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Real Camera+
Version 1.0
Price: $1.99

Bottom Line: Overall, a sub-par image editing app.

If you are looking for the genuine Camera+ app — the really good one by tap tap tap, this very similarly named app isn’t it. The name is where the similarities end.

This new $1.99 app is confusingly called Real Camera+ and it is anything but real. This is from developer Duan Baoping, who also released the app Premier Camera Flash, and possibly a few other apps that are no longer available in the App Store. There is no link to the developer’s website because the app’s support link takes you to a Flickr group page.

This “Real Camera+” is not a camera replacement app at all, but a sub-par image editor hoping to cash in on name confusion and the absence of the other, far superior photo app. I dropped the $2 so you don’t have to.

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The excellent camera replacement app Camera+ was pulled from the App Store recently. The app violated the iPhone SDK agreement. A hack that unlocked VolumeSnap, the hidden feature that allowed users to use the iPhone’s volume buttons as a shutter release, was the reason.

REAL-CAMERA by Yusuke sekikawa is another iPhone photo app that uses the volume buttons as a shutter release. As expected, it has now also been pulled and is no longer available in the App Store.

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