Macro Camera Pro vs Veridenz

The native camera decides where to focus. This one lets you decide. Macro Camera Pro gives you manual control over focus, lens and exposure — on every iPhone. —— WHY THE NATIVE CAMERA FAILS AT MACRO Get close to a tiny subject and the native camera hunts focus back and forth, jumps between lenses without warning, and resets the moment you move. You fight the automation instead of shooting. Macro Camera Pro eliminates all three problems. —— MANUAL FOCUS SLIDER A large vertical slider lets you dial in focus with millimeter precision. Haptic feedback gives you a physical tick for every adjustment — it feels like turning a real lens ring. No more tap-to-focus guessing. LENS LOCK Lock the lens you want and the app stays on it. No automatic switching, ever. Your composition stays intact. FOCUS PEAKING Real-time edge highlights show you exactly what is in focus before you shoot. See the sharp plane at a glance. Adjust. Shoot with confidence. MANUAL EXPOSURE Full control over ISO and shutter speed. Lock exposure independently from focus. Switch between Auto, AE Lock, and Manual in one tap. VARIABLE TORCH A dimmable LED fill light illuminates your subject without the harshness of flash. Reveal textures and details invisible in ambient light. HARDWARE SHUTTER Use your iPhone volume button to trigger the shutter — less hand movement means sharper macro shots. FOCUS STACK Capture several frames at different focus points and merge them into one image with more of your subject sharp. Works best on still subjects with a steady hand — the more depth your subject has, the bigger the difference. —— WILL IT WORK ON MY IPHONE? Yes. Manual focus, lens lock, focus peaking, focus stacking, the torch and GPS tagging work on every iPhone that runs iOS 18. Focusing all the way down to 2 cm needs an Ultra Wide camera with autofocus. Every Pro model since iPhone 13 Pro has one, and so does every standard model from iPhone 16 onward. The e-series and iPhone Air have a single camera and no Ultra Wide at all. On every other iPhone the main camera focuses to roughly 20 cm — and clip-on macro lenses work beautifully, because a clip-on lens defeats autofocus entirely and manual focus is the only way to use one properly. Not sure which one you have? The app measures your iPhone's closest focus distance and shows it on first launch, and the 5-day trial costs nothing. CAPTURE Full-resolution JPEG or HEIF, multiple aspect ratios, and adjustable focus peaking strength (Light, Medium, Bold). —— HONEST PRICING 5-day free trial — full Pro access, no credit card required. One-time unlock — pay once, own it forever. No subscription. No hidden fees. —— PRIVACY FIRST No account. No tracking. No analytics. Photos stay on your device. Works fully offline.

Capture important photos privately and create cryptographic proof that can be verified later. Veridenz is free to download, and verification is free for everyone. Anyone can use Veridenz to check whether a photo matches its witness, whether the cryptographic signature is valid, and whether the witness record exists on Nostr. Creating new captures, generating signed witnesses, and publishing witness records requires the Veridenz Lifetime Unlock, available as a one-time in-app purchase. There is no subscription. Veridenz keeps captured photos privately inside the app rather than automatically adding them to your Apple Photos library. Optional iCloud Sync can securely synchronize your Veridenz photos and witnesses across your Apple devices while keeping them separate from Apple Photos. Veridenz can be useful for documenting: • Property damage • Deliveries • Repairs • Inspections • Receipts • Documents • Work records • Items being bought or sold • Other important evidence and documentation Each capture creates a cryptographically signed witness tied to the exact original image file. The witness record can then be published to the decentralized Nostr network. The original photo itself is not published to Nostr. Verification can confirm that: • The selected image matches the originally witnessed file • The cryptographic signature is valid • The witness record exists on Nostr Your photos remain managed privately by Veridenz. If you enable iCloud Sync, they can also synchronize through Veridenz’s private iCloud storage to your other Apple devices. You can explicitly export or share files when you choose. Veridenz does not require an account or subscription. A signing identity is created and managed by the app and protected using Apple Keychain. For additional privacy, you can optionally protect your saved Witnesses library with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode without adding authentication to the camera or capture process. IMPORTANT LIMITATIONS Veridenz can demonstrate that a specific file matches a cryptographically signed witness created at a particular time and can verify the associated Nostr record when available. Veridenz cannot prove that the scene shown in a photograph was real or unstaged, establish that everything depicted is truthful, or guarantee that a photo or witness will be accepted as evidence by a court, insurer, employer, marketplace, or other organization.