THE MOST POWERFUL
CAMERA FOR iPHONE & iPAD.

Now with Process Zero - for zero-AI, minimally processed shots.

Featuring the best photography tools on iOS, built-in lessons, Lock Screen access, and many more features for getting the best shot.
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Hello, iPad

Meet Halide for iPad. Packed with all the powerful features of Halide for iPhone and a few special ones for better photography on big screens.

Enjoy the brand-new, completely custom iPad interface and features like Pro View to get a scaled-down, unobstructed view of your shot with plenty of space for your Pro tools and readouts.

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Updated
and Upgraded

Always up to date — now with iOS 18 Lock Screen Capture. Halide packs intuitive gestures, gorgeous details, and effortless ease of use.

Designed to be used with one hand on all phones without compromising on power.

New in Mark II: Edge gestures for mode switching. Tactile Touch enables and disables focus and exposure aids as you need them. Designed with three new, custom typefaces.

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Pro Tools XDR

Halide Mark II packs the best pro camera tools on the App Store.

Check for accurate exposures with the new extended dynamic range (XDR) 14-bit color zebras and waveforms.

Use your ideal histogram with large and small displays featuring monochrome and color options. Perfect manual focus with automatic enhanced focus peaking and a new focus loupe.

Your Creative Process
Your Creative Process

You might love your iPhone's super-smart, AI based image processing, or you might not.

That's why Halide lets you pick your processing — even between shots. Choose from iPhone's default image processing, or reduced processing, or choose Process Zero: a single-shot RAW capture mode that gives you beautiful film-like shots with minimal processing and zero AI right out of the camera.

The new Image Lab lets you re-develop the shot later for different exposures, or you can edit your photo in an image editor with huge flexibility — because Halide saves raw sensor data along with your shot.

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And much more
Process Zero is just one of our many latest and greatest features that we've rolled out to users over the last seven years. Check out some of the new updates:
Halide Mark II: now for iOS 18, with Process Zero
Updated for the latest and greatest devices and built for the newest version of iOS.
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WHAT MAKES HALIDE SPECIAL
Halide is the award-winning camera app made by three friends. Here’s what makes it unique.
Designed like a real camera

Halide was designed with our favorite object in mind: the delightfully tactile and beautiful film camera, without compromising on the flexibility and power of mobile photography.

Gestures are modeled after the intuitive manipulation of dials: swiping up and down for exposure, and left and right for focus. The interface is simple and free of clutter, letting you focus on your artistic process.

We pay homage to the design heritage of more than a century of camera design with completely custom typefaces and typography throughout based on etched type on camera bodies and lenses.

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Manual Mode
Halide combines a zero-thinking-required, Machine-Learning assisted automatic mode with a powerful all-manual mode. Easily pick from letting Halide make decisions to total control over shutter speed, ISO and white balance.
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Focus Assist
Sometimes your iPhone knows what should be in focus, but most of the time you know best. Halide not only offers easy, gesture-based manual focus, but also powerful tools to help nail a sharp shot like focus peaking and a new focus loupe.
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Depth Mode
iPhones now pack a dizzying set of cameras and sensors, allowing them to capture more than 2D images. Halide’s Depth mode lets you capture Portrait mode shots of pets and people — even if Apple’s Camera app can’t.
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Learn As You Go
Debuting in Mark II: an easy way to become a better photographer with Halide by following along with new tutorial content.
Sign up for a 10-day set of lessons, right in the app.
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Private By Design
It sounds bizarre, but most photography apps send your information to Facebook or other third parties. Halide's camera has no tracking, does not collect or share any of your information or photos.
That’s the way a camera should work, really.
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Powered by ML
While Smart HDR and Deep Fusion elevated the lossy JPG state of the art, RAW did not benefit from the powerful advancements in Machine-Learning assisted computational photography.
Halide’s Smart RAW harnesses ML to exposure your RAW files better, for maximum detail and less noise.
And lots more
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Technical Readout
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Apple Watch app
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Siri Shortcuts
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Customizable
DCI-P3 Color
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RAW + Process Zero
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Depth Map Export
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Histograms
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Color Zebras
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Waveform
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Metadata View
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Custom White Balance
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GET HALIDE NOW
Now on the App Store — with a free 1 week trial at signup:
Check out our Press Kit. You can also contact us.
MADE BY LUX
Lux is Ben Sandofsky, Sebastiaan de With, two friends that are reimagining what photography can look like in the 21st century. We advise and consult with companies on camera and photographic technology, and write detailed articles about iPhone and iPad cameras and photography on our blog.
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