Camera Boost improves your iPad 2 photographs

If you own an iPad 2, you would know by now that its camera gives a far from satisfactory performance. For a device that performs extremely well in every other area, the tablet’s cameras are one of the main letdowns of the iPad 2. But since there’s nothing you can do about the hardware (save taking it apart and installing a custom camera of your own), your only choice is to improve it with software, and this is where Camera Boost comes in.

Since software is the only way you’ll get to improve the images taken with an iPad 2 camera, most likely you’ll be masking the terrible quality of the photographs with filters and special effects and this is where Camera Boost shines. The camera app was designed especially for the iPad 2, and takes advantage of the tablet’s A5 dual-core processor to bring you real-time previews of effects and filters that you apply to your photographs. You no longer have to wait for the tablet to render your photos just to preview how a filter looks like – with Camera Boost, you just turn it on and look.

Even if you’re not going to use the app as a fancy camera, you’ll have access to many more functions than the default camera app on the tablet, so it’s a pretty useful app to have. Camera Boost is available now on the App Store for $2.99. It will only work on iPad 2 tablets running iOS 4.3 or later.