Halcyon Camera vs PinwePhoto

Halcyon brings the soul of film to your iPhone. Twelve hand-crafted film stocks — Kodak Portra 400, Cinestill 800T, Velvia 50, Tri-X 400 and more — each with the temperature, tone curve, grain, and halation of the real thing. Apply them live, before you take the shot, and what you see is exactly what you get. REAL PRO CONTROLS, ONE-HANDED. Full manual ISO, shutter, focus, white balance, and exposure. Tap to focus. Long-press for AE/AF lock. Pinch to zoom. Volume buttons fire the shutter. Lens switcher for ultrawide, wide, telephoto. Halide-style focus loupe magnifies the sharpness plane as you rack focus. Histogram, waveform, focus peaking, zebras, false color, horizon level — when you need them, hidden when you don't. NEW IN 3.2 — LONG EXPOSURE, SLOW-MO, LIVE PHOTO. • Multi-frame long exposure — 2, 5, 10, or 20 second stacks with automatic alignment for handheld light trails, silky water, and star fields • Slow-motion capture at 120fps and 240fps • Live Photo for every film stock — the frames before and after, with the film baked in • Thermal and storage health warnings before a long take can bite you • Alternate app icons: Amber, Midnight, Noir BUILT-IN PRO OVERLAYS. • Histogram — real-time RGB • Waveform — luminance monitor • Focus peaking — see what's sharp • Focus loupe — Halide-style magnifier • Zebras — highlight clipping alert • False color — exposure map • Horizon level — stop crooked photos • Rule-of-thirds grid • Cinematic frame modes — square, 3:2, 16:9, half-frame • Live ISO / shutter chips PRO VIDEO WITH FILM SIMULATION. Record HEVC, ProRes 422 HQ, or Apple Log with the film baked in. Cinematic 24fps, 4K, live audio, plus 120/240fps slow-motion. EVERYTHING IS YOURS. WYSIWYG: every effect — film, grain, halation — is baked into the saved photo. ProRAW is preserved as alternate. Create custom film recipes with a 14-slider editor. Save them, share them, refine them. YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE. No analytics. No data collection. No network requests. Nothing leaves your iPhone. Made with care for everyone who misses film.

Great value: pay once, no subscription One purchase and every feature is yours for good. No monthly fees, no in-app purchases. No ads, no sign-up Open the app and start editing: no ads in the way, no account to create. Your photos are never uploaded Every edit happens right on your phone. Your photos and data are never sent to any server, and the app collects no data at all. It goes online only if you choose to download an extra font. Looks and Auto • 125 looks in 13 categories: Basic, HDR, B&W, Portrait, Landscape, Food, Airy, Film, Vintage, Cinema, Night, Seasons and Duotone, each with adjustable strength • 10 HDR looks that lift shadows and keep highlight detail; 12 black-and-white looks with red, yellow and green filter effects • Auto: one tap sets exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, white balance and vibrance, and every slider stays editable Adjustments and color • Exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance, hue, clarity, sharpen, fade, vignette, grain and blur • Noise reduction, with a separate slider for color noise • HSL mixer for eight color ranges; tone curves for RGB and each color channel • Color splash: tap the color to keep, and the rest turns black and white Retouch • Spot healing: tap a blemish or brush over a longer mark, and it is patched from a matching area nearby • Skin smoothing, brighter eyes and whiter teeth • Background blur, or cut out the subject as a PNG with a transparent background • On iPhone, people and faces are found automatically (and any object you tap, on iOS 17 or later), right on the device; brushes paint or erase every area by hand Crop, perspective and liquify • Freeform or fixed-ratio crop with the output size on screen; rotate, flip and straighten • Vertical and horizontal perspective correction to straighten buildings shot from below • Liquify: push, bloat, pinch and twirl, with a brush that gets finer as you zoom in Text, stickers, drawing and borders • 18 built-in fonts plus 29 Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts to download; shadow, outline and background • Emoji and recolorable vector shapes; pen, highlighter and eraser • Borders with adjustable width, rounded corners and color, or an instant-photo style • Social sizes (1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 16:9 and more) filled with a blurred copy of the photo or a color Watermark, date stamp and export • Text or logo watermark (transparent PNG / SVG, recolorable) and a date stamp, each with its own position, size, angle and opacity; drag, pinch and turn them right on the photo • Use the date the photo was taken, or today • Export as JPEG or PNG at the quality and resolution you choose Batch edit • Apply a look or preset, a watermark and a date stamp to many photos at once; each photo gets its own capture date And more • Drag a before / after divider, or hold Original to compare • Pinch to zoom; undo, redo and one-tap reset to the original • Save looks, adjustments, color settings and canvas sizes as presets for one-tap use • Collage: 2 to 6 photos in many layouts • In 11 languages: English, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian and Russian; follows your phone, or pick one in the app