Review: Monochrome Camera

Monochrome Camera
Version 1.0

Bottom line: Poor image quality. Saves images at 300×400 resolution.

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Monochrome Camera by TouchInside is a new app which saves images in monochrome. It has its own camera function or you can import images from your camera roll. I know it takes a lot of time, effort and coding skills to create any iPhone app, but with all that’s wrong with this one, I wonder how this ever got past beta stage.

Monochrome Camera saves any image it touches in super-low 300×400 resolution. That’s about 1/8 of a megapixel. It places a date/time stamp on every image. There’s no way to disable this. Landscape (wide) images don’t process correctly. The app distorts the image by squishing everything into a portrait frame.

The color-to-monochrome conversion is okay, but produces noise and other artifacts in shadows and midtones of the image. Just about any app that does a monochrome conversion will do better.

This is a horrible app and with all of the other free and inexpensive monochrome cameras in the app store, there’s no reason to download this one. I realize that sometimes version 1.0 of an app is more of a public beta and I’ll take into consideration that V1 is sometimes a work in progress. But there’s not a lot I can recommend to fix this app except to start over. There’s no excuse for a basic monochrome camera app to not support full the iPhone’s resolution.

Although it’s currently free for a limited time, reduced from $0.99 USD, it’s not worth your download time. Avoid Monochrome Camera.

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App Store link: Monochrome Camera

Related links: Vint B&W | MonoPhix Lite | CameraBag

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About The Author

Marty Yawnick

Marty is a self-employed graphic designer in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex. He is an avid Rangers baseball, Chicago Cubs, Packers and Highbury Arsenal fan. In addition to capturing random moments with whatever camera is close by (usually his iPhone), his other interests include coffee, film, music, and traveling in seats 5E and 5F with his fiancé.