one dumb choice
Good: Built-in flora mode insta gives you 2x zoom and manual focus control, great for nature photos. Everything is as described. Bad: Somehow -- SOMEHOW -- requires WiFi to store your photos. To your device. Y'know, the one you're taking photos on? Yeah, it needs WiFi for that. Baffling design choice that singlehandedly ruins the app. Would recommend otherwise.
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Almost perfect!
I enjoy using this app a lot and would give it 5 starts if it wasn’t for 2 missing features I use daily in other apps.
1. The ability to separate focus point and exposure. For example, in Moment, you can double tap the screen to separate the focus and the exposure. It very useful when you want to focus on something but not blow out the background. Then you can use the EV slider if needed.
2. The ability to dial down the intensity of a Look. Many times a Look can be too strong for a specific scene. The ability to lower their intensity for example Dawn 70% or Nova 35%. This feature alone would make a huge difference.
If Halide had this 2 features, Halide would be my everyday camera. No need for Lightroom or any other app.
If at least on of these features gets added, it would get 5 stars!
1. The ability to separate focus point and exposure. For example, in Moment, you can double tap the screen to separate the focus and the exposure. It very useful when you want to focus on something but not blow out the background. Then you can use the EV slider if needed.
2. The ability to dial down the intensity of a Look. Many times a Look can be too strong for a specific scene. The ability to lower their intensity for example Dawn 70% or Nova 35%. This feature alone would make a huge difference.
If Halide had this 2 features, Halide would be my everyday camera. No need for Lightroom or any other app.
If at least on of these features gets added, it would get 5 stars!
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Love
Shooting RAW on my phone, phenomenal.
Best Camera App
Halide is easily the best camera app I’ve used. The manual controls are intuitive, the interface is beautiful, and it consistently helps me take better photos. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to get more out of their phone's camera.
Probably worst camera app!
This is probably the worst camera app on iPhone. Image quality is worst. It takes ages to click and save photos. Very slow and laggy. Better to shoot in RAW on native iPhone app. And the classes are for just 10 days but the subscription keeps on running for years. Never subscribe to this app.
This app changed my life
This app halide mark III has changed my life for the better I bought it as a start to photography and later it has started my photography journey. I love halide, it lets me use my phone as a camera with process zero and because it’s an app on my phone it’s always with me. This app is worth every cent it’s priced at, you will not regret buying it.
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best photo app
it makes evert photo look professional in my life
Masters of Marketing Comms & Cons
This dev shop is adept at coming up with clever marketing terms for features that are mere gimmicks. A few years ago, they debuted ‘Instant Raw’, which never worked. More recently they’ve released ‘Process Zero’, which is essentially their opinionated version of RAW with limitations. IMO, it results in worse images with no benefits. Finally, they have ‘Image Lab’, which is merely an exposure adjustment. One of the founders of Halide has a personal website in which he charges up to $1500 per month for access to a photography course, premium articles, and limited merch drops. Thus far, he hasn’t delivered on any of the aforementioned promises.
In their Discord, they recently stated if you ask any questions about the upcoming version, that we’ve already covered, you’ll be banned from our Discord. Talk about not appreciating your users.
And $10 per month for an iPhone photo app is asinine.
In their Discord, they recently stated if you ask any questions about the upcoming version, that we’ve already covered, you’ll be banned from our Discord. Talk about not appreciating your users.
And $10 per month for an iPhone photo app is asinine.
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Much worse than Apple camera for iphone 16
I can shoot at 48MP with the apple camera but despite setting it at 48MP in Halide III it always shoots at a lower resolution. Apple blocks this feature and only allows it for pro models. I wish i had known this before wasting $70 in this useless app.
SIPhotography
Getting the feel for the app. Love the features. I’ll re-review shortly.
beautiful photos, sometimes glitchy
incredible camera but sometimes it glitches. not my goto for fast action. great for landscapes
paid subscription
i am personally against this specific tech being paywalled by subscription.
Landscapes with depth
Landcapes with varying depths, crowd shots (such as a parade or concert) or similar shots have never been better than with the Halide camera.
Fantastic
I’m getting excellent results and large files for editing. Highly recommended
So happy to find Halide
The quality of the photos is amazing. This is a lovely alternative when you cannot bring your own film camera.
Great alternative to iPhone
I bought this as I was tired of iPhone camera’s auto enhance, turning every photo into an over saturated, high contrast mess. It is easy to use, good amount of settings which are easy to find. And it takes photos which show the exact colour, tone, and lighting of your subject. Perfect.
Best Image Quality
I use Process Zero for the best IQ
Unable to change app icon
Unable to change the app icon to Silver Halide on my iPhone 13 mini running iOS 18. It keeps telling me to restart my device but nothing helps. Also please hide the iOS multitasking indicator on the bottom of the screen, just like Kino does. I have emailed you many times but still yet to get a reply.
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Pro snapper
As a tragic SLR film photographer I need more than dumbed down standard automatic- halide fills the gap… hoping for macro focus stacking soon.
Subscription?
I’ve had this from the get go. Always enjoyed this camera but I loath subscriptions. I understand new features cost to develop but I’d rather just pay a reasonable upgrade fee than a subscription.
