Samsung Camera vs Google Camera

Camera is one of the most important aspects of mobile phones nowadays. Talking specifically about the native camera apps of Samsung and Google, the battle is interesting and no one can be defeated in terms of usability. Let’s explore both camera apps in brief:

Samsung Camera

Samsung Camera app comes pre-installed with all Galaxy phones and tablets, however, feature availability varies by hardware. On the S22 Ultra, the company brings every small and big camera feature of the Samsung Camera app, and why not? It’s a camera beast!

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The One UI Camera app introduces some striking features like Director’s view and Single take that are available nowhere! Not that all, the Expert RAW app is here to combine great photography capabilities on the mobile camera, meanwhile, it depends on hardware and models.

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Apart from this, regular Samsung Camera features include Portrait, Photo, Video, Pro Photo, Pro Video, Night mode, Food, Panorama, Super Slow-mo, Slow motion, Hyperlapse, and Portrait video. Bixby Vision and AR Zone apps are already combined with the Camera app to further extend usability.

Google Camera

Google Camera embeds several photography features including Night sight, Motion (Long exposure, and Action pan), Portrait, basic Camera, Video (Slow motion, Normal, and Time Lapse), Cinematic (video blur) as well as modes such as Panorama, Photo Sphere and Lens.

Basic camera settings of the Google Camera app includes flash light toggle, Macro focus button, tap to shoot, timer and viewfinder/image ratio. Once expanded, the main settings menu allows you to make big changes in features across the Google Camera app.

In the video recording department, Google Camera has four different options for video stabilization namely Standard (light movement), Locked (faraway, still shots), Active (heavy movement), and Cinematic Pan (smooth, panning shots). Notably, there is a speech enhancement feature, which improves the quality of subject’s voice.

Camera App: Samsung vs Google – Verdict

While the Google Camera maintains its dominance for night photography with features like Night sights and astrophotography, Samsung’s nightography can’t be forgotten. Samsung fans can download the Expert RAW app to make the photography experience a lot better.

Google Camera is the toughest Android rival, while, it impresses in low light photography. When it comes to overall usability and feature offerings, Samsung Camera takes a big win, thanks to futuristic features like Director’s view, Single take, AR Zone, Text extraction and more.