NeuralCam Aperture Reviews

I recently attained the new iPhone 11 Pro MAX and I was using the new night mode on my camera and wanted to compare it to an app that I thought would have more experience in the matter. I bought NeuralCamAperture and took the same picture with the standard iPhone 11 Pro’s night mode, and NeuralCamAperture’s night mode. The iPhone’s results were much clearer and it looked like a real photo, whereas NeuralCamAperture’s results were just about as useless as my eyes for seeing in the dark. I know it’s only a few $$ for NeuralCamAperture, but it is not worth it.

NeuralCamAperture also has a major lag when it’s in automatic mode, and it keeps making multiple sporadic shutter sounds after pressing the capture image button once. I apologize for being critical, but I think NeuralCamAperture needs it, and hopefully the money I probably won’t get refunded back, knowing Apple, will go towards making NeuralCamAperture a little bit better.

I have just bought NeuralCamAperture after praising reviews I read. I compared the pictures from my iPhone XS Max with NeuralCamAperture’s camera. I was not expecting miracles, but the low light picture were clean and nice and much better than the iphone original camera. Though, I am really disappointed with the shutter noise, not only is just too load, but having the shutter sound is unnecessary since other phones take many picture in the background without such a noisy sound. I had to silence the phone to feel OK.
I will continue to experiment with NeuralCamAperture in the next few weeks.
I would love to give it 5 stars for the picture quality, but the shutter sound makes it really hard to do so.
I urge the developers to mute the shutter, or make it optional, or lower the volume a lot to make NeuralCamAperture good for day to day use.

I was looking for an app which can take night mode picture like other new phone does, and NeuralCamAperture does the job (some/most of the time). here is my break down with side by side compare with the stock app which doesn’t have night mode:

for good lighting condition, stock app take a better picture;

for low light condition, NeuralCamAperture use multi exposure to output a better shoot (brighter and more detail than the stock app);

for dark (limit lighting) condition, NeuralCamAperture doesn’t seem to use multi exposure, instead, it seems like take only one shoot and adjust the brightness only, and I compare to the shoot that I took in stock app (and manually adjust the brightness), the stock app somehow captured more detail than NeuralCamAperture does.

NeuralCamAperture seems more like a modify version of HDR for some of the low light conditions rather than a night mode camera app. I will love to see the improvement of NeuralCamAperture so I can keep using NeuralCamAperture instead of consistently switch between with the stock app based on environment condition. Overall it’s a good app for only couple dollars.

It’s one of the first app that I bought on appstore . First I used to use it on an iPhone 7 and now using it on iPhone x. I love it . But just this little thing which makes it not usable. The dynamic range is very bad . Whenever it gets even a tiny light source it just blows things out. Please fix it. It just one step closer to be the perfect nightmode. Also a tip : recently google released their camera techs as far as I know. They have one of the best camera app in the industry. You might find that useful and implement it on this camera app. Good regards

Trying to find my review from a few days ago, but unable to. My stock iPhone camera was not working after using NeuralCamAperture - unless I rebooted phone. This terrible bug seems to be gone after this update. Thank you!!

Also, it is not everyday when you see developers actually listen to their customers, at least in my experience. So A BIG THANK YOU for listening and removing the subscription feature and letting us all who paid for NeuralCamAperture use these pro features.

All the best!

The auto brightening on NeuralCamAperture now is mostly broken, it overexposes most daylight pictures so they look blown out and unrealistic. Could you please make it so that when you select to disable the auto brightening feature, that option persists even if you close NeuralCamAperture and reopen it? Gets really annoying having to turn the feature off every time you start NeuralCamAperture if it’s been closed since the last time you used it. With auto brightening off, photos are excellent.

After using NeuralCam a bit longer and comparing it to other apps that are supposed to do low light photography, I decided to rewrite my review. My main complaint was that it tends to blow out certain lighter tones and highlights. That is still an issue, and at times it tends to give results with too much yellow, but the brightness has pretty much become my only real complaint. I can adjust the yellows afterward. If you could perhaps have the ability to use some exposure compensation I think NeuralCamAperture would be near perfect. I am amazed at how clean the images are, virtually no noise and great detail. I compared to the vividHDR and LowLight + in ProCamera and there is absolutely no doubt how much better NeuralCam is in my mind.

