Snap Camera HDR

3,388

Marginz Software Photography

PEGI 3

A Fast HDR camera experience with regular updates and new features added all the time.

Now with 4K 16x9 video recording on the Nexus 5 running Lollipop

Snap Camera lets you take pictures and record video with a single click, no cluttered preview screen, just the two buttons you really need and a dial to select the camera mode you want.

If you want to test this camera before buying, please install the trial version..
The trial version has all the features of the paid app but will only start immediately in Airplane mode.

Snap Camera has a simple, powerful user interface featuring:

* Touch to focus
* Pinch to zoom
* Swipe to review
* Long press to adjust photo settings with the photo controller.

The photo controller includes settings for:

* Colour and Contrast (if supported by the hardware).
* Silent Shutter
* Burst Mode
* Self Timer
* Stable Shot
* Panorama mode
* Flash mode
* Whitebalance
* Exposure
* Grid lines
* Fast picture mode
* HDR
* Additional Settings

The additional settings menu gives you access to many extra settings.

* Picture and Video Size
* Scene mode
* Self Timer delay
* Burst Mode settings
* Time Lapse
* Still and Video Focus Modes
* JPEG Quality
* Effects
* ISO
* Anti-banding
* Scene Detection
* Video Bitrate, Format and Codec
* Audio Settings

The photo editor lets you:
* Enhance Details
* Enhance Contrast (Ambiance)
* Denoise
* Add colour effects
* Add a border
* Crop, Rotate, Mirror
* Straighten
* Add image effects
* Histogram Modification
* Vignette

Additional Features

- You can see what effects will be applied and undo an effect at any time from the history menu
- Share an image with any other app such as Facebook or Google+ by clicking on the share icon
- Create panoramas by selecting the panorama icon (Android 4.0 and above)
- Fast picture mode instantly captures photos at the preview resolution.
- Capture still snapshots during video recording (if supported)
- Use the volume buttons to focus and take a picture or zoom
- Auto torch mode for low light video recording
- Use the advanced video settings to record video in resolutions not allowed by other cameras.
- Stable shot mode only takes a photo when the camera is completely still

High Dynamic Range (HDR)

HDR is a feature that lets you take pictures of scenes with very dark and very light areas. The app takes multiple photos at different exposures and combines them to make one HDR photo. The app can optionally save the original exposures and open an HDR editor.

See here for details of HDR:

http://marginz.co.nz/index.html#HDR

Some features are only available on newer devices.

Camera apps are notoriously difficult to make compatible with all hardware.
Please install and test the trial version first before you buy the paid app.

Please visit our website for tips and more details about the settings and features.
There is a discussion forum here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055140

Please use this to report bugs, ask questions and suggest new features. Remember to say which device you have and which Android version it is running.

This app will install 2 icons in your launcher, one for the Gallery and one for the Camera. Some launchers also put the Gallery icon on your home screen.

Note that most android 4.4 devices do not allow apps to store data on an external sd card except to an area that is deleted when the app in uninstalled. From the storage location dialog, select "external sd card" to use this area. But remember that if you uninstall the app all your photos will be deleted.

To try a beta version of the app, click here after you have bought it:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.marginz.snap

Check out our great video to see Snap Camera in action.

Reviews

4.3

3,388 total

5 2,119

4 661

3 295

2 141

1 172

Solomon Roller

XPERIA X Concept X Nougat Great job! So far some bugs.. But full resolution unlike the other camera apps. That's hard to beat..

lauren butts

I *thought* this was the best app ever Until my photos disappeared from my album... For a while, I could see them in the main gallery but my phone decided to randomly restart itself for the first time in the entire 3 months I've owned it and the pics are now completely gone. Someone from the app was emailing me, but hasn't responded to the last 3 and now it's too late. All that I think needed to be fixed was the cache folder had gone missing but now I'll never know if replacing it could have fixed it. I wish it wasn't too late for a refund.

Sreelakshmi Prabhakar

Nice app but weird when it comes to raw I purchased this app as i liked the features. I was happy to find that at times i can shoot photos in raw format only with my front camera. Wish could do the same with the rear camera. My phone is ASUS ZenFone 2 laser ZE550KL. Also the raw photos have a green tint which doesn't easily go in any of the mobile editing apps i have. Can someone please help

Siberius Vindicta

All problems fixed, now it is fantastic! Now I can use the flashlight while recording videos on the go flawlessly and record in 60fps, best camera app ever. I also love to be able to choose the bit rate and for me 720p in 60fps at 8 mbits is the sweet spot. Super smooth and fast recording with no low bitrate boxy effects, and at this rate makes calculating video size a breeze because 1 second equals to about 1 MB. I am running the latest CyanogenMod system on my old Galaxy S5 and this app is way better than the stock, they should buy it from you!

