Manual Camera 4 vs Text Widget on Home Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Text Widget on Home Screen
Personalize your device's home screen with custom text widgets. Display favorite quotes, important information, or personal messages with extensive text and background customization options. Supports unlimited widgets and custom fonts.
- Unlimited text widgets
- iOS 14 home screen widget support
- Customizable font size and name
- Customizable text color and opacity
- Customizable background (color, gradient, image)
- Shadow and outline effects
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Add your favorite text messages on your home screen! By virtue of the full supports for iOS14 home screen widget and amaizingly powerful text editor, you can add any beautiful text messages on your home screen. For instance, - Add your favorite maxim to your home screen. - Add your telephone number to your home screen. - Add your car registration number to your home screen. - Add your favorite names of people your like. • Add unlimited number of text message on home screen. • Supports iOS14 home screen widget. • You can add either random text message or specific text message. • Supports font size and font name. • Supports custom fonts. Use your favorite fonts! • Supports free downloadble fonts from famous font severs. • Supports text color and opacity. • Supports color, gradient and image background. • Supports background blur. • Supports outline color and width. • Supports shadow - offset, blur, direction, inner shadow and color.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Manual Camera 4 at 4.6 against Text Widget on Home Screen's 3.9. Manual Camera 4 also leads on ratings volume (343 vs 16) and chart position (#181 vs unranked). Text Widget on Home Screen's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Manual Camera 4 costs $3.99 and Text Widget on Home Screen $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Manual Camera 4 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Manual Camera 4 has 343 ratings behind it against 16, 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 80% of Text Widget on Home Screen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Manual Camera 4 ships an update every 5 weeks, Text Widget on Home Screen every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Manual Camera 4 | Text Widget on Home Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (343 ratings) — better | 3.9 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 343 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #181 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kenneth Kao | Dongwook Cho |
Customer experience
Manual Camera 4
Text Widget on Home Screen
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
Text Widget on Home Screen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Manual Camera 4
No in-app purchases
Text Widget on Home Screen
No in-app purchases
Questions
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