Comparison

Camera Angle vs Obscure

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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While shooting a picture, You can confirm the direction and the angle of the device at a glance. This app is available in various scenes. For example, when you want to take exactly the building by horizontal and vertical, the documents from just above, the ceiling paintings, with adjust the direction, and so on. [PAN] Angle of the left and right as the vertical axis of the device. Direction of the compass is displayed when the screen is perpendicular to the ground. [TILT] Angle of the up and down as the horizontal axis of the device. [ROLL] Angle of the rotation as the front and back axis of the device. Direction of the compass is displayed when the screen is horizontal to the ground. Compatible with front/rear camera, flash AUTO/ON/OFF, auto focus/tap focus.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Camera Angle4 screens
Obscure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Obscure at 4.8 against Camera Angle's 4.0. Obscure also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 38%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Camera Angle's advantage is chart position (#168 vs unranked) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On ratings volume, ads 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

Camera Angle costs $1.99 and Obscure $2.99 up front. Camera Angle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Obscure asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Camera Angle ships an update every 5 months, Obscure every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Camera Angle versus Obscure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamera AngleObscure
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (37 ratings)4.8 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.7% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37 — better30
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#168 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developery-designSwift Fox Software LLC

Customer experience

Camera Angle

All ratings37 ratings
Positive67.6%
Neutral13.5%
Negative18.9%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive37.7%
Neutral18.9%
Negative43.4%

Obscure

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Camera Angle

One-time1
  • Full Version$0.99
None

Obscure

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Camera Angle free?
Camera Angle costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Obscure free?
Obscure costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Camera Angle or Obscure?
Obscure is rated higher. Camera Angle averages 4.0 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Obscure averages 4.8 from 30 ratings.
Do Camera Angle or Obscure have ads?
Neither Camera Angle nor Obscure shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Camera Angle or Obscure?
Camera Angle ships an update every 5 months, and Obscure every 2 months. Most recently, Camera Angle was updated on September 22, 2026 and Obscure on August 31, 2026.

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