App Store Review: Colaroid Cam PRO. Useless.
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Colaroid Cam PRO
Version 1.1
Price: Free for a limited time
UPDATED 01.10.11
Colaroid Cam PRO is yet another fake Polaroid app. This one has more colored frames than you’ll ever need.
The interface is pretty clunky and needs a lot of work. It saves a fake Polaroid at a low 500×603 px resolution or a super low-res, 320×480 px screen capture of the entire screen — image, background and all. It even saves to the camera roll as a PNG file — the format of screen captures. Lazy programming.
In Edit mode — the tiny 320×480 mode, the image itself is bordered by a wrinkled brown paper background, making the effective size of the photo even smaller and the quality of the image horrible. There are a lot of other fake Polaroid apps available and they all support higher resolution, so really, how hard can it be?
There’s a large selection of frames. Some of them are good, some of them are fun — it’s hard to tell because they’re so small. The “filters” are nothing more than different colored vignettes. I found only the black one to be of any use. The objects — thumbtacks, disco balls, bug splats, etc. — are pretty distracting, but some users might find them fun if the app saved at a usuable resolution.
There’s nothing “pro” about this app. Colaroid Cam PRO isn’t a good fauxlaroid app. Because of the super-super-low resolution, it isn’t even a good photo app. Output of the edited prints are way too small to share on Flickr or Facebook. The only thing it’s good for is to MMS to non-iPhone cell phones. It’s not worth free, let alone having to pay for the app when it goes off sale. Really, avoid this app. You’re better off spending a buck and getting one of the other, better instant camera apps.
Colaroid Cam Pro works on any iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS 3.2 or newer.
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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.
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I agree with you on this. There are a lot of programs with more sofisticated filters and frames (and outputresolution).
I love Polarize and only really ever use that. Unfortunately, the output res is quite low, but it's just about ok to res-up and print, but I love the Polarize effect so much I'm willing to put up with it.
Sadly, Apple refused to support it any longer so the developer couldn't submit updates and now he's abandoned it, but it's still the photo app I use all the time.
A new update of Colaroid Cam Pro is available… They change the name of the application, now it's "IamINSTA Cam Pro" with a new user interface and the resolution change too, I think this app can be a good app if they continue to work on…