Open Camera
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Mar 6, 2026first mention
Aug 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I captured a video on a smartphone camera, using the OpenCamera app.”
“It's really unbeatable from a photographer / artist perspective”
photographer / artiston “Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android”
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“It's far superior to anything I've seen natively installed on any device.”
Android user since 2019on “Open Camera is a FOSS Camera App for Android”
Caveats and dissent
“I used to use Open Camera, but I started having an issue where it would not take photos”
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
Also written as OpenCamera. Data: open-camera.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“OpenCamera is available, but due to OS restrictions it doesn't work with hardware controls”
“I captured a video on a smartphone camera, using the OpenCamera app.”
“I used to use Open Camera, but I started having an issue where it would not take photos”
“It's really unbeatable from a photographer / artist perspective”
“The UI is pretty sub-par, but the main reason I use it is because the camera, by default, has this annoying, overly aggressive denoising filter”
“I use this just to have a camera which saves to a different directory”
“I'm gonna give this a try.”
“It's far superior to anything I've seen natively installed on any device.”