Still great but slipping
Edit: the preview photo can now be hidden… which leaves literally 50% of the main display completely black, with a tiny viewfinder and an unreadable shutter button. On the large inner display. Truly worrying. Again I stress - this app *has* an iPad UI.
Halide is still a hall-of-famer camera app, and led the Process Zero revolution… but the extremely rushed and ill considered iPhone Duo release has me worried about the design future of Lux (the developer). It’s not that things aren’t perfect right away (it was pushed out really quickly to catch launch buzz which is understandable) - it’s that the design decisions are so questionable, it makes me wonder why they were even progressed.
The execution is fine to have wobbles - but the ideas here are bad. Especially the core idea of having a permanent, undismissable preview photo blaring out of the screen at you at all times when shooting on the inner screen. There is no option to disable it, and it completely ruins full screen shooting.
The selfie mode (where you swipe to unlock use of the outer screen with the main cameras) is just straight up broken. It shows the inner screen UI, with the wrong camera, flipped to the wrong orientation. It is simply unusable - it should never have shipped in this state.
This app *has* an iPad UI that could just as easily have been adapted. Instead, a truly terrible idea was pushed out. It fundamentally misunderstands what a camera is to a photographer when shooting.
I know it has been a turbulent time for Halide with people leaving and whatnot, and I will remain a paying customer to support what has been truly one of the greats… but this update has me concerned there isn’t a keen design eye at the wheel.
Halide is still a hall-of-famer camera app, and led the Process Zero revolution… but the extremely rushed and ill considered iPhone Duo release has me worried about the design future of Lux (the developer). It’s not that things aren’t perfect right away (it was pushed out really quickly to catch launch buzz which is understandable) - it’s that the design decisions are so questionable, it makes me wonder why they were even progressed.
The execution is fine to have wobbles - but the ideas here are bad. Especially the core idea of having a permanent, undismissable preview photo blaring out of the screen at you at all times when shooting on the inner screen. There is no option to disable it, and it completely ruins full screen shooting.
The selfie mode (where you swipe to unlock use of the outer screen with the main cameras) is just straight up broken. It shows the inner screen UI, with the wrong camera, flipped to the wrong orientation. It is simply unusable - it should never have shipped in this state.
This app *has* an iPad UI that could just as easily have been adapted. Instead, a truly terrible idea was pushed out. It fundamentally misunderstands what a camera is to a photographer when shooting.
I know it has been a turbulent time for Halide with people leaving and whatnot, and I will remain a paying customer to support what has been truly one of the greats… but this update has me concerned there isn’t a keen design eye at the wheel.
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Brilliant, brings 18 pro features to 17 pro
Brilliant app!
Forced to display recent image on Duo
There’s no way to use the full inner display for just image capture, half the display MUST be the most recent image. On top of that, Halide suffers the same annoying problem when using the inner display: all images are in a forced orientation despite rotating the phone between landscape and portrait. The ONLY way to take wide images is using the smaller outer display. Bogus, man.
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Still great but slipping
Halide is still a hall-of-famer camera app, and led the Process Zero revolution… but the extremely rushed and ill considered iPhone Duo release has me worried about the design future of Lux (the developer). It’s not that things aren’t perfect right away (it was pushed out really quickly to catch launch buzz which is understandable) - it’s that the design decisions are so questionable, it makes me wonder why they were even progressed.
The execution is fine to have wobbles - but the ideas here are bad. Especially the core idea of having a permanent, undismissable preview photo blaring out of the screen at you at all times when shooting on the inner screen. There is no option to disable it, and it completely ruins full screen shooting.
The selfie mode (where you swipe to unlock use of the outer screen with the main cameras) is just straight up broken. It shows the inner screen UI, with the wrong camera, flipped to the wrong orientation. It is simply unusable - it should never have shipped in this state.
This app *has* an iPad UI that could just as easily have been adapted. Instead, a truly terrible idea was pushed out. It fundamentally misunderstands what a camera is to a photographer when shooting.
