Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience29.5% of reviews
Neutral14.9% of reviews
Negative experience55.6% of reviews

~ Based on 275 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI Safe?

Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI is 68/100.

This assessment is based on 250 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Safety Analysis

55.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
13.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
31.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 250 App Store ratings for Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI.

Is Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI Legit?

Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hydra › Pro Camera, RAW + AI is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Make it free at this point

No wonder why this app has 3 stars it only makes slight improvement and puts on 2 watermarks and its so overpriced

Just make it free

Disappointed

I love the hydra app but for some reason when I use the new version every time I try to use the high res or zoom function.
Using iPhone XR on the latest iOS the iPhone can support.

The app is jumping away

During working on the picture ones the app jumping away and can’t work on the picture

Worse than version 1. Sliders need tweaking. Crashes.

Update 25/3/26: seems to crash a lot when taking HDR photos and processing them. I’ve tested photos and video from both the version 1 and version 2 Hydra and can honestly say that the results from the legacy version 1 are just that same and in some cases even better than the newer Hydra. Therefore I wouldn’t pay £4.99 to upgrade. The 110mp shots from the new version look less sharp than the original Hydra at 32mp. The older version wins in macro too. I’m not sure how version 2 is any upgrade at all. It would be nice to be able to double tap on the sliders and make them reset back to zero. It’s hard to pull the sliders to zero because they’re so small. And it would be good to be able to save your HDR settings to that every picture you take is tweaked to your own personal taste. Also, I’m not clear what the difference is between the PRO (rolling monthly/yearly payments) and the full version is. Are you saying that if I were ti pay for the full version I wouldn’t get updates that I would with the pro version ??. Also needs an option to double click on the sliders to return them back to zero (default settings) in editing, because it’s fiddly to get them back to zero.
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Chat gpt lied to me

Doesn’t do composite photos of multiple exposures of a single frame

Hydra Is My Go-To Camera

I just returned from vacation at Disney World and Universal Studios. I can definitely say that this camera app got a lot of use! I have owned a lot of camera apps over the years, but this one I consistently come back to. I basically took all my pictures with Hydra, and XP4N (a little bit unknown camera app that takes panoramas in one shot, and supports a few nice live filters—look it up).

I’m a semi-pro photographer (self-proclaimed lol), but didn’t bring my DSLR. When I take a picture, it's a meaningful expression. I don't just snap a million photos and try to sort through them later.

This app has a wonderful HDR mode with a nice UX for quick editing a photo immediately after taking it. You can also save an unprocessed photo, several different photo formats (JPEG, Adobe DNG, Apple ProRAW, etc), as well as HDR image formats like 32-bit TIFF, and then save them all at the exact same time you initially take the picture! You can also get some good super-resolution pictures in Hi-Res mode, and the best macro mode and low-light mode photos capable on a mobile device, IMHO (limited by hardware and lenses).

There is a lifetime purchase option, and they do keep it updated although every major version release requires a new purchase (which is why the subscription option may actually fit you better if you only plan on using it once in while). The company has been around for a long time, and I'm confident they would have addressed any issues that I had, if I had ever needed support in the first place. I would no-doubt recommend this app to anyone interested in taking good pictures on mobile!

The one thing I really miss is the HDR Video… any plans to reintegrate this feature in the future?
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App close when quad pixel is enable

I bought the app and does not work properly, please fix it, when a try to take the photo with quad pixel activate, the app just closed.

Quiere acceso a todo

Quiere acceso a la fotos y a la geolocalización de no aceptar no avanza y cuando aceptas tampoco se queda pegada y abre nada puro robo de datos

EXCEPCIONAL!!!

App excelente, funciona perfeitamente 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Merci pour les 50%

Bonjour Raphaël, juste un petit message pour vous remercier sur les 50 % de réduction pour les utilisateurs de la v1, je viens de faire ma mise à jour à l’instant grâce à ce geste commercial.👌

Pourriez-vous intégrer le "focus-stacking" dans le Mode Macro svp ?

L’intégration de l’édition des métadonnées XMP dans le fichier DNG généré serait un gros plus pour les photographes qui ont des besoins professionnels.

En espérant qu’Apple soit plus permissive concernant l’accès au capteur pour la nouvelle version d’iOS.🤞
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Not so good

Asking me for my location

My favorite camera app!

I love love this app. The colors you can get in the HDR mode are exquisite. I would recommend playing with the different settings. Just wonderful.

Leider nicht mehr zu gebrauchen

Habe die App schon vor der 2er Version gehabt und da war sie vor allem für Low-Light Aufnahmen gut. Es kamen immer gute Bilder raus.
Jetzt kann man sie total vergessen. Mit der Mainkamera (16 Pro) bekommt man mit manueller Einstellungen einigermaßen etwas hin, aber nicht vergleichbar mit der originalen App (um Welten besser). Mit der Telekamera bekommt die App gar nix hin. Ausserdem ist bei mir in den Bildern ein Gitter bei dunklen Bildern im Bild. Hab die gekaufte Version.
Würde die App nicht mehr kaufen oder nutzen.
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Mehr Schein als Sein!

Wie im Titel zu entnehmen ist die App leider nicht wirklich dass was sie promotet. Leider hat die Gesellschaft es verinnerlicht alles was Müll ist, als Gold zu verkaufen… Kritik wird heutzutage nicht wirklich mehr verbreitet und sinnvoll genutzt und das gleiche spiegelt sich eben in dieser Apo wieder.

Die Apo verspricht scharfe Fotos und eine höhere Pixeldichte durch KI. Leider ist die App nicht viel mehr als eine Alternative zu der nativen Kamera-App von Apple. Die Ergebnisse sind sogar weitaus schlechter als mit der normalen App. Das einzige was die App bietet ist eine nachträgliche Bearbeitung der Bilder nach dem Auslösen. Dafür hat man aber die Galerie des IPhone mit weitaus mehr Möglichkeiten und Funktionen.

Wer sich hier an die Beschreibung klammert und glaubt es taugt etwas, dem sei gesagt, dass es ratsam wäre, sich die geschriebenen Daten und damit ein Teil der Lebenszeit auf dem Speicher, die verloren geht sparen sollte.
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Buena app

Muy buena app la verdad a este año 2025 puedo decir que a tenido buenas mejoras las fotos en HDR son espectaculares mejor que la cámara nativa que trae mi iPhone 15 pro, la recomiendo comprar

New Version slow and freezes

This version is just slow and auto focus does not seem to work.

Не все режимы работают.

Хороший потенциал для меня, есть много хороших моментов, был уже готов взять подписку, но работают только 2 режима (обычный и HDR), жаль. Жду обновы. iPhone XR

La photo HDR Hydra est complètement pourrie

Passez votre chemin, aucun intérêt à part lâcher de l’argent inutilement, l’application native fait 1000 fois mieux.

App not working

Last couple of iterations of the app keep crashing on my iPhone XR, running iOS 18.2.1 - Worked fine up until iOS 17 and did a very good job then - Unable to use the app

Good- but crashes on iPhone 16

Good for older phones.