NightCap Camera

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3.3

of 5, across 500 reviews

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★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Great app but issue with family sharing. Having an issue with family sharing, been waiting a few days for a response. No response for a while :(
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
The app freezes. The app freezes any time I try to use I can’t adjust settings or change modes
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Frame rate sucks. 0
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Don’t fall for the scam!. They say the app is $2.99 I believe but just charged me again this month and I now see where it’s a LOT more than what they lead you to believe!
★★★★★slow performance and long loading times
Sorely disappointed. This app is incredibly slow and jittery. I use an iPhone 17 pro and it still doesn’t seem to be good enough for this app. That’s $2.99 I am never getting back
★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors
No update in 3 years. Hasn’t been updated in 3 years. This app is worse than the native iPhone 15 pro camera. At least it doesn’t crash in iOS18. Reviews from newer phone users report crashing. Should be removed from App Store.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Not worth it. App is way to laggy to be even remotely useful. Takes seconds to respond to even a basic setting change.
★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions
Terrible. Super buggy. Agonizingly Slow. One of the worst app purchases I’ve made. And not eligible for refund. Waste of $3. iPhone 15 Pro Max
★★★★★slow performance and long loading times
iPhone 17 pro max lag. Straight garbage and lag on iPhone 17 pro max
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Ruim de mais. O aplicativo trava, não consegue fazer o foco ele é atrasado, muito ruim mesmo, no começo parecia que era ruim, e no fim parecia o começo
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Stay away. App to let a 10 year old use, see awful pictures, then switch to camera’s own app and let them see what good photos are supposed to look like
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Does not work. I have tried everything watched tutorials and tried all settings. There are times I cannot click on the icons and when I take a photo the button turns red, timer starts, and nothing happens.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Junk. Might have been a decent app at one time, but it’s basically unusable on my iPhone 16 pro max.
★★★★★slow performance and long loading times
Doesn’t work with iPhone 16pro. I was trying to capture the full eclipse and AI highly recommended this app, unfortunately it takes forever to focus
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Don’t. No good don’t download
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Night Cap. Not allowing me to complete setting up the app. Telling me to allow access to photos, which has been done on me SE phone.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Not functioning with Iphone 16 Pro. I just upgraded my phone to the Iphone 16 Pro. The app does not work - it keeps shutting off the phone. A shame as the Aurora Borealis has been outstanding the last teo nights.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Crashes phone. I’m on iPhone 16 Pro and iOS 18 and this app has crashed my phone twice within the space of twenty minutes. Otherwise, it seems like a handy app.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Lags and freezes. I had heard decent reviews from a forum and I wanted to try for myself. This app lags like crazy and eventually freezes up on my 14 Pro Max. I guess it’s not for everyone.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Not worth it for Northern lights. I purchased this app, read through the tutorial on how to use it best for the Auroras. My plain non-pro Apple phone 13 took better pictures with the regular camera settings set at: nighttime at 10 seconds. For free. Waste of $3 in my experience.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Unimpressed. If you have an older iPhone, I still have the XR, don’t bother. I bought it to take pictures of the aurora. I see 0 difference in these pictures vs the one my phone takes. No difference in the night sky with star mode vs the one I would normally take. Disappointing waste of money.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
What's the price?. In Apps it said $2.99, but I was just charged $10.98. What's up?!
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Focus logic doesn’t work. I had good experience with NightCap with my iPhone 13 Pro. However, when I recently upgraded to an iPhone 15 pro NightCap is no longer compatible - it can’t focus on the stars. Testing against four other low light/astrophotography camera apps, infinite focus on my iPhone 15 pro is at around 0.95 (it was actually lower on my iPhone 13 Pro). Unfortunately with NightCap I run the focus all the way out to 1.00 and it still hasn’t achieved focus on the stars. I know the AI in NightCap is supposed to “learn” the camera and self calibrate the focus settings. But, after working with the phone outside for a while to see if it could learn, it didn’t. I still can’t achieve focus. I even tried deleting and reinstalling the app to see if had, perhaps, ported over the calibration data from my old iPhone 13 Pro. Still can’t achieve focus. I emailed the NightCap developers several times - no reply. Hence the review. Unfortunate, since otherwise NightCap was a pretty capable app for this application.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Does not work for meteors. I set up the app on an iPhone 14 Pro Max during the last two major meteor showers in low ambient light on a tripod. The first two days have me 100 shots and not a single meteor. For the Geminids, I set up the same way but left it running for ten hours. I only ran two hours for the first two tries. I got zero pictures during the ten hour run. I’m very disappointed in this app but glad it is cheap just like it’s AI software.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Doesn’t work?. The app only takes solid black images, and none of the controls do anything.
★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions
Bad. Doesn’t recognize other lenses nothing you can’t do with built in. Please give a refund.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
Didn’t save my pictures. Downloaded this app to capture the recent meteor shower. I gave the app access to my camera, microphone and library. Despite following the instructions on using the “meteor” setting, nothing saved. Luckily I had my phone set on a tripod so I could enjoy the meteor shower with my own two eyes. Heartbreaking to discover it didn’t catch anything.
★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors
meteor mode not working at all. the sole purpose i bought this app is to take photos of meteors. however either the auto mode or using some manual turning failed to take a single photo of meteor. even failed to take the most brightest ones. this app should at least provide an option to save all the photos it took so I have a chance to manual pick the photos with meteor before your weird ai algorithm automatically removes them.
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
wasted money, apple does it better. I totally regret buying this app. never produced a better result than iPhone 13 native camera app. total waste of dollars!
★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific
I don’t get it. Maybe because I’m using an iPhone 14 Pro, but I don’t see that this app produced anything “wow” The long exposure photos I took with the regular camera app came out much more vibrant and crisp and I could go handheld with a 3s shutter vs the 15 These came not grainy and not good enough quality i would print or post them.