# Spotmatic Magic

> Computational photography studio for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with advanced editing and stacking. (iPhone/iPad app by Erich Champion.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spotmatic-magic/id6756294043 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Erich Champion](https://appshunter.io/developer/1849298255)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: $0.99 (on sale, was $4.99)
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: German (Germany), American English, French (France), Italian, Japanese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-04-18
- Data updated: 2026-09-08
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spotmatic-magic/id6756294043/reviews.md

## What is Spotmatic Magic?

SpotmaticMagic is a complete computational photography studio for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Work in one place across three tools — Adjust your tone and color with a live preview, apply a creative Filter like Watercolor or a classic film stock, or Transform a whole sequence with desktop-class algorithms like Focus Stacking, HDR Fusion, and Astrophotography Stacking. Bring in photos from any camera, including full-resolution RAW.

Adjust in Real Time

Fine-tune every image on a live canvas with an on-screen luminance histogram. Drag Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Contrast, Black & White Point, Brilliance, Saturation, Vibrance, Warmth, and Tint — plus a true vignette. Every slider starts on a smart Auto value that corrects color casts without blowing out highlights; take manual control whenever you like, or tap Reset All to return to Auto. Nothing is written until you apply.

A Creative Filter Suite

Transform a single photo with eleven hand-built looks:

• Painterly — Watercolor (soft bleeds and pooled pigment), Oil Painting (thick impasto relief), Ink Painting (sumi-e ink wash), Painterly Media (pastel, gouache, and acrylic), and Impressionist brushwork.
• Graphic — Cartoon, Line Drawing (pen, pencil, and charcoal), and Photo Abstraction.
• Selective Focus — color splash, background blur, and spotlight effects driven by automatic subject detection.
• Film — authentic color and black-and-white film-stock emulation, including Kodak Portra, Ektar, and Kodachrome; Fujifilm Velvia, Provia, and Astia; and Ilford and Fujifilm B&W stocks like Tri-X, HP5 Plus, T-Max, Delta, and Neopan Acros — each with real grain, sharpness, and halation.

Pro Stacking & Transform

Combine an image sequence with hardware-accelerated algorithms:

• Focus Stacking — merge images shot at different focus distances into a single edge-to-edge sharp photo, with optional per-pixel optical-flow refinement.
• HDR Fusion (Natural & Vibrant) — blend exposure brackets for the full dynamic range of a scene, in realistic or punchy styles.
• Astrophotography Stacking — reduce noise and reveal deep-sky detail, with full bias, dark, flat, and dark-flat calibration support.
• Motion Removal — erase passing tourists or cars from a burst of otherwise identical frames.
• Long Exposure & Motion Blur — simulate silky water and light trails without an ND filter.
• Image Alignment — scale-robust feature-based alignment built for handheld and macro sequences.

Any Camera, Any Format

Import from your Photo Library, or choose individual files or a whole folder. SpotmaticMagic reads full-resolution RAW from every major manufacturer — Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus / OM System, Panasonic, and more, plus universal DNG — now with correct RAW decoding on iPhone and iPad. Export your finished image as HEIF, JPEG, PNG, or 16-bit TIFF.

Inspect Every Detail

Tap any result to open a fullscreen Zoom Inspector. Pan and zoom with a navigator minimap, and press and hold to compare your edit against the original.

Desktop-Class Performance on Device

SpotmaticMagic is built on a highly optimized Metal graphics pipeline, with operations like 8-DOF homography alignment and optical flow running locally. Everything happens on your device — no cloud uploads — maximizing your privacy and speed. The app fully supports Dark Mode and is localized for many languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

Who It's For

SpotmaticMagic is for macro and landscape shooters, astrophotographers, and any creative who wants real control over how their photos look — from a quick live adjustment to a painterly filter to a precision focus stack. It's the perfect companion for a dedicated camera, and a powerful way to elevate the photos you've already taken.

## Key features

- Real-time image adjustments with live histogram
- Creative filter suite including painterly and film emulation
- Advanced stacking: Focus, HDR, Astrophotography
- Motion removal and long exposure simulation
- RAW import from major camera manufacturers
- Export to HEIF, JPEG, PNG, 16-bit TIFF


## Frequently asked questions about Spotmatic Magic

### What is Spotmatic Magic?

Spotmatic Magic is a computational photography studio for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It offers tools for real-time image adjustments, creative filters, and advanced stacking techniques like Focus Stacking, HDR Fusion, and Astrophotography Stacking.

### What kind of filters does Spotmatic Magic offer?

Spotmatic Magic includes eleven hand-built creative filters. These range from painterly styles like Watercolor and Oil Painting to graphic styles like Cartoon and Line Drawing, as well as selective focus effects and authentic film stock emulations.

