Comparison

Fexer vs EMST Camera

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

Head to head
About

Fexer

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Fexer is a professional manual camera for iPhone — the controls of a dedicated camera, real-time color grading, and cinematic shooting modes, all in your pocket. MANUAL CONTROLS • ISO (25–6400), shutter speed (1/8000–30s), and manual focus, each with an auto toggle • White balance in Kelvin (3200–7500K) plus tint, with 7 presets • AE lock, four metering modes, and an EV compensation strip SHOOTING MODES • Photo — AEB bracketing, RAW / RAW+JPEG, LUT baked at capture • Video — 1080p/4K in HEVC, H.264, or ProRes, with GPS metadata • Long Exposure — multi-frame blending up to 60 frames • Burst, Self-Timer, and Timelapse • Anamorphic — 2x horizontal desqueeze with a 2.39:1 crop guide • Night and Portrait modes REAL-TIME COLOR GRADING 21 film-inspired looks across Film, Genre, and Mood categories — applied live in the viewfinder and baked into every capture. Includes classic film emulations like Portra 400, Tri-X, and Velvia alongside cinematic and moody grades. VIEWFINDER TOOLS Grid overlays, RGB/Luma/Parade histogram, waveform monitor, vectorscope, focus peaking, zebra stripes, false color, and an electronic level — the same tools you'd expect from a dedicated cinema camera, live in your viewfinder. NON-DESTRUCTIVE EDITING Adjust exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation, vibrance, warmth, sharpness, vignette, crop, and rotation after the fact — your original capture is never touched. Fexer collects no data, has no ads, and makes no network requests. Everything happens on your device. Requires a physical iPhone — the camera does not work in the Simulator.

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EMST Camera

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EMST Camera is a film-inspired camera app you operate like a camera. Not a filter you drop on afterwards. Pick a look, set your exposure, aperture and focal length, and shoot. Live preview of the settings directly in viewfinder. YOUR CONTROL • A dial-based shooting interface: one scroll wheel drives exposure, aperture, focal length and aspect ratio. • Aperture dial with depth-of-field rendering. • Focal length presets pinned to your iPhone's real lenses. • Mirrorless-style autofocus: a persistent AF box, tap to move it, AF lock to recompose. • Grid and level overlays when you want them, nothing when you don't. YOUR LOOK • Built-in film-inspired looks, from warm evening color to cool dusk tones and true monochrome + Natural for a clean, untouched capture. • Every look is tunable: grain, halation, vignette, clarity and color temperature. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, everything happens on your device. Open the camera straight from control center or lock screen with shortcut extension. EMST Camera iOS app from Emaki Studio, a small independent photo toolkit.

Screenshots

Fexer3 screens
EMST Camera3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: EMST Camera at 18.6 against Fexer's 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Fexer versus EMST Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFexerEMST Camera
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.518.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNandan Varma PericharlaTomas Ourednik

In-app purchases

None

Fexer

No in-app purchases

None

EMST Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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