All I ask for really is to be able to tone down the brightness on the picture in general. I don’t think it needs just the highlights turned down because the balance seems great and would look odd if just the highlights were brought down.

Anyway, love what NeuralCamAperture can do and if it could be more consistent and less bright it would easily be one of the best apps on my phone. Make it capable of doing what it does in portrait mode and wow, that would really be something.

Not regretting the purchase at all at this point and just hoping for a few tweaks to really dial it in. Would even be willing to pay for an upgrade that fixes the brightness issue.

Been really impressed with the results so far. Side by side pics of this vs artificially blowing things out in post process shows that you can definitely get much better results using NeuralCam.

I emailed asking for more clarification on the privacy statement and was assured that everything is done locally and that they don’t store images on their side. I’ve been watching the data used under Settings / Cellular / Cellular Data and this confirmed that images were being stored and handled locally only. I really appreciated the quick response from them.

Seems like a good app when it works, produces good results at night when it isn’t crashing.
Crashed 7 times after collecting its photos and started the analysis phase, crash! Each time.
Cleared NeuralCamAperture out, same problem. Restarted my phone, got a photo, next time, crash!
Re downloaded NeuralCamAperture , got a couple of photos and started the crash cycle all over. If they can address this problem, I will reevaluate NeuralCamAperture . Until then, it’s basically worthless.

Developer listened to feedback on bad addition of charging subscription for a camera app.

This is a great app for a ONE-TIME purchase that will take excellent night time photos that far exceed the default camera app. You just have to wait 4-5 sec for processing to complete and have a steady hold on the camera.

If the developer seeks to monetize NeuralCamAperture more, then in-app purchases for filters, cloud storage, etc. are more likely to be acceptable than a subscription for existing features.

I really like NeuralCamAperture. It does a great job. It was too noisy with a shutter sound previously but the developer took care of that. I used it at the Holocaust museum and other places. It worked great. The noise was the only problem. It seems to be fixed. So I highly recommend NeuralCamAperture. It does a terrific job of taking photos in dark places. You do need to hold the camera steady.
The developer did a great job of fixing the problem. I originally gave it a one star. It was fixed in a very short timeframe. Five stars to you. Good job.

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) NeuralCamAperture is amazing! Having the ability to shoot night/dark setting photos without having to upgrade is great. However, I did wonder how NeuralCamAperture 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.

This is such an amazing app. I first saw pixel ads on tv showing off the night camera mode. Then I wondered what Apple’s response was. No software update to the XS. New phone, 11 comes out. Maybe they’ll backport the new night shot to the XS? Nope.

That was literally the only thing I desired about the 11. My XS is running great, battery health at 98%, and most importantly, it’s not paid off yet!

After research I found many reviews about this and bought it. Easily the best three bucks spent. I’m floored at how well it makes vibrant night shots so sharp WITHOUT a tripod! Mind = Blown. Of course a tripod or just setting the phone on a shelf makes it better.

Thanks, to the developer, who has just made my XS Max just as awesome and modern as the 11.

P.S. Developer, when my phone is locked in portrait orientation (which is 99% of the time for me) the image is saved 90 degrees off, like it isn’t accounting for the rotation of the phone. The built in iPhone camera app saves the photo fine regardless of the orientation lock setting.

I Really enjoy NeuralCamAperture for flower and food blog shots. Incredibly detailed focused and exciting photos come out easily. Nature shots are great and I only do some night shots.
The new apple night Vision works , but NeuralCamAperture adds much more detail brightness and additive processing improving on the original native photo a lot!

I really want easy astrophotography, I tried to find the latest comet seen easiest by camera but very limited for eyesight only.
NeuralCamAperture did not help much. Can you
Add some basic astrophotography needs such as how to integrate tripod with longer repeating image taking say just repeating what NeuralCamAperture does already and adding later an hours worth?add histogram and filters for city lights, the hardest thing is to photo the moon with city lights, perhaps iPhones will never be able to do so? And NeuralCamAperture really shines with golden hour portraits and nature photos, super improvement over stock apple camera app!
Super thanks!
I use NeuralCamAperture daily and alternate with apple camera app to see which one is better!

