Helios Camera

Helios Camera shows your film grade live in the viewfinder, so the photo you see is the photo you take — and it keeps the untouched original beside it. FILM, LIVE • Nearly 90 film profiles in ten families: print, cinema, colour negative, slide and chrome, monochrome, soft and faded, lab processes and more • Strength, print contrast and print colour for every film • The same film science as the Helios Grade plugin for DaVinci Resolve EFFECTS THAT BEHAVE LIKE LIGHT • Grain with stock and size • Halation with threshold and edge isolation • Mist, glow, glaze, vignette, clarity and chroma • Curves drawn right over the live picture • Every panel sits below the picture, so the whole frame stays in view while you adjust MANUAL CONTROL • ISO, shutter, exposure compensation, white balance and focus, each on its own dial • White-balance shift on a colour grid, amber to blue and green to magenta, saved with your looks • Tap a face to track it: focus and exposure follow that person, even with several faces in view • Touch and hold to lock exposure, focus or white balance • Lens marks and a zoom dial in real focal lengths VIEWFINDER AIDS • Grids, a level that works shooting straight down, focus peaking, zebras, a histogram and clipping warnings • None of them is ever written into a photo ORIGINALS KEPT • Every photo keeps its untouched original • RAW DNG on iPhones with ProRAW; the look is finished from the RAW • Apple Log and Apple Log 2 stills as 16-bit TIFFs on iPhones that record log, ready for DaVinci Resolve • Finished photos as JPEG or HEIF, at 12 or 48 MP where the camera offers it LOOKS • 15 ready-made looks in seven categories: Portrait, Street, Cinema, Travel, Night, Black & White and Retro. Each mixes a film with grain, halation, softness, glaze and tone. Delete any of them and restore them later • Turn the look dial and the viewfinder follows, look by look • Save your own film and effects as a look and apply it before you shoot • Share looks as .heliosios files, or open one from Files or Messages • Choose which effects appear in the Effects panel, and put them in your order • An optional "Shot on Helios Camera" caption for finished photos, off unless you turn it on EDIT ANY PHOTO • A full editor for any photo in your library. Every tool is open to try; after the trial, 10 edits a day are free (an edit is one finished photo exported from the editor) FREE, THEN YOURS FOR GOOD Your first 14 days are unlimited. After that, ten finished photos and ten edits a day are free. A one-time purchase removes both daily limits for good — no subscription. Family Sharing is supported. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no cloud, no AI service, no ads, no analytics and no third-party code. Your photos, edits and looks stay on your iPhone. Helios Camera's film looks are original designs, inspired by the character of classic photographic films and processes.