Night Camera vs CaptureDSLR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Night Camera
Capture stunning photos and videos in low-light conditions with a variety of creative filters and professional camera controls. Explore five unique night modes, including night vision and thermal styles, with live preview to perfect your shots.
- Five distinct night shooting modes
- Live filter preview in viewfinder
- Photo and video capture
- Pro camera manual controls
- Capture assist tools (grid, histogram)
- Built-in local media gallery
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Night Camera is a powerful low-light camera app designed for night scenes, dark environments, creative visual effects, moon shots, and star-style captures. Built with a real camera workflow, Night Camera combines live preview, photo capture, video recording, creative night filters, manual camera controls, and a local media gallery in one clean interface. Choose a mode, pick a preset, preview the effect in real time, then capture photos or videos directly from the camera screen. Whether you are shooting in a dim room, capturing city lights, experimenting with night vision styles, framing the moon, or creating dramatic thermal-style visuals, Night Camera gives you a flexible set of tools for low-light and creative night photography. ◉ FIVE NIGHT MODES Night Camera includes five shooting modes for different low-light and creative scenes: • Low Light — enhance dark scenes with clean low-light looks • Night Vision — create green, white phosphor, red, and classic night vision styles • Thermal — apply colorful thermal-style visual effects • Moon — frame moon shots with dedicated moon presets • Stars — create star and light-trail inspired night looks Each mode includes carefully tuned presets, so you can quickly switch between different visual styles without adjusting complex settings. ◉ LIVE FILTER PREVIEW Preview the selected night effect directly in the viewfinder before you capture. Live Filter Preview helps you frame the shot, compare presets, and see the overall mood of the image in real time. ◉ PHOTO AND VIDEO CAPTURE Night Camera supports both photo and video capture. ◉ PRO CAMERA CONTROLS On supported devices, Night Camera Pro unlocks manual camera controls for more precise low-light shooting: • Exposure bias • ISO • Shutter speed • Manual and auto exposure • Manual and auto focus • White balance temperature • Manual and auto white balance • AE/AF Lock • Reset controls Tap the preview to focus and expose. Long press the viewfinder to lock or unlock AE/AF. Night Camera automatically respects device capabilities, so unsupported controls are safely marked as unavailable instead of interrupting your capture workflow. ◉ CAPTURE ASSIST TOOLS For users who want a more professional viewfinder, Night Camera Pro includes capture assist overlays: • Grid • Level • Histogram • Zebra highlight warning • Focus peaking • Compact and expanded HUD layouts • Battery Saver, Balanced, and Quality performance modes These overlays are visual guides only. They help with framing, exposure, and focus, but they are not saved into your final photos or videos. ◉ LOCAL GALLERY Night Camera includes a built-in local gallery for reviewing recent captures. ◉ RECENT CAPTURE PREVIEW After taking a photo or video, tap the thumbnail on the camera screen to quickly review your latest capture. From there, you can preview, share, save to Photos, or delete the local copy. ◉ DEVICE-AWARE PERFORMANCE Night Camera adapts to different devices and camera capabilities. It checks support for torch, manual exposure, manual focus, manual white balance, tap focus, zoom range, and live preview performance. Recommended defaults help balance image preview, overlays, and battery usage. ◉ PRIVACY AND DIAGNOSTICS Night Camera is designed around local capture and local review. Diagnostics are created locally for testing and troubleshooting. No diagnostic report is uploaded automatically. Reports are copied or shared only when you choose to do so. ◉ NIGHT CAMERA PRO Upgrade to Night Camera Pro to unlock: • Pro camera controls • Pro presets • Capture assist overlays • Live FX video export • Advanced saving options ◉ IMPORTANT NOTE Night Camera enhances low-light scenes and provides simulated night vision and thermal-style effects. It does not provide real infrared imaging or real thermal imaging. Final results depend on your device camera, lighting conditions, selected mode, and selected preset.
CaptureDSLR
Control your DSLR or mirrorless camera remotely via USB. Monitor real-time images, adjust settings like exposure and white balance, and transfer photos directly to your phone. This app enables shooting without an SD card, saving images instantly to your mobile device.
- USB camera control
- Real-time image monitoring
- Exposure and white balance adjustment
- Shooting mode control
- Direct photo transfer to phone
- SD card-free shooting
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This is an App that controls the DSLR camera via USB. After connecting to the camera, you can monitor the camera's real-time image and control the camera's: exposure, file format, white balance, shooting mode, ratio, etc. It also supports transferring photos taken on the camera to the mobile phone, so that the camera can take pictures without inserting a SD card, and the photos will be saved to the mobile phone after taking them. This is the first version of the App. Currently it only supports Sony cameras. Canon and Nikon will also support it in the future, so stay tuned!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Night Camera at 5.0 against CaptureDSLR's 3.0. Night Camera also leads on price ($2.99 vs $6.99). CaptureDSLR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (74% vs 43%). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads 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
Night Camera costs $2.99 and CaptureDSLR $6.99 up front. Night Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CaptureDSLR asks for nothing beyond the download.
Night Camera holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Night Camera's written reviews are positive against 74% of CaptureDSLR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Night Camera | CaptureDSLR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 华芳 张 | HFS |
Customer experience
Night Camera
CaptureDSLR
In-app purchases
Night Camera
- Night Camera Pro$4.99
CaptureDSLR
No in-app purchases








