Comparison

xMosaique vs 2pp Camera

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

Head to head
About

xMosaique

Apply live film looks and manual camera controls before you shoot. See color, contrast, and grain in real-time through the viewfinder. Import your own presets and fine-tune the final image with adjustable grain, bloom, and date stamps.

Highlights
  • Live viewfinder with color, contrast, and grain previews
  • Manual shutter speed, ISO, and white balance controls
  • Long exposure up to 20 seconds
  • Exposure bracketing
  • RAW capture and support for all iPhone lenses
  • Import and export .xmp presets
  • Adjustable film grain and bloom effects
Features
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Most camera apps ask you to shoot first and hope the edit works out later. xMosaique turns that around. Choose a look, and the viewfinder shows it — the colour, the contrast, the grain, all of it, live. Underneath sits a real camera: manual shutter and ISO, RAW, and every lens on your iPhone or iPad. SEE IT BEFORE YOU SHOOT Forty-one looks are built in and ready the moment you open the app: warm everyday colour, golden afternoon light, tungsten nights, punchy daylight, cool slide film, instant film, black and white, and a handful drawn from the palettes of classic cinema. Swipe across the viewfinder to move between them and watch the whole scene change — front camera included. MANUAL WHEN YOU WANT IT, AUTO WHEN YOU DON'T • Shutter speed from a full second to 1/8000 — or leave it on auto • Manual ISO, white balance, and exposure compensation whenever you reach for them • A live histogram, with the shutter speed and ISO the shot will use, in Luminance or RGB • Manual focus on a Near-to-infinity dial, with focus peaking marking sharp edges in red as you turn it • Five shooting formats — 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 5:4, and a 65:24 XPan panorama — with the crop greyed out live in the viewfinder • Long exposure up to 20 seconds for light trails, waterfalls, and night skies • Multiple exposure: layer two to nine frames into one photo • Exposure bracketing for scenes with bright windows and dark corners • RAW capture, every lens on your iPhone, and a one-tap selfie framing switch • Selfies saved mirrored, or the way others see you • Grid, level, and face-detect focus — on when you want them, gone when you don't • Shoot from the Lock Screen, the Camera Control button, or the volume keys BRING YOUR OWN PRESETS AND LUTS Already have a collection? xMosaique reads the same .xmp preset files desktop photo editors use, and the .cube LUTs of video and colour-grading tools — the ones you bought, traded, or were sent by a friend. Import them from Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or OneDrive, a whole folder at a time if you like, or open one from another app. Put them in your own swipe order, and export any look as .xmp or .cube to share it or save it to Google Drive or OneDrive. MAKE IT YOURS A single slider takes any look from barely-there to twice its strength. Add 35mm film grain in three textures, the soft red bloom real film gives to bright lights, or a retro date stamp in the corner. Blur the background with a simulated aperture, in four bokeh styles. Or drop the whole frame to black and white. STEADY BY DEFAULT Handheld shots get quiet help. The app grabs a quick burst and keeps the sharpest frame, so an unsteady hand in low light doesn't cost you the picture. YOUR ORIGINAL IS NEVER LOST Every graded shot can be saved alongside an untouched original, so you never have to choose between the look and the negative. Want the negative too? Switch it on in Settings > Saving. LEARNED IN ABOUT A MINUTE Every control is a circle in a corner. Tap it to switch it, hold it to open everything it can do. That's the whole rule — and the About page has the tips and the colour legend whenever you want them. FINISHED THE WAY YOU WANT IT Save as JPEG or HEIF for sharing, or step up to higher-precision files when a photo is headed for a big print or further editing. An optional correction removes blue and purple fringes along high-contrast edges. THIRTEEN LANGUAGES English, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi, and Indonesian. Photos stay on your device and in your photo library. No account is needed to shoot — sign in only to use presets on Google Drive or OneDrive. Importing is read-only; xMosaique asks to write only when you save a preset there.

About

2pp Camera

Features
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Two-Point Perspective Camera uses your iPhone’s gyroscope to automatically correct vertical perspective in real time. As you tilt your phone up or down, the live view is continuously adjusted, allowing you to compose the corrected image before you press the shutter. No need to fix converging verticals afterward. For situations where sensor-based correction needs a little refinement, Manual Correction gives you precise control to fine-tune the perspective while you shoot. Key Features -Gyroscope Auto Correction — automatically compensates for camera tilt -Real-Time Perspective Preview — see the corrected composition before shooting -Manual Correction — fine-tune vertical perspective with precise adjustment -Two-Point Perspective — keep architectural verticals parallel -High Resolution — capture detailed architectural photographs -Multiple Aspect Ratios — compose for different photographic formats -Grid & Level — precise framing for architecture and interiors

Screenshots

xMosaique4 screens
2pp Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: xMosaique at weekly against 2pp Camera's every 5 weeks. 2pp Camera's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

xMosaique ships an update weekly, 2pp Camera every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
xMosaique versus 2pp Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterxMosaique2pp Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXudong QinXiaonan Wang

In-app purchases

None

xMosaique

No in-app purchases

None

2pp Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is xMosaique free?
xMosaique is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 2pp Camera free?
2pp Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do xMosaique or 2pp Camera have ads?
Neither xMosaique nor 2pp Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, xMosaique or 2pp Camera?
xMosaique ships an update weekly, and 2pp Camera every 5 weeks. Most recently, xMosaique was updated on October 25, 2026 and 2pp Camera on October 25, 2026.

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