**Please note Halide is not free. We offer a 7-day free trial for annual memberships. Don't like subscriptions? You can also buy the app outright with a single in-app purchase.** Halide is an Apple Design Award winning, acclaimed camera from the team behind Spectre, Apple's App of the Year of 2019. Halide is the most powerful camera for iPhone with the most elegant, simple design — A pro camera for everyone. This is a groundbreaking app for deliberate and thoughtful photography. With high-end tools, and a beautiful interface designed from scratch for the latest iPhones and inspired by the controls of professional cameras, Halide is your go-to camera when you want to really take a photo rather than a quick snapshot. Use gestures in Halide to change exposure and manual focus with a swipe, or switch from its powerful automatic mode to manual shooting. Halide’s professional tools are the most powerful in the App Store, with XDR (Extended Dynamic Range) 14-bit RAW streaming waveform views, color zebras, focus assists like focus peaking and loupe, histograms, an adaptive level grid, and manual depth capture. Customize controls to adapt the app to your needs. Halide’s ProRAW support* is unmatched. Strike the right balance between file size and editing latitude by choosing between 12-bit and 10-bit ProRAW, with or without JPEG sidecars. Effortlessly switch to native RAW, for greater detail and speed. Features: - Beautiful, intuitive gesture-based interface, usable with one hand - Take portraits of pets and objects on single-camera phones, like iPhone XR and iPhone SE - Manual focus, and powerful tools like a Focus Loupe and Focus Peaking - Smart automatic mode with Halide Smart RAW, optimizing settings with Machine Learning for RAW files with less noise and more detail - Full manual exposure controls including shutter speed, ISO and white balance - Best-on-iPhone exposure tools: histograms, XDR 14-bit RGB waveform, and color zebra stripes - Captures RAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPG for the best quality shots - Grid overlay with built-in level - A powerful reviewer to view DNG, JPG, HEIC and Live Photos, as well as Portrait depth data and mattes, with a detailed metadata view - with batch export! - Instant RAW development process to quickly develop your RAW files in a tap - Technical Readout to view all details of your iPhone camera hardware - Apple Watch companion app for remote shooting - Siri Shortcuts support to trigger the shutter remotely, or open Halide in Auto or Manual mode - Become a better photographer by signing up for comprehensive lessons like a 10-day quick tutorial right from the app. - Private by Design: Halide does not include any trackers or tracking, has not third party libraries, does not collect data or photos, and never transmits any information. Halide also includes features to reduce spying by companies like Facebook by limiting location information on photos shared from the app. - Feature limitations: *ProRAW requires iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max or newer The Ultra Wide and selfie cameras do not support RAW or manual focus unless on iOS 15. Waveform requires iPhone 8 or newer Depth Capture requires iPhone 7 Plus or newer Terms of Use can be found here: https://halide.cam/terms Privacy: https://halide.cam/privacy
Greatness
I won’t make this long, but I if you just bought an iPhone, I would recommend this be the first app you download, as in, set this up before you even set your lock screen. Halide takes everything that makes the iPhone camera great and lets you tap into it’s full potential. I like the app because it still allows you to take quick photos on the road, or take those shots that you spend 15 minutes setting up. Plus, it is a single one time purchase of $60! That is it and you keep it for the rest of your days! Add on top of that exceptional privacy practices and you have what I dare say is the best app on iPhone.
Good app
Good manual camera
Greedy developers
Get “Camera M” instead. The developers of that app don’t force you to pay absurd amounts to use an app you already paid for once. There is no excuse to charge people $60 for a camera app. If you already purchased early on you pay the same amount as someone who has not. Avoid this developer!!!
Is it better than stock camera? Value wise… not even close
Is it worthy of 5 stars from anyone on earth? No… absolutely not. Nowhere near perfect. Not even remotely close. Does it have to be nearly perfect to charge what they are charging? No… I don’t believe. At first it was good. With Sandmarc lenses it’s just nice to not have issues and bugs with the constant auto correction and lens shifting irregardless of the settings. But this is just totally messed up at this point. I cannot focus on nearby objects ever when any instance of darkness comes to play. They do not employ good usage / I don’t even know if they employ at all… the best feature of the stock camera … which is night mode and night focus…. So they just got it all wrong. Horrifically wrong. And honestly what I once thought was a perfect camera on my old phone is horrendous on a newer iPhone… 14 and up. Both my fiance and I hate it
Been using it since the start
my go to camera app for photos when i travel, for work, and for fun. takes better quality photos than the default camera app. i’ve tried a few other paid camera apps and they don’t compare to this. the wide, zoom, and regular images look better on this compared to default cam app. customizable for the pros and simple for everyday use. keep up the amazing work. highly recommended!
Can I get a price tag in the description?
Is it to much to ask to be upfront with what you’re gonna be charging someone for your services or product?
The BEST
Camera is perfect! Much better than the factory camera app that come already on the iPhone.
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024
this review revamp is so fast that we had to add an artificial delay to test the new processing indicator. It’s really very quick. It is our best photo reviewer yet, and we think you are going to love it. FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS Oops, this is starting to look like far too substantial a release note. Does anyone even read these? (if you do, leave us a review on the App Store! it really helps out.) Time for the generic boilerplate
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