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](https://halide.cam/terms)
Privacy: [https://halide.cam/privacy](https://halide.cam/privacy)
What’s New
Version 2.17.8
This small patch fixes an issue on the iPhone 16, where the interface might be oriented incorrectly when starting the app using camera controls from landscape orientation.
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.
used to be the best camera app, but unusable since the last update
halide was my fav camera app but after the new update to mark ii it's literally unusable although i paid the extra $29.99 to support the developers though i had previously bought the halide app. am using the iPhone 11 256 gb version and everytime am getting the error message that "Error taking photo. Couldn't communicate with a helper application." Mailed the developers about it and they said that the next iOS update would fix that considering i was on iOS 14.1 but even with iOS 14.2 and the recent halide update today the app is still unusable. Tried even to restart the phone several times but that didn't fix it. If you are considering purchasing this app there are more reliable apps shooting RAW like procamera in the app store that you'd better consider before throwing away your $29.99 on an app that no longer works.
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
- 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
- © 2024 Lux Optics Inc
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Yearly USD 19.99
- Monthly USD 2.99
- One Time Purchase USD 59.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.