Night Camera vs Squeeze
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.
Squeeze
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Squeeze compresses the videos on your iPhone, iPad and Mac so they take a fraction of the space, and it never uploads them anywhere. Pick a video from your library or a file, choose how small you want it, and see the predicted size before you start. The original stays untouched until you decide otherwise. SEE WHAT YOU'LL SAVE BEFORE YOU START • Scan your photo library and sort videos by size • Filter by 4K, 1080p, screen recordings or anything over 50 MB • A size prediction that updates as you adjust the settings YOU'RE IN CONTROL • Quality slider from smallest file to best picture • Resolution: original, 1080p, 720p or 480p, never upscaled • HEVC (H.265) for the smallest files or H.264 for maximum compatibility • Frame rate cap and an option to drop the audio track SAFE BY DESIGN • Preview the compressed copy next to the original • Save back to Photos, or export to Files • Remove the original only after the compressed copy has been saved, and only if you ask • Everything happens on device. Your videos are never uploaded. TRACK THE SPACE YOU'VE FREED • A running total of the space you've reclaimed • Recent compressions with before-and-after sizes ONE APP FOR iPHONE, iPAD AND MAC • A native Mac app with a sortable table, drag-and-drop import and ⌘, settings • One purchase covers every device signed in to your Apple Account FREE AND PRO Free lets you compress up to 3 videos a day, one at a time, with every setting available. Squeeze Pro removes the daily cap and adds batch compression, so you can clean up a whole album in one go. Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yevgenii.dev/projects/squeeze/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Squeeze at Free against Night Camera's $4.99. Squeeze also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Night Camera's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Squeeze is free to download; Night Camera costs $4.99 up front. Night Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Squeeze sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Night Camera ships an update every 2 months, Squeeze every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Night Camera | Squeeze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 华芳 张 | Yevgenii Kryzhanivskyi |
In-app purchases
Night Camera
- Night Camera Pro$4.99
Squeeze
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$9.99









