Project Indigo vs ProTube
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Project Indigo
This app offers advanced computational photography with manual controls for a natural, SLR-like image look. It captures bursts of photos to create high-quality images with reduced noise and enhanced dynamic range, suitable for both casual and professional users.
- Computational photography pipeline
- Natural image look (SLR-like)
- Full manual camera controls
- Photo and Night modes
- Super-resolution for zoom
- Macro mode
- Live viewfinder with histogram and zebra striping
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Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page. Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads. For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer. A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range. PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted. Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise. NATURAL LOOK Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them. PRO CONTROLS Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray. Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped. SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active. MACRO MODE Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots. VIEWFINDER Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images. LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form: - AI Denoise is a variant of the AI-based denoising from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll. - Remove Reflections is a variant of the technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. It tries to remove reflections when shooting through plate glass windows covering most of the camera field of view. - Face Dewarp corrects warp on faces near the edge of images captured using wide-angle lenses. It uses DNG or JPEG as input and saves a JPEG to your camera roll.
ProTube
Enjoy uninterrupted video and music playback with this ad-blocking player. It allows for background playback, even with the screen off or while using other applications, and offers convenient lock screen controls.
- Ad blocker for videos
- Background playback
- Screen off playback
- Lock screen controls
- Clean interface
- Lightweight and efficient
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ProTube is an all-in-one browser for video websites that lets you: • Enjoy a seamless, native app experience • Cast to your TV with AirPlay • Browse in dark mode • Set a sleep timer and more Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ProTube at 4.8 against Project Indigo's 3.8. ProTube also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 45%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Project Indigo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ProTube sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Project Indigo asks for nothing beyond the download.
ProTube holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ProTube has 16K ratings behind it against 719, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Project Indigo's written reviews are positive against 74% of ProTube's.
Project Indigo ships an update every 3 weeks, ProTube weekly. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Project Indigo | ProTube |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (719 ratings) | 4.8 (16K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.3% of reviews | 73.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 719 | 16K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #204 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 347 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Adobe Labs, Inc. | Supermoon Platforms LLC |
Customer experience
Project Indigo
ProTube
User reviews
Project Indigo
From 719 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent image quality
- 🚀 Powerful processing algorithms
- 🔍 Impressive zoom and detail enhancement
Room to improve
- 🔥 Overheating issues
- 🔋 Battery drain
- 🐛 Focusing problems
- 🚫 Incompatible with some regions/devices
ProTube
From 16K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Better than expected
- 🥳 Excellent app
- 🚀 No ads
- 🚀 Clean and simple
- 🚀 Updated regularly
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs with YouTube icon getting stuck
- 🐛 Bigger screen issue when switching videos
- 🐛 Slow app launch
Bugs and requests
Project Indigo
Reported bugs
2 issues- Shutter sound cannot be disabled
- AI-based features causing loss of detail
Requested features
3 requests- Support for higher resolution photos
- Improved tap-to-focus functionality
- Better optimization for battery and thermal performance
ProTube
Reported bugs
3 issues- YouTube icon getting stuck
- Bigger screen issue when switching videos
- Slow app launch
Requested features
4 requests- Add music and video download support
- Improve background audio playback
- Add iPad support
- Add option to change video quality and have it stay set
In-app purchases
Project Indigo
No in-app purchases
ProTube
- Premium$0.991 Month
- Premium$5.991 Year









