Liquid Lens
Live Camera Effects
$2.99
Stack unlimited effects live on your camera, save your favorite combo as a one-tap preset, and reuse it instantly — every pixel rendered on-device, never uploaded.
Liquid Lens is a camera built around one idea: layer effects live, save the look, shoot it again in one tap.
Most camera apps make you pick a single filter. Liquid Lens lets you stack chromatic aberration, film grain, warped glass, and a hand-tuned gradient map all at once — and watch it composite in real time on your screen before you ever press the shutter. When you land on a combination you love, save it as a named preset and it's one tap away forever. No rebuilding your look shot by shot.
EVERYTHING RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE
Every effect is a custom Metal shader running locally through your GPU. Nothing is uploaded, nothing routes through a server — your photos and video never leave your phone. That also means zero lag between moving a slider and seeing the result on screen.
LAYER YOUR EFFECTS, LIVE
Combine any number of effects at once and see the composited result in the viewfinder in real time — not a preview render, not a "processing" screen. What you see is what gets captured, at full 48MP resolution.
SAVE YOUR LOOK AS A ONE-TAP PRESET
Dial in a stack of effects exactly how you want it, then save it and name it. Every slider value, every palette choice, and your warp level are stored together. Tap a saved Look and your entire stack snaps back instantly — no more re-dragging six sliders to match a look you had yesterday.
EDIT PHOTOS FROM YOUR LIBRARY, TOO
Effects aren't just for new shots. Pull any photo from your camera roll into the same live editor — same sliders, same presets, same Metal pipeline — and apply your layered look to photos you already have.
20+ EFFECTS TO STACK
Color grading:
Chromatic Aberration — edge-weighted RGB split
Halation — warm highlight bloom
Hyper — saturation that pushes color while crushing shadows
Pink & Glow — a two-part beauty grade (faded-film color shift + dreamy highlight bloom)
Blacks — shadow crush
Oil Slick — drifting thin-film iridescence on highlights
Solar — Sabattier tone-inversion on highlights
Gradient Maps — 10 cinematic color-grade palettes (Sunset, Vapor, Ocean, Neon, Aurora, Ice, Acid, Rose, Noir, Matcha)
Texture & distortion:
Grain — animated film grain
Sharpen
Zoom Blur — radial motion blur from center
Mesh — live 3D wireframe displacement
Chrome — liquid-metal relief effect
Polar — polar coordinate warp
Trails — light trail smearing
Ripple — animated water rings
Fractal — reeded shower-glass refraction
Marble — flowing ink/marble domain warp
Warp — 4-level reverse-fisheye distortion, tap to cycle
BUILT FOR ACTUALLY TAKING PHOTOS
Full-resolution capture
Photo and video capture, front and back camera
Drag-to-adjust exposure control (-2 to +2 EV), right on the live preview
Three aspect ratios: 4:5, 5:7 and 9:16
Flash for back camera, simulated screen-flash for front camera selfies
Built-in gallery for everything you shoot in-app
ONE PRICE, NOTHING ELSE TO BUY
$2.99, once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account required.
Color-tag your presets — pick red, green, blue, purple, pink, or yellow when you save a Look, so your favorites are easy to spot at a glance. Saving a preset now also pulls up the keyboard right away, so naming it is faster.
The developer, Sydney Bryn, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Sydney Bryn
- Size
- 26.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Liquid Lens Labs
