Comparison

Exify vs Spectre Camera

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

Head to head
About

Exify

This app provides in-depth technical details for iPhone photos, including exposure, lens data, image size, and color information. It offers tools for pixel-level inspection, color sampling, and metadata management, with extensions for easy access within other apps.

Highlights
  • Exposure and lens information
  • Image size and color space
  • Pixel-level detail magnifier
  • Color sampling and layout proportions
  • RGB and luminosity histograms
  • Photo location and maps
  • Watermark and copyright addition
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Exify is a collection of tools for people who take their iPhone photography seriously. The app gives you quick access to: • Exposure and lens information • Image size and color space • Magnifier for pixel-level details • Color sampling and layout proportions • RGB and luminosity histograms • Photo location, elevation and maps • Capture time in local time and UTC • Camera model and manufacturer • Copyright and other IPTC information iOS action extensions provide the following tools in Photos, Messages and any other app that supports the action sheet for images: • Show Image Information • Magnify Image • Duplicate Image Finally, an iOS editing extension lets you perform the following directly from your Photo library: • Add a watermark to your photo • Set a copyright, image description, and artist • Remove location information for privacy • Add GPS metadata from another image Every photographer needs a copy of Exify in their pocket!

About

Spectre Camera

This app uses AI to create stunning long exposure photographs, making it easy to capture professional-quality shots. Remove crowds, create light trails, and achieve silky smooth water effects effortlessly.

Highlights
  • AI-powered long exposures
  • Crowd removal
  • Light trail creation
  • Silky water effects
  • Live Photos and video support
  • Automatic scene detection
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Apple iPhone App of the Year, 2019 Introducing Spectre, from the makers of Halide, one of the top camera apps in the App Store. Spectre uses AI to help you make amazing long exposure photographs. Spectre can remove crowds, turn city streets into rivers of light, make waterfalls look like paintings, and much more. Until now, it was difficult to take long exposures: from keeping the camera steady to guessing the amount of light you need. Spectre takes care of all of that! WHAT YOU CAN DO • MAKE CROWDS DISAPPEAR: Spectre helps take photos of crowded, touristy places. Simply set a medium or long duration and take a shot to erase the crowd from a location. Capture the those special moments like you remember them. • RIVERS OF LIGHT: At night, AI scene detection automatically switches modes to draw beautiful light trails, for stunning nighttime city photography or light painting. • GORGEOUS WATER: Capture waterfalls, ocean waves, fountains and more with beautiful ghostly water. LIVE PHOTOS AND VIDEO Spectre’s intelligent computational shutter takes hundreds of shots over the span of a few seconds, and saves them in an accompanying live photo. That means you can pick a different frame as your photo, apply live-photo effects, and even use the long exposure as a live-wallpaper! ENDLESS SMARTS Spectre is a packed with powerful technology from by the team that brought you Halide. From machine learning-based scene detection to computer vision aided image stabilization, Spectre is jammed full of impressive technologies to get the best possible image. DESIGNED FOR HUMANS Spectre is meticulously designed. Its dark UI is gentle on the eyes when you shoot at night. Gorgeous glowing highlights infuse it with a unique style. Custom typefaces and iconography combined with unique, smooth controls make it as tactile and delightful as an actual physical camera. Like its sister app Halide, the app is easily usable with one hand, even on the largest iPhones. HIGH-TECH SHOWCASE Build with the latest tech, Spectre isn't just a long exposure camera — it’s the cutting edge technology showcase of one of the App Store’s foremost camera apps, Halide. Here’s just a few of the latest technologies that we use in Spectre: - DCI-P3 Wide Color Pipeline - Live Photos - Metal Graphics Acceleration - Tripod Detection - Siri & Shortcuts - AI Stabilization - Machine Learning & CoreML - Computer Vision COMPATIBILITY: Spectre’s smart Automatic Scene Detection requires iOS 12. AI-based stabilization features are available on iPhone 6S and later.* For the best experience, we recommend iPhone 8 or later. On iPhone 6, Spectre captures in lower resolution. ABOUT US We’re Ben and Sebastiaan, two friends living in the San Francisco Bay Area that love building fantastic apps for photography. We hope you love Spectre! We’d love your feedback to make it even better or any reports of bugs you run into. You can always contact us directly via email: support@halide.cam, on our Twitter: @halidecamera or Instagram: @halideapp Don’t forget to share your amazing results by tagging them with #SpectreShot so we can share them on our growing social media accounts!

Screenshots

Exify4 screens
Spectre Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spectre Camera at Free against Exify's $1.99. Spectre Camera also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 21). Exify's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#199 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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

Spectre Camera is free to download; Exify costs $1.99 up front. Spectre Camera sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Exify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spectre Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spectre Camera has 2.4K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Exify's written reviews are positive against 46% of Spectre Camera's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exify ships an update every 5 months, Spectre Camera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Exify versus Spectre Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExifySpectre Camera
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (21 ratings)4.3 (2.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.9% of reviews45.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings212.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe IconfactoryLux Optics Incorporated

Customer experience

Exify

All ratings21 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative19.0%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive43.9%
Neutral12.2%
Negative43.9%

Spectre Camera

All ratings2,408 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral3.7%
Negative12.7%
Written reviews439 reviews
Positive45.6%
Neutral10.7%
Negative43.7%

Bugs and requests

Exify

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Spectre Camera

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes on some devices
  • Compatibility issues with older iPhones
  • Focusing and stabilization problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Longer exposure time options
  • More manual control over settings
  • Raw image format support
  • Apple Watch remote support
  • Improved low-light performance

In-app purchases

None

Exify

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Spectre Camera

One-time1
  • Spectre Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Exify free?
Exify costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spectre Camera free?
Spectre Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Exify or Spectre Camera?
Spectre Camera is rated higher. Exify averages 3.8 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Spectre Camera averages 4.3 from 2.4K ratings.
Do Exify or Spectre Camera have ads?
Neither Exify nor Spectre Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Exify or Spectre Camera?
Exify ships an update every 5 months, and Spectre Camera every 3 months. Most recently, Exify was updated on November 1, 2026 and Spectre Camera on November 2, 2026.

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