Open Camera

Mark Harman

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About this app

Open Camera is a completely free Camera app. Features:
* Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
* Expose your camera's functionality: support for scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock, selfie with "screen flash", HD video and more.
* Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown), auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay).
* Option to take photo remotely by making a noise.
* Configurable volume keys and user interface.
* Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
* Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
* Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos; for photos this includes compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
* Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
* Option to remove device exif metadata from photos.
* Panorama, including for front camera.
* Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal) and Exposure Bracketing.
* Support for Camera2 API: manual controls (with optional focus assist); burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; camera vendor extensions; slow motion video; log profile video.
* Noise reduction (including low light night mode) and Dynamic range optimisation modes.
* Options for on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking.
* Focus bracketing mode.
* Completely free, and no third party ads in the app (I only run third party ads on the website). Open Source.

(Some features may not be available on all devices, as they may depend on hardware or camera features, the Android version, etc.)

Website (and links to source code): http://opencamera.org.uk/

Note that it's not possible for me to test Open Camera on every Android device out there, so please test before using Open Camera to photo/video your wedding etc :)

App icon by Adam Lapinski. Open Camera also uses content under third party licences, see https://opencamera.org.uk/#licence

Ratings and reviews

I really like this app! It works better than the native camera app on my phone. I love that let me chose how to record the audio on my videos, since the native camera app uses a compression method that ruins the audio. All of that said, it happens usually that I stop recording a video, see the end result and the video ends before I actually stopped them. It's like it trims the video by a few seconds. I don't know why it happens but I would give 5 stars if fixed!

Update: Thanks Mark! While it's a terrific program, there are some glaring issues I'm surprised are still around. The biggest being the inability to switch between cameras, having a 0.6x, 1x and a 2x and the other is that it sets my screen's brightness to maximum. Also, both the 0.6 and 1x use the same sensor model which is 50MPs binned to just under 13, which Open camera doesn't recognise. There also is no option to ahoot RAW, only JPEG, Webp and PNG.

really nice, but there is an issue with the pitch and level lines being very incorrect. running on a Samsung s21+. I have a level app and have calibrated my phone using an analog torpedo level and a flat tripod head till it's perfect, yet when I turn on level and pitch lines I have turn turn my phone around 23 deg. to get level lines and the picture is very far from level. repeatedly checking with the level app shows it's perfectly calibrated. but the open camera app is way off. rest is great!

What's new

Improved user interface icons. Smoother zoom for Camera2 API. Camera vendor extensions show percentage progress on supported Android 14 devices.

New option for on-screen icon to enable/disable focus peaking.

Support for themed/monochrome application icon.

Fixed poor performance if using Storage Access Framework when save folder had many files.

Various other improvements and bug fixes.

Fixed bugs in 1.53 related to video subtitles option.