UNLOCK YOUR IPHONE CAMERA

The #1 App for Natural Photos.

Halide turns your iPhone into a traditional camera. Choose between the default iPhone look or beautiful, film-like shots with minimal processing and zero AI.

 
A comparison between the iPhone camera and Halide

Ever feel like you're fighting your camera? That's AI "fixing" your photos for you. Halide Process Zero disables iPhone processing for natural color and contrast.

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When you're ready to get creative, Halide includes alternatives processes called "Looks." Powered by Process Zero, and developed with the help of a professional Hollywood colorist, Looks include physically accurate simulations that let your iPhone rival a standalone camera.

If you're going for an analog feel, enable film simulation such as grain, halation, and MTF.

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Bring Your Own RAWs

If you shoot with a standalone camera, you can import your RAW files and render your photos with gorgeous results.

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.

UI
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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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Learn As You Go
An easy way to become a better photographer with Halide.
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.
And lots more
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Technical Readout
DCI-P3 Color
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Metadata View
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Custom White Balance
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MADE BY LUX
Lux was founded in 2015. It has won iPhone App of the Year twice, for Kino and Spectre, and an Apple Design Award for Halide. Lux also publishes detailed articles about cameras and photography on its blog.
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