Halide Mark II - Pro Camera 4+

RAW, Macro & Manual + Zero AI

Lux Optics Incorporated

    • 3.7 • 81 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

**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](https://halide.cam/terms)

Privacy: [https://halide.cam/privacy](https://halide.cam/privacy)

What’s New

Version 2.17.1

This small update fixes some edge cases when capturing a photo from the lock screen.

It also contains all the features in our last big update, iPhone 16 capture control! You can now quickly access EV and manual focus control with a few swipes.

We know it can be frustrating to lose that perfect shot with a stray swipe. That's why we added a "Lock" option. Once you dial in your settings, set the capture control to the Lock to save yourself from goofing.

Why launched with three capture control to make things faster and easier to navigate. EV and Manual Focus felt right for now, but if you want more, we'd love to know what! Let us know at @halideapp on Threads.

Ratings and Reviews

3.7 out of 5
81 Ratings

81 Ratings

Editors’ Notes

Your iPhone and iPad have excellent cameras and the picture wizards at Lux Optics want to help photographers make the most of it with Halide Mark II. This camera app is designed around two principles: the kind of granular settings you’d expect from a professional DSLR, and a slick, one-handed interface that complements today’s devices.

Coguar ,

this app getting better and better

one time purschase with gair price will make more stars for this app.

honestly it is one off the best camera apps, but doesent have onetime buy option is deal breaker for me.

Also i was buy darkroom before some time on ipad and now on iphone it say restore failed.

Endemm ,

Manual camera app with a fantastic interface

Halide is a fantastic example for the features of the new cameras on iPhones. It has manual zoom, focus peeking, presets for white balance, histogram and more. What more could you want from a manual camera app. Well, more control, but the way things stand now I’m not sure that they can introduce features available on the main screen without sacrificing the simplicity of the app. There is a couple of things that I see myself using all the time if introduced - a setting for maximum ISO and an indicator of the lens that is used (on double lens cameras).

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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.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

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