Aquarium Camera App Reviews

Love it.. It's way better than the stock camera on my 8+. Stock camera can't touch this app taking pics of reef tanks. Well worth the price

Good color balance but some detail is lost. App is good at color balance but some detail is lost and images are not as sharp compared to without the app. Improve detail and keep the original sharpness and this app would get 5 stars from me.

Nice app but desperately needs a little update love. Nice app, does what it says for the most part. It hasn’t been updated in 5 years. I was on the edge about paying $3 for an app that hasn’t been touched in that long. I may get a refund. There are tons of little bugs and quality of life issues that can be smoothed out. For example, true support for the new phones and their cameras. I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and the final picture quality after taking a picture is better than the stock cam but still meh - blurry grainy low quality. Hope the dev comes back!

Not full resolution images. The application does what it is supposed to do. Adding gels, controlling the white balance and temperature are all great features but are all pretty much useless when you don’t get a high resolution image output. The lack of being able to switch lenses (on newer iphones) and the lack of being able to export full resolution images reeeally make this app not useful to me. It’d be nice to edit images in the camera roll, but I get how images are need to be processed before taking the photo, and if the image is not raw, some things aren’t editable. It’s a shame, I really wanted to like this app, but it is going to get deleted from my phone.

Captured pictures do not save correctly.. On the screen, i adjust the settings to the point in which i am happy with what I’m seeing. I take the picture, and each one is saved as if i was not Using the app, no matter what i do the settings. Not To happy

Seriously?. I paid $3 for this? I want my money back. I really wish I could post the side by side pictures I’ve taken with my iPhone camera and then the app. There is no difference, everything still looks awful in blue light.

Beautiful camera. Spectacular filters for all three of my tanks, but not quite as intuitive as I would like. Also the “auto” setting isn’t always the best to highlight some of the bright reds and oranges I’m trying to capture. Overall well worth the money.

Worth every penny!. I love this app! It’s the perfect camera for taking accurate pictures of your corals!

Works great. Does everything it says. Takes awesome photos of corals. Well worth the money.

Just get it!!!. Great app, it’s effortless to capture the true colors of my fish and coral under my AI prime HD, and if you’re reading this it’s because you know how hard it is to show your stuff off to fellow reefers even with gel filters. Hands down best 2 bucks I’ve spent in this hobby.

Meh. I read some decent reviews about this app on one of the big reefing forums, and decided to give it a try since it had pretty decent reviews. Well it’s not so decent. It’s virtually impossible to get a decent picture using this app. I’d have just as much luck using the xr camera and then editing the photos with the normal iPhone picture editor. If was any more expensive I’d be less than pleased. I’ll be purchasing an actual lens for taking pictures of my tank for my phone in the future.

Not Automatic?!?. I want to point my camera and take a picture. I thought this app did that. I guess I was wrong. Can’t even find a way to reset the settings back to their defaults. I wish this app did what I hoped it would do, but sadly it does not.

Finally I can take pics. I love the app... with LEDS it is near impossible to take pics of your corals with the blues turned up . But this nails it and it dosent look distorted or like you photoshopped .i which I could post before and after pics ... definitely worth the 2.99 if you have a reef tank or saltwater tank it is a must buy!!!

Nifty tool. Easy to use and does what you need it to

Disappointing. Doesn’t work - I tried all kinds of settings. Picture is fuzzier with this app and just as blue as if I didn’t have it at all. Iphone 11. Waste of money entirely. I would ask for a refund but how? Don’t waste your time.

Taking pics underwater is merely impossible. Really love this app. It does such a great job and it’s so easy to use. Wife and I have life proof cases and we hoped to take pics underwater but because of the water the screen doesn’t respond. It would be awesome if an update could be made to snap a picture with the volume up or down button. Then this would have 10 stars!

Not the best, go buy filter gels instead. It’s decent, hard to adjust since it’s not automatic

Corrects color perfectly. Does a great job with colors. Just wish the quality of pics could be more HD tho. Seems to come out blurry at times for me. I really appreciate the reply. It happens even if I tap. The resolution is not the same as with my phone’s camera. I can send you comparison pics if you give me a contact email.

Constant black screen. My screen stays black. Can’t even adjust the sliders bc you can’t see what you’re taking a pic of. You can snap a pic and view it after the fact but what’s the use of real time sliders if you can’t adjust them before you take the pic???? Going to find a way to get my money back. Complete trash.

