Spectre Camera vs Scrubb

Apple iPhone App of the Year, 2019 Introducing Spectre, from the makers of Halide, one of the top camera apps in the App Store. Spectre uses AI to help you make amazing long exposure photographs. Spectre can remove crowds, turn city streets into rivers of light, make waterfalls look like paintings, and much more. Until now, it was difficult to take long exposures: from keeping the camera steady to guessing the amount of light you need. Spectre takes care of all of that! WHAT YOU CAN DO • MAKE CROWDS DISAPPEAR: Spectre helps take photos of crowded, touristy places. Simply set a medium or long duration and take a shot to erase the crowd from a location. Capture the those special moments like you remember them. • RIVERS OF LIGHT: At night, AI scene detection automatically switches modes to draw beautiful light trails, for stunning nighttime city photography or light painting. • GORGEOUS WATER: Capture waterfalls, ocean waves, fountains and more with beautiful ghostly water. LIVE PHOTOS AND VIDEO Spectre’s intelligent computational shutter takes hundreds of shots over the span of a few seconds, and saves them in an accompanying live photo. That means you can pick a different frame as your photo, apply live-photo effects, and even use the long exposure as a live-wallpaper! ENDLESS SMARTS Spectre is a packed with powerful technology from by the team that brought you Halide. From machine learning-based scene detection to computer vision aided image stabilization, Spectre is jammed full of impressive technologies to get the best possible image. DESIGNED FOR HUMANS Spectre is meticulously designed. Its dark UI is gentle on the eyes when you shoot at night. Gorgeous glowing highlights infuse it with a unique style. Custom typefaces and iconography combined with unique, smooth controls make it as tactile and delightful as an actual physical camera. Like its sister app Halide, the app is easily usable with one hand, even on the largest iPhones. HIGH-TECH SHOWCASE Build with the latest tech, Spectre isn't just a long exposure camera — it’s the cutting edge technology showcase of one of the App Store’s foremost camera apps, Halide. Here’s just a few of the latest technologies that we use in Spectre: - DCI-P3 Wide Color Pipeline - Live Photos - Metal Graphics Acceleration - Tripod Detection - Siri & Shortcuts - AI Stabilization - Machine Learning & CoreML - Computer Vision COMPATIBILITY: Spectre’s smart Automatic Scene Detection requires iOS 12. AI-based stabilization features are available on iPhone 6S and later.* For the best experience, we recommend iPhone 8 or later. On iPhone 6, Spectre captures in lower resolution. ABOUT US We’re Ben and Sebastiaan, two friends living in the San Francisco Bay Area that love building fantastic apps for photography. We hope you love Spectre! We’d love your feedback to make it even better or any reports of bugs you run into. You can always contact us directly via email: support@halide.cam, on our Twitter: @halidecamera or Instagram: @halideapp Don’t forget to share your amazing results by tagging them with #SpectreShot so we can share them on our growing social media accounts!

Your photos are telling on you. Every picture your phone takes carries hidden data: the exact GPS coordinates, down to a few metres. The date and time to the second. Your camera's serial number, which ties every photo you have ever posted back to the same device. Sometimes a thumbnail of the original shot, still showing what you cropped out. Your videos carry it too, which almost nobody realises. You cannot see any of it. The person you send the photo to can. Scrubb shows you exactly what is hidden inside a photo or video, then removes it without touching the picture itself. SEE IT BEFORE YOU SEND IT Open any photo and Scrubb lays out everything inside: location on a map, device and lens, timestamps, author and copyright fields, editing history, embedded previews. Each field is labelled in plain language, with a note on what it actually gives away. The inspector is free forever. YOUR PIXELS ARE NEVER TOUCHED Most metadata removers re-compress your photo. You get a smaller file, softer detail, and a JPEG where you had a HEIC. Scrubb does not do that. It rewrites the container around your image and copies the compressed picture across untouched, so a cleaned photo is byte-for-byte identical where it counts and keeps its original format. This works on JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, GIF, and QuickTime video. EVERY FILE IS CHECKED BEFORE YOU SEE IT Removing metadata is easy. Removing it correctly is not, and a tool that quietly fails is worse than no tool at all. So Scrubb reads back every file it writes. The image must still decode. It must match the original's dimensions. Its pixels must hash identically. And none of the fields you asked to remove may still be present, cross-checked against the system's own image parser. A file that fails any of these is deleted, not handed to you. NOTHING IS EVER UPLOADED Free online metadata removers need you to upload the file first — the very file you are trying to strip identifying data out of, handed to a stranger's server. Scrubb has no server to upload to. No account, no analytics. Every byte is processed on your Mac, iPhone or iPad. The only thing that ever touches the network is turning a coordinate into a place name for the map you are already looking at. YOUR ORIGINALS STAY WHERE THEY ARE Cleaning always writes a new file. Replacing an original is possible, but it is a separate choice behind its own confirmation, and even then Scrubb writes and verifies the replacement before it touches anything. Camera RAW files are refused outright. Their layouts are proprietary and a bad edit destroys a negative you cannot recreate, so Scrubb exports a cleaned JPEG or HEIC instead and leaves the negative alone. SELECTIVE OR ALL AT ONCE Remove everything. Remove only the location. Or open the inspector and switch individual fields on and off. Presets cover the common cases; the inspector covers the rest. Clean one photo or a few hundred in a single pass. ONE PAYMENT The inspector is free forever. The first five exports are free and full-strength: Scrubb will never strip only some of your metadata to push you towards paying. After that, one purchase unlocks unlimited exports on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not a subscription. Not now, not later.