Halide Mark III vs SureShare
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Halide Mark III
This professional camera app offers advanced manual controls and powerful tools for deliberate photography. Capture stunning RAW images, utilize Neural Macro for close-ups on any iPhone, and access features like focus peaking and histograms. Learn photography with included lessons and customize your shooting experience.
- Manual exposure and focus controls
- Neural Macro for close-up shots
- 14-bit RAW and ProRAW capture
- Exposure tools: histograms, waveform, zebras
- Focus peaking and loupe
- Gesture-based interface
- Included photography lessons
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Halide unleashes your iPhone’s camera. Disable iPhone processing for natural photos, apply powerful film situations, access manual controls, and more. Halide has over 24,000 5-star ratings and is an App Store Editors’ Choice and Apple Design Award winner. Halide’s Looks are built into the camera itself, changing how your photo is captured and processed - not just a color filter applied after the fact. These are the best photos you can get out of an iPhone. Start with Process Zero for natural, film-like results, without any AI or computational photography. Explore our rich set of creative Looks developed with Hollywood colorist Cullen Kelly, and powered by sophisticated film simulation. For nine years, Halide has set the standard for professional iPhone camera control. Nail your manual focus with Focus Peaking and the Focus Loupe. Compose your shots with intention using sophisticated framing guides, from a basic grid and rule of thirds, to the golden ratio and rabatment of the rectangle. Get perfect macro shots with Halide's dedicated Macro Mode. Hate editing? Halide gives you amazing results straight out of the camera. But when you need to fine-tune, Photo Lab makes it fast and intuitive. Try dramatically different Looks, adjust framing and exposure, experiment with film simulation, or rescue details in highlights and shadows with Tone Fusion. You can even import and load RAWs from other apps, such as Apple’s own camera app, or standalone cameras by Canon, Nikon, Sony, Leica, Fujifilm, and Hasselblad. Specific formats are listed below. *Halide is a paid app. Try it free for 7 days with an annual membership, or buy it outright with a one-time purchase — no subscription required.* Features: - Shoot without Apple’s computational photography for stronger contrast and more natural results. - Photographic Looks developed in collaboration with esteemed Hollywood colorist Cullen Kelly. - Rescue details in shadows and highlights with a Tone Fusion slider inspired by darkroom dodging and burning. - Try any Look on existing ProRAW files - including photos shot in Apple’s camera app. - Become a better photographer by signing up for our 10-day tutorial directly from the app. - Full manual exposure controls including shutter speed, ISO and white balance. - Technical Readout to view all details of your iPhone camera hardware. - Also runs on iPad, for an amazing Photo Lab experience. RAW File Support: - DNG (iPhone, Leica) - CR2 (Canon) - CR3 (Canon) - NEF (Nikon) - RAF (Fujifilm) - ARW (Sony) - FFF (Hasselblad) Terms of Use can be found here: https://halide.cam/terms Privacy: https://www.lux.camera/privacy/
SureShare
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Send a photo, send your home address. Send a PDF, send your name. Every file you share carries a hidden trail. A photo can record the exact spot it was taken, the phone that took it, and the second you pressed the shutter. A document can name you, the app you made it in, and every time it was edited. None of it is visible when you look at the file — but anyone you send it to can read all of it. SureShare shows you what's hidden, removes it, and lets you capture files that never had anything to hide in the first place. CHECK BEFORE YOU SHARE Pick any photo, video or PDF and see exactly what it reveals — location, device, timestamps, author names, edit history — each rated by how much it gives away, with a privacy score out of 100. CLEAN, THEN VERIFY Removing metadata is easy to claim and hard to prove. So SureShare cleans your file, then scans the result again with the same strict check — and shows you the verified score. If something couldn't be removed, it says so instead of pretending. PRIVATE CAMERA Take photos and video that never record your location, your device or the time. Nothing to strip out, because nothing was ever written. Includes zoom, filters and 4:3, 16:9 and 1:1 framing. PRIVATE SCANNER Scan documents straight to clean PDFs. Reorder, rotate, delete and add pages, then keep them in your own library on this device. METADATA EDITOR Need to correct something rather than erase it? Change or remove a date, a location, or a PDF's author and title — written to a copy, so your original is never touched. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No cloud. No analytics. Your files are never uploaded anywhere, because there is nowhere to upload them to. SureShare works completely offline. SureShare Pro unlocks unlimited cleaning, batch cleaning, and unlimited use of the camera, scanner and editor. It's a one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy:https://sites.google.com/view/sureshare-remove-metadata/privacy-page?authuser=0
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Halide Mark III at #143 against SureShare's unranked. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Halide Mark III sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and SureShare sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Halide Mark III ships an update every 11 days, SureShare fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Halide Mark III | SureShare |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (14K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #143 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lux Optics Incorporated | Ankit Raj |
Bugs and requests
Halide Mark III
Reported bugs
3 issues- Photos not saving properly
- Zoom functionality issues
- Landscape mode UI problems
Requested features
5 requests- Shutter speed adjustment
- Live depth/bokeh preview
- Custom white balance
- Time-lapse and video recording
- Ability to save settings/presets
SureShare
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Halide Mark III
- Pro Camera, Editor, and Lessons$9.991 Month
- Pro Camera, Editor, and Lessons7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- One Time Purchase$69.99
SureShare
- SureShare Pro$2.99
Questions
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