Halide Mark II - Pro Camera2.27.3
Publisher 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
Privacy: https://www.lux.camera/privacy/Hey friends! This small update should fix an issue causing random (but still frustrating) capture failures. We've also made some adjustments to our film engine. If you have any feedback, please let us know in our Discord. We're also heads down on a bigger release, so stay tuned!
- Team Halide
About Halide Mark II - Pro Camera
The company that develops Halide Mark II - Pro Camera is Lux Optics Incorporated. The latest version released by its developer is 2.27.3. This app was rated by 20 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.8.
To install Halide Mark II - Pro Camera on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since N/A and was downloaded 2,410 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Halide Mark II - Pro Camera as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Halide Mark II - Pro Camera on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Halide Mark II - Pro Camera is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Halide Mark II - Pro Camera is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
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version 2.27.2
posted on 2026-02-10
Wow. Thank you all for your kind words about the Mark III preview! We couldn't have been happier with the response. We're continuing the momentum this week with a handful of small fixes and improvements while we're heads-down on the next big release.
If you have any feedback, please let us know at support@lux.camera, or just hop in our Discord. Thank you for supporting Halide, and we can't wait to show you what's next.
version 2.26.1
posted on 2025-09-25
Sep 25, 2025
Version 2.26.1
Thank you for your patience as we turned around a quick update for the new iPhone lineup. Among other things, this update includes fixes for:
* Image orientation being wrong on the new center stage front facing camera
* the 4× zoom showed as 4.5×
* Using Neural Zoom and then flipping the camera could result in zoomed selfies
If you have any other issues, please let us know via support@lux.camera, or drop into our official Discord.
— Team Halide
version 2.17.15
posted on 2025-05-14
May 14, 2025
Version 2.17.15
This update includes minor bug fixes. Specifically, due to conflicts between Camera Controls and the action button, we've disabled the action button override on the latest iPhones until we find a workaround.
version 2.17.14
posted on 2025-04-30
Apr 30, 2025
Version 2.17.14
In this small update to Halide, we have a few big improvements. For one, we noticed that launches could stall under rare circumstances, so we've found a way to speed things up.
We've fixed an issue where some devices wouldn't see our action button menu in settings.
Finally, we've updated our membership screen in settings. This includes new plumbing to support the Halide Mark III technical preview! Stay tuned for more details!
-- Team Halide
version 2.17.13
posted on 2025-03-11
Mar 11, 2025
Version 2.17.13
This update adds official support for the iPhone 16e.
version 2.17.11
posted on 2025-01-31
Jan 31, 2025
Version 2.17.11
Hey everyone! We're hard at work on our next huge Halide update. In the mean time, we're continuing to deliver small big fixes. This update fixes an issue with Phone 16 Capture Controls.
version 2.17.9
posted on 2025-01-07
Jan 7, 2025
Version 2.17.9
This small update works around an iOS 18.2 bug that occurred when you launch Halide for the first time, preventing a small number of users from getting to the camera.
version 2.17.8
posted on 2024-12-23
Dec 23, 2024
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.
version 2.17.7
posted on 2024-12-14
Dec 14, 2024
Version 2.17.7
This small update fixes a bug around purchase history affecting some users.
version 2.16.2
posted on 2024-09-23
Sep 23, 2024
Version 2.16.2
This small update improves image quality on the iPhone 16 Pro when using Process Zero.
Halide 2.16 — The iOS 18 release!
Halide 2.16 brings the biggest change ever to how you use your iPhone as a camera: On iOS 18, you can now add Halide as your camera of choice on your Lock Screen and Control Center. This is far beyond just using a Lock Screen widget: Halide will be able to launch and take shots even when your phone is locked.
LOCK SCREEN ACCESS
It’s here! Start setting up Lock Screen Capture by long-pressing on your wallpaper when your iPhone is unlocked. You can now remove the Camera or Flashlight control at the bottom of your screen and replace it with Halide! Some features of Halide will require unlocking your iPhone, of course — but our entire camera works great. We think this is an incredible upgrade to the camera experience in iPhones.
No need to choose: you can still swipe right on the Home Screen to go to Apple Camera. You can also just add Halide in the new iOS 18 Control Center!
Great for shooting Process Zero on the go, our new zero-AI, minimally processed way to shoot.
This update also adds support for Dark mode and Tinted icon mode!
OUR LAST UPDATE:
When you take a photo on your iPhone, your photo is processed. The newer your iPhone is, the more processing typically happens: sometimes AI even comes in to make significant changes to your shot. People are made brighter, noise is reduced, details enhanced and ‘flaws’ removed.
You might love this, or you might not. That can even change from photo to photo. That made us think: we want you to choose your processing the way you choose a lens?
Halide gives you total control: we now let you choose your image processing from the go. When you first set up Halide, or when you tap the format picker in the app, we now offer a choice:
Standard image processing, reduced processing, or something new: Process Zero.
PROCESS ZERO
Process Zero is our own process. We take raw sensor data, and do minimal processing to make a beautiful, natural and film-like shot. It’s very quick (up to 20 times faster than ProRAW) it is saved along with a 12 megapixel native RAW file. You can choose it at any time by tapping the “RAW” / “HEIC” format picker icon in the Halide interface, or you can read more and select a process in the Capture settings.
After taking a few shots, using it is simple: on your iPhone, any app you open your photos in will use the Process Zero image, and any editor that supports RAW will open the RAW data for further editing. Easy!
After many releases focusing on the latest and greatest iPhones, we are proud to say that we’ve worked hard to customize and optimize Process Zero for all iPhones we support. Those that do not have ProRAW on their iPhones will benefit from better processing on their RAW shots right away, as well as the Image Lab.
Process Zero is not made for low light photography, as it will get noisy and can get color cast. It has no HDR or AI to tweak its detail or dynamic range. Use this if you want to shoot entirely without Apple’s processing — a bit like an older digital camera, for natural looking shots.
IMAGE LAB
When we shot with Process Zero, we found we often didn’t want to edit the results much, but we did want to tweak exposure at times. Since all Process Zero shots contain the original RAW data, we decided to add our first editing feature: the Image Lab.
In the reveiwer, tap the small +/- icon to open the Image Lab. Adjusting exposure here will re-process the raw data with Process Zero, letting you often recover lost detail in shadows or highlights. Saving it will keep your RAW intact and save a new Process Zero shot.
We’d love to see your shots with Process Zero! Tag us on social media with your captures — we’d love to see them.