Comparison

07 vs Retro Cam 2000

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

Head to head
About

07

This app emulates a 2007 digital camera, offering a unique, uneditable photo development process. It captures images with a fixed aesthetic, allowing for focus and exposure lock before shooting. Import existing photos for a similar development treatment.

Highlights
  • Emulates 2007 digital camera aesthetic
  • On-device image development
  • Fixed, uneditable photo looks
  • Two-stage shutter for focus lock
  • Import photos for development
  • Local photo storage and organization
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07 turns your iPhone into one fictional compact digital camera from 2007. Hold the shutter to focus, release to shoot, and watch each photograph develop through 07’s signature on-device image process. One camera. One look. Nothing to choose. 07 is not a filter you apply afterwards. There is no slider to move and no look to pick. Every exposure is metered as you take it and developed down one of three calibrated paths — ambient, flash, or low light — chosen from the light 07 measured and the ISO the camera actually captured at. Each frame is seeded from itself, so the same photograph always develops the same way. Take the picture, and the picture is the answer. Both of the iPhone’s cameras belong to 07. LENS turns the camera round without leaving the viewfinder: the rear lens carries the zoom ladder, and the front one sits at its own fixed wide and is mirrored in both directions, so the photograph on the card is the one you framed. IMPORT is the second door into the same process. It opens the system Photos picker, so 07 asks for no permission to read your library and receives only the photographs you choose there — up to 100 in a batch. Each one is read for its own exposure facts, developed down the same three paths, and written to the same card as a capture. It costs a frame exactly as a capture does. Every frame is kept in order on Card 01, the app’s private local card, under a four-digit counter that keeps climbing for the life of the camera and never rolls back. Review photographs in playback, see their capture details, add a warm date stamp, and share only when you choose. ALBUMS files frames under names you invent without moving them off the card. SELECT picks any number of frames at once, and SEND hands the whole set to a single share sheet. Optional Save to Photos makes add-only copies without browsing your library. 07’s two-stage shutter rewards a held half-press: focus, exposure, and white balance all lock before the frame is taken, the way a real one did. A quick tap still focuses and captures. Flash, zoom, timers, landscape shooting, direct-flash character, a flash that has to recharge, Card 01, albums, playback, sharing, and the complete 07-developed result are included from the first photograph. 07 includes 36 complimentary developed photographs. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks unlimited 07-developed photographs and permanent use of the full card. No subscription. No account. No ads. Camera permission is required to capture. Photos and location are optional. When location metadata is enabled, your current location is written into that photograph; an imported photograph carries the location its own file already recorded, and only while that same setting is on. Photographs are developed on the device; Photos copies may sync according to your Apple settings.

About

Retro Cam 2000

Emulate the look and feel of early 2000s digital cameras and camcorders. Choose from three distinct lenses, apply vintage effects like light leaks, and add dated photo stamps. All your creations are processed and stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Three distinct camera lenses (Digicam, DV Camcorder, Webcam)
  • Y2K-era visual effects and scanlines
  • Light-leak switch for added vintage feel
  • Customizable date stamps on photos
  • Local storage for all captured media
  • Authentic sound effects from the year 2000
Features
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Press the power button and a self-test types itself out, a logo and a progress bar go by, and a blue desktop fades in. Open the camera and a modem sings while a "Connecting to camera device" window fills up. After that, it is just a camera. ■ Three lenses · Digicam 640×480 — warm color, soft focus, an orange date burned into the corner · Camcorder DV — scanlines and color bleed, REC and a running timecode on screen · Webcam 320×240 — cool, grainy, low resolution ■ Also in the box · A light-leak switch for one more layer of that era · Photos save as JPEG, video saves as MP4 with sound · My Pictures, Trash and Settings, all in windows from back then · Shutter, film advance and every dialog chime, made to sound like the year 2000 · Stamp your photos with the year 2000 if you like ■ Your photos stay on your device No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Everything you shoot is processed and stored only on this device. ■ English · 한국어 · 日本語 · 繁體中文 © 2026 ConyLab

Screenshots

074 screens
Retro Cam 20004 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retro Cam 2000 at none against 07's 1. Retro Cam 2000 also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. 07 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Retro Cam 2000 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 07 against 5.0 for Retro Cam 2000. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
07 versus Retro Cam 2000: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter07Retro Cam 2000
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamuel PriceYeonni Lee

Customer experience

07

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Retro Cam 2000

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

07

One-time1
  • Full 07 Camera$14.99
None

Retro Cam 2000

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 07 free?
07 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Retro Cam 2000 free?
Retro Cam 2000 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 07 or Retro Cam 2000?
07 and Retro Cam 2000 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do 07 or Retro Cam 2000 have ads?
Neither 07 nor Retro Cam 2000 shows ads.

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