InstaCRT — Real Camera Filter App Reviews

Takes about 45 seconds to get my picture back. It does crop the photo though, so I use Juxtaposer, load a black background, then load my pic and shrink it. Then I run it through this app and it crops the black background and not the pic I wanted filtered in the first place.

The weirdest app ever... but I love it! Wait time has been short (30-60 seconds), but there were a few days before when the app was bogged down with huge traffic from BoingBoing et al. The results are really unique. .. Read all my reviews on crosswa.lk ..

A brilliant marriage of digital with analogue. Whens instaKinescope coming?

this is a cool app, the speed has increased greatly from the first weekend it came out. my only concern is the resolution that is delivered back: 1280x1000. i would hope it to be better. other than that, the dreamlike (nightmare?) quality is pretty awesome. anyone whos having problems with it crashing has other problems with their phone.

However frustrated that I can no longer save directly to my phone, kind of a hassle having to email it to myself. Couldnt the save function be added to the share tab?

I have just downloaded it as of June 19th and maybe I should give it a few days to sink in but this is the first time Ive been compelled to review an app. First, a previous reviewer had mentioned not being able to save to your phones library without having to email it to yourself. I believe the app automatically saves the image in the background (along the same lines as instagram) and in addition to that gives you the various sharing options. (someone correct me if Im wrong) It works exactly as described and considering the fact my file is sent across the world, photographed and then sent back to me, 25 seconds is nothing. Even if I had to wait an hour Id be okay with carefully choosing a photo and letting it "cook" while I was off doing something else. I dont understand the complaints about lack of control. Again, your image is sent to a physical CRT monitor, photographed and sent back to you, where in that process would you like to tweak things? Just use some other emulated app if you want to toggle sliders all day, I like the simplicity of the app on my end (the creators end is slightly different). All I can say is I love the concept and I love the CRT textures in the images I receive. My only worry is what the creator will do when they get tired of dedicating a physical camera, CRT and laptop to handling everything. What happens if the CRT burns out? Will they find a replacement? Im just curious about the long term, but Im loving it in the now!

Such a great idea and cool result. More real filters please!

however Id like to see the camera zoom in on the CRT a little more and a little more centered to get more usable pixels. right now the results are clearly a picture of a picture (might have been the original intention?) rather than a "filtered" look.

Either I dont understand how this works or I just got bamboozled out of $2 to take pics covert them into b&w and make it squishy.

Illuminated the edge of the monitor -part of the composition. P.S. Sorry for my english.

Great app. Genius idea with good (albeit barebones) execution.

And the UI could use some improvements. Still my favorite photo filter app though.

Ive used this app on and off for about 6 months. the recent update makes it so that your photo will be ready in 1 hour, sometimes 2 hours. it was fine when it was 25-45 seconds, but an hour?!? maybe its a glitch that can be fixed?

"Your photo could not be uploaded right now. Please try again later" (Sad Face :( )

Nothing but crashes after the color version update. Fix please.

Neat idea but lots of the photos get cut off off if you load from album .. And its mostly boring, it would be as easy really to throw an overlay on the picture to get comparable results.. The only reason Im impressed is for the use of real world tech .. But the results arent so impressive .. 5 stars for ingenuity, -2 stars for results .. Almost -3

If this is really being done in the analogue way they describe it must be only me thats using it as its so immediate. Or maybe they bought every old video camera and CRT in the country... Heavy handed with no finessing controls.

I would have written a review explaining how the influx of users causes the (reasonably) longer wait times, but the issue here is the nonstop crashes the app now suffers from. Every single time I choose a photo to upload, it goes to the upload screen and then crashes. Its done this the multiple times Ive attempted to upload since the update and frankly Im not impressed. 1 star until this is fixed.

The idea and concept is amazing. Only problem is how dark it is. All of my photos come out super dark to the point where can sometimes look like nothing

Pleas fix the colour filter because right now its WAY TOO DARK! This app is not worth paying for until this problem is fixed. I tried to find bright blown out pictures and those to came back almost black. Please fix. I want this app to be useable. Cant be that hard to change the metering on the camera can it??? The black and white version works pretty good. So if you want to get this app for that by all means do. But for colour its bad. Fingers crossed things will be fixed soon.