Pearla Verana IV is a professional camera app built for photographers and
filmmakers who need complete control and high-quality results.
Every image starts from the same device-calibrated foundation. RealHUE 2
calibrates color for your specific iPhone, and the Pearla Wide Gamut working
space sits behind Log, RAW, HDR, film emulation and custom profiles, so color
is stabilized before the image is shaped, and the result holds through grading,
finishing and delivery.
PearlaRAW captures 14-bit RAW stills and records 14-bit RAW video internally on
every supported iPhone. Burst at up to 25 fps in 14-bit RAW or 40 fps in 12-bit
RAW with pre-capture, or use the intervalometer across any capture pipeline.
Shutter Priority mode locks your shutter speed while ISO adjusts continuously.
Pearla's film emulation engine adds luminance-aware grain and halation in real
time up to 4K60, with detailed tonal control and custom recipes designed to
replicate the look and feel of classic film stocks. For Log capture, Pearla
supports Apple Log 2, S-Log3, LogC3, C-Log3, F-Log/F-Log2, V-Log, N-Log, L-Log,
D-Log, I-Log and Blackmagic Film Gen 5, with waveform and false color
monitoring and tone mapping controls.
A built-in RAW editor lets you grade RAW photos and video shot in Pearla and
export to Photos or Files as Log or as finished deliverables. Photo and video
settings stay separate, external drives and HDMI output are supported, and
files are directly accessible through the built-in media manager.
For many shoots, Pearla's real-time audio mixing replaces the external
microphone. Dialogue lifts clear of the scene at capture, on the iPhone's own
mics. It is non-destructive, so you can always adjust to your liking or pull
the original audio.
Pearla also includes a speech-activated teleprompter, customizable presets on
custom buttons, a customizable Quick Menu, remote capture from a second iPhone,
and Tilta Nucleus-M support.
Whether you're shooting for a client, documenting everyday life, or building a
personal archive, Pearla is designed to support a focused, intentional creative
process.
Subscription pricing and terms:
A subscription is required to use Pearla.
Pearla offers an auto-renewing yearly subscription to provide you with
unlimited access to all features while you maintain an active subscription.
Pearla requires an iPhone device running iOS 18 or later.
For starters, 4K open gate is amazing, love it, Love the grain, love taking photos, The image quality you can get is amazing, i haven’t touched the base camera app for a while, however there are persistent issues i must point out.1. Applying a Monitor LUT freezes the live preview2. UI is nice but a bit impractical, the concept of swiping is cool but it would be easier to make a toggle option to use buttons instead, at times it seems like the swipe feature just decides to not work, maybe user error, but Id rather just have a button so i don’t miss a moment because I was changing my grain level.3. I deeply hate having to scroll to enable auto features (white balance for example) it would be easier to make it a toggle option to “Auto”
Tons of Potential but UI is Horrible
Zcac5566783838383
I will start by saying that I did purchase the yearly subscription for this app. Everything that is included in this app is well worth the money and very well done, however, there is one major flaw, the UI. As a tech nerd, as someone who has ran a media business now for nine years, and if someone who is around various different types of technology each and every day, I struggle to even find my way around this app. I’m not sure if there are bugs still being worked out, but there are numerous times when the toggle to switch from video to photo mode is just gone and I literally cannot even use the app for what I need it for. Ever since upgrading to the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the front camera is also completely broken on the app. Whenever you enter selfie mode, the video turns the entire selfie camera to landscape, however, not like you’re filming in landscape, like you rotated a vertical video into landscape, very frustrating and annoying. There is also very little intuitiveness when it comes to any sort of design help or accessibility, at times you can’t even figure out how to advance to the next screen because there are no buttons, everything is a slide over mentality, which is fine, but half the time it doesn’t work. In the end, definitely has a ton of potential and I really enjoy what it is, but they really need to work on a few things that I mentioned as it basically at least to me, makes the app completely unusable.
poor ui
Abbbcd1
I want to like this app so bad the UI has always been so over complicated and hard to use they really just need to hire a new company to redo the thing entirely instead of just tweaking it. when you go to your gallery the picture pops up as a full screen with the rest of your pictures below them to be scrolled through but there are no buttons at all to get out of this screen and go back to seeing them all in a grid. swiping up or down sometimes work to get you out of it to go back to the camera. you used to be able to see a preview of each film emulation filter but now you have to go to settings, click on the filter, go back to the camera to check it, then go back to the setting screen to change it again. instead of seeing them as you are changing them like any other camera app. I also cant figure out how to save the pictures or export at all because there are no settings or buttons in the gallery when viewing your images. You can just view them, but they are not showing up in my iphone gallery at all. I had “save photos to gallery” toggled off but now that I turned it on there is no way to save my previous pictures to my gallery unless I screenshot them. Overall very poor ui and frustrating experience
Media Management/Storage
Cándido Josué
The media roll section is very lacking. First of all, saving out is counterintuitive. Most apps, no matter what, go into “select mode” when you press and hold an image. However, in this app I need to scroll all the way to the top to tap “select” if I want to export out, let’s say, my oldest photo. When you have 150+ photos, that’s a lot of scrolling to do. Or at least have the “select” button be persistent on the top of the scroll as you scroll throughzSecond, you should be able to hold and drag to select images. It is very time-consuming to tap every single one of the photos. It is a must, as most apps do it everywhere in the ios ecosystem .Third, this would benefit greatly if it let you sync up with iCloud Drive, because the app itself can be a storage hog due to the file sizes. I would honestly prefer an option for the app not to keep images in the app’s own roll whenever I opt to save to the iPhone’s camera roll. That way, I don’t have the app taking up so much space. I’d rather the photos go directly and primarily to my camera roll.There has got to be a better and more efficient way to do that. The app takes too much storage due to the very unorthodox media management. Love the features, don’t mind paying for what it offers aestheticallyc but it has got to be updated in things that make it easier for users to do simple things
NEW: Aperture control for the iPhone 18 Pro with clicked and declicked options.
NEW: RealHUE calibration for iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max devices.
NEW: Film profile, Pearla Fida.
NEW: Apple Watch remote with a live preview.
NEW: Revela’s Gyro stabilization for raw video clips in the included Revela Lite editor.
NEW: Toolbar setting to show ISO, shutter and aperture as locked readouts in auto.
NEW: A save indicator on the media button and in the library while photos and videos are saving.
NEW: Onyx and Burgundy themes, and an app icon for every theme.
FIX: Fujifilm F-Log recording profile.
FIX: Bug that caused exported and shared photos to lose camera details and location.
FIX: Bug that caused the camera controls to freeze while a photo was processing.
FIX: Bug that caused the dial and sidebar to stutter in video mode.
FIX: Bug that caused dial haptics to stop when the app opened straight into video.
FIX: Bug that caused a raw photo to be lost if you left the app right after taking it.
FIX: Bug that caused a failed raw photo save to go unreported.
FIX: Bug that caused the viewfinder to look overexposed while recording raw video.
FIX: Bug that caused raw video playback to look overexposed.
FIX: Bug that caused raw video thumbnails to look blown out.
FIX: Bug that caused a crash when closing a raw video clip.
FIX: Bug that caused the raw editor preview to look softer than the photo.
FIX: Bug that caused Sharpening 0 to look too sharp on compressed photos.
FIX: Bug that caused grain on a paused video frame to differ from the exported video.
FIX: Bug that caused settings to blur in landscape mode.
Version 4.1.0
The developer, Guy Cassidy, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Usage Data
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Information
Seller
Guy Cassidy
Size
158.4 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
