Barite vs OneClickCamera

Black and white is not colour with the colour taken out. It is a different way of seeing — light, shape, edge, the weight of a shadow — and everyone who works in it says the same thing: you have to learn to see that way, and the only way to learn is to look. A phone is the worst place to learn it. It shows you a colour picture and asks you to imagine the other one. Barite only shoots black and white. There is no colour frame hiding underneath and no switch to flip back. What you see while you frame is what the app develops — the live preview and the finished photograph run through exactly the same code — so a red door against a grey wall either separates or it doesn't, and you find out before you press the button instead of an hour later on a laptop. Underneath is a real darkroom. Barite takes the raw sensor frame and develops it itself, on the GPU: a channel mixer that reads the colour before discarding it, a highlight shoulder that keeps a bright sky from going to paper white, then contrast, gamma, microcontrast and grain. It is the chain a print goes through, made to run sixty times a second. You never choose a file format. The camera measures the light and picks: a raw Bayer frame while there is light for it, Apple ProRAW as it gets darker, and a fused HEIF where neither would help. The picture is developed from the best frame the light allowed, and the choice is never a menu you have to understand. Three complete looks live on an invisible strip you swipe with your thumb, without leaving the viewfinder. Barite Vibe is the house look — low-key and deep, printed rather than crushed, with a tone curve that follows each frame's own histogram instead of a fixed one. Drama Sky is for clouds and buildings. Calm Portrait is for skin. Each one is a whole render, not an intensity slider. And the shot is not finished at the shutter. Any frame can be taken back into the darkroom and re-developed — and if you want the negative itself kept beside the photograph, that is one switch in the panel. THE CAMERA • Every lens the iPhone has: ultra-wide, wide, telephoto, the native sensor crops, the front camera, and a macro mode that focuses close. • The preview is the photograph. One pipeline, no surprises. • Straightens as you shoot: gyro-driven perspective and horizon correction applied to the preview and the photo alike, so buildings stand up and the sea is level. • A live luminance histogram, a rule-of-thirds grid, and exposure compensation on a strip you drag anywhere along the row — there is no thumb to hunt for. • One panel holds the rest: the framing corrections, the histogram, and whether each shot keeps its negative. • A render can fail; a photograph does not get lost. THE DARKROOM • Re-develop a frame: a tone curve by region, black and white points, six classic filters, grain, microcontrast. • An eight-band per-hue mixer, red through magenta, for the colour the picture no longer shows. • Dodge and burn a face separately from its background, through a mask the camera worked out at the moment of capture. • Press the picture to see it as shot, release to see your version. • A gallery that reads like a contact sheet: every frame at its own proportions, with Recently Deleted underneath it. Barite has no account, no subscription, no advertising and no analytics. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to. Your photographs stay on your phone — in your library and in the app's own folder, which you can open in Files. Made by one person, in Ukraine, for his own pocket first.

OneClickCamera is the camera app for people who want cinematic footage without a cockpit of settings. Press record. The app shoots Apple Log (on supported iPhones) with the 180° shutter rule handled automatically, locks exposure and white balance for the take, and shows you the image through a real monitoring LUT. What you see already looks like the film you're making. Need to say something to camera? Switch on the teleprompter. Your script sits over the selfie camera, transparent enough to see yourself, and scrolls along as you speak. Pause, and it waits. It keeps working while you record. Then grade the clip right in the app: your footage gets the OneClickLUT look, and five simple sliders (warmth, tint, saturation, midtones, highlights) are all you need to make it yours. Want more control? Open Pro mode and grade with full color wheels: Global, Midtones, Shadows, Highlights, each with saturation and brightness wings, applied on the log image under the LUT, exactly like a professional color pipeline. Or tap Auto and let the app measure the clip and move the dials for you. WHY IT LOOKS RIGHT • Apple Log capture in HEVC 10-bit (Rec.709 on other models, and it just works) • Automatic 180° shutter for natural motion blur, with a smart low-light ladder • Exposure and white balance lock on record, with one-tap unlock • A real monitoring LUT in the viewfinder, not a guess • Lens changes handled like the built-in camera, also while recording WHY IT'S FAST • Zebras, grid and level always on, each with its own strength slider, zero setup • AF-L holds focus right where it is with one tap, also mid-take; press and hold to focus on a spot and keep it there • Lock the lens for a take, swipe down for a clean viewfinder • Quality zoom stops (0.5/1/2/4/8 on supported iPhones): tap, don't fiddle • Plug in a microphone and the app switches to it by itself THE TELEPROMPTER • Your script over the selfie camera, with adjustable transparency, text size and speed • Voice-follow scrolls at your reading pace and waits when you pause • Several scripts, kept on your phone THE GRADE • One look, done: OneClickLUT applied at full strength, always last in the chain • Five sliders for taste, color wheels for control, both combine • Auto grade measures the clip and suggests a starting point • Grade footage from other cameras too: DJI, GoPro, Insta360, Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon and Fujifilm log, or import your own .cube LUTs • Fullscreen check: rotate your phone, judge your colors edge to edge PRO WHEN YOU NEED IT • Manual mode: ISO, shutter angle, white balance, tint and focus, Blackmagic-style, each with its own A to hand it back to auto; on the iPhone 18 Pro also the iris, stepless from f/1.5 to f/4 • Multicam over Wi-Fi or wired LAN: every camera with a letter shows up on a monitor with live view and status, and one tap starts them all • Works on iPad: the whole app, and an iPad makes the ideal monitor for the phones • ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ on the iPhone 17 Pro and newer: into Apple's Pro Video Storage (iOS 27) or onto a connected USB-C SSD • Record HEVC straight to SSD, or mirror every clip to SSD automatically • HDMI and SDI monitoring: the live picture goes out over USB-C to an HDMI screen, clean or with the viewfinder tools, and through an HDMI to SDI converter into any SDI monitor or switcher • Multicam letters ride in every file name, so the angles sort themselves out on the desk • Front camera landscape capture while holding the phone upright (square sensor) WHAT IT COSTS Filming is free and stays free: film as much as you like, keep every original on your iPhone or on an SSD, grade it, and export the finished clip with OneClickLUT burned in, or take the original into Final Cut or Resolve. Right now every feature is free, export included, and there is no subscription. No account. No tracking. Your clips stay on your device. Made in Vienna by videowien, the makers of OneClickLUT.