Halide Mark II - Pro Camera 4+
RAW, Macro & Manual + Zero AI
Lux Optics Incorporated
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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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
Privacy: https://www.lux.camera/privacy/
What’s New
Version 2.17.11
Hey everyone! We're hard at work on our next huge Halide update. In the mean time, we're continuing to deliver small big fixes. This update fixes an issue with Phone 16 Capture Controls.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Notes
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.
Better than Stock Camera app
I’m loving the Halide Camera app. The app gives me plenty of controls for shots that requires some manual adjustments when required. It is very easy to use and the UI is as simplified as it can be. The manual focus is also very good in some scenarios where you want to focus only on that object and blur out the rest.
In normal photo mode, using the iPhone XS Max dual lens camera it allows for 2X telescopic zoom but in depth mode, the zoom is not present (would be great if it was made available).
There are many camera apps out there that promises a lot but it’s either very expensive or very difficult to use. Halide for me is simply simple and great!
Highly recommended for iPhone XS Max users or any dual lens iPhones out there!
Powerful camera app. But also comsume a lot of batteries
I love this apps, but I can't use it as the default camera apps, because it comsume too much battery.
When I go traveling, I don't have the confidence my phone can last for a whole day while using this app.
Besides, it also lack of video function. It make the switch become slow and miss the moment.
About the new apps spectre, why must make it into separate apps, can it be the module or function, pay to activate. For more details, I am welcome you to contact me. Thank you.
Developer Response ,
We're sorry to hear you're running into trouble. If you reach out to support@lux.camera we'll dive right into what could be happening.
App Privacy
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:
- Purchases
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Lux Optics Incorporated
- Size
- 51.8 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 4.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Lux Optics Inc
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Yearly RM99.90
- Monthly RM49.90
- One Time Purchase RM299.90
Supports
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Family Sharing
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