Comparison

Poloska vs beatCam

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

Head to head
About

Poloska

This app transforms your phone into a slit-scan camera, capturing continuous slices of time to create surreal and dynamic images. Explore motion, distortion, and unique visual effects to unleash your creativity in photography.

Highlights
  • Slit-scan photography
  • Dynamic image creation
  • Motion and distortion effects
  • Horizontal and vertical scanning
  • Creative photo manipulation
Features
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Experience time in a whole new way! Poloska transforms your iPhone into a slit-scan camera, letting you take surreal and mesmerizing pictures like never before. Rather than taking a single snapshot, Poloska records continuous slices of time, creating dynamic images that reveal motion, distortion, and unique visual effects. Unleash your creativity and have fun with photography! How it works: - Slit-scan magic: Poloska captures hundreds of frames per second, extracting a narrow slice from each frame and merging them into one flowing image. The longer you shoot, the wider your final image will be. - Unleash your creativity: Capture images of stretched cars, melting landscapes, or warped portraits—your imagination is the limit. - Customizable viewport: Choose between horizontal or vertical scanning to shape your shot just the way you want. - Pro tip: For the best results, use a tripod to stabilize your shots and unlock even more incredible effects. Download Poloska today and start bending time with your photos!

About

beatCam

This app acts as a situational camera, continuously buffering video and saving clips when triggered by events like g-force or scene detection. It helps you capture important moments before and after they happen, organizing them into sessions with detailed evidence timelines.

Highlights
  • Continuous video buffering
  • Event-triggered clip saving
  • G-force and scene detection
  • Drive session grouping
  • Evidence timelines
  • Configurable capture controls
Features
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beatCam 6.1 turns your iPhone into a practical situational camera for drives, walks and moments where the important footage often happens before you press record. Start rolling capture and let beatCam keep the recent video buffer ready. When a relevant g-force event, scene detection or manual trigger happens, beatCam protects the clip and keeps the surrounding evidence together. Drive Sessions and Evidence Timelines make it easy to review related incidents in order. Core capture remains available without a purchase. Lifetime Pro is one non-consumable purchase—not a subscription. One-time unlock for custom capture timing, power and performance controls, storage choices, enhanced incident context, on-device scene analysis and evidence-package exports. The six advanced capabilities are: - Custom capture timing for buffer length, post-trigger delay and trigger sensitivity. - Power and performance controls for quality, frame rate, motion sampling, preview behavior and auto-dimming. - Storage choices for automatic cleanup while protected reports remain preserved. - Enhanced incident context with timestamp, peak force, location, speed, heading and route details when enabled. - On-device scene analysis with selectable responsiveness and automatic hazard saves. - Evidence-package exports with photos, PDF and text summaries, route data and annotated video. beatCam is designed for local capture first: start the camera, keep the buffer running and save the moments that matter with the context you need later.

Screenshots

Poloska4 screens
beatCam4 screens

Verdict

The call

Poloska and beatCam both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of beatCam's written reviews are positive against 73% of Poloska's. beatCam also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Poloska's advantage is ratings volume (76 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Poloska against 4.0 for beatCam. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poloska has 76 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Poloska's written reviews are positive against 100% of beatCam's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poloska ships an update every 4 months, beatCam every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Poloska versus beatCam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoloskabeatCam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (76 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings76 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNIKITA SHANINJohannes Gluck

Customer experience

Poloska

All ratings76 ratings
Positive76.3%
Neutral6.6%
Negative17.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%

beatCam

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Poloska

No in-app purchases

None

beatCam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Poloska free?
Poloska is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is beatCam free?
beatCam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Poloska or beatCam?
Poloska is rated higher. Poloska averages 4.1 out of 5 from 76 ratings, while beatCam averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Poloska or beatCam have ads?
Neither Poloska nor beatCam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Poloska or beatCam?
Poloska ships an update every 4 months, and beatCam every 3 weeks. Most recently, Poloska was updated on November 1, 2026 and beatCam on November 3, 2026.

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