Zen Paul

Perfect with all the bells and whistles This is my fav camera app. After running into camera app issues with moto x pure 2015/ xt 1575 paid for 5 top rated camera apps. This was the only one that was simple enough to use out of the box( right after install) and has all the features that one can ask for. My fav feature is it performs incredibly well in underlit or relative darkness with just auto or hdr feature...Thank You.

Nemanja Manic

Great application. Image quality is great when using Redmi 4 prime. Also, I love the option to have several preconfigured modes ready to use. But, I have 2 problems: #1 App crashes when chromaflash is selected #2 Videos are way underexposed compared with default application when recording in low light.

User reviews

Solomon Roller November 9, 2016

XPERIA X Concept X Nougat Great job! So far some bugs.. But full resolution unlike the other camera apps. That's hard to beat..

lauren butts August 25, 2016

Sreelakshmi Prabhakar October 25, 2016

Siberius Vindicta August 21, 2016

Zen Paul December 13, 2016

Nemanja Manic January 28, 2017

Daten Engel July 8, 2017

Overall an excellent app. However, the panoramic feature does not work. It takes the photo and shows the processing but afterward it ends up being just a black image, so I end up needing to use my built in camera app to take them.

Michael MacEachern August 4, 2016

I have to edit my review. The latest update seems to have broke a few things on my Note 4. Videos always have the recorded beep at the beginning, audible in the video itself, even with silent shutter. Also, sharpness control doesn't seem to work well at all. It's on or off, no in-between. Lastly, video bit rates are inconsistent, where it used to be. I want to go back to the older version.

Jason Dance September 29, 2016

One in three photos no longer saving. More often then not it fails to save pictures, using HDR can also be very slow. Also in auto mode sometime does allow you to take a picture. Please fix as I love this app

Gerard van Schip November 15, 2016

5 stars... Seriously. I have a Nexus 6 which has a notorious camera lag problem on Android 6 and 7 but this is the fastest camera app out there. Not only that it also has endless tweaking options. They are needed as the default settings are too light and too noisy but that's ok, you can change that.

ESS, ESS June 30, 2017

Utter waste of money and time. I installed this app in my asus zenfone 3 ze520kl, and therd is no any difference. Farankly asus zenfone default camera is much much better than this faulty app. Dont waste your money on this app.

Keith Wygant April 28, 2017

Edit: New interface is a lot less clean: there's a big opaque stripe behind the buttons and a big new button that looks completely out of place. Much polishing is needed; for now I've downgraded to 6.9.

Sashi Kanth January 1, 2017

Fix crashing while using camera2 api When I opened the camera app it worked fine in auto mode my device is Xperia X with recent nougat update Sony implemented manual camera controls so I enabled camera2 API the app restarted then I got manual mode then I try to capture in auto mode it worked but after closing the app completely and opening it again now when I capture in auto mode camera app freezes this happens only in auto I tried shooting in night mode it works to make the auto mode work again I have to disable camera2 API

Alexander Drutz February 28, 2017

Can't record video in normal size frame. I don't know why, but video recording makes something like zoom in without zoom out option. I tried and checked in different ROMs and had the same results :(

March 17, 2017

I have been using custom ROMs for a while. Most if not all have camera issues. This is the only camera app I found to work flawlessly. Thank you so much for the best camera app out there

antonio asti September 26, 2016

It combines HDR, 4K video and SD saving. The "only" problem is that quite often focusing does not work, leading to an app freeze that requires phone reboot.... In addition, the selection of "continuous focus" doesn't stick, requiring to set it every time

Jonathan Lindstrom April 2, 2017

Fantastic camera app. Only issue it has is it seems to have trouble when I want it to focus on anything fewer than eight inches or so away from the camera, no matter what setting I put it on. This is on a Galaxy S5.

Jennings Sturgeon September 28, 2016

Missing a key feature in the gallery Excellent camera with an even better ui. Only thing missing for me which I'm currently unable to locate is the ability to view dng in the built in snap gallery. Any info on how to make it possible would be greatly appreciated.

Dillon Coppock June 7, 2017

This is by far the best camera app for customizing ISO, exposure, camera api 2.0, and preview frame rate. This app is mainly for the experienced as I could tell while using it. If you really want to learn all of what your camera can do then you need this app to find out. 😀 Open camera is also a good option. (One bug found) - when you are setting the storage location for the external sdcard it will give you an automatic option to choose external storage but it makes it confusing when it brings you to system storage instead of your sdcard storage location. I thought the app was bringing me to the normal storage location but the names are just backwards. To make this bug report short System is actually Sdcard storage and Sdcard storage is actually System. Kinda weird this hasn't been fixed? Maybe it is just me.

Mark K. February 8, 2017

The app is very functional and has a clean UI. But there is no option to lock exposure or focus. Which makes it unusable to me. I wish the developer would implement those options. Otherwise great app!

