BracketMerge
HDR merging, out in the field
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
BracketMerge turns your bracketed exposures into one HDR photo, right on your iPhone or iPad. No laptop, no waiting until you're home: merge in the field, check the result while you can still reshoot, and carry on.
YOUR CAMERA'S OWN COLOR
BracketMerge starts from the color profile built into your RAW files, the same starting point desktop raw converters use, then lets you pick a look: Linear, Adobe-style, AgX-style, ACES-style or Khronos Neutral-style.
FROM ANY STORAGE
Pick exposures from your Photos library, or open them through the Files app from an SD card, USB drive, NAS, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud or ownCloud.
A MERGE YOU CAN TRUST
• RAW/DNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF and PNG brackets
• Exposures read from EXIF and refined from the pixels
• Automatic alignment for handheld and drone brackets, with auto-crop
• Optional ghost reduction, plus a deghost brush: paint over anything that moved and choose which exposure fills it
EDIT LIKE YOU'RE USED TO
Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Temp and Tint, Vibrance, Saturation and color grading, tuned to behave like the sliders you know. Tap any value to type it. Crop to common aspect ratios, straighten, rotate and flip.
LIGHTROOM-READY DNG
Export a floating-point DNG that opens in Lightroom with your crop and edits as normal, editable sliders, and the camera's color profile intact. Or export Adaptive HDR HEIC and JPEG, 10-bit HDR10 HEIC, OpenEXR or 32-bit TIFF.
MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN
On iPad, exposures, preview and adjustments sit side by side. On iPhone Duo, half open, your photo takes one half and the tools the other, held like a book or propped up like a laptop.
FREE AND PRO
Merging, editing and the deghost brush are always unlimited. The free version includes 3 full-quality exports every 7 days. BracketMerge Pro unlocks unlimited exports: yearly (with a 1-week free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase.
Terms of Use: https://allenjblodgett.com/apps/bracketmerge/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://allenjblodgett.com/apps/bracketmerge/privacy/
Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Fixes the exposures panel not reopening after you hide it on iPadOS 26.
The developer, Allen Blodgett, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- Allen Blodgett
- Size
- 2.7 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. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- BracketMerge Pro (Yearly) $9.99
- BracketMerge Pro (Lifetime) $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Allen J Blodgett