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.
Scammy
Maybe this is a great app but immediately upon loading the app it demands payment.
There is a free trial that requires you to sign up for a payment plan which is again, scammy.
There is a free trial that requires you to sign up for a payment plan which is again, scammy.
Can’t access app
SCAM. I subscribed for the free trial, but the menu won’t go away, it just keeps saying “subscribe now”. When I press subscribe again it says I’m already subscribed. Then the buttons stop working completely. Force quit doesn’t help. Now I’m stuck and the thing’s going to drain my money in a week but I can’t even use it.
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Dumb mode?
I am tech-savvy, but always been dumb as it gets to take good pictures regardless of the camera I was using. In fact, I invested too much money buying a 48-megapixel camera during the 2008 Great so-called de facto recession just to be disappointed. I don’t mind spending one time purchase on this app, but have higher expectations for people like me. One button for people like us which indeed delivers great results. If not, Apple needs to address this issue. The complexity of technology is not the sole value of Apple. It is the simplicity which matters the most in this changing world!
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Seriously?
The price is insane. $70 for a camera app? I’m not agreeing to a subscription just to try it. I’m sure it’s a fine app but they seem a little too proud of it.
Like the manual focus snd peaking, lack of in camera cropping arrogant
I like the manual focus ability as every iphone ive owned will not focus reliably particularly close up depending on orientation of contrasting lines. However lack of pinch zoom to crop to desired composition is arrogant. Ability to select sn aspect ratio is also an in camera crop and is allowed. So instead of being able to directly record the composition you see by composing while you shoot, you have to try to recreate the inspiration after the fact which frankly sucks.
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SUUUPER SLOW + crashes, doesn’t load properly, etc.
It is so hard to use this camera app. I have it as a widget icon so I can shoot as I would with my regular camera app, and it only works about 15% of the time at best. It will come up black screen or just kick it back to the lock screen. So I have to manually unlock and navigate to the app.
Once you’re in the app, the setup isn’t intuitive or ergonomic or clear as it could be. Placement and marking is weird (to get into the shooting settings you have to go to the top and click on “auto” which itself doesn’t actually look like it would represent a settings menu. Lots of clicks to get into submenus. There’s plenty of wasted screen real estate where there could be icons that represent different functions and would make the experience more efficient. Like a button that kicks it into manual by pressing it at the same time as bringing up an ISO shutter aperture overlay (and you could easily integrate the priority menu into that pop up). Anyway, blah blah blah, this has needs some work to smooth the UI experience.
Finally, it loses, or almost loses, a lot of images. You are regularly prompted to go into “image restore” to get the images that had trouble saving properly. That function works most of the time but I have definitely lost photos.
Functionality aside, it yields great images. But for the $$ it feels like too much of a work in progress to me.
Once you’re in the app, the setup isn’t intuitive or ergonomic or clear as it could be. Placement and marking is weird (to get into the shooting settings you have to go to the top and click on “auto” which itself doesn’t actually look like it would represent a settings menu. Lots of clicks to get into submenus. There’s plenty of wasted screen real estate where there could be icons that represent different functions and would make the experience more efficient. Like a button that kicks it into manual by pressing it at the same time as bringing up an ISO shutter aperture overlay (and you could easily integrate the priority menu into that pop up). Anyway, blah blah blah, this has needs some work to smooth the UI experience.
Finally, it loses, or almost loses, a lot of images. You are regularly prompted to go into “image restore” to get the images that had trouble saving properly. That function works most of the time but I have definitely lost photos.
Functionality aside, it yields great images. But for the $$ it feels like too much of a work in progress to me.
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Best App
Most creative and inspiring app I’ve ever used!
I feel robbed
I was expecting this to have a depth function like most cameras do and it doesn’t so now I pay $19 and something for one year and it’s not gonna be that functional for me.
I would feel much better if you were to return my money since I just bought this thing today
I would feel much better if you were to return my money since I just bought this thing today
Unusable on iPhone 17 Pro Max
Hate to give one star to this app. It has a potential, but unfortunately my palm is touching that side button and adjusting the exposure compensation randomly. I couldn't find how to disable that button. Update: the app doesn't start without Internet connection, just black screen!
Sad.
I spent time trying to work with the app for product photography and just couldn't find happiness. Pieces of version 2 and 3 work well and there are unique features, but if you have any mind for engineering, Halide will grind your gears.
The ux is unintuitive, no jpeg support on V2, no auto focus macro on V3. Yes it will work and it will also probably slow your production down.
I kindly messaged customer service 3 different times with no response. They just don't care about customers? I think the only poor app review I've ever written, but well deserved. Good luck guys.
The ux is unintuitive, no jpeg support on V2, no auto focus macro on V3. Yes it will work and it will also probably slow your production down.
I kindly messaged customer service 3 different times with no response. They just don't care about customers? I think the only poor app review I've ever written, but well deserved. Good luck guys.
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camera app
the best one
