Comparison

Manual Camera 4 vs Gimbse Camera

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

Head to head
About

Manual Camera 4

Take professional-quality photos and videos with granular control over camera settings. Adjust focus, exposure, ISO, and more, with advanced features like RAW capture and real-time histograms. This app offers DSLR-like functionality for mobile photography enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Manual focus control
  • Adjustable exposure and ISO
  • RAW photo capture
  • Real-time histogram
  • Focus peaking
  • Video format switching
  • HDR and 4K video recording
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Capture photos and videos with precise control over focus, exposure, ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and flash level. Manual Camera gives you DSLR-like control with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Also includes: • RAW photo capture • Real-time histogram • Focus peaking • Lock exposure, focus, and white balance • Manual lens selection • Quick video format switching • HDR (Dolby Vision / HLG) on iPhone 12 and later • 4K at 60p / 24p, and slow motion on supported devices • Ultra Wide and Telephoto lens support • Audio level meter • Photo and video filters • Live shutter speed preview in viewfinder • Cinematic video stabilization • Timer • Smooth focus transitions while recording • Save photos and videos directly to the camera roll — browse and delete within the app • Geotagging • Wide-gamut color capture • Face-driven autofocus • Apple ProRAW capture on iPhone 12 Pro and later • Apple ProRes recording on iPhone 13 Pro and later • 48MP resolution support on iPhone 14 Pro and later

About

Gimbse Camera

Enhance architectural photos with professional alignment without complex editing. This app offers real-time perspective correction and intuitive controls to perfect your shots of buildings, cityscapes, and more.

Highlights
  • Perspective Assistant
  • Real-time alignment
  • Multiple perspective modes
  • Adjustable focus and exposure
  • Various color modes
  • Composition guides
  • Multiple aspect ratios
Features
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Improve the presentation of real estate, cityscapes, exhibition stands, and much more with professional architectural photography! Gimbse offers the perfect alignment of your camera without complicated post-processing or additional technical equipment. How it works? Very simple: take a photo – done. The unique perspective assistant always has the recording situation in view and takes care of the detailed work in real time. So you can fully concentrate on your subject. Also profit from the intuitively designed interface of the great and professional functions with which the Gimbse camera app makes your pictures even better. PERSPECTIVE ASSISTANT The Perspective Assistant ensures that your pictures are always straight, no matter from which angle they were taken. But “straight“ doesn‘t just mean that people stand upright in the picture and the horizon is really horizontal. With the help of the various modes, you can freely choose which additional perspective tools you want to use for your subject. Perspective alignment has never been so easy! • Horizon It automatically does what many photographers usually do by hand or with gimbals: Hold the camera straight. • Automatic Let the Perspective Assistant automatically select between Architecture and Horizon modes to avoid extreme distortion at the edges of the image. • Architecture The mode for professional architectural photography – the perspective is automatically corrected to avoid falling lines. • Gallery In Gallery mode, photograph vertical or horizontal surfaces exactly from the front, even though the situation only allows a sloping shooting angle. The magnetic axis makes alignment easy and very accurate. • Easel For inclined surfaces such as flipcharts, screens or simply easels, there is also the Easel mode with the practical magnetic angle. • Rectangle With the magnetic frame, you can shoot rectangular objects of any kind as if they were taken from the front and crop them in their original proportions, (almost) regardless of the shooting angle. • Calibrate Also use the Calibrate mode with its magnetic axes to achieve even more precision in aligning your photos. Once performed, the calibration is always maintained. • Deactivated With this you can also take really skewed pictures. FOCUS • Automatic • Spot EXPOSURE • Lights • Automatic • Spot • Lock WHITE BALANCE • Cold • Neutral • Warm • Spot • Lock FOCAL LENGTH • Ultra Wide Angle (if available) • 20 mm (if available) • Wide Angle • 35 mm • 50 mm • Telephoto Lens (if available) • 80 mm • 135 mm • 200 mm • 300 mm COLOR MODE • Color (in gradations) • Black & White • Blue Filter • BW Neutral • Red Filter COMPOSITION • Empty • Frame • Crosshair • Grid • Golden Section • Golden Spiral ASPECT RATIO • Square • 7 : 6 • 5 : 4 • 4 : 3 • DIN A Format • 3 : 2 • Golden Section • 16 : 9 • Superscope • 21 : 9 • CinemaScope FILE TYPE (iOS 13 and higher) • L97JPEG 8 sRGB • JPEG 8 P3 • TIFF 16 sRGB (high memory requirement!) • TIFF 16 P3 (high memory requirement!) With the practical reset button, you can quickly reset Gimbse at any time to be ready for the next snapshot. Configure Gimbse conveniently in the settings. You can also have a comparison image saved for each shot. This shows a before/after comparison between the captured image and the version created by Gimbse. Discover the incredible new design options that Gimbse can offer you!

