom choices. Features: β€’ Photo and Video capture with familiar camera controls β€’ Hard exclusion of disabled wide, ultra-wide, telephoto, and front cameras β€’ Optional synthetic replacements for unavailable zoom levels β€’ Per-lens continuous, single, locked, or manual focus controls β€’ Per-lens focus range and remembered manual focus position β€’ Per-lens video stabilization choices based on device support β€’ HEIF/JPEG photos and HEVC/H.264 video formats β€’ Capability-aware resolution, frame rate, HDR, flash, torch, timer, grid, level, exposure, and aspect-ratio controls β€’ Recent photo, Live Photo, and video browsing with sharing β€’ Camera Lens control for the Lock Screen on supported iPhones Privacy: Camera Lens has no account, ads, analytics, or third-party SDKs. It does not upload your photos, videos, settings, or personal information. Photos access is used only for saving captures and browsing your own library. Optional location access adds metadata to captures. Camera Lens does not repair damaged hardware. Results depend on which physical cameras remain usable on your iPhone.

Screenshots

CRT Camera4 screens
Camera Lens4 screens

Verdict

The call

CRT Camera and Camera Lens are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

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

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
CRT Camera versus Camera Lens: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCRT CameraCamera Lens
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size1 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJAVIER LUDENA MONTESLuke Rehmann

In-app purchases

None

CRT Camera

No in-app purchases

None

Camera Lens

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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