NeuralCam Aperture 4+

Great creation, just needs some UX polish

Kudos to the people who created this — I really appreciate the technology and efforts that went into making this.
I think the user experience could use some polish. First, after taking a picture, the entire app is blocked by a loading indicator that says “Processing” — perhaps this can be done in the background? At the very least, continuing to show the live viewfinder would be nice. Blocking the entire experience for 5+ seconds after every shot feels like a very choppy picture-taking experience.
Second, as someone who doesn’t use Instagram, the dedicated button in the in-app gallery is just extra noise. It seems redundant given that there’s a share button right next to it (and maybe this could be changed to the generic iOS share icon, rather than a “reply” icon).
Additionally, one thing that irks me is the extremely vague privacy policy. It’s very ambiguous and not clear what data of mine is being stored (which hopefully, is none).
That being said, this really is a great app, congratulations to the creators of it!

Developer Response ,

Hey kiwiko, thanks for the quality feedback! The UX is definitely something we're trying to improve, but it will take some time to add on top of what we already built. Regarding data privacy, we do not store or use your data, the only data we gather is the app usage in order to have statistics about our users (stuff like numbers of photos taken, location, etc), but this data is aggregated and cannot be traced back to a specific user. -Alex

Almost perfect! Even so, well worth the subscription cost

Excellent app. One of the few that I have a paid subscription to, and a worthy replacement for the old CortexCam.

A couple of things that need to be fixed in order to make it perfect. 1) Most default settings persist, but the AI Upscaling setting does not. Please allow eg 48mp upscaling to persist across sessions. 2) on iPhone16, we still only see 0.5x, 1x and 5x cameras. There is a 2x that is missing - pls add. 3) The app does not automatically switch to macro mode at close range unlike the default camera; you have to manually select macro mode. Pls make this automatic (or at least an option for that to be auto), 4) the macro mode isn’t actually macro mode, all it appears to do is “zoom” the 1x lens. With the true macro mode on the default camera you can hold the phone an inch away from the subject and it will focus at super close range. You can’t do that with the “macro” option on NeuralCam. Pls fix that.

Beyond that - the app takes incredible photos and the AI features such as brightening are tremendous. Love it.

iPhone Night Mode vs NeuralCam

I originally purchased NeuralCam to use on the XS Max as I didn’t know if I wanted to get an 11 Pro yet. For the XS Max (and probably all other iPhones prior to the 11) this app is amazing! Having the ability to shoot night/dark setting photos without having to upgrade is great. However, I did wonder how this app stacked up to iPhones official night mode. Well I upgraded to an 11 Pro Max, and the results are very close. iPhones night mode is amazing, but NeuralCam holds its own. The big differences I was able to see is that neuralcam takes a little bit longer to focus and process the picture than iPhones night mode. The results are pretty much the same, except I can’t tell if Neuralcam’s results are just a smidge darker or if they’re adding this warm tone to the picture. Either way, it’s a great purchase if your not going to be upgrading to an 11 but want night mode shooting. But I’d say even with the iPhone 11 it’d be worth a purchase since it does let you do night mode shooting with the ultra wide lens, and iPhones night mode won’t let you do that yet.