ManualShot vs e
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ManualShot
Take more complex photos and videos with advanced camera controls. Adjust focus, white balance, shutter speed, and ISO for creative effects. Unlock manual shooting capabilities beyond your device's default camera app.
- Manual focus control
- White balance adjustment
- Shutter speed and ISO settings
- Background blur effects
- Photo and video recording modes
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Achieve more complicated shots with your camera not possible with built in camera app. • Blur the background by lowering the focus distance. • Change the mood with white balance adjustments • Lock in your exposure with shutter speed and ISO controls. All possible manual shooting controls (focus*, exposure, white balance) usable in both photo and video recording. * Manual focus support only available to certain devices only. This is a hardware limitation.
e
This app offers advanced manual controls for creating timelapses, allowing individual adjustments for focus, shutter speed, and ISO. It supports saving videos as .mov files or RAW .dng images, with additional features like focus peaking and an auto mode.
- Manual focus, shutter speed, ISO control
- Focus, shutter speed, and ISO ramping
- Save as .mov or RAW .dng
- Focus peaking
- Auto mode
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Take full control of your timelapse with easy to use manual settings: - SET focus, shutter speed, iso, and interval individually. - RAMP focus, shutter speed, and iso, all individually and at different durations. - SAVE as .mov to your Photos Library, or as RAW .dng files to your Files App. Other features: - Focus peaking - Auto mode It's easy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ManualShot at 4.4 against e's 3.5. ManualShot also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 50%) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ManualShot holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ManualShot has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of ManualShot's written reviews are positive against 50% of e's.
ManualShot ships an update every 21 months, e every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ManualShot | e |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (13 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RIEU Limited | Quentin Reiser |
Customer experience
ManualShot
e
In-app purchases
ManualShot
No in-app purchases
e
No in-app purchases
