The Photos Booth vs Ugly Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Photos Booth
Transform your photos with a wide array of real-time live effects and color presets. Capture fun and elegant images, even in low light, with adjustable settings and various aspect ratios. Easily view, share, and manage your creations.
- 39+ real-time live effects
- Apply effects and color presets simultaneously
- Screen Flash for low light photos
- Front and rear camera support
- Adjustable effects level
- Multiple photo crop sizes
- Built-in photo gallery
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The Photos Booth bring the original iPad Photo Booth amazing, elegant, and funny face that make you laugh all days long, into iPhone and beyond. Capture your photo with real time super fun effects and elegant effects. It boost to more advanced level, with more effects, adjustable effects level, and can apply effect with enhance color preset at the same time. Even in the dark time, all the captured photos just look great with Screen Flash. FEATURES: • Up to 39 real time live effects and color presets • Apply both effects and color preset at the same time • Great low light photo with Screen Flash for all devices • Capture with front and rear camera • Support dual and triple rear camera lens devices • Preview your photo after capture • Crop photo size: Standard 4:3, Square 1:1, Widescreen 16:9 and UltraWide 21:9 • Automatically save your photo to camera roll • Built-in photo gallery for photo viewing and easing sharing • Turn on flash to bright the dark • Level photo position with grid line • All effects are: Terminal, Mirror, X-Ray, Negative, Light Tunnel, Squeeze, Twirl, Stretch, Bold, Pixellate, TV Dot, Vegnette, Focus Blur, Zoom Blur, Beauty, Posterize, Emboss, Sketch, Cartoon, Edge, Stone Stamp, Hue Color, Clone, Fish Eye, and Shift Blur • All color presets are: Black & White, Grayscale, Sepia, Fade, Chrome, Deep Shadow, Etique, Cross Process, Aqua, Cool, Pale Bright, Yelly, Redy, and Greeny INFO: • Some effects required tap or pinch gesture to adjust effect position or effect level • Double tap to focus and set exposure (iPhone and rear camera only)
Ugly Camera
Create hilarious distorted faces and funny movies with live filters. This app offers a variety of effects to transform your selfies into comical images or short videos. It's a popular choice for generating laughs and entertainment.
- Funny face effects
- Live filters
- Photo creation
- Video creation
- Animated GIF creation
- Distort, duplicate, transform face
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Take funny photo ! Ugly Camera creates funny ugly face picture or movie in a very few steps. What you should do is just take photo. - Several effects that result in ugly funny faces; distort, duplicate and transform your face. - Live filters; watch the result before even taking the picture. - You can create Photo, Video and Animated GIF. Ugly Camera is million downloaded popular camera app. Try this ugly selfie camera now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ugly Camera at every 3 months against The Photos Booth's every 7 months. Ugly Camera also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 62%). The Photos Booth's advantage is ratings volume (772 vs 127) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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. The Photos Booth sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ugly Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for The Photos Booth against 4.4 for Ugly Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Photos Booth has 772 ratings behind it against 127, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of The Photos Booth's written reviews are positive against 71% of Ugly Camera's.
The Photos Booth ships an update every 7 months, Ugly Camera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Photos Booth | Ugly Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (772 ratings) | 4.4 (127 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews | 70.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 772 — better | 127 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ratha Sou | KANAME OHARA |
Customer experience
The Photos Booth
Ugly Camera
User reviews
The Photos Booth
From 772 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😂 Fun and funny effects
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Many filters to choose from
- 🖼️ Good photo quality
- 🤩 Makes funny faces and cool things
Room to improve
- ⚠️ Too many ads
- ❌ Doesn't take pictures
- 🚫 App doesn't work
- 😩 Offline ads are present
- 😵 Not very user friendly
Ugly Camera
From 127 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 😂 Hilarious and fun
- 🤣 Makes users laugh
- 🤩 Very entertaining
- 👍 Good time passer
- 😄 Lots of fun
Room to improve
- 💸 Expensive filters
- 💳 In-app purchases costly
- 👎 Filters only paid on iOS
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🚫 App won't open
Bugs and requests
The Photos Booth
Reported bugs
4 issues- Doesn't take pictures
- App doesn't work
- Glitch: doesn't work if you go to the rest
- Doesn't let me take the photo on the app, have to screenshot it
Requested features
2 requests- More than 26 fx
- Ability to edit existing photos, not just take new ones
Ugly Camera
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes when selecting photos from camera roll
- App crashes on launch
- App crashes when trying to save photos
- Photos cannot be saved
- App crashes when opening
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- App crashes when trying to save
Requested features
3 requests- Automatic saving feature
- Improve iOS filter pricing
- Fix shutter sound on iPhone
In-app purchases
The Photos Booth
- No Ads$1.99
Ugly Camera
- All Filters(Full feature)$3.99
Questions
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