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Camera

Camera

by UBports

App

Take pictures and videos with your cameras

Install

About Camera

The Camera app has only the absolute basics but it is simple and intuitive. Movie mode and camera mode are selected by icons and in the same way you can switch between front and back cameras.

With that done, you have just the usual big red button in the middle. Nothing else.

Remember that in Ubuntu Touch, when you want options, you swipe up from the bottom edge. Until you swipe upwards, you won't see anything fancy there but after swiping you see selectors for flash, grid lines, illumination, HD, and geo-tagging. Although it is not really a setting, you will find the self-timer hidden away in there too.

In that view, you will see the Settings cogwheel at the top right but don’t get too excited. The only option there is to overprint the photo with date and time. This may provide value if you are a lawyer or a big fan of retro.

Some further important points of detail: You can touch the screen to direct the focus to the item you want to be sharp. Otherwise the camera will make its best guess. The remaining item on the options view is a slider where you can set the format and the number of megapixels actually used. Here you can change the resolution to a minimum to save storage memory and bandwidth when sharing files, or, to change to higher resolutions if you plan to print or impress!

Finally, what looks to be a selector between landscapes, people and macro mode is not that at all. It hides a choice between basic, normal, high and fine quality. If you are a photographer you will want to use fine.

Recent Changes

Release 4.1.1

- Move resolution icon beside video quality.
- Use current video resolution label instead of just HD.
- Add video quality setting.
- Add support for more resolutions and aspect ratio.
- Simplify label of square aspect ratio to 1:1.
- qml: Activate QZXing.SourceFilter_ImageInverted for
imageSourceFilter.
- Translation updates (thanks to all contributors on
hosted.weblate.org).

Release 4.1.0

- qml/Viewfinder: Fix content export preview corruption in !hasEXIF
mode.
- Update path for icon in about page.
- Bump qtquick import in barcodereaderapp.qml to match version of all
other imports.
- Add fixes to barcodereader app and drop obsolete imports.
- SlideshowView: fixup warnings.
- Fixup codestyle.
- Fixup warnings in MediaInfoPopover.
- Fixup warnings in SlideshowView.
- Fixup warning when settingsProperty is undefined.
- Fixup warning on unknown image resolution.
- Fixup warning when EXIF data is undefined.
- Restructure source tree, move qml files into qml sub-directory.
- Fix spelling of background color in AdvancedOptions.qml.
- Show version number in about page, taken from CMake configuration.
- Save orientation when erasing metadata.
- Add left margin between icon and label in options selector.
- Fix incorrect image quality on app startup.
- Fix incorrect video resolution on app startup.
- Translation updates (thanks to all contributors on
hosted.weblate.org).

Release 4.0.8

- Add option to erase EXIF metadata.
- Redesigned video play icon.
- Bump clickable minimum version.
- CMakeLists.txt: Install content-hub peers configuration also when
built as non-click package.
- Translation updates (thanks to all contributors on
hosted.weblate.org).

Release 4.0.7

- Vectorise barcode icons.
- {camera,barcode-reader}-app.qml: Fix title translation.
- Various build system adaptations for shipping lomiri-camera-app
in other GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian and NixOS.
- Translation updates (thanks to all contributors on
hosted.weblate.org).

Release 4.0.6

Release 4.0.5

Release 4.0.3

Release 4.0.2

Release 4.0.1

Release 4.0.0

Permissions

  • Camera
  • Content Exchange
  • Content Exchange Source
  • Sensors
  • Picture Files
  • Video Files
  • Audio
  • Video
  • User Metrics
  • Location
  • Unrestricted read access to: @{PROC}/*/mounts
  • Unrestricted read access to: /dev/disk/by-label/

Community Built

This app has been released under the GNU GPL v3 license. It is developed in the open and you can review the source code.

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Info

  • Published Date

    Jan 20, 2023

  • Updated Date

    Aug 11, 2025

  • Current Version

    4.1.1

  • Total Downloads

    51,443

  • Latest Version Downloads

    11,701

  • Supported Architectures

    armhf, arm64, amd64

  • Translation Languages

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Reviews

Dennis Kersten

Reviewed Sep 11, 2025 for version 4.1.1

They fixed the flash problem! Thank you devs ! :)

JasonWalt Bab@ (Хмеляускас Александр "Князь" Эдурдович)

Reviewed May 12, 2025 for version 4.0.8 (older version)

Needs more Functions. Good app

Melody Myszkowska

Reviewed Apr 3, 2025 for version 4.0.7 (older version)

nothing special but i can take photos

scottbouch

Reviewed Feb 9, 2025 for version 4.0.7 (older version)

Would like to see a manual settings mode if possible.

Marian ツ 🐧

Reviewed Feb 5, 2025 for version 4.0.7 (older version)

It's okay, great App

4a-47-48

Reviewed Dec 28, 2024 for version 4.0.6 (older version)

Needs more settings

Aldolinux

Reviewed Dec 16, 2024 for version 4.0.6 (older version)

Fonctionne, mais la qualité des photos n'est pas au rendez-vous

Moem

Reviewed Oct 8, 2024 for version 4.0.6 (older version)

App crashes reliably at least every two days. Sometimes sooner. Only a cold reboot will make it work again.

EndermanchFan2100

Reviewed Jul 30, 2024 for version 4.0.6 (older version)

Needs more settings, and quality isnt good.

Thiebault Lequeu

Reviewed Jan 27, 2024 for version 4.0.5 (older version)

Finally succeed to make the app alive, after reset the phone.