EveryProCam vs ModCam

EveryProCam is a camera for people who want to make the call. The screen is as simple as any camera's; underneath there is real manual control, RAW and a Lab to edit your photos without ever touching the original. MANUAL CONTROL - Four modes: auto, shutter priority, ISO priority and manual. A photo at 1/250 comes out at 1/250. - Metering, exposure compensation, exposure and focus lock. - Autofocus or manual focus, with in-focus edges highlighted and a magnifier. - White balance in auto, in kelvin and tint, with eight presets, a grey card and an eyedropper. - Two dials always above the shutter button, picked by you. LENSES AND FORMATS - Every rear lens, the 28 and 35 mm crops, macro, the front camera. - Sensor RAW (DNG) and ProRAW, also paired with a JPEG or a HEIF, at 12 or 48 MP where your iPhone has them. - HEIF, JPEG, 8-bit and 16-bit TIFF; HDR photos. - Six framing formats, from square to 65:24 panoramic. LIVE ANALYSIS Histogram, waveform, zebras on blown highlights, in-focus edges, composition grids and a level, all on the viewfinder without slowing it down. SHOOTING - Burst, bracketing, self-timer, intervalometer, flash and torch. - Long exposure up to 30 seconds: silky water, light trails and night, with the photo building up on the viewfinder. - Thirteen shooting profiles (portrait, landscape, night, moon, architecture, food and more) plus your own. - Seven Looks for the colour of the photo, the same in the viewfinder and in the photo. - Watermark and date stamp, if you want them. THE LAB Open it from the photos you took and from the rest of your library too. Every edit is a recipe stored next to the photo in Photos: you can reopen it, change it, undo it, and it travels with iCloud Photos. "Revert" in Photos brings the photo back as it was. - From the RAW negative: three stops of exposure either way, white balance redone by the decoder, blown highlights that come back. - Framing, rotation, perspective, crop to a format. - Tone with a histogram, before and after with a slider. - Background blur on portraits with depth. - Export to HEIF, JPEG, TIFF or the DNG as it is, with the size, quality and metadata you choose. - RAW files from other cameras, opened from Files or Photos or shared from another app, AirDrop included. YOUR PHOTOS An EveryProCam album in Photos, a gallery with filters for RAW and favourites, bursts in stacks. If the app closes while a photo is saving, the photo reaches Photos on its own when you reopen it. WITH IPHONE The Camera Control where there is one, the Action button, Control Center, the Lock Screen, widgets, Siri and Shortcuts. TEN LESSONS If you are starting out: ten lessons, from the interface to manual shooting, each with an exercise in the real viewfinder. The app notices on its own when you have done it. PRIVACY No account, no ads, no network. Your photos stay on your iPhone and in Photos. Location in photos is off by default. iPhone only.

ModCam writes one file: a pure Bayer RAW DNG, straight from the sensor, with none of Apple's computational photography layered on top. In the default mode the app asks the camera for the sensor's own Bayer mosaic. Smart HDR tone fusion, Deep Fusion, the Photonic Engine, Night mode multi-frame stacking and Apple's color and tone rendering are all skipped. What lands in your photo library is a single-frame DNG that reflects what the sensor read, ready for whatever develop you choose. Here is the honest trade-off, because most apps do not say it out loud. The 48MP camera sensor is quad-Bayer. The un-remosaiced mosaic is about 12MP (4032 x 3024). A 48MP frame only exists after Apple's remosaic, which means it is ProRAW and it carries a computational baseline inside the DNG. ModCam does not pretend otherwise. It gives you both, as a visible mode switch: Bayer RAW, about 12MP, no Apple processing. ProRAW, 48MP, remosaiced, Apple's baseline included. The button at the top of the screen always shows which mode you are in. If the phone ever saves a 48MP shot at a lower resolution, a message pops up right away to tell you, and the gallery lists the real size of every photo. You find out on the spot, not a week later in your editor. MANUAL CONTROL ISO, shutter, white balance in Kelvin and focus are all yours. Each one is a ruler you scrub with your thumb: a fast swipe crosses the whole range, a slow one lands on a single step. What you set stays set, with no background auto correction quietly walking your exposure back while you compose. ISO and shutter speed each have an A/M button. A lets the camera set it, M keeps your value. ISO on M with shutter on A is ISO priority. Shutter on M with ISO on A is shutter priority. Both on M is full manual. A main A/M button switches both, and one tap on it takes you back to full auto. A live histogram and false color read the scene for you. A viewfinder can only approximate a RAW develop, so ModCam points you at the instruments for exposure rather than claiming the preview is the file. APERTURE The aperture (f-number) of the lens in use sits next to the lens buttons and updates when you switch lenses. On iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, the 1x camera's aperture is adjustable. Yellow means automatic. Tap or swipe right to open the stops, f/1.48 to f/4, and tap or slide to pick one. Tap M or swipe left for automatic. Elsewhere it is shown for reference. THE REST OF IT Every rear lens plus the front camera, selected directly. Self-timer with a countdown that blinks a warning before the shutter fires. Grid and level guides you can hide for a clean frame. Hardware shutter: the volume buttons and Camera Control both fire. An in-app session gallery: each shot's real mode, size, exposure and time, without leaving for Photos. Optional location tagging, written into the DNG's own metadata on the device. A three-page first-run intro that shows you where everything lives. WHO IT IS FOR People who develop their own files. If you shoot for Lightroom, Capture One or another RAW editor and you would rather start from what the sensor read than from a rendered result, this is aimed at you. If you want a finished JPEG straight out of the phone, the built-in Camera app does that better. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. There is no networking code in the app at all; it behaves identically in Airplane Mode. The only outward links are the Privacy Policy and Support rows in Settings, which open in Safari, and the Maps button in the gallery, which hands a coordinate to the maps app you choose. DEVICE SUPPORT ModCam is built around the Pro camera systems: the 48MP main sensor, the full rear lens set, and the manual ranges those cameras expose. On other iPhones it still runs, reading the modes, lenses and ranges from whatever camera is there, and showing a one-time notice that says so. Nothing is blocked. Version 1.0 is completely free.