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

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Fexer versus EMST Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFexerEMST Camera
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.526.0 — 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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