Comparison

Camera Lens vs Old Phone Camera

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

Head to head
About

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: • Photo and Video capture with familiar camera controls • Hard exclusion of disabled wide, ultra-wide, telephoto, and front cameras • Optional synthetic replacements for unavailable zoom levels • Per-lens continuous, single, locked, or manual focus controls • Per-lens focus range and remembered manual focus position • Per-lens video stabilization choices based on device support • HEIF/JPEG photos and HEVC/H.264 video formats • Capability-aware resolution, frame rate, HDR, flash, torch, timer, grid, level, exposure, and aspect-ratio controls • Recent photo, Live Photo, and video browsing with sharing • 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.

About

Old Phone Camera

Features
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Old Phone Camera turns your iPhone into four legendary cameras from the smartphone era — 2007's grainy VGA original, 2010's crisp glass shooter, 2012's sharper sensor, and 2014's flat, modern look. Every mode recreates the real optics, color science, and quirks of the original hardware, not just a filter slapped on top. FOUR ERAS, ONE CAMERA • Phone 1 (2007) — soft focus, warm color cast, low-res VGA charm • Phone 4 (2010) — the glass-and-steel look, sharper but still nostalgic • Phone 5 (2012) — bigger sensor, cooler tones, the classic 2012 feel • Phone 6 (2014) — flat design era, 60fps video, the last "old" look before modern computational photography DEVELOP AS… Already shot a photo? Re-develop it through any other era's look after the fact, right on your camera roll copy — your original is always safe. INSTANT-PRINT EXTRAS Add a date stamp or an instant-print border to any shot for that authentic pocket-camera feel, without touching the original file. CAPTURE DETAILS See the resolution, JPEG quality, frame rate, and file size behind every shot — because the old phones had real technical fingerprints, and we kept them. Phone 6 mode is free forever. Unlock All Eras once to get Phone 1, Phone 4, and Phone 5 modes plus Develop As for every era — no subscription, no ads, no accounts.

Screenshots

Camera Lens4 screens
Old Phone Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

Camera Lens and Old Phone 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 · 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Camera Lens versus Old Phone Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamera LensOld Phone Camera
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke RehmannChelsea Hannah

In-app purchases

None

Camera Lens

No in-app purchases

None

Old Phone Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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