I’m extremely pleased the developers owned their mistake and realized it’s a bad idea to push a subscription on users of an existing paid app. While I have no problem paying for cool new features it would have been smarter to make them an optional 1 time in app purchase that prompts you once and then has an option to later purchase it in the settings menu or roll it out as a new app altogether. It was a bad idea to have an intrusive buy subscription button on the front page of a paid camera app but thankfully the developers realized their mistake and took the bold move necessary to make it right for their customers.

UPDATE:
the latest version has been improved! my Xʀ still crashes on the highest resolution photo setting, but works just fine on lower ones. it used to crash all the time. impressive results too! looking forward to seeing where NeuralCamAperture goes...

OLD REVIEW (devs replied): app is barely useable, crashes each time i try to take a photo. yes, all permissions it asked for are given. i’m using an iPhone Xʀ if that helps you devs. also, for some reason there is a ( 1x ) button in the middle-bottom of the viewfinder, where the zoom button might be on multiple-lens phones (the Xʀ is obviously single-lens). when i press this ( 1x ) button, NeuralCamAperture freezes for a second, then the button disappears

I’ve been debating on exchanging my iPhone 8 for a Pixel just for the night site alone. For me this keeps me with my iPhone 8. My only complaints are I wish it exported at a higher resolution for the iPhone 8. Also some of the lighter objects in dark environments get blown out. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with the lower resolution output, but I wish it was better optimized for the iPhone 8. I’ll look forward hopefully to improvements through future updates.

Update: Thought it would be useless for my new iPhone 11, but works for both ultra wide and front camera. The regular camera is not quite as good as Apple Night Mode, but with constant updates, it has potential and I’m looking forward to it!

This review will sound negative in the beginning but it isn’t, I am a fan of NeuralCamAperture.
I am sure there are dozens if not more camera apps that will allow a user to adjust the aperture, shutter speed and ISO of the iPhone camera. I probably have 3-4 on my phone right now. All of those apps make NeuralCamAperture completely unnecessary.
That said, I rarely want to take the time to do that on my iPhone. That is what I have an expensive DSLR for.
So if I have apps that do what NeuralCamAperture does and I have a DSLR that does what NeuralCamAperture does, why do I really like NeuralCamAperture?
Cause it is simple and it works. I bought NeuralCamAperture this morning and then my family and I visited 2 museums that did not allow flash photography. These weren’t pitch black museums but they needed a flash. It was so nice to open NeuralCamAperture and take a picture and have NeuralCamAperture work each and every time. And for me, what was impressive was that the light was very well balanced with no bright spots or over-dark shadows and the contrast had sufficient range as well.
Now I admit I have not blown these up yet in Photoshop and examined them at 300% but if you want a low light app that will extend the range of your iPhone without you having to think or take a test shot or two, spend the $2.99, it is more than worth it.

Updated review:
I’m happy this developer listened to their customer base. I was having trouble in the past with Tripod mode which is now fixed.

NeuralCamAperture is working better than I had expected. I was using another app that did extremely well for night shots, but without a tripod it was harder because we do t all have tripods with us everywhere we go.

Now it’s working at my expectation and I am very pleased.

It’s performing wonderfully now and I applaud the developer.

Tripod mode was fixed since the update which I guess is good, though I don’t see a difference in my test shots.

However is very disheartening to have paid money for an app just to have them add subscriptions after an update.

When you pay for an app you expect to have access to all features included in updates, not suddenly have new features blocked because of an update that wants a subscription.

I feel like I just threw my money away. Extremely disappointed!

The non subscription portion of NeuralCamAperture works fine but there’s no way I can in good conscience rate higher for this downright greedy/shady move towards subscriptions after having already paid money for NeuralCamAperture .

NeuralCamAperture loses stars because of that. And unfortunately I will be deleting it.

When I first purchased NeuralCamAperture, I paid $5 to have features that the regular camera app did not have. Now those features are locked away under a subscription model. This is a bait and switch plain and simple.

UPDATED REVIEW:
The developer listened to the negative reviews and decided to go back to the way NeuralCamAperture used to be. The features I paid for initially are no longer stuck behind a subscription and are now part of the base app. I appreciate their willingness to listen to their users. Back to normal!