OpenCamera

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with OpenCamera, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 6 complaints

Interface felt aesthetically unpleasant, so the user never kept using it2026-03-06
Clunky UI and slow to take pictures2026-03-06
Camera hangs waiting for focus, and the user can't find a setting to disable it2026-03-06
Default aggressive denoising makes photos look cartoony, and other apps don't allow disabling it2026-03-06
Very slow to operate and often fails to take pictures when wanted2022-01-10
Commenter calls the Open Camera app's user experience terrible2021-12-31