pudding camera – free AND awesome?

on 5/27/12 11:30 PM

Tested version: 2.1.0
Latest version: 3.0.1
Requires Android: from 2.2

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Summary

pudding camera is no longer a mere dark horse in the race for most popular camera—it's definitely made its mark amongst smartphone camera enthusiasts. Our question is: can a free camera app compete with the great pay-for apps available? Read on and find out.

 

Features & Use

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Test device: Samsung Galaxy S2 (I9100)
Android version: 2.3.6
Root: No
Runs as of: 2.2

This cult app from Korea not only impresses with it great features, it's also free! But can it hold its own against other big name apps?

Let's cut to the chase: pudding camera is a pleasant surprise. There are different filters to chose from, all of which symbolise rolls of film. Wide angle and fish eye effects are also available.

The app's main language is Korean, but there are plenty of symbols to help you figure things out.

A few effects are preset, and there are more to choose from (panorama, film that will change the colour of an image, etc.). Example images are displayed so that you can see what the results of using a given effect will look like.

There are nine different cameras and eight filters to play around with. Taking a nice picture does require a little bit of skills, however, especially when using the great analogue light regularot (-2.0 - +2.0). Tabs for high image resolution (1280px) are also available.


Bottom line:

pudding camera is a wonderful camera app and a good alternative for users who don't want to spend money for filters and effects. The image quality is rather good, the app is easy to use, sharing stuff on social networks is possible and the design is nice. In all, pudding camera ticks all the right boxes.

 

Screen & Controls

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The app may be in Korean, but it is easy to use nonetheless. The tabs are self-explanatory and the most important features were translated into English. The pudding camera UI is really pretty and controls are easy.

 

Speed & Stability

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 pudding camera performed very well duing our test phase. The live image was surprisingly good and managed to give pay-for apps a run for their money. No instability issues, either.

Price/Performance Ratio

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As mentioned only about a trillion times so far in this review, pudding camera is free, and we like that. The app comes with a generous does of cool features and the results are very nice indeed.

 

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Market Comments

syedfazil, Sep 30, 2012
Wow......... Iam searching you for a long time......awesome...
Anonymous, Sep 30, 2012
Where is the picture After i took the picture where does it go....
Sol, Sep 30, 2012
나도좋아 As celebrity i love this app♥♥♥ thank you.
Ake, Sep 30, 2012
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Sahel, Sep 30, 2012
Alright Apparently it self looks incredible however the picture quality itself is really rubbish. Have tried out many configurable options. Using on HTC one x.
mahendra, Sep 30, 2012
fantaaastic
Yakumo, Sep 30, 2012
Sharp104SH Does a great job and captures pictures with more detail and better focus than the standard phone camera. At last the12mp camera on this phone has a user.
Maggie, Sep 30, 2012
I love the effects
Yannie, Sep 30, 2012
:) I love this app. I have it on my itouch and i love taking pictures with it, but i downloaded it to my android device (htc one x) and it kinda freezes a lot on that one. I see I'm not the only android user with problems either, judging from the reviews ): I really wish it would work better on android before the camera on my android phone is way better than the one on my itouch and i would love to take pictures with the phone instead ^^
Allison, Sep 30, 2012
Great camera for free! I downloaded pudding camera when my camera app suddenly disappeared on my Samsung galaxy nexus with the last update. Now my camera is back, but I will keep using pudding camera, it is so much fun to use and easy as well, I love it!
Rismaya, Sep 30, 2012
Suck I cant even install this thing on my phone.
Caroline, Sep 30, 2012
Great app Great app i love it :)
kiseob, Sep 30, 2012
GOOD I know pudding camera because my favorite boyband, BEAST use it. So im trying to download, then ta-dah.. i love this app so much <3
Chris, Sep 30, 2012
Bad The app is now eating my battery because it stays running in the background. I'm uninstalling it for now until it gets fixed...
ree, Sep 30, 2012
So far good I think it is good app but if the photo was already taken can be edit with this app. So the photo will be absolutely good.
Sevan, Sep 30, 2012
Droid Razar AWESOME pictures THE BEST
Larry, Sep 29, 2012
Crash.. This app crashes continuously which sucks! I cannot take a photo, change settings or press anything without it crashing. I am super disappointed. Please update this app and fix the problem so we can all enjoy it.
rachmat, Sep 29, 2012
Cool application The best application!
Patti, Sep 29, 2012
I wish the pictures would save with my others and not in the app. Other than that, love it
Ryan, Sep 29, 2012
Good It is like a. Iphonr 6s Cm
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