Screenshots

Manual Camera 44 screens
Gimbse Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Manual Camera 4 at 4.6 against Gimbse Camera's 4.0. Manual Camera 4 also leads on price ($3.99 vs $12.99) and ratings volume (343 vs 6). Gimbse Camera's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Manual Camera 4 costs $3.99 and Gimbse Camera $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Manual Camera 4 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Manual Camera 4 has 343 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Manual Camera 4's written reviews are positive against 73% of Gimbse Camera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Manual Camera 4 ships an update every 5 weeks, Gimbse Camera every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Manual Camera 4 versus Gimbse Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManual Camera 4Gimbse Camera
Price$3.99 — better$12.99
Rating4.6 (343 ratings) — better4.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews67.3% of reviews73.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings343 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKenneth KaoChristian Kappertz

Customer experience

Manual Camera 4

All ratings343 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive67.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative23.6%

Gimbse Camera

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative23.3%

Bugs and requests

Manual Camera 4

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • App crashes on iOS beta versions
  • App crashes immediately upon opening
  • Crashes during video recording on longer clips
  • Crashes when zooming in video mode
  • Crashes when setting shutter speed to half second
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  • Shutter speed not accurate
  • Photos save differently than displayed
  • Zoom function jumps from 1.0x to 1.4x during recording
  • Focus lock doesn't work as advertised
  • Blurry images with flash in dark environments
  • Blank photos saved to camera roll
  • Video files not saving to camera roll
  • Settings revert to auto after reviewing footage
  • Histogram display persists after turning off
  • Gyroscope orientation confusion with histogram
  • EV control has no effect after setting shutter speed
  • ISO and shutter speed appear linked together
  • Slider adjustments snap to unintended values
  • Interferes with keyboard functionality
  • Bluetooth shutter release causes volume adjustment
  • Safari redirection to malicious sites

Requested features

22 requests
  • Physical camera button support
  • HDR mode (On/Off/Auto)
  • 1:1 aspect ratio support
  • Mute shutter sound option
  • Longer shutter speeds (bulb/time exposure mode)
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  • Aperture control
  • Preset saving functionality
  • Dropdown menu for video resolution/frame rate selection
  • App icon redesign
  • Wide Color Gamut (P3) compatibility
  • Zoomed preview for precision focusing
  • Smooth zoom without jerky motion
  • Multiple simultaneous sliders on screen
  • Time-lapse function
  • Faster shutter speeds (above 1/1000)
  • Temperature and tint control in video mode
  • Lock all settings button
  • Manual number input for white balance
  • Real-time filters and masks
  • TIFF file format support
  • Settings persistence after app closure
  • Increment/decrement buttons for ISO and shutter speed

Gimbse Camera

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Manual Camera 4

No in-app purchases

None

Gimbse Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Manual Camera 4 free?
Manual Camera 4 costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gimbse Camera free?
Gimbse Camera costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Manual Camera 4 or Gimbse Camera?
Manual Camera 4 is rated higher. Manual Camera 4 averages 4.6 out of 5 from 343 ratings, while Gimbse Camera averages 4.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Manual Camera 4 or Gimbse Camera have ads?
Neither Manual Camera 4 nor Gimbse Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Manual Camera 4 or Gimbse Camera?
Manual Camera 4 ships an update every 5 weeks, and Gimbse Camera every 4 weeks. Most recently, Manual Camera 4 was updated on October 17, 2026 and Gimbse Camera on October 14, 2026.

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