This app makes it easy to take long-exposure photos with your iPhone.
Capture the passage of time in a single image—from city lights, starry skies, star trails, and fireworks to flowing waterfalls and rivers.
Choose from two blending modes to create the look you want.
【Light Trails】
Layers the light from each frame to create striking trails from fireworks, car headlights, stars, and more.
Perfect for night photography.
【Motion Blur】
Averages multiple frames to give waterfalls and rivers a smooth, silky appearance.
It can create a slow-shutter effect even in bright conditions and can also make moving people less noticeable.
Key Features
・Exposure times from 1 to 180 seconds, plus Bulb mode that you can stop whenever you choose
・Live preview of the blended image while shooting
・Image stabilization to reduce camera shake without a tripod (up to 3 seconds in the free version)
・Post-capture brightness adjustment from −2.0 to +2.0 EV, with the option to save multiple versions
・Auto and manual focus, plus pinch-to-zoom
・Switch between lenses and front/rear cameras
・3-second and 10-second self-timers
・Grid and level tools for composing your shot
・Shoot using the iPhone volume buttons or a compatible Bluetooth remote shutter
・Selectable image quality and JPG saving
・EXIF metadata including exposure time and ISO
Great For
・Cityscapes and illuminated night scenes
・Starry skies and star trails
・Fireworks
・Car and train light trails
・Motion blur in waterfalls, streams, oceans, and clouds
・Making moving people less noticeable in busy locations
The free version includes all the essential features you need to enjoy long-exposure photography.
The Pro version is available as a one-time purchase and adds manual ISO control, ad removal, noise reduction, unlimited stabilization duration with Bulb mode support, high-bit-depth 16-bit PNG saving, direct saving without the preview screen, and more.
Tips for Better Results
For standard long-exposure photography, mount your iPhone on a tripod or place it on a stable surface for sharper results.
Image stabilization helps reduce camera shake when shooting without a tripod, but the edges of the resulting photo will be cropped slightly.
Results and available lenses may vary depending on your iPhone model and shooting conditions.
When it shows it’s shooting for a 2s shutter light draw image. There is a 1 second delay from when the app says it’s shooting the photo to when it actually captures the shot. If I add a 3 or 10 second timer it doesn’t stop the additional 1 second delay after it says shooting the image. This 1 second is inconsistent and is sometimes half a second or nearly 2 seconds. It’s a minor inconvenience to capture the light drawing photos with this issue.
5 Stars for telescope Astro photography
Happyaspie
I’m so happy I found this app, I wasted lots of money trying other camera apps until finding this one. It does everything you need to do great Astro photography using an IPhone with a telescope adapter. Manual focus, shutter speed, and iso settings all under your control. Once you play with it a bit and do some trial and error you quickly figure out the settings. I paid 5.99 for this and am so happy, especially after wasting over 25 bucks on other leading camera apps for Astro photography. I thank the developer for making such an easy to use and high quality app for doing long exposure photography!
Better Than Others
AKQJ10777
I tried a few other long exposure apps before trying this one, and I was pleased with the operation. It is very easy to understand and use. It would be even better if you could zoom the camera while using it, I got the pro version thinking that would solve it and was a bit disappointed to find it didn’t. Aside from that I think it takes great night shots. I highly recommend using a tripod for longer exposures.
Nice app for low light photos.
Gary99016
I have used this app on several camping trips. It works well taking photos of stars and it is easy to capture the Milky Way with it. It works well with city night scapes capture lights and motion. I have not tried it with daylight shots for moving water, I’ll give it a shot and let you know. You can use it for wild life if they stand still, but since they are unpredictable, the photos get tricky.
• Added a new Lighten shooting mode. By combining only the brighter areas, it keeps the background from getting brighter while capturing fireworks, star trails, and more.
• You can now create long-exposure photos from videos you’ve already recorded. Select the part of the video and compositing method to turn it into a striking image.
Version 7.0
The developer, Osawa Shunsuke, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Osawa Shunsuke
Size
32 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 16 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese