Aquarium Camera
🇯🇵 JP LocalizedDescription
Aquarium Camera is built specifically for aquarium owners who are tired of their tank looking incredible in person and disappointing on their phone. LED aquarium lights are brilliant, but blue actinic lighting interferes with camera sensors, shifting the colors of your fish, plants, and corals into something far less accurate. Standard camera apps were not made for this. Aquarium Camera was. Designed for reef tanks, planted tanks, freshwater aquariums, and fish-only setups, Aquarium Camera helps you capture photos and videos that better reflect what your tank actually looks like. “The Aquarium Camera app is an essential tool for reef tank photography.” – ReefBuilders.com You can stop buying pro camera rigs, shooting in RAW, using clip-on filters or gels, and turning off your blue lights just to get a decent shot. You do not need to spend hours in editing apps adjusting hue, tint, and exposure after the fact. Aquarium Camera helps you color-correct aquarium lighting in real time on your iPhone or iPad, using the device you already carry every day. Version 4.0.0 is a complete re-architecture built to maximize the performance of your iPhone and iPad. Features: • Real-time lens filter mode that dynamically helps balance your shot • 32 custom professional-grade lens filters in manual mode • Real-time tint, temperature, RGB, and exposure adjustment • Full-resolution photo capture • 4K video recording • Syncs with iCloud • Support for your device’s available camera lenses, including wide, standard, and telephoto • Save and share presets once you dial in your tank • Side-by-side preview to help fine-tune color balance • Portrait and landscape support • Touch to focus • Flash toggle • Grid toggle • Quick access to your aquarium gallery with export or autosave to library • Share photos and videos right from the library • Volume button shutter support • Haptic feedback • No subscription: buy it once and unlock everything on iPhone and iPad “So easy to use… Love it!!! And the color changing is realtime so you can see the screen and the real thing side by side to ensure you get the right balance.” – Carlos Chacon, CoralVue I created Aquarium Camera because I was tired of seeing brilliant aquariums online that did not truly represent the health, color, and beauty of the fish, plants, and corals inside. As LED lighting took over the hobby, aquarium photography became harder. Aquarium Camera is my answer to that problem. Spend less time correcting aquarium photos and videos, and more time enjoying your tank... oh and doing water changes.
What's New
4.0.0 is a complete re-architecture built to maximize the performance of your iPhone and iPad. Capture full-resolution photos and 4K video, choose from 32 lens filters, and save or share your presets. Built-in tips and instructions help you get the most out of every shot. A dedicated gallery keeps your aquarium photos and videos organized, while volume shutter support and haptic feedback make shooting even better. 4.0.1 restores pinch-to-zoom and focus controls, enhanced gallery view, and gallery photos and videos now sync with iCloud when enabled on your device. 4.0.2 restores Color Balance controls, including RGB (Classic) settings and improved White Balance options for more precise manual tuning. Camera zoom stability fixes help prevent unexpected jumps after using the zoom button. This update also adds an Autosave to Library toggle for new photos and videos, plus clearer camera permission handling and recovery. Thanks to all the users for their amazing testing and feedback! I love you. 4.0.3 & 4.0.4 restores several features users missed from version 3, while preserving the full-resolution photo and 4K video capabilities introduced in version 4. It also includes a UI overhaul to improve usability and make the app easier to navigate. Color balance controls now go further for heavily blue-shifted tanks, and Color Filter mode now includes a full-screen option. Thank you so much for downloading and all the great feedback!
Details
- Developer
- John Ostler
- Main Category
- Photo & Video
- Version
- 4.0.4
- Version Release
- 2026-04-22
- Initial Release
- 2017-09-19
- Size
- 1 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 4.99
- Languages
- EN
- Bundle ID
- com.seahostler.aquaCam
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.21 (756)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-31
Metadata updated 2026-07-19
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Competitive Benchmark — Photo-Video Top 10
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| 74 | Aquarium Camera | USD 4.99 | ★ 4.21 | 756 | 1 | 2026-04-22 |
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User Reviews
New update is the worst. Go back to the old one man. It was perfect before and now I can’t even adjust to make things right. Also for the past week it has been a black screen. Probably the new “4.03” update or whatever this developer is talking about
Any way to downgrade to the old version?
Not good, unable to take any decent photos. Not worth it. 🫤
This newest update basically broke the app and made it useless. So sad because this app was amazing before and nearly eliminated the use for coral lens. But the new update made the app basically garbage. The UI is horrible, and the color correction itself doesn’t seem correct. And doing the manual adjustments yourself to get it *just right* like with the previous version is now impossible. This is the definition of fixing something that isn’t broken. Very regrettable as the app used to be a very useful tool for me. It was great for 8 years.. why change it. EDIT: He updated it to try and fix it, but it’s still terrible. Don’t download unless they revert to older version. Why’d they break it or want to change it, I still don’t know.
Bought the app worked wonderful. Developer decided to “update the app and look” and development time went to looks and zero to actual usage of the app. The actual usage intent of the app is broken. Too bad I can’t post pictures of before and after, it’s clear as day. Uodating my YouTube video to reflect the broken update and discourage from buying.
I loved this app until this past update. Pretty much rendered the app useless. Bring back the gel mode, or just revert it back the app to the previous generation.
I work in the aquarium industry and take photos of corals all day long. I used the old version of the app for 2 years and it worked great; much easier than using a physical lens and I could quickly go from tank to tank with different lighting and have no issues. I have been trying to use the new update to no avail. The auto feature simply does not work on a majority of the corals I am trying to shoot (the previous version’s auto adjustment feature worked fine). Photos are too dark and the camera will not adjust to the coral. I used to be able to fine tune the color settings, but the RGB and tint sliders on the new version don’t fix the issues. No matter what setting I am trying, photos are dark and under exposed.
I bought this app and at first it was good and it really did help see my corals better in video then they updated there app and it’s a bit more frustrating to work with even though it is a bit more simple now and it doesn’t appear good anymore as before can barely see my coral and I didn’t change my lights at all ethier
New update ruined the entire thing. It no longer works at all. I’ve messed with the few settings it offers now and it does absolutely nothing for color besides blown out, or black with grays and grays
Liked the old version 10x better. Used it daily for my store. Not sure I like this new update. Can’t manually set the red, green, blue. Auto does ok but not great.
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