Comparison

Kamera vs NightScope Night Vision Camera

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

Head to head
About

Kamera

Features
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See in the dark. Kamera turns your iPhone into a night camera: a brighter live view, night-vision lenses, real depth from the LiDAR scanner, and capture modes built for after sunset. LIDAR NIGHT VISION On Pro model iPhones the LiDAR lens reads the scanner on the back of your phone and draws the room as measured distance. It works in complete darkness, with no light at all, because the scanner brings its own. Tap two points for the distance between them, in meters or feet: Apple's own Measure app needs light to find a surface, and this one does not. Requires iPhone 12 Pro or later (Pro or Pro Max), or iPad Pro from 2020 onwards, and reaches about 5 meters. NEW: NORMAL LENS AND COMPOSITION GUIDES Normal is your iPhone camera's own picture, untouched, for everyday photos. The grid button opens guides over the viewfinder: rule of thirds, golden ratio, symmetry, centered and more. MANUAL CONTROLS AND RAW Take the camera off automatic. Lock focus at infinity for stars, set shutter and ISO by hand, hold white balance, let focus peaking show you exactly what is sharp, and save a DNG next to the JPEG. KAMERA ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app taps you when Guard Mode sees something, wherever you are in the house, and shows what tripped it. Fire the shutter from your wrist too. Your iPhone has to be open and running Kamera: the watch is an alert relay and a remote control, not a way to watch the house from elsewhere. GUARD MODE Point your iPhone at a room and let Kamera keep watch, on motion, on sound, and on Pro models on measured depth. Set a tripwire at a chosen distance and be alerted only when something crosses it. Stealth Watch dims the screen to near black for an overnight watch. Events are logged with thumbnails to a private in-app log, never to your camera roll, and nothing ever leaves your phone. FOURTEEN NIGHT LENSES Classic green night vision, LiDAR depth, noir, amber, Ember and Magma heat-look palettes and more, each graded for low light and rendered live. Retro now holds sixteen film stocks. CAPTURE MODES BUILT FOR THE DARK - Night Photo: full-resolution stills with a brighter, cleaner live view - Light Trails: paint with headlights, sparklers and stars - Astro: stacked exposures for star fields and the night sky - Night Timelapse: compress hours of darkness into seconds - Glow: low-light selfies lit by your screen PHOTO RESCUE Already have a shot that came out too dark? Photo Rescue re-develops underexposed photos from your library and pulls the detail back out of the shadows. Dark videos too, re-developed frame by frame into a brightened copy. NIGHT ALMANAC Moonrise, moonset, phase and illumination, astronomical twilight, and tonight's darkest hour. Computed on your device; nothing is fetched. OPEN IT FAST, SEE EVERYTHING A Control Center button, the Action Button, Siri and Shortcuts all open Kamera straight into the lens you want. While you shoot: compass heading, level, histogram, zoom, torch and a volume-button shutter. PRIVACY FIRST Kamera collects no data. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Depth, video and every photo you rescue are processed entirely on your device. A note on how it works: Kamera's colour lenses are stylised night-vision and heat-look palettes rendered from your iPhone camera's ordinary visible-light image. They brighten and enhance what your camera can already see; they are not an infrared or thermal sensor. The LiDAR lens is the exception: on Pro models it reads real depth from your iPhone's built-in LiDAR scanner. Kamera has no thermal camera and does not measure temperature. KAMERA PRO Go Pro to unlock every lens and every capture mode, with new looks added regularly. Choose a weekly, monthly or yearly plan or a one-time Lifetime unlock. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kamal-no-bot.github.io/kamera-legal/

About

NightScope Night Vision Camera

Enhance your low-light photography and videography with various artistic filters and adjustable boosts. This app offers a free tier with limitations and a Pro version for unlimited, watermark-free content.

Highlights
  • Real-time artistic camera filters
  • Adjustable low-light boost
  • Zoom functionality
  • Torch feature
  • Watermark-free exports (Pro)
  • Unlimited photo/video capture (Pro)
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Capture clearer low-light photos and videos with NightScope. Choose from seven real-time artistic camera filters, adjust low-light boost, zoom in, switch cameras, use the torch, and quickly open your recent captures. Free plan: take up to 10 photos and 10 videos (up to 20 seconds each). Free captures include a small NightScope watermark. Pro unlocks every filter, maximum boost, unlimited photos and videos of any length, and watermark-free exports. Weekly, yearly, and lifetime options are available, with Restore Purchases included. Infrared and thermal modes are visual effects only; NightScope does not turn your iPhone into a true infrared or thermal sensor. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Kamera4 screens
NightScope Night Vision Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Kamera at 3 against NightScope Night Vision Camera's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Kamera sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and NightScope Night Vision Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kamera ships an update every 5 days, NightScope Night Vision Camera every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Kamera versus NightScope Night Vision Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKameraNightScope Night Vision Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.5 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKamal NasirNurmuxammad Jobborov

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Kamera

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99
3 purchases

NightScope Night Vision Camera

Subscriptions2
  • NightScope Pro Weekly$1.997 Days
  • NightScope Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • NightScope Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Kamera free?
Kamera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NightScope Night Vision Camera free?
NightScope Night Vision Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kamera or NightScope Night Vision Camera have ads?
Neither Kamera nor NightScope Night Vision Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kamera or NightScope Night Vision Camera?
Kamera ships an update every 5 days, and NightScope Night Vision Camera every 9 days. Most recently, Kamera was updated on November 6, 2026 and NightScope Night Vision Camera on November 6, 2026.

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