Pix Sharer vs Codecam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pix Sharer
This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing and enhancing your photos and videos. It includes camera functions with timed and automatic shooting, extensive editing options with numerous effects and filters, and ways to display your media in carousels or slideshows.
- Timed and automatic camera functions
- Extensive photo effects (47 options)
- Multiple filter effects (32 options)
- Photo editor with stickers, text, and cropping
- Video recording and playback
- Carousel and slideshow display options
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Pix Sharer is specifically created to manage photos. There are 16 functions. Camera - Photos can be taken using any of the three functions. The app works as a normal camera, as well as having two special features. The automatic function takes the photo every three seconds. The timed function automatically takes the photo after five seconds, so you can snap pictures with your whole family or friends. You can repeatedly take photos until the 'Done' button is pressed. Camera+Effects - Take a photo using the camera or select one from the photo album. You can stickers/emoticons to the photo. You can also crop the photo. There are 47 effects - Adaptive Threshold, Binary Pattern, Box Blur, Brightness, Bulge, Canny Edge Detection, CGA Color Space, Color Invert, Contrast, Crosshatch, Emboss, Exposure, False Color, Glass Sphere, Grayscale, Half Tone, Haze, Hue, Laplacian, Luminance Thresh, Monochrome, Motion Blur, Pinch Distort, Pixellate, Polar Pixellate, Polka Dot, Posterize, Prewitt Edge, RGB Dilation, RGB Erosion, Sepia, Sharpen, Sketch, Sobel Edge Detection, Sphere Refraction, Stretch Distortion, Swirl, Threshold Sketch, Tilt Shift, Tone Curve, Toon, Transform 2D, Transform 3D, Vignette, XY Derivative, Zoom Blur. Video - Take video. Watch Video - Choose a video to watch. Choose Photos - Choose multiple photos from the photo album or camera roll. Selected photos can be viewed here or used in the carousel, slideshow, photo effects, filter effects, email, facebook, twitter, puzzle, or printed. Display Photos - View selected photos. Filter Effects - Add filter effects to selected photos. Select from 32 filters - Bloom, Bump Distortion, Bump Distortion Linear, Color Control, Color Invert, Color Matrix, Color Monochrome, Color Posterize, Comic Effect, Exposure Adjust, Gamma Adjust, Glass Distortion, Gloom, Hexagonal Pixellate, Highlight Shadow Adjust, Hue Adjust, Photo Effect Chrome, Photo Effect Fade, Photo Effect Instant, Photo Effect Mono, Photo Effect Noir, Photo Effect Process, Photo Effect Tonal, Photo Effect Transfer, Pixellate, Sepia Tone, Sharpen Luminance, Twirl Distortion, Unsharp Mask, Vibrance, Vignette, Zoom Blur. Photo Effects - Add effects to selected photos. Select from 47 effects - Adaptive Threshold, Binary Pattern, Box Blur, Brightness, Bulge, Canny Edge Detection, CGA Color Space, Color Invert, Contrast, Emboss, Exposure, Glass Sphere, Grayscale, Half Tone, Haze, Hue, Laplacian, Monochrome, Pinch Distort, Pixellate, Polar Pixellate, Polka Dot, Prewitt Edge, RGB Dilation, RGB Erosion, Sepia, Sharpen, Sketch, Sobel Edge Detection, Sphere Refraction, Stretch Distortion, Swirl, Threshold Sketch, Tilt Shift, Tone Curve, Toon, Transform 2D, Transform 3D, Vignette, XY Derivative. Photo Editor - Add stickers, emoticons, text, crop, filters, rotation, etc. Carousel - Display selected photos in a carousel. There are two modes - manual or automatic and 12 carousel styles - Linear, Rotary, Inverted Rotary, Cylinder, Inverted Cylinder, Wheel, Inverted Wheel, Coverflow, Coverflow 2, Time Machine, Inverted Time Machine, Custom. You can run the carousel in horizontal or vertical mode with wrap-on or wrap-off. Music can be added from the music library. The music will play when the carousel is running. Slideshow - There are 9 slideshow modes - Camera, Cube, Fade, Flip, Reveal, Ripple, Rotate, Slide, Vacuum. Music can be added from the music library. The music will play when the slideshow is running. Stop the slideshow by simply touching the screen. Email - Email selected photos. Print - Print selected photos with the option to select the number of copies. Photo Gallery - Display selected photos in the photo gallery. Photo Puzzle - Selected photo will be used in a 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 puzzle. PDF - Selected photos will be displayed in a PDF file. Play Music - Select a playlist from the music library to play.
