Comparison

Low Quality Camera vs Time to Flash

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

Head to head
About

Low Quality Camera

Features
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A camera that shoots at deliberately low resolution. Phone cameras get better every year: one photo can take several megabytes, and a minute of video can pass 100 MB. This app does the opposite. It shoots small and rough from the start - for the times you would rather not spend the storage, and for people who simply like the way rough pictures look. ■ Just pick one of five sizes 96x128 / 144x192 / 240x320 / 480x640 / 720x960. They sit right above the viewfinder, so you can switch a second before you shoot. Rough guide per photo / per minute of video: ・96x128 - about 3 KB / 0.9 MB ・144x192 - about 5 KB / 1.5 MB ・240x320 - about 12 KB / 3.0 MB ・480x640 - about 45 KB / 9.0 MB ・720x960 - about 110 KB / 18.8 MB ■ What you see is what gets saved The viewfinder shows the frame already scaled down and already compressed, exactly as it will be stored. Press the shutter and that same image is written to your gallery. Nothing ever turns out rougher or cleaner than it looked. ■ Video at the same size Switch between photo and video and record with the same roughness. Allow the microphone and the sound is recorded; refuse it and the video is simply silent. ■ Four looks Original / Toy camera / Old digicam / Faded. Original is the default, so if you are only here to save space, nothing is added to your pictures. Toy camera boosts the colors and darkens the corners, Old digicam has the cool cast of an early 2000s compact, and Faded looks like a yellowed old print. ■ Straight into your photo library Photos and videos are saved straight to your photo library, ready to attach to an email or a chat. No account, no upload. ■ The shutter sound can be muted Turn it off in the settings. Good for ・Keeping free space on your phone and in the cloud ・Records that only need to exist, not to look good ・Sending something without using much data ・Anyone who likes the feel of rough photos and video ・Shooting like an old phone or an early digital camera This app is for taking pictures, not for shrinking ones you already have: it cannot import existing photos or videos. The frame is a fixed 3:4 portrait, and there is no zoom, flash or timer. The roughness is the soft look of a small image stretched out, not the hard squares of a pixel art filter.

About

Time to Flash

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Your guests all have a phone. Time to Flash turns them into disposable cameras. Put a QR code on the tables. Everyone scans it, takes a limited number of shots, and sees nothing until the reveal. The next morning, or a week later: you decide. WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE: THE LIMIT Five photos per person, not fifty. Nobody snaps away, everyone chooses. Those choices are what make the memories, and that is why a wedding album filled by many hands beats a folder of 800 photos that nobody will ever open again. ONE ALBUM, FILLED BY EVERYONE Every photo lands in the same place. You discover your party through your guests' eyes: the table at the back, the kids under the buffet, the fit of giggles the photographer missed. NOTHING IS REVEALED WITHOUT YOUR SAY-SO An awkward photo? Remove it before anyone sees it. You also set the moment of the reveal, and you can move it. FIVE FILM STYLES Disposable, retro, black and white, instant, or the photo as it is. With the date printed in the corner, like the prints of the old days. The look stays with the photo, right down to the file you download. YOUR GUESTS INSTALL NOTHING They scan, their camera opens in the browser, they shoot. This app is for those who want the comfort of a real app: your parties found again in one tap, your photos saved to your library, and uploads that keep going even when the venue's network gives up. WHO IT'S FOR Weddings, birthdays, hen and stag parties, company events, weekends with friends, holidays. Anywhere there are lots of people and nobody wants to be the photographer all night. FOR HOSTS A dashboard to follow guests and the shots taken, posters and table cards to print from the app, a complete guide, and a help page to forward to anyone who gets stuck on the day. Events are created on timetoflash.fr.

Screenshots

Low Quality Camera4 screens
Time to Flash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Time to Flash at none against Low Quality Camera's shown. Low Quality Camera's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Low Quality Camera versus Time to Flash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLow Quality CameraTime to Flash
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB53 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRyouhei AzumaCLEMENT TANGUY HERVE LEMEPLE

In-app purchases

None

Low Quality Camera

No in-app purchases

None

Time to Flash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Low Quality Camera free?
Low Quality Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time to Flash free?
Time to Flash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Low Quality Camera or Time to Flash have ads?
Low Quality Camera shows ads; Time to Flash does not.

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