Comparison

Camera Lens vs GrayBox

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

GrayBox

This app transforms your phone into an interruption-proof dash cam and private vault. It records continuously, even through calls or app switches, and stores footage securely on your device with passcode protection. Optional Pro features enhance driving and security.

Highlights
  • Interruption-proof recording
  • Private, passcode-protected vault
  • Dash cam functionality
  • Dual camera recording
  • Lock Mode for continuous recording
  • Optional Face ID and passcode protection
  • No account or cloud storage
Features
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GrayBox turns the camera you already carry into a dash cam with a private photo safe. No wires, no SD card, no account. Now on iPhone and iPad. Open the app and you're recording in about a second. Tap for a photo, hold for video, slide left to keep recording hands free. Your music keeps playing while you record. Everything goes straight to your private library, never your Photos app. If a call, an app switch, or a dead battery interrupts you, GrayBox keeps everything up to that moment, picks back up when you return, and stitches it into one clip with every interval time-stamped. A DASH CAM WITHOUT THE WIRES • Mount your phone and drive • Car Mode (Pro) is one tap from the camera and starts recording with your saved driving settings • Speed in mph or km/h and the time, burned right into your footage • Your music keeps playing the whole drive • Dual Cam records the road and the cabin at the same time, split screen or picture in picture (iPhone) • Swap the main camera without cutting the recording • A large dim clock while the screen is dimmed, so the phone stays mounted • Your location is only used to draw your speed and is never stored FOR THE MOMENTS YOU NEED ON RECORD • A traffic stop, a fender bender, a heated moment, anything you might need proof of • Lock Mode dims the screen and freezes the controls while recording continues • Unlocking takes a deliberate press and hold, 2 to 10 seconds, your choice • Volume buttons won't stop it either A PRIVATE PLACE FOR PHOTOS AND DOCUMENTS • Keep photos of your ID, insurance card, receipts, and paperwork out of your camera roll • Albums, favorites, and Recently Deleted (kept for an hour, a day, or a month) • Select photos by dragging in any direction • Import existing photos and videos, export anything, anytime A LIBRARY ONLY YOU CAN OPEN • Your passcode gives nothing away, not even its length • Optional Face ID • Optional self-erase after too many wrong guesses, and you pick the number • After a run of wrong guesses, entry pauses for a few minutes so nobody can rush the limit THE CAMERA • Photos and video up to 4K • Flash, front and rear cameras, pinch to zoom from 0.5x to 10x • Turn the mic off for video only • Optional blurred hold instead of jump cuts, so clip length matches the clock PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no cloud, no ads, no analytics • Nothing about you is ever collected • Your library is excluded from backups and never appears in Photos unless you export it GRAYBOX PRO One purchase, yours forever. No subscription. Less than a dash cam memory card. • Car Mode with speed and clock • Locked Albums: an album with its own passcode and optional self-erase • Security log of every wrong guess and erase, time-stamped, and it survives the erase • Instant Lock: flip your phone face down or triple tap • Pattern and full keyboard passcodes • Timestamp burned into your footage • Eight themes The $100 dash cam on the shelf? You're already holding a better one. Just add a mount.

Screenshots

Camera Lens4 screens
GrayBox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Camera Lens at none against GrayBox's 1. On price, ads, 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. GrayBox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Camera Lens asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Camera Lens versus GrayBox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamera LensGrayBox
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke RehmannNolan Mayoss

In-app purchases

None

Camera Lens

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GrayBox

One-time1
  • GrayBox Pro$2.99

Questions

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

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