### Can I import RAW photos into Spotmatic Magic?

Yes, Spotmatic Magic supports full-resolution RAW import from all major camera manufacturers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus/OM System, Panasonic, and universal DNG. RAW decoding is available on iPhone and iPad.

### What stacking features are available in Spotmatic Magic?

Spotmatic Magic provides advanced stacking algorithms such as Focus Stacking for edge-to-edge sharpness, HDR Fusion for full dynamic range, and Astrophotography Stacking for deep-sky detail. It also includes Motion Removal and Long Exposure & Motion Blur simulation.

### What devices is Spotmatic Magic compatible with?

Spotmatic Magic is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It is designed to allow users to work seamlessly across these Apple platforms.

### How much does Spotmatic Magic cost?

Spotmatic Magic is a paid application, priced at $0.99. There are no in-app purchases or subscriptions required to access its full features.

### Does Spotmatic Magic have ads?

No, Spotmatic Magic does not contain advertisements. As a paid application, it provides an ad-free experience for all users.

### What export formats does Spotmatic Magic support?

After editing, you can export your finished images from Spotmatic Magic in several formats, including HEIF, JPEG, PNG, and 16-bit TIFF, offering flexibility for various uses.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-07-30

Display P3)

- Your edits now export in wide-gamut Display P3 — the vivid colors you see on screen are the colors
  that get saved, instead of being flattened to a narrower range.

Your Photo's Details, Kept

- Exports now preserve your original photo's date, location (GPS), and IPTC info, and RAW/DNG files
  import at full resolution with accurate color.

Choose Your Quality

- New export controls let you pick JPEG/HEIF quality and output resolution (Full, 4K, or 2K).

Built for Everyone

- Full VoiceOver support and Dynamic Type: the entire Studio scales with your text-size setting and
  reads aloud, so it works the way you do.

Faster to Share

- Share results straight to the system share sheet, and drag-and-drop images in to get started.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-06-23

A Brand-New Studio
SpotmaticMagic now opens into a single Studio workspace instead of a step-by-step wizard: your images, a live canvas, and a recipe panel — all in one place. Recipes are organized into Adjust, Filter, and Transform tabs.

Live Adjustments
The Adjust panel previews your changes in real time with a live histogram, and now opens by default.

A Whole New Creative Filter Suite
Eleven new looks: Watercolor, Oil Painting, Ink Painting, Cartoon, Line Drawing, Photo Abstraction, Selective Focus, Painterly Media, and Impressionist — plus authentic Film emulations (Kodak, Fujifilm, Ilford) with real grain and halation.

Inspect Every Detail
Tap any result to open a fullscreen Zoom Inspector — pan, zoom, and press to compare against the original.

Dark Mode & RAW on iPhone/iPad
The app now supports Dark Mode, decodes RAW/DNG files correctly on iOS, and lets you import either individual files or a whole folder. You can also export to TIFF.

Sharper Stacks
Image Alignment and Focus Stacking in the Transform tab are far more robust for handheld and macro shots, and use less memory.

### 1.0.9 — 2026-05-18

Smarter Alignment Engine

- The alignment system now produces a continuous confidence score for every warp instead of a binary pass/fail. HDR automatically discards brackets with poor alignment scores rather than using bad frames. Feature-Based alignment is now the default across all workflows for better accuracy on challenging scenes.
- Focus stacking alignment uses more GPU horsepower — CLAHE enhancement, feature orientation, sharpness filtering, and descriptor matching all run on Metal — cutting alignment time significantly.

Focus Stacking Quality Leap

- The wavelet focus-stacking path now uses Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT), which is shift-invariant unlike the previous Daubechies-6 approach. Ghosting and halo artifacts on high-contrast edges are substantially reduced.

Physically Correct Color in Every Workflow

- All seven computational-photography workflows (HDR, Focus Stacking, Motion Removal, Motion Blur, Motion Removal, Autostretch, Astro Stacking, and Alignment) now linearize the input working space before processing. Blending, averaging, and merging operations now produce physically correct results — improved shadow/midtone accuracy and more natural color in merged outputs.
- HDR gains per-channel camera response function estimation and recalibrated tone mappers.

Available in Six New Languages

- The app, settings, and documentation are now fully localized in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese.

### 1.0.8 — 2026-04-29

Computational Photography

- Motion Removal brightness fix: Corrected an image encoding issue where Motion Removal outputs appeared brighter than the source images. The same source images now produce consistent brightness between Motion Removal and Motion Blur workflows.
- Optimized Metal pipeline: Consolidated all GPU compute kernels into a single unified Metal library for faster load times and cleaner build process.

Stability & Performance

- Rock-solid camera initialization: Improved camera session setup with fallback device detection and multi-thread-safe initialization to handle edge cases more gracefully.
- Thermal management: Optimized Metal resource pooling and test infrastructure to reduce memory spikes during batch operations.

### 1.0.7 — 2026-04-18

No release notes.

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