The UV photo look app for Android

Your photo.
In ultraviolet.

A normal shot looks normal. UV Cam turns it into a black-light, thermal or night-vision scene — 24 looks, live on your phone.

Free to download
Editing runs on your phone
No account needed

Coming to iPhone soon.

Editor with the Deep UV filter on a portrait and the filter rows UV, favourites, thermal, night and neon

Live camera

Point the camera. See the look.

The live UV camera shows the filter before you take the shot. Or pick a photo from your gallery and start there.

A daily challenge and a filter of the day give you a reason to shoot something new.

Start screen with live UV camera, daily UV challenge and filter of the day

Five styles

From black light to heat map.

UV, thermal, night vision, neon and Pro looks. Deep UV, X-Ray, Magma, Thermal Hunter, Digital Rain, Cyber and more — each one its own algorithm, not a colour tint.

Tap through the rows and the result updates instantly.

Thermal filter Magma on the same portrait with the filter row Thermal Hunter, Magma, Ice Age, Plasma and Toxic

A phone camera cannot see UV light.
UV Cam makes it look as if it could.

An artistic effect — not a measurement.

Fine-tuning

Turn it up until it looks right.

Effect intensity, sensor noise, lens vignette, contrast and brightness each have their own slider, plus a negative base switch.

Save your settings as a preset and put the same look on the next photo. Undo and redo are always there.

Adjust tab with sliders for effect intensity, sensor noise, lens vignette, contrast and brightness

Filter guide

Know what each filter does.

The built-in guide explains all 24 filters — what the look does and which subjects it suits.

Plus UV facts in the Discover tab, from bees to banknotes.

Filter guide listing Deep UV, Negative, Cyan X, X-Ray, Amber, Ghost and Invert with a short description each

The difference

More than a colour tint.

One look, take it or leave it24 looks across UV, thermal, night vision and neon
Effect strength fixedSliders for intensity, noise, vignette, contrast and brightness
Before and after only from memoryCompare slider right in the editor
Dialling in every photo from scratchFavourites and your own presets
Guessing which filter fits the subjectFilter guide with subject tips

And a lot more.

Live UV camera

See the filter in the viewfinder, then shoot — or import from your gallery.

Before / after

Drag the compare slider to see the original next to the filtered version.

Favourites & presets

Mark the filters you keep coming back to and save your slider settings.

Challenges & streaks

Daily and weekly challenges, achievements, a streak counter and your UV score.

Your UV gallery

Every saved shot in one place, with stats on filters used and photos shared.

4K and 8K with Pro

Pro exports at high resolution, without the watermark and without ads.

filter looks

style worlds

app languages

Quick questions.

Who is UV Cam for?

For anyone who wants a photo to look like a black-light party, a heat camera or a night-vision scope: portraits, plants, concerts, street shots at night. The filter guide tells you which look suits which subject.

What does UV Cam cost?

The app is free with ads. The optional Pro upgrade comes as a monthly plan, a yearly plan or a one-time purchase and removes ads and the watermark, unlocks every filter and adds 4K and 8K export. The price is shown in Google Play.

How does UV Cam make money?

Through ads in the free version and the optional Pro upgrade. Ads are served by Google AdMob, so the free version is not ad-free or tracking-free — Pro removes the ads.

Does the app show real ultraviolet light?

No. A phone camera sensor cannot see UV light, and UV Cam does not measure anything. The filters recreate the look with image algorithms. Treat the result as art, never as a UV reading or any kind of health information.

What can I do for free?

Take and edit photos with the basic filters, use all the sliders and save up to three photos a day with a small watermark. A short video unlocks a Pro category, an extra export or the watermark removal for a while; Pro removes the limits.

Do my photos leave the phone?

Filtering happens on your device, and the app uploads no photos on its own. The one exception is if you order a print from the editor: then that image is sent to the print service to be produced.

Which devices are supported?

Android phones. An iPhone version is in preparation. There is no web or desktop version, because the camera is part of the app.

Which languages does the app speak?

English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Get UV Cam.

Pick a photo, tap a look, pull the sliders. Done.

Free for Android, with ads.

Your photo.In ultraviolet.