Camera Angle vs Obscure
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Camera Angle
Capture precise photos with a real-time camera overlay showing device orientation. Ideal for architectural shots, document scanning, and artistic ceiling photography, ensuring perfect horizontal and vertical alignment.
- Real-time orientation display
- Horizontal and vertical alignment guides
- Compass for directional accuracy
- PAN, TILT, and ROLL axis monitoring
- Front/rear camera support
- Flash control (AUTO/ON/OFF)
- Focus modes (auto/tap)
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See your camera’s angle while composing a photo. Camera Angle overlays PAN, TILT and ROLL scales on the viewfinder to help you line up buildings, photograph documents from above and keep your composition consistent. • Shoot at the photo resolution supported by your device and lens. • Adjust zoom with a pinch or the zoom buttons. Use automatic macro on supported devices. • Adjust exposure, or touch and hold to lock focus and exposure. • Use the 3- or 10-second self-timer and Camera Control on supported iPhones. • Tap the thumbnail to review your latest photo, zoom in and rotate between portrait and landscape. Full Version — a one-time in-app purchase Unlock the compass, save photos with scales and remove ads. When saving a photo with scales, the original without scales is saved alongside it. Scale photos retain supported wide color and HDR information. The free version includes ads. Available resolution, zoom range, macro and Camera Control depend on your device. Camera access is needed to take photos; permission to add photos is needed to save them.
Obscure
Easily redact sensitive information from your photos before sharing. This app uses AI to automatically detect and obscure faces, text, and personal details, or allows for manual editing. Protect your privacy by blurring or blocking out private portions of images for safe social media sharing.
- Automatic face, text, and info detection
- Manual redaction editor
- One-touch email and phone number hiding
- Batch editing for multiple images
- Shortcuts integration for automation
- Blur, pixelate, or block sensitive areas
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Safely and securely share your photos! Obscure lets you quickly blur, pixellate or block out private portions of your images so that they are safe to share on any social platform. - Automatically detect & obscure faces, text, & personal info with advanced on-device AI - Redact all text from an image - Manually obfuscate any part of a picture with the easy to use editor - Find & hide email addresses and phone numbers with one touch - Edit multiple images in batches using the batch editor - Shortcuts action allows for easy redaction automation Just import an image, tap and drag over sensitive parts of the image then tap share. Use two fingers to pan and zoom to redact fine details. Works great for sharing screenshots! Obfuscate faces, license plates, and brand labels. Easily redact private parts of document images that you want to share. Redacted images can then be shared to any other app on your phone, or just save them back to your photo library. Obscure also works with Shortcuts, allowing you to easily setup an automated image processing pipeline. Long press the app icon to get quick shortcuts to your last taken image, the camera, or to paste an image you copied. Obscure is a one time purchase, no ads and no subscriptions! Privacy Policy: https://obscure.app/privacy Terms: https://obscure.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Camera Angle at Free against Obscure's $2.99. Camera Angle also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Obscure's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (80% vs 38%). On ratings volume 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
Camera Angle is free to download; Obscure costs $2.99 up front. Camera Angle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Obscure asks for nothing beyond the download.
Obscure holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Camera Angle's written reviews are positive against 80% of Obscure's.
Camera Angle ships an update every 5 months, Obscure every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Camera Angle | Obscure |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (37 ratings) | 4.8 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | y-design | Swift Fox Software LLC |
Customer experience
Camera Angle
Obscure
In-app purchases
Camera Angle
- Full Version$3.99
Obscure
No in-app purchases
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