Satisha Jajoor May 12, 2017

Objects are not clear when zoomed while recording as well as playback. Sometimes there will be focussing issues. Auto focus doesn't work that great. Normal video recording is good but could have been much better.

David Muñoz August 3, 2016

It bugs I'm on LG G2, when I was using the trial I was able to take raw pictures, when I upgraded I took 2 more pictures in raw but ever since then every time I try to take a new raw picture the image just freezes and it doesn't do anything, doesn't save the file nor it allows me to change to another mode this is really annoying because I bought this only for the option to take raw files... Plus the manual mode featured in the pictures was nowhere to be seen in the app.

Ahmed Moharram February 22, 2017

One of the most, or even the best camera apps I've tried. The images taken looks really professional in auto mode, as there is no processing applied AT ALL to the output image, it's like taking a RAW image and converting it to JPEG, it preserver lots of details. Also has lots of advanced features that is only available in this app. A must have if you want to get the best out of your camera!

Balasubramanian K October 7, 2016

Unable to set picture 16:9 in 13M. Change this settings, I will give 5star

Branislav Kováčik October 4, 2016

The best I have found so far (Sony Z3 & CM 12.1) :-) I have been using CM roms for about a year and this is so far the best camera which I have found for sony z3 phone. Sony does quite nice magic with their post procesing of taken pictures (stock camera) and Snap camera is closer (but still too far) to that quality than other cam apps I tried. Also, it has simple and intuitive interface. Good job guys!

Kim Steele August 31, 2016

Nice camera with lots of features My only complaint so far is the face mode or beauty mode makes the screen flicker. Nexus 6P, Android 7 Nougat

Cahaya Matahari December 4, 2016

Been using the paid version since Galaxy S2. I have upgraded my mobile many timea and am using S5. I think still prefer this app than the system cam app. The picts tend to come out nicer.

Kodie Williams September 17, 2016

Panorama is unusable. Constantly adjusting focus like a mad man so massive sections of the image are massively blurry. This app ruined a lot of photos from my mountain climbing trip like that.

Mark Lawrence August 2, 2016

An excellent advanced level camera app for serious photographers All of the advanced level and manual features you'd expect of a high end DSLR, now available for smartphones. A very well designed and stylish experience.

Vince Lucchetti May 24, 2017

An okay camera app that used to be better but has become annoyingly buggy. Disappointed in the lack of updates - almost a year now and with Nougat out and "O" around the corner, there have been enough changes in stock and custom ROM's to warrant updates. I'm getting far more freezing of the app with Android 7.1.2 than I have with other versions of Android and find myself going to Google camera when I truly need a picture. Quality is as good and I know I'll be able to take more than a few pictures before having to reboot my phone to get out of the app. Nexus 6P, Pure Nexus ROM

Doug F September 25, 2016

LG G5 - Wide angle camera only?? I can only set max picture size to 8 megapixels which is the wide angle lens. Can't seem to find a way to set to the 16 megapixel lens. Other than that, love the app and interface.

kundan lal February 15, 2017

Developers I would have given 5 star but, background bokeh effect like DSLR & controller of shutter speed for all modes are absent, add them asap I would rate it 5 star I promise, I have purchased this app so give me those 2 advantages also

Nilo Otaviano August 9, 2016

Post processing mirror flips on wrong axis When taking a picture in portrait mode, the image is flipped vertically (upside down).

Moeinoddin Jalali March 4, 2017

It's really cool, special for night photography on my LG G5 (much better than original app specially in wide angle mode), PLEASE ADD WB/AE LOCK FOR VIDEO, and yeah, it have some problem with autofocus in 16mp camera mode.

Paul Bailey August 31, 2016

Time and date stamp I have always loved this app for its versatility. Recently I had a change at work which requires time and date stamp on the picture. I requested the feature and they included it on the next release!

Steve hook July 6, 2017

Good app takes fantastic pics best macro image shots, sports shots I've seen in a phone, but a lot of restarts at prime moments and would be nice to be able to select grid view in the gallery by default in future also if I open the gallery from the gallery icon it always opens the camera which is obviously not what I want when selecting the gallery

Roman Ostolosh December 21, 2016

Lacking Video modes buttons I'd love to be able to quickly turn on/off time lapse and slow motion

RoseWolfz Prime February 24, 2017

Okay I have to say I LOVE all the features BUT a huge problem is that my stock LG camera that has almost zero features takes WAY better pictures even when I put the best settings I could on this app on...If there is any fix for the lack of detail please reply or update this app I'm not going refund this because I got high hopes that you guys will fix this

July 30, 2016

Awesome Camera Dial Now there is no question going from my DSLR to my smartphone 📱! 👍 What a great addition. And Snap camera beat all the other apps to it. 👌