Halide Mark II

RAW, Macro & Manual + Zero AI

Made For

iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch
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.

5 out of 5 stars

Buyer beware!!! I just added Halide II from the reviews to help take difficult dark room pictures with focused lighting. There is no way to get the ISO and the shutter speeds stable as you try to focus it. As soon as you use any kind of focusing help, the ISO and shutter speeds jump around and you have to reset them, then of course your focus is off again because you had to work the sliders in manual to get the ISO back low. The Apple default camera is taking way better pictures. Using Halide, “every” setting comes out unfocused and grainy. I left a msg for Sebastiaan, and the team, and got nothing but general help. I finally found something deep in IOS that says….. Limitations in Manual/Advanced Modes: While the 48MP sensor is capable of full resolution, certain manual settings and shooting modes will trigger the system to default back to 12MP. This includes scenarios like using manual exposure mode, burst mode, depth mode, Live Photo, or Triple Photo. If you're using third-party camera apps with advanced manual controls, altering settings like white balance, shutter speed, or ISO will also cause the resolution to drop to 12MP. Which means useless using as manual.