Zitrr Camera Review

As the saying goes, the best camera is the one that’s with you. In our case it's an iPhone, so we tend to pounce anytime a new and potentially better camera app pops up on the radar â€" although few can top the modest simplicity of Apple’s built-in Camera paired with a good third-party image-editing app. The latest to land on the App Store is Zitrr Camera, an oddly-named but feature-packed solution that claims to do it all for little money, but stumbles when it comes to the one thing we want most from a camera app: Retaining original resolution from start to finish. Zitrr offers 34 live filters, effects, and lenses advertised in “full resolution,” but we found this to be a misleading claim on our iPhone 5. Instead of native 8MP 2448 x 3264, Zitrr shoots filtered images at 1440 x 1920 â€" a steep drop to 2.8MP, according to the built-in image info. The resolution drops further when images are edited with Aviary, a popular free solution conveniently baked into Zitrr, which saves images at a mere 682 x 1024 â€" less than a megapixel in quality. On the plus side, users have access to the full range of Aviary enhancements, effects, frames, and stickers, meaning there’s one less app to install.Oddly, Zitrr’s own built-in live filters cannot be applied to post-processed images at all. Several effects are unique to Zitrr, making the reduced image resolution a disappointment â€" but one shared by most third-party camera apps, which are limited by the hardware currently