After a closed beta program, the anti-AI camera replacement Zerocam is now available on Android via the Google Play Store.
With the free tier, you can only take 5 photos per day, but an annual $9.99 or $0.99 fee unlocks truly unlimited process-free photos.
What the actual fuck? They’re really charging a subscription for an intentional lack of features?
However, for most people, the 5-a-day limit might actually provide a better framework for taking high-quality images. This limit makes you think more about your shots, so it could be useful to improve. your composition, timing, and framing.
See, it’s pro-consumer. Lol
Fuck subscriptions
Open Camera is FOSS (GPLv3) and is available in both Google Play and F-Droid.
It just does not take advantage of cameras with several lenses & detectors, which is a pity.
It doesn’t do computational photography, true - I don’t know of any open source mobile apps that can, it’s a very complicated subject.
It does allow switching between the various lenses, at least on my OnePlus 12r.
Btw, there are like 10+ different camera apps on F-Droid that are Free Software.
Anyone that’s used a custom ROM knows just how shitty your 48MP camera looks like without the processing lol. People go out of their way to make GCam work because it’s so bad.
It’s one of those bougie “nostalgia” app isn’t it? Like those shitty scamcorders that VWestlife covered not long ago.
