Comparison

Anonymask vs SwitchCam

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

Head to head
About

Anonymask

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Post the video. Keep your face to yourself. Anonymask records vertical video with a 3D mask locked to your face. It tracks your expressions live, so the mask moves when you talk and holds through the whole take. Nothing is added afterwards. What you see in the preview is what gets recorded. NINE MASK MATERIALS Noh porcelain with a kintsugi gold crack. Marble, bronze, onyx, sandstone, frost, pearl, iridescent, and a glowing wireframe mesh. Pick one per clip. SEVEN VOICE PRESETS From a barely-there softening to a deep baritone, a dark reverb, or a full tin-radio robot. Or leave your own voice exactly as it is. BACKGROUND CONTROL Keep your real room, blur it, drop to solid dark, or sit against a gradient backdrop. PRIVACY EXTRAS Strip metadata on save, on by default: exported videos carry no location, date or device details. Hide your gaze behind opaque eyes. Cover your hands with a dark patch when they come into frame. BUILT FOR 9:16 Records at 1080 x 1920, 30 fps, ready to post. Shoot one take or several, reorder them in the clip strip, and stitch them into a single export saved to Photos. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No servers. Anonymask makes no network calls at all, so your face, your voice and your footage never leave the device. There is nothing to upload because there is nowhere to upload it to. It works in airplane mode. No generative AI. No face swapping. No likeness of anyone else. Just a mask, tracked in real time by the camera hardware already in your phone. REQUIRES An iPhone with a TrueDepth front camera, iPhone X or newer. Portrait only. English only. Made by Epika Labs.

About

SwitchCam

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One sentence: switch between the front and rear cameras while you record — something the built-in Camera app cannot do. ■ Why we built it With the built-in iPhone Camera app, once you press Record you can no longer switch between the front and rear cameras. To switch, you have to stop, change cameras, and start a new clip. SwitchCam solves that: switch whenever you like, and it is still one single video file. ■ How switching works · While recording, tap Switch and the picture moves to the other camera right away · Both cameras work at the same time (in 1080p), so the switch is nearly seamless (a measured gap of 2–21 ms on real devices) · The front and rear cameras are matched to the same resolution and frame rate first, so nothing jumps after a switch · Audio never drops: the microphone is captured independently of the camera session, so your voice stays continuous ■ Quality and specs · Three settings — 1080p / 2K / 4K — one tap to change, frame rate fixed at 30 · 2K is captured at 4K and scaled down to 2560×1440, so the framing matches 4K exactly (it is not upscaled 1080p) · 1080p runs both cameras at once for nearly seamless switching; 2K and 4K put image quality first ■ The interface (just three buttons) · Three buttons at the bottom: Photos / Record / Switch — one tap on Photos opens the system Photos app · The picture cuts straight over with no stutter and no black frame, and the audio stays a single continuous track from start to finish · Tap to focus, pinch to zoom (up to 10x) · While recording, a red dot and a timer stay on screen, so you always know you are rolling ■ Privacy · No data collected: no server, no account, no ads, no third-party analytics · Finished videos are saved straight to your own Photos library, with no copy left behind in the app ■ Good to know · The first launch asks for Camera, Microphone, and Photos (add-only) access · Running both cameras at once uses more battery, so plug in for long recordings

Screenshots

Anonymask4 screens
SwitchCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SwitchCam at every 4 days against Anonymask's every 3 weeks. 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

Anonymask ships an update every 3 weeks, SwitchCam every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Anonymask versus SwitchCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnonymaskSwitchCam
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMukul Karnwal优尔公司

In-app purchases

None

Anonymask

No in-app purchases

None

SwitchCam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Anonymask free?
Anonymask is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SwitchCam free?
SwitchCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Anonymask or SwitchCam have ads?
Neither Anonymask nor SwitchCam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anonymask or SwitchCam?
Anonymask ships an update every 3 weeks, and SwitchCam every 4 days. Most recently, Anonymask was updated on November 10, 2026 and SwitchCam on October 31, 2026.

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