BlackCam Lite vs Lucent Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlackCam Lite
Capture striking black and white images with a live preview. Apply various filters, adjust contrast and brightness, and add film grain or vignetting. Easily share your creations in full resolution.
- Live black and white preview
- Colored lens filters
- Professional conversion filters
- Live contrast, brightness, exposure sliders
- Simulated film grain
- Black vignetting
- Full resolution export
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BlackCam helps you to take stunning black and white photographs with live preview Features: - Very simple to use - Different colored lens filters - Different professional conversion set filters - Filters are shown live on camera screen - Live contrast, brightness & exposure slider - Add simulated film grain - Add black vignetting - Custom EXIF Artist Credit entry - Export your photos to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and email - Outputs images in full resolution - Add black and white filters to your existing photos You like BlackCam!? Please give us 5 stars! Your feedback is very important to our work. Help us to improve BlackCam! by sending your bugs or requests on contact@xnview.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/xnview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/xnview G+: http://plus.google.com/+xnview/
Lucent Camera
This app offers a classic black and white photography experience with granular control over lighting and composition. Manually adjust focus, ISO, exposure, contrast, and brightness to master your shots. Its simple interface provides gentle haptic feedback and optional grid lines for precise framing.
- Manual focus control
- Adjustable ISO and exposure
- Contrast and brightness settings
- Tap to auto focus
- Pinch to zoom
- Simple interface with haptic feedback
- Optional grid lines
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Lucent Camera is a classic black and white camera. It's interface lets you control every detail of the lighting and composition of your photographs. Features include: • Ability to manually focus the lens. • Ability to manually adjust iso and exposure settings. • Ability to set the contrast and brightness levels. • Tap to auto focus. • Pinch to zoom. • Simple interface with gentle haptic feedback. • Optional grid lines to line up your shots. • Totally private. Shooting in black and white can take your photography to the next level and Lucent Camera lets you control every detail to achieve mastery with the camera in your pocket.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lucent Camera at none against BlackCam Lite's 1. Lucent Camera also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). BlackCam Lite's advantage is ratings volume (197 vs 7) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. BlackCam Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lucent Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for BlackCam Lite against 4.6 for Lucent Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BlackCam Lite has 197 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of BlackCam Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lucent Camera's.
BlackCam Lite ships an update every 4 months, Lucent Camera every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackCam Lite | Lucent Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (197 ratings) — better | 4.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 197 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | pierre gougelet | Benjamin Lucas |
Customer experience
BlackCam Lite
Lucent Camera
In-app purchases
BlackCam Lite
- BlackCam Remove Ads$1.99
Lucent Camera
No in-app purchases
Questions
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