I purchased Mood camera when it first came out, after taking it for a quick spin and appreciating what the developer was trying to do:

I wanted to create an experience that encouraged users to stay in the moment and just take photos, not stand there, tweaking settings. […] the app is intended to be a point and shoot experience that encourages a creative process that doesn’t focus on editing and crafting the “perfect photo”. […] I didn’t want people to just blindly import a bunch of presets.

My first photo with it is from July 2025 but only lately I started using more consistently and basically defaulting to it when I want to take a picture of a nice moment.

I love the imperfections in the photos it takes and it’s the only app that actually recreates a film look without making it feel too artificial.

My most used presets are Chrome 400P, Prologue 400D, and Moriyama Mono. The second one is a custom preset imported (manually) from here.

Below you can see some images I shot with it, but I didn’t add some of the most beautiful ones, since they’re portrait. That’s where I think Mood camera really shines.

Only recently the developer added a way to export to Apple Photos the preset you used to take a picture, so for most of these I don’t know which one it was.