I know it has been a turbulent time for Halide with people leaving and whatnot, and I will remain a paying customer to support what has been truly one of the greats… but this update has me concerned there isn’t a keen design eye at the wheel.
The execution is fine to have wobbles - but the ideas here are bad. Especially the core idea of having a permanent, undismissable preview photo blaring out of the screen at you at all times when shooting on the inner screen. There is no option to disable it, and it completely ruins full screen shooting.
The selfie mode (where you swipe to unlock use of the outer screen with the main cameras) is just straight up broken. It shows the inner screen UI, with the wrong camera, flipped to the wrong orientation. It is simply unusable - it should never have shipped in this state.
This app *has* an iPad UI that could just as easily have been adapted. Instead, a truly terrible idea was pushed out. It fundamentally misunderstands what a camera is to a photographer when shooting.
I know it has been a turbulent time for Halide with people leaving and whatnot, and I will remain a paying customer to support what has been truly one of the greats… but this update has me concerned there isn’t a keen design eye at the wheel.
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Lied about Duo support
It’s still a tiny app running with huge black bars around it. Your claims about Duo support are misleading.
Crashes on launch + other issues
(iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 27.0.1) After giving the necessary permissions, the app crashes on every subsequent launch. Please fix!
Besides that, I'd like to be able to set the app to automatically open in any mode, not just Auto. Seems counterintuitive for a professional camera app to be missing something so basic.
Besides that, I'd like to be able to set the app to automatically open in any mode, not just Auto. Seems counterintuitive for a professional camera app to be missing something so basic.
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Efficient Developer
Wow! You added features and yet reduced the already small app size by 10%. Others devs should take note!
Ok When it Works
When the app actually works, it’s a pretty decent manual camera. The controls are not super intuitive and there’s a 65% chance the app doesn’t actually take an image- 100% if you’re coming from the lockscreen. I’m not sure if the Developer has started using AI in development or something, but the app was significantly better in Mk 1 & 2.
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iPhone18pm can't open it
I change 2 accounts and still can't open it.
Inutilisable
inutilisable dans l’état, j’utilise deux comptes Apple sur mon iPhone pour accéder à des fonctionnalités normalement bloqué en Europe, halide est la seule application qui m’en interdit
Beautiful images but incredibly buggy
The photos turn out miles better than what you get out of the iPhone camera app. Love the amount of control you have over the settings. HOWEVER, the app itself is very buggy. I’d say 50% of the time I go to open it, it will fail to launch. Even worse, I’d say about 30% of the images you take fail to actually save. Sometimes the app will prompt you to restore the images, but most of the time the images just disappear. Not worth the money unless they fix the bugs.
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So far, so good!
Sometimes you just want to take a natural picture without all the automatic AI adjustments. This is when I use Halide! I’m still new to it but so far, so good!
Crashing After Install and Permissions
Excited to explore the app, but it’s crashing as soon as I get through permissions and every new launch after that crashes immediately. I’m on an iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 26.3.1
Long term user sick of subscriptions.
I bought an app, they now paywall certain features, release a new app rather than giving users who have paid buttons they can’t click prompting them to subscribe.
THE find
i made this app as my main camera option
Good but there’s been a crashing issue
It’s a fantastic camera app probably the best on the App Store but for some reason recently it just started randomly crashing and then I’ll try to open it and it will just like crash over and over again and I have to delete the app and reinstall it to even use it again and for some reason now like every time, I just stop using the app. I’m done taking photos and then I try to open it again. It will just do the same thing we’ll just crash and not let me open it until I reinstall the app.
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Bait & Switch
Purchased this app already and now they are asking for a subscription for updates?! Bad bad business ethics!
My always carry camera
Halide is the action button on my iPhone. The camera that is always in my pocket. Was great before and then process zero cinched it. Keep up the good work
Replace the default camera
My go-to photo app
Needs More Filters
Doesn’t seem to have enough filters for the price