Codecam
Unlock the full potential of your iPhone camera with advanced manual controls for both photos and videos. Adjust settings like shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and focus for professional-quality results. Explore various compression and frame rate options for video recording.
- Manual shutter speed and ISO
- Manual white balance (temperature, tint)
- Manual focus control
- Adjustable video compression and frame rates
- Video zoom with focal length display
- Video stabilization options
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All the power of the iPhone camera at your fingertips! With the incredibly capable camera that is your iPhone, and Codecam, the most simple, easy to use, yet very powerful app, you can enjoy the unlimited possiblities that the complete control over your iPhone's camera can provide! Photo features: - shoot in JPEG, like the stock camera app, or shoot JPEG+RAW, which also records a DNG file next to your jpeg (it will still look like a single photo in the photos app). You can import the DNG to you computer, or edit it on your iPhone with an app that supports DNG raw files. - manual shutter speed, ISO. Lock your exposure by picking a new value, or by long pressing the automatically selected one. Long press again to go back to auto. You can also swipe up and down on the screen to apply an exposure compensation while in automatic exposure mode. - manual white balance: temperature and tint. You can lock the current value just like the exposure, or pick the exact values. White balance presets are also available: Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, plus two Incandescent and Fluorescent presets. - manual focus: switch between auto an manual focus by tapping the button, or by tapping an area on the image to focus on it. A slider to manually focus is also available. Video features: - video zoom: you can zoom by pinching the image, up until the point where upscaling would occur. For 4K, you can override this behaviour to allow zooming until the 1080p crop. The approximate focal length for the given zoom is also shown on the screen (converted to the equivalent focal length of a Super 35 or Full Frame sensor). - the same manual controls for shutter speed, ISO, white balance and focus as in photo mode. Smooth autofocus using Focus Pixels on the iPhone 6 or newer is available. - compressions supported: 15 Mbit, 25 Mbit, 50 Mbit, 75 Mbit, 100 Mbit, 200 Mbit, 400 Mbit in H.264 (or H.265 in newer devices) with selectable IPB or ALL-I modes, and MPJEG compression with either optimal (9/10 or 8/10 for 4K) or full quality (10/10) setting (note: the displayed bitrate in MJPEG mode is an estimation of the maximum possible bitrate) - frame rates supported: 1080p24, 1080p25, 1080p30 - additional frame rates supported by iPhone 5s: 720p50, 720p60 - additional frame rates supported by the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6: 720p120 - additional frame rates supported by the iPhone 6: 1080p50, 1080p60, 720p240 - additional frame rates supported by the iPhone 6s and 7: 1080p120, 2160p30, 2160p25, 2160p24 - additional frame rates supported by the iPhone 8, X, 11, 11 Pro: 1080p240, 2160p50, 2160p60 - video stabilization is supported, you can toggle between on, off or cinematic, depending on availability on your device - show shutter angle instead of shutter speed - cinematic 1:2.35 overlay: crop mark option is available in the settings menu to switch between 16:9 and cinemascope. This feature is for composition only, the image that will be recorded is the full 16:9 frame. Additional features: - automatic save to camera roll: all images and supported videos are saved to the camera roll - gallery: You can see the images and videos you took in a grid or loupe view, with full metadata. You can also share them, or delete them right in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Codecam at 50% against Pix Sharer's 0%. Codecam also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (4.0 vs 2.0). On 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
Codecam is free to download; Pix Sharer costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Codecam holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Codecam has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pix Sharer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Codecam's.
Pix Sharer ships an update every 7 months, Codecam monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pix Sharer | Codecam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jessica Tunnicliffe | Laszlo Varadi |
Customer experience
Pix Sharer
Codecam
In-app purchases
Pix Sharer
No in-app purchases
Codecam
No in-app purchases









