**Please note: Halide is *not free*. We do 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 the Apple Design Award winning camera app with over 10,000 reviews!
The most powerful camera for iPhone with the most elegant, simple design — A pro camera for everyone.
Perfect for deliberate and thoughtful photography - for beginners and experts alike. Get started with our included 10 days of photography lessons to get up to speed, or enjoy Macro photography on any iPhone with our Neural Macro feature. 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 control is unmatched. Shoot without any of Apple’s image processing with our minimal, film-like Process Zero — or use Apple Processing for HEIC / JPG shots and ProRAW. Our ProRAW support* is unmatched. Strike the right balance between file size and editing latitude by choosing between 12-bit and 10-bit ProRAW and megapixel options. Effortlessly switch to native RAW, for greater detail and speed.
Features:
- Beautiful, intuitive gesture-based interface, usable with one hand
- Become a better photographer by signing up for comprehensive lessons like a 10-day quick tutorial right from the app.
- Get macro shots on any iPhone, even without a macro lens with Neural Macro
- Take portraits of pets and objects on single-camera phones, like iPhone XR and iPhone SE
- Take control of processing! Skip Apple’s image processing altogether with Process Zero, or quicky tap our format picker to choose the right processing for your shot.
- Lock screen widgets and home screen widgets for quick shooting
- Manual focus, and powerful tools like a Focus Loupe and Focus Peaking
- Edit Process Zero shots in the app with our powerful Image Lab slider
- 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 ProRAW, RAW, 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!
- Technical Readout to view all details of your iPhone camera hardware
- All in: Halide comes with an iPad app and Apple Watch companion app for remote shooting
- Siri Shortcuts support to trigger the shutter remotely, or open Halide in Auto or Manual mode
- 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://www.lux.camera/privacy/
Making the most of your iPhone and iPad cameras, this app is designed around two principles: the settings you’d expect from a DSLR, and a slick, one-handed interface that complements today’s devices.
Great App-quality & functionality ✔️
Suezy spoke
I've been installing and deleting this app for close to 2 years I guess,. I’ll try other apps in between and I always end up coming back here. The app does exactly what it’s meant to do, and it’s constantly improving. Main problem that I had & most likely any other I casual camera user is that you have to learn how to use it and it’s worth the time and effort as the photos are absolutely amazing compared to the stock camera in an iPhone. And I’ve got the iPhone 15 Pro Max, it literally has the capacity for greatness, but somehow Apple have not incorporated settings or instructions that into their own software - in my opinion. This app appears to be developed constantly, indicating that the creators are seeking to improve, rather than to profit from people. It’s worth paying for the app, as they deserve to be compensated for the hard work. Thanks guys
More than RAW
a0idh
I largely downloaded Halide a while back to use RAW. Even with Apple enabling ProRAW, I’ve stuck with Halide. More than creating the highest quality file, Halide is the closest experience to shooting on a camera. All the settings you need to shoot are available, without needing to dig through sub menus. On other apps I’ve tried, the clunky interface takes so long to go through that you can miss shots — not Halide. The Halide team update so consistently & are responsive over email and on social media. Well worth more than its price — wish the Halide team could have a crack at redesigning Sony’s camera menus!
Good but not super impressed
Amelsmore
Been trying out Halide and comparing it to the iphone 14 pro camera. I do like the color of the photos produced by Halide, whereas the whites from the iphone camera often appear almost fluorescence. I also like the manual control of iso and shutter speed. However, the settings resets everytime I refocus which has been really annoying. It also would not allow me to adjust aperture even in post-processing, which is a feature that can be done on the iphone camera (in portrait mode). All in all, as much as I like some of the features of Halide, it would not be my go to camera. Especially when I have to switch to a different app for videos. I am yet to find a camera app that is as user friendly and are able to produce similar image qualities as the google camera.
Hey friends! This small update should fix an issue causing random (but still frustrating) capture failures. We've also made some adjustments to our film engine. If you have any feedback, please let us know in our Discord. We're also heads down on a bigger release, so stay tuned!
- Team Halide
Version 2.27.3
The developer, Lux Optics Incorporated, 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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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Lux Optics Incorporated
Size
91.3 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
