ChobialChobial vs Dazz Cam: a shelf of retro cameras, or your own film?
Dazz Cam is a toy box with a shutter button. Open it and there's a shelf of retro cameras: 135 and 120 film, half-frame, instant, slide, disposable, toy cameras, a 3D camera and early digital ones, plus 8mm, 16mm and VHS for video. It's huge fun and over a hundred thousand people have given it stars. Chobial plays a different game: one camera, your RAW, and films you can make yourself.
| Chobial | Dazz Cam | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pick the look | Load a film: 46 built in, plus any you make | Pick a camera from its shelf, each with its own look |
| Look live while you frame | Yes | Yes, in each camera's own viewfinder |
| Shoots RAW | Yes: ProRAW or RAW, or HEIF and JPEG | Not mentioned; some cameras save a negative to process again |
| Change the look after the shot | Yes, any film, any time | Partly: exposure and colour temperature, on select cameras |
| Make your own look | Yes: curves, 8-band colour mixer, split toning, grain, halation | No: you choose a camera and adjust it |
Import / export .cube LUTs | Yes / Yes | No / No |
| Lens toys | No fisheye or prism, sorry | Fisheye, starburst, prism, ND and colour-flash filters |
| Double exposure | No | Yes |
| Masks and heal | Yes | Not described |
| Manual ISO and shutter | Yes, plus peaking and zebras | Yes |
| Video | No | Yes: 8mm, 16mm, VHS and more |
| Devices | iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad | iPhone and iPad |
| How you pay | Free to shoot, develop, edit and make films, and to save in 22 films. Pro saves in every film, with masks and heal: $29.99 once, $14.99 a year or $1.99 a month | Free to start; Dazz Pro by subscription or $19.99 once; single cameras from $0.99 |
Where Dazz Cam is ahead
- Variety. Whole cameras, each with its own character, and a new one every so often. It's like a flea market that never closes.
- Video. Super 8 birthday parties and VHS skate clips. Chobial is a stills camera and plans to stay one.
- Playful extras. Double exposures, a fisheye, a prism, colour flash. Chobial uses your phone's real flash and keeps its lenses straight.
- Popularity. Around 117,000 ratings in the US App Store, and on it since 2018. Chobial is still in beta.
Where Chobial is ahead
- The negative stays a negative. Chobial shoots RAW or ProRAW by default and keeps the original, so you can develop it again with any film, years later.
- Your own film. Curves, a colour mixer, split toning, grain modelled on real stocks and halation. Start from scratch, from one of ours or from a
.cubeLUT. - Sharing a film. Send it as a QR code. Your friend scans it and shoots your look on their phone.
- An editor that comes along. Masks for sky, subject and people, and heal and clone for the stray wire.
Pick Dazz Cam
You want a drawer full of quirky cameras, retro video and one-tap fun, and you're happy to let the camera decide.
Pick Chobial
You want one serious camera, the RAW, and films of your own you can put on any photo. Join the beta.
Sources, opened on 26 October 2026: Dazz Cam's App Store listing (its features, in-app purchases and devices), and TapSmart's review for the viewfinder. Dazz Cam has no website of its own beyond its terms and privacy pages. See all apps on the comparison page. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
Questions
Is Dazz Cam free?
Dazz Cam is free to download with some cameras included. Its App Store listing offers Dazz Pro to open every camera and accessory, as a subscription or a one-time purchase, and single cameras from $0.99.
Does Dazz Cam shoot RAW?
Its App Store listing doesn't mention RAW. It says some cameras save a negative you can process again for a different exposure and colour temperature. Chobial shoots ProRAW or RAW by default, or HEIF and JPEG, and keeps every original so you can develop it again with any film.
Can I make my own camera look in Dazz Cam?
You pick from Dazz's cameras and adjust things like exposure, colour temperature and tint, and add accessories such as a fisheye or a prism. Building a look from scratch isn't described. In Chobial, making your own film, or starting one from a .cube LUT, is the whole point.