Do you ever wonder how to shoot professional-quality videos or click cinematic photos on your Android device?
In this article, we are going to look at the top Best Camera App for Android and then choose one of them as best amongst them.
Now, these days with a quick app install, you can instantly unlock a ton of advanced functionality, to take your results even further when you are clicking photos and creating videos with your Android phone or tablet.
When you click images like these for photo editing. It becomes easy for you.
We will look into the advantages, disadvantages, level of complexity, and different pricing models. We have included a selected number of apps and skipped those which are not worth your time.
#1 Open Camera
The first one on the list is an Open Camera. This is one of the apps which is being used and recommended by professionals for years.
Open Camera is an amazing app, and it probably has the most amount of settings and controls out of any of the apps that we are going to mention.
The overall interface of the app is definitely not as nice as some of the other apps, but it is clean enough that you quickly find what you are looking for on the main dashboard page.
However, once you get into the settings, that’s where you can get pages and pages of settings and that you can customize up and tailor up. You can even customize the main GUI, and turn on/off settings, that you may or may not be using, or don’t want to have access to from that front page.
Everything from your video resolution, down to enabling a flat, or a log, profile, specifying the maximum duration of the video, what you want the app to do when it hits the max duration, this app has tons of settings.
Even though the main screen is basic and not pretty as some of the others, I do like that you have quick access to things like video resolution, exposure, ISO, shutter speed, all from that front page, so that you don’t need to dive into the settings to find those.
Features of Open Camera
- In regards to pricing, this app is free.
- It is an open-source app and hence the name.
- It’s ridiculous that you get access to all of this on your Android device, for nothing.
I would recommend this for people who are more of an intermediate level and above. If you are someone who is looking for all those advanced features and controls and wants to customize those in your way, then this is where Open Camera is going to be suited.
#2 Manual Camera
This app has a much nicer interface compared to the previous one. It is much more intuitive and much easier to find everything and to get up to speed, creating your videos in this app.
It still packs in an absolute ton of features and settings. But, what I like about this one is that you can go to that settings area and scroll through to find everything. You are not diving through sub-menus and sub-menus just to find things. Also, there is not an overwhelming amount of settings, but you can quickly find what you need to have access to.
You have a professional mode in there where you can set everything manually. Just like Open Camera, you can access all the essential things like ISO, and others directly from the main dashboard. I like the way they have put the exposure settings in there, where you can directly tap the required value and it will be set.
You can quickly switch between the different focus modes just with a couple of quick taps on the screen.
One drawback I would like to mention is the tap on the screen to adjust the brightness or the focus and lock it at that point. You can obviously do that but not as quick as the other ones.
Both the free version and a priced version of 5.99$ are available. The free version has some limitations around the video duration, and the recording quality and resolution. Ads also appear in the free version which is annoying.
#3 FiLMic Pro
This is one of the apps which we have covered in the blog “ Best Camera App for iPhone 2020 “. It is available on both iOS and Android.
There have been lots of people who have used this app to create feature films and even documentaries. Considering the overall interface, it’s pretty easy to use and get accustomed to.
It is a cleaner interface with a lot less clutter. But at the same time, you cannot access as many things from the front dashboard.
What I like about FiLMic Pro is how easily you can lock down your exposure and your focus. Just moving the circle and the square on the screen is the simplest way to lock those down. This makes it different from the other ones.
The settings area is mostly broken up into logical areas.
Regarding the downsides of this app, there aren’t many that I can find besides the fact that it is the most expensive app amongst the ones that we are listing. It is priced at a one time purchase of 14.99$. There are many more in-app purchases that you can purchase according to your convenience.
Conclusion
If I am to choose the Best Camera App for Android, I am going to choose FiLMic Pro. It is perfect for anyone, whether you are an absolute beginner, right through to an advanced user. FiLMic Pro is simple that if you are a beginner just lock the advanced features and work with what you have. It also suites the best for professionals. It becomes hustle free when you have a great photo or video editing tool
Let us know in the comments which one fits for you the best!