Works pretty well!. I’m pretty impressed about this app! So far it is working good for me. Takes a little bit to figure out but definitely cheaper than buying actual lens’s.

Maybe for newer phones only. Everything I adjust gel it crashes, and honestly the pictures seem very washed out and not what I personally see when looking at the tank. I know this app works I’ve seen pictures people have gotten with it, but it was a waste for me, as my phone doesn’t seem to handle it well.

Not better than standard iPhone camera. I purchased this app after seeing some of the pictures posted using the app. I was impressed, but after using it myself I feel like there must be something wrong. With auto filters going the pictures almost always turn out worse than if I were to take it with the normal camera. I’ve seen the developer dm other reviews saying the users settings may be incorrect; however, there is no way to contact the app developer. I’m sure it is a fine app when set correctly, but I have no way of doing that. I had high hopes for the app, but regret my purchase.

Best Reef Pics with My Phone Yet. I’m really happy with the results of this app using my 7+. I had also bought a clip-on filter that just ended up turning things orange. This app allows me to tweak and take video and stills that turn out great every time. Worth the money!

Can’t use it to edit photos. Which is why I bought it. If it’s possible, it’s not intuitive.

Unbelievable. I thought it wouldn’t work.., it does. Finally I can’t take photos with my cell phone when blue lights are on. It does the job , and does it well !

Crashes. Not sure what happened, but when I click on the app it opens and closes immediately. I have the iPhone 11 and I even deleted the app and reinstalled it. Not much fun when you pay for an app and the only thing it does is crash. No way to contact the developer on their website that I could find.

Waste of money!. I’m not one to write reviews, but this time i felt it was appropriate. This app does absolutely nothing to help taking pictures of your tank. I played around with all the different settings and options with no luck. I can get a better picture of my tank by crank up the white lights for a minute. Very disappointed.

Works great! The critics probably didn’t fiddle around enough with it. It absolutely does work, you just need to fiddle with it. For me, red at 3.4, green at 1, blue at 3.9, and the automatic gel filter looks the best. It’s pretty spot on! Those who say it doesn’t work just didn’t know what they’re doing. Trust me. Just fiddle around with it. Putting green above 1 never really does anything good. You usually want to have red and blue about the same level, but it depends on your spectrum of light. You don’t want to put blue at 1 and red at max to try to correct the intensity of blue in your photos. It doesn’t work like that, you need both red and blue. Make sure to use the gel filter also! It automatically adjusted to the best gel filter for me

So worth it. For 3$ it is so worth it wish I could show before and after pictures!! Give it a try.

Not working?. I’m not sure if it’s just me or the app doesn’t work but there is almost zero change in taking a picture through the app I still can’t see anything in my tank with this app beware before buying

Disappointment. Was hoping this would be the answer for taking coral pics on my 12 pro. No matter what I adjust (gel, white balance, RGB colors, etc) orange doesn’t come through in the pictures. Also the images all come out blurry/low quality. Even if the colors were coming out correctly, I wouldn’t want to share them based on quality.

Nice reef app. I was definitely skeptical about getting this app, but it really captures the true color of my fish and coral. I run LEDs on my 60 gallon mixed reef tank so having a camera that lets me adjust colors in real time is a huge help.

Not great.. Has potential but really doesn’t filter out blue color at all. Slightly better that the normal camera but not worth $2.99. Better off buying an actual camera filter. Crashes a lot also.

Worse that standard ipad camera app. Wish I had my money back. Pictures are horrible. It looks way better using the standard iPad camera app. You ask people to message you if they have issues but you provide no contact info

Performs worse than my iphone camera. I definitely think it’s a waste of money, looking to get my money back, this app and it’s filters make it look a lot worse than the iphone camera. Forget about the blues and the dimmed photo, this app completely blurs everything out. Very disappointed.

Could be 5star if issue resolved. Using this with an orange filter I can make corals look exactly like I’m seeing (without orange filter). I can also make them look like how they are when I’m viewing them with an orange filter. Very easy to adjust with only three sliders. Issue: A lot of the photos I take don’t end up in my iPhones photos library. Not sure why. If this was fixed I’d give it a

Amazing update. Hoping for good things in the future. Kessil A360w.

Great app!. At first I thought it was a waste of money until I really started playing with the app and comparing it with me regular photos. Great app!

Crashes on iPhone 6 Plus. Just downloaded the latest version and it’s crashing on my iPhone 6 Plus when setting the filter. Wanted to love this app and now feel like I’ve wasted my money.

