Comparison

Coincidence Camera 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

Coincidence Camera

This camera app offers both automatic and fully manual controls for photography. Users can create and apply custom color looks, add effects like grain and bloom, and utilize advanced features for precise exposure and focus adjustments. It's designed with an analog instrument aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Automatic and manual camera controls
  • Custom LUT creation and application
  • Real-time exposure and focus adjustments
  • Grain, bloom, and sharpening effects
  • False color and focus peaking
  • Multiple aspect ratios and built-in level
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Coincidence is a camera that meets you where you are: automatic when you want to take a photo, fully manual when you want to make a photo. Point and shoot with real-time auto exposure and focus, or take over completely. Use Exposure Comp for quick brightness changes, or switch to Full Manual for shutter speed, ISO and color temperature dials. Tap to focus with single-shot precision. Exposure Comp is built to behave like the native Camera app, so moving between auto and manual never feels like two different cameras. BUILD YOUR OWN LOOK Most camera apps let you apply someone else's LUT. Coincidence lets you build your own: highlights, shadows, fade, saturation, curves, selective hue and saturation, split toning and color temperature. Then save it as a real .cube file you can rename, share, or drop straight back into your next shot. Add grain, bloom and sharpening on top for texture, and see the whole look live before you press the shutter. Double-tap the viewfinder to flip between two LUTs of your choice. SISTER APP: COLOR PAL Want a look fast? Color Pal turns any photo into a LUT based on its colors. Open that LUT in Coincidence straight from Color Pal and start shooting with it right away. SHOOT WITH INTENT Switch between your iPhone's lenses at their native focal lengths Full-screen false color to judge exposure at a glance Focus peaking that highlights in-focus edges after you tap to focus A Macro button that snaps focus close, and puts it back with a second tap Multiple aspect ratios A built-in level, so horizons stay horizons Volume-button shutter Left, center or right shutter placement, with buttons you can reorder Every capture carries accurate EXIF, with no silent rewrites AN INSTRUMENT, NOT AN APP Cream panels, dial-red accents, monospaced readouts. Coincidence is styled after analogue camera instruments, not modern touchscreen chrome. Controls are built to be read at a glance and adjusted by feel. One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no data collected.

About

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

Coincidence Camera4 screens
EMST Camera3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: EMST Camera at Free against Coincidence Camera's $5.99. Coincidence Camera's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

EMST Camera is free to download; Coincidence Camera costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coincidence Camera ships an update every 5 days, EMST Camera every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Coincidence Camera versus EMST Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoincidence CameraEMST Camera
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOSHUA DANIEL HOOVERTomas Ourednik

In-app purchases

None

Coincidence Camera

No in-app purchases

None

EMST Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Coincidence Camera free?
Coincidence Camera costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is EMST Camera free?
EMST Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Coincidence Camera or EMST Camera have ads?
Neither Coincidence Camera nor EMST Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coincidence Camera or EMST Camera?
Coincidence Camera ships an update every 5 days, and EMST Camera every 3 weeks. Most recently, Coincidence Camera was updated on October 11, 2026 and EMST Camera on October 1, 2026.

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