Cavo Camera vs Kachik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cavo Camera
This app transforms your iPhone into a professional cinema camera, offering advanced manual controls for exposure, focus, and color. It allows for flexible recording formats and custom color grading, ensuring your creative vision is preserved.
- Advanced manual exposure controls
- Customizable frame rates and shutter angles
- Support for ProRes and Apple Log formats
- Import and preview .cube LUTs
- Flexible recording destinations
- No ads or analytics
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Your iPhone. Your cinema camera. Choose the motion you want. Cavo handles exposure, gives you manual control when you need it, and lets you preview your look without changing the recording. Smarter auto Set your frame rate and shutter angle. Shutter-priority auto adjusts exposure around those settings. On compatible cameras, Aperture Priority holds your chosen aperture while Cavo adjusts exposure. Keep exposure and white balance adjusting as you shoot, or lock them when recording starts. Manual when you want it Control ISO, shutter, focus, and white balance from the viewfinder, with manual aperture control on compatible cameras. Check audio levels, available recording time, grid, and horizon level without leaving the camera. Choose shutter angles from 30° to 360°, or use supported longer exposures for more motion blur at a lower recording frame rate. Pick your format Record in H.264, HEVC, or supported ProRes formats. Choose Apple Log, Apple Log 2, HDR, and real open gate when your iPhone and active camera format support them. Recordings are QuickTime MOV files. Microphone access is optional. Cavo records silent video when access is off. See your look. Keep your master. Import .cube LUTs to preview color while you shoot. Monitoring leaves the recorded master unchanged. When you're ready, Quick Grade creates a separate graded HEVC Rec. 709 MOV export and preserves your original. Save where you choose Record to Photos, App Files, a folder you select, or compatible external storage. Optionally save the recording location with your videos. Quick Grade preserves location tags in graded copies, too. Your camera. Your recordings. No account, ads, or analytics. Your recordings stay in the destination you choose. Requires iOS 17 or later. Available codecs, color modes, resolutions, frame rates, lenses, stabilization, and external recording depend on your iPhone, iOS version, and connected hardware. Apple Log 2 and dynamic 4:3 capture require iOS 26 and compatible hardware. Manual aperture control and Aperture Priority require iOS 27 or later and compatible cameras.
Kachik
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Kachik is a camera for people who would rather set a look than borrow one. Build your own recipe. Choose a colour, explore a year, add texture, and if you feel like it, let one thing go pleasantly wrong. Name your combination and make it yours to shoot with again. YOUR COLOUR. YOUR RULES. • Colour: 30 palettes combining places across India with clean everyday looks. • Year: 12 era-inspired styles spanning 1996 to 2026, from film-diary warmth to crisp digital. • Camera character: 26 original camera and film-inspired interpretations across Rangefinder, Film, Cinema and Digital, including Pocket Flash and CCD 2006. • Your mix: adjust warmth, colour depth, contrast and strength. • Grain + noise: choose a texture preset, then shape grain size, softness, colour noise, shadow bias and noise reduction. • Misclicks: 16 optional visual accidents, including Cracked lens, Light slip, Thumb Slip, Monsoon Droplets and VHS Tracking. Adjust their strength and explore three variations. • Signatures: name, save and reuse your recipe. Share it through a recipe file or QR code, or import someone’s combination and make it your own. MAKE EVERY EDIT YOURS Explore with undo and redo. Reset one slider, one editing panel or everything back to the original photo. Double-tap a slider for a quick reset. Your selected option stays centred as you browse. Small dots mark your changes, and editing panels remember the tool you last used. Compare with Original while your photo stays visible. Import photos or revisit your private roll. MORE CAMERA. FEWER INTERRUPTIONS. Open straight to a large live preview, with Photo, Burst, Video and Edit within reach. Pinch to zoom, adjust exposure and choose your photo aspect ratio on the preview. Browse colour, year and effect previews, then apply your recipe when it feels right. TWO SIDES OF THE MOMENT Double Take puts the scene above and you below in one photo, using your current style. On compatible iPhones, it combines front and rear camera previews into a 720 × 1280 split image. YOUR LOOK, IN MOTION Record vertical 720p clips up to 15 seconds with your chosen recipe and optional sound. Review, trim or mute your clip, then choose whether to keep, save or share. A LITTLE SPARK Open Sparks from the top bar for six swipeable shooting prompts exploring reflections, colour, motion, texture, contrast and night. Optional photo references from Wikimedia Commons include creator credits and source links. Try a suggested colour and year on your camera, then keep it or undo it. Original prompts work offline. FROM INDIA Find colour in Jaipur’s pink stone, Mumbai’s kaali peeli, Kolkata’s marigold and Srinagar’s lake hush. Request nearby palette suggestions or explore the atlas. Your location is never attached to a photo. SHARE IT YOUR WAY Share a photo, build a card or add an Instant paper frame. Choose your format, add your own words and control the Kachik watermark. Share an ordered set of up to ten photos, or combine up to four into Grid, Stack and Swatch layouts. Apply a signature to selected photos as new copies, preserving the originals. Choose Full size, Share ready or Small file. Copy images and captions separately, and save favourite sharing layouts. MADE FOR YOUR OWN EYE No account, follower count or popularity score. Suggestions never change your photo on their own. Editing works on device. Your private roll keeps clean masters and untouched originals. Keep in roll, Save to Photos and Share are separate choices. Apple ProRAW is available on supported cameras, with the original DNG kept untouched. Burst chooses the sharpest recent preview frame; hardware flash uses a fresh still. Shortcuts, the Action button, Control Centre and Lock Screen controls offer quicker ways in. Adaptive previews support compatible ProMotion displays. Online Sparks references are optional. Your camera images and location are not sent to Wikimedia Commons. Point. Shoot. Make it yours. Made by CRIT Studio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cavo Camera at 17.0 against Kachik's 26.0. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cavo Camera ships an update every 5 days, Kachik every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cavo Camera | Kachik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Jandris | Kamalanarayanan Kamalakannan |
In-app purchases
Cavo Camera
No in-app purchases
Kachik
No in-app purchases









