# Fovea — Full camera control > Full camera control (iPhone/iPad app by Nigel Douglass.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fovea/id6818679232 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Nigel Douglass](https://appshunter.io/developer/6806055113) - Category: Photo & Video, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 47 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-20 - Data updated: 2026-11-01 ## What is Fovea? Fovea is a manual camera that explains what your eye already knows. Take full control of exposure, focus and white balance, shoot true RAW and add live film looks. An insight overlay tells you in plain English what your settings will do to the photo, and a shot journal records every shot and learns what your best ones have in common. Free to download. Pay once to unlock everything. No subscription, no account. Nothing is applied to your photo unless you choose it. The viewfinder and the saved photo go through the same rendering, so what you see is exactly what you get. INSIGHT OVERLAY • Notes on motion blur, depth of field, noise and clipping as you shoot • Warnings for camera shake, clipped highlights and crushed shadows • Golden hour and blue hour alerts • Tap any insight for the detail and a tip • Choose how much it says, or turn it off • 23 built-in guides, from exposure basics to long exposure, that work offline LONG EXPOSURE • Timed exposures from 1 to 30 seconds, and Bulb • Blur for water, clouds and moving crowds • Trails for car lights, stars and fireworks • Low Light stacks frames to cut noise in the dark • Watch the exposure build on screen as you shoot MANUAL CONTROLS • Every lens on your iPhone, including the front camera • Auto, ISO priority, shutter priority and full manual • Manual focus with focus peaking and zebra stripes • White balance presets, or Kelvin and tint • Separate focus and exposure points, with AE/AF lock • Exposure meter and a live readout of the settings the camera is using • Histogram in luma, RGB or zones, with a log scale • Grid, spirit level, flash, self-timer and four aspect ratios • Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later: zoom, exposure, ISO, shutter and white balance from the side button RAW AND FORMATS • RAW (DNG), ProRAW, HEIF and JPEG • Full 48 MP HEIF, JPEG and ProRAW on supported iPhones • Natural processing skips multi-frame fusion and heavy sharpening, for a cleaner, less smoothed file • Set RAW noise reduction and sharpening yourself, or leave them off • RAW shots are saved with a graded HEIF that carries your look and crop • Graded photos keep Display P3 colour and HDR LOOKS AND EFFECTS • More than 40 looks: film stocks, cinematic, warm, cool, mono and instant • Preview every look on your own scene before you pick it • Import your own .cube LUTs • Grain, bloom, halation and vignette, live in the viewfinder • Before and after tones show what a look does to your shadows and highlights MORE WAYS TO SHOOT • Three-shot exposure bracketing • Intervalometer, with a timelapse video made on your iPhone • Calculators for depth of field, hyperfocal distance, exposure, ND filters and sharp stars, with one tap to put the answer on the camera SHOT JOURNAL AND PROFILES • Every shot logged with its ISO, shutter, white balance, focus, lens, look and effects • Rate your shots and Fovea shows you what your best ones have in common • Set the camera up from any past shot in one tap • Syncs between your devices through your own iCloud account • Save a full setup (mode, values, format, look and effects) and switch to it in one tap FREE AND UNLOCK Free: lens switching, exposure compensation, AE/AF lock, priority modes, white balance presets, the histogram, the whole insight overlay, live effects, HEIF and JPEG, and two looks. The one-time unlock adds full manual, Kelvin white balance, manual focus, peaking and zebra, RAW and ProRAW, Natural processing, long exposure, bracketing, the intervalometer, the calculators, the full look library with LUT import, the shot journal and setting profiles. Restore it on any iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account. PRIVACY Fovea collects no data. No analytics, no tracking and no account. Your photos and journal stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. Some features depend on the cameras in your iPhone. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Fovea Pro | $5.99 | one-time | ## Is Fovea safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Fovea. ## Is Fovea legit? Fovea has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fovea is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-29 • 24 MP photos, with your look added in Photos as an edit you can revert. • Switch between Standard and Natural processing from the camera. • Flip to the front camera with one tap. • New tip for slow shutter speeds, and you can swipe tips away. • Other bug fixes and improvements. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-20 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Fovea | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Dual Camera: Front & Back Shot](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dual-camera-front-and-back-shot/id6797737128) | 1.0 (1) | Free | Photo & Video | | [LibreCam: Manual RAW Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/librecam-manual-raw-camera/id6802275145) | 5.0 (5) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Digital Camera - Photo & Video](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/digital-camera-photo-and-video/id6793943265) | 1.0 (1) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Camera HD & Pro Raw Photo HDR](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/camera-hd-and-pro-raw-photo-hdr/id6766443826) | 3.0 (2) | Free | Photo & Video | | [CelebCam:Celebrity AI Selfie](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/celebcamcelebrity-ai-selfie/id6756125482) | 4.6 (22) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Motion Camera - Long Exposure](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/motion-camera-long-exposure/id1294597749) | 2.2 (5) | Free | Photo & Video | ## Related topics [fovea](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/fovea) · [fovea med](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/fovea-med) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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