Best Camera Obscura Apps

4.4😊(10K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This app provides a digital light box and AR projector for tracing drawings, photos, and artwork. It offers features like adjustable brightness, outline mode, and digital painting tools to aid your creative process.

What We Love

🚀 No ads
🔒 Screen lock feature
👍 Helpful for beginners and artists
👍 Allows using own photos
👍 Simple and easy to use
👍 Bright screen for tracing
👍 Useful for various purposes (drawing, embroidery, etc.)

Room to Improve

💰 Paid features/subscription required for full functionality
🐛 Occasional crashes or issues with the app
🐛 Difficulty moving/resizing the image
🐛 Unexpected behavior when using undo/reverse functions

Obscura — Pro Camera by Ben McCarthy

Manual Controls, ProRAW, Video

Strong Contender

Ricalko: Camera Lucida Artwork

4.0😐(263 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This camera app offers advanced manual controls and professional formats like ProRAW for enhanced photo and video capture. Its intuitive design and tactile interface allow for precise adjustments, while features like focus peaking and histograms aid in achieving stunning results.

What We Love

🚀 Powerful manual controls
👍 Intuitive and clean interface
🎨 Customizable presets and filters
💡 Unique camera gestures and UI
🎥 Supports video recording

Room to Improve

💰 Subscription-based model
🔒 Locked features behind paywall
🐛 Crashes and stability issues
🤔 Unintuitive controls and settings
🤷‍♂️ Lack of support for newer iPhone lenses

Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing by Camera Lucida

Masterful drawing in minutes!

Worth Considering

🎨 Graphics & Design

4.8😊(1.9K ratings)

$14.99In-App Purchases

#8in Graphics & Design

This app uses your device's camera to superimpose a reference image onto your drawing surface, guiding your hand to create detailed art. It offers advanced features and tools to enhance your sketching and painting skills, making art creation easy and fun.

What We Love

🚀 Great drawing aid
👍 Easy to use
💡 Helpful for improving drawing skills
🚀 Saves time in drawing
👍 Accurate proportions and perspective
💡 Useful for cookie/cake decorating
👍 Excellent customer support

Room to Improve

🐛 Difficult to set up and use at first
🐛 Occasional issues with image alignment
🐛 Needs a stand or mount to work properly

More Camera Obscura apps to explore

Art Projector AR Learn Drawing

Project photos for tracingLayer separation for detailed drawingPerspective mode for angled projection

Transform photos into traceable art projections using your device's camera. Ideal for both aspiring artists and experienced creators, this tool offers features like layer separation and perspective correction to help you achieve stunning results on any surface.

🎨 Graphics & Design

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subscription

sketch.AR - Draw & Trace

Photo to Paper Art Guide

AR tracing of any photoTime-lapse video recordingZoom for detailed work

Transform your device into an AR drawing projector to trace any image onto paper, canvas, or walls. This app guides your strokes in real-time, making it easy for beginners and artists to create detailed artwork. Record your process as a time-lapse video to share your creations.

The Assistant in the darkroom

$8.99

Grayn: Analog Film Camera

Film color. Your own recipes.

16 film stocks from major brandsLive LED light meterReal manual exposure controls

This app simulates a real film camera experience on your iPhone, offering a variety of film stocks, manual exposure controls, and a live light meter. You can also create and share custom film looks.

free with in-app purchases

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Camera Only Authentic-Capture

Capture Only, No filter, No AI

Dossier - Anonymous Camera

For real estate, legal, press.

24 Snaps: Film Roll Camera

Make Memories, not Content

by L'ELITE DANGEREUSE

Panorama: Spherical Camera

by Daniel Monahan

Spherical panorama captureOn-device stitchingInteractive exploration

Capture immersive 360-degree photos and videos of your surroundings. Explore your creations by moving your phone or dragging on the screen. Share your panoramas as standard images, interactive 360s, or cinematic videos.

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Haunted Camera(Obake Camera)

Your face becomes Haunted.

Add supernatural 'haunted' effectsIncludes various ghost and monster typesSave photos in albums

Transform your photos with spooky supernatural effects. Add various ghosts and monsters to your pictures to create fun, commemorative images for sharing with friends or on social media. The app plans to add more haunteds and improve image accuracy in future updates.

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Kassette: VHS & Retro Camera

Tape, Fisheye & 90s Effects

Ricalko: Camera Lucida Drawing

Artwork Projector AR Learn Art

$5.99

This app projects photos onto any surface, allowing you to trace them with your own hands. It's designed for both beginners learning to draw and experienced artists looking to refine their skills. Features include layer separation, creative filters, and AR projection.

Project photos onto surfacesTrace images with your handLayer separation for learning

🎨 Graphics & Design

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paid

StillCam 4K – Pro Night Camera

Pro quality. 4K at night.

4K photo and video captureBuilt-in Night ModeManner-friendly silent shutter

Capture moments in silence with this 4K camera app. It offers high-quality photo and video, a built-in night mode for low-light conditions, and respects your device's silent switch. Ideal for quiet environments and discreet photography.

free with in-app purchases

SP Camera

Capture without any notice

$9.99

Capture photos and videos discreetly using fake backgrounds that simulate web browsing, a clock, or a static image. Features include motion detection, a photo timer, and password-protected storage for your captured media.

Discreet photo and video captureFake background simulationMotion detection recording

Large Format Camera Accessory

High-resolution live feedRight-side-up image displayComposition and focusing aid

This app provides a high-resolution, right-side-up live feed of your large format camera's image plane. It enhances composition and focusing, offering greater detail and clarity than a standard ground glass. Use it to shoot stills, video, or reference images alongside your film negatives.

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Animated Antique Posographe

A 1920s mechanical marvel

1920s mechanical exposure calculator animationIllustrates mathematical principlesVisual aids for understanding mechanics

Explore the mechanics of a 1920s photographic exposure calculator. This app animates the device, illustrating the underlying mathematical principles with visual aids. It's a fun and educational tool for understanding historical photography technology.

📚 Education

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