Simple and effective. Nice app - simple controls to get huge improvements in photos in a reef tank. Well done!

It’s good, not great. So I was pretty skeptical of this app working, saw it had decent reviews and bought it. It actually worked much better than I thought, and I was thinking wow this thing is awesome!! And even though it is pretty cool, I compared it to my 5 dollar orange filter lens and it was one, way easier to use. And two, better. That being said I l usually don’t have my lens with me since I have multiple tanks. this is a great alternative to when you don’t have that lens that works it’s magic for you. Another thing is that unless you are pretty good at photography editing and what not. This might come as a challenge to edit the picture. All and all though I say it is worth the 3 bucks. Happy reefing!

When is due upgrade coming for better quality picture?. When is due upgrade coming for better quality picture?

Awesome App. I don’t usually write review but this app is so amazing I have to leave a review. The app does what it suppose to do, help coral show more coral under blue led and I also like how easy to use this app is, I can locate thing very easily. The only problem I have with this app is that whenever I record something and I watch that recorded video in the app it will stall and force me to restart the app but overall it’s a amazing app, worth the money

Works pretty good with color but picture quality isn’t the best. This app definitely helps with the color correction of overly blue pictures, however, the quality of the pictures isn’t perfect… In some previous reviews the developer has stated he will be upgrading the quality of pictures as new phones are capable of handling it but I am on the 14 pro max (the latest/highest camera of any iphone so far) and my pictures come out slightly fuzzy. I think another good feature this app needs is camera stabilization to reduce some of what seems like motion blur from natural hand shaking. Tried to see if there was a feedback spot to recommend these to the developer personally but couldn’t find anything.

Awesome but Missing a must have feature. This app is amazing for reef pictures, in order to be 10 star app they must add a feature to be able To take pictures using the volume button. This will allow underwater pictures to be taken since screen becomes unresponsive underwater. I have a macro lens and can’t use it because of that reason. Please add this feature

Really works magic!!!. I wish I can post some photos here. The effects are stunning! I have white egg crates as frag rack in my tank. After adjusting the colors of the corals to best match the human eye view, the egg crate appears white on the phone! White balance is spot on! Thanks for such an amazing app! It’s the best $2 I spent on this hobby!!

A Must have for Reefers. Version 2.0 is head and shoulders above the original version. Color matching is for pics to trade corals or track changes is super easy, and gets easier the more you use it; even under heavy blue lighting. Fantastic app

Awesome app! Needs update. The app works amazing! And I can get beautiful pictures of my coral. The one thing I wish it had was the ability to switch between different cameras on the new iPhone!

Never knew this was an option!. Did some searching on the interwebs and found some talk about this app on Reef2Reef… thought I’d give it a try for $4. Not disappointed! I can now take pretty gangster pics of my marine tanks with the actenic lighting on and they turn out very nice without blueing out! Haven’t played around with it too much yet, but very pleased with the results just in the default mode! Winning.

Camera gets the job done however.. So the camera app works as it’s supposed to. The only issue is it’s obviously not optimized to the latest camera apis as the pictures lose all sharpness and clarity. Also no way to chose between the cameras if on a multi camera phone. Needs an update.

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Almost perfect. Excellent app. Easy to use. Worth the money you pay for it. Struggles with quality when the blue spectrum is high but can easily be adjusted post production. Would be good if native Apple camera settings can be used.. ie the wide lense or the telephoto. Also with the new iPhone 12 the RAW capability of the native camera/app could be integrated to the app. Which will make it even better. Hopefully an update is coming our way in the near future?

Not worthy. lack of iPhone pro support. bad exposure control, limited WB. if it was 1$ maybe, but 4 is overpriced for what it is

Great app. Really impressed with this, my photos are unbelievable using this. Would be great to see a future update utilise native iPhone features in video such as time lapse.

So bad not worth the money. Can’t believe this app. What a waste of money I wish I could upload photos to show how bad it is. Should of listened to my instincts. Please not download.

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Horrible quality. Absolutely tanks the photo quality when filtering out blue light. Better off paying an extra $2 for a lens filter.

Perfect App!!!. I was hesitant to download at first seeing the price, but after downloading and testing it out on my RSR 350... I fell in love! This app is great and I will be recommending it to many fellow reefers! Thank you!

