# Manual Camera

> Camera app with Full Manual Controls and RAW support.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/pl.vipek.camera2](https://chrome-stats.com/d/pl.vipek.camera2)

## Overview

- **ID:** `pl.vipek.camera2`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Geeky Devs Studio
- **Category:** PHOTOGRAPHY
- **Downloads:** 133,191
- **Rating:** 3.01 / 5 (5,454 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.9
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-17
- **First published:** 2014-11-28
- **Publisher country:** PL
- **Size:** 367 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-15
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.vipek.camera2)
- **Website:** [http://geekydevs.com](http://geekydevs.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://geekydevs.com/privacy](http://geekydevs.com/privacy)

## Description

**Manual Camera** is the world's first Android camera application providing **full manual control** over your photography settings. Leveraging Android's Camera2 API, it allows you to manually adjust shutter speed, focus distance, ISO, white balance, and exposure compensation. This gives photographers the ability to finely tune their shots for professional-level results.

The app starts in full auto mode, letting users lock individual parameters and manually adjust them via an intuitive control wheel. Additional features include support for **RAW (DNG) format** for high-quality image output, GPS geo-tagging, a timer, gridlines for composition, sound toggling, and adjustable screen brightness. Note that proper functionality depends on your device's Camera2 API implementation, and a compatibility test app is available to verify this. Manual Camera combines speed, control, and advanced photography features to transform your Android device into a powerful manual camera.

## Rankings

- #194,024 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`

## Review summary

Manual Camera is praised for its strong, intuitive manual controls and good image quality, with solid value for money. However, it suffers from crashes, saving failures, and device compatibility issues, plus missing features like focus peaking and independent controls. Update frequency and ongoing support are also recurring concerns. Overall, it’s a solid tool for manual photography on supported devices, but reliability and feature gaps limit broad appeal.

### Pros

- Excellent manual controls that are intuitive and powerful.
- Great image quality, with strong performance in auto and helpful manual controls for learning.
- Very good value for money; feature-rich for the price and appealing to serious photographers.
- Slick, stable interface when updated; generally solid and reliable for a camera app.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and instability, including crashes after taking photos.
- Photos (and RAW files) often fail to save or write correctly (0 bytes in RAW).
- Compatibility and device support issues; not working on some phones and limited camera access (e.g., inability to switch wide/tele or all three cameras).
- Missing core features: focus peaking, independent shutter speed/ISO controls, longer exposure times, and external storage (SD card) support; inability to disable OIS.
- Slow or uncertain development/update status; concerns about ongoing maintenance despite some updates.

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