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Useless. it’s just an app that lets you adjust colors. Many other “FREE” apps allow you to do the same. I was expecting this would automatically sense the blues and adjust...

crashes. The app opens and then immediately crashes on my iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13.5.1.

Not the best, go buy filter gels instead. It’s decent, hard to adjust since it’s not automatic

App quits. App quicks when I mess with gel. Also would be nice if there was a yellow adjust.

Poor design. This ap does not filter the colors as it should. Leaves an iridescent hugh around the corals. Not we’ll thought out at all.

Does not work as advertised. iPhone 6s taking pics with this app are the exact same as the built in camera app no matter the setting.

Update is horrible. The new version is so bad, it’s unusable, any way to get the old version back?

Can’t use it to edit photos. Which is why I bought it. If it’s possible, it’s not intuitive.

Good app. Great app

Doesn’t do much. I have taken 20+ pictures in lots of light variations Nothing good has come ... in fact I always go back to the basic iPhone 7 camera Don’t waste your money I did lots of research ... I regret buying it

Has Potential. It needs a good amount work could be a great app eventually. But at the moment it's doesn't work under blue light at all, could say it worsens the picture. However if you do have a decent amount of white it does give a good photo.

Disappointed. Not good, unable to take any decent photos. Not worth it. 🫤

Waste of money. Awful scam program.

Does what it says. Would be nice if it had some control over the exposure setting like on standard camera app.

Waste of money. Garbage. It isn’t even as good as the stock camera. A complete waste of money.

Used for the last 7 years. I loved this app until this past update. Pretty much rendered the app useless. Bring back the gel mode, or just revert it back the app to the previous generation.

Good idea. Maybe add numbers to the slider, so when u find the right balance it will be easier to remember. My lights are very blue atm will try again with less blue but with blue high not much differences between the app and my normal camera. Really would like for this app to work tired of holding a yellow filter over the lens to take pictures.

Gel filters. New auto gel filters are awesome!!!

I am sorry I paid for this. It’s just an auto camera app. Doesn’t take photos any better than my camera on my phone.😡

Don’t buy it, it’s broken.. Bought the app worked wonderful. Developer decided to “update the app and look” and development time went to looks and zero to actual usage of the app. The actual usage intent of the app is broken. Too bad I can’t post pictures of before and after, it’s clear as day. Uodating my YouTube video to reflect the broken update and discourage from buying.

Terrible. Much better off buying a filter for your phone do not spend money on this app

Simple and effective. Nice app - simple controls to get huge improvements in photos in a reef tank. Well done!

Disappointing. Doesn’t work - I tried all kinds of settings. Picture is fuzzier with this app and just as blue as if I didn’t have it at all. Iphone 11. Waste of money entirely. I would ask for a refund but how? Don’t waste your time.

Crashes on iPhone 6 Plus. Just downloaded the latest version and it’s crashing on my iPhone 6 Plus when setting the filter. Wanted to love this app and now feel like I’ve wasted my money.

Nifty tool. Easy to use and does what you need it to

Poor Resolution. Using this on iPhone 17 Pro and very disappointed. Images are only 1920 x 1080 2MP. It doesn’t use anything close to the full resolution of the camera. Coral polyps indistinguishable at any distance. Don’t buy this unless the developer modernizes it!

Doesn’t work anymore. Any way to downgrade to the old version?

???. Not really sure it works for all iPhones...or ur tank lights need to be set up for this app, but my pics were still very blue even after adjusting all of the settings. Glad it was only 2 bucks!!

Great app!. Works really well better than any other I’ve tried. Don’t have to know anything just click point shoot. Really wish they had an android version, still cannot find a good app there so I have to resort to having bad quality better color over using my newer phone.

Disappointed. Does not work as good as the phone filter , barely has any change

Ehhhh. Bought this since it’s only 2.99. It helps, but very slightly. I’ll probably never use it again (only because I have a Polyp lab V2 kit). Just get a filtered lens.

Not worthy. This does not work

Could be great.. I'm running current usa orbit marine IC leds at 80 blue 80 white 30 red 30 green and it was pretty hard to tell the difference between these pictures and those that my iPhone 6s takes normally. I'm pretty neutral on my purchase because I know apps and coding take a lot of work. I'm looking forward to the next update to see if you come up with a solution to the balance.

New update sucks. Now all I get is a black screen too. New update is the worst. Go back to the old one man. It was perfect before and now I can’t even adjust to make things right. Also for the past week it has been a black screen. Probably the new “4.03” update or whatever this developer is talking about