Best Manual Focus Camera Apps

4.5😊(593 ratings)

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Take full control of your iPhone camera with manual adjustments for focus, exposure, and white balance. Capture stunning photos and videos with advanced features like timer shots, digital zoom, and 4K recording. Automatically saves your media to a secure library.

What We Love

🚀 Full manual camera control
🔒 Ability to lock focus, exposure, and white balance
👍 Useful for astrophotography and product photography
👍 Consistent high-quality photos
👍 Simple and intuitive to use

Room to Improve

🐛 Crashes frequently on newer iPhones
🐛 Exposure and white balance issues with some devices
🔍 Limited control over shutter speed and Kelvin scale
💰 Basic features locked behind paywall
📺 Inappropriate/suggestive ads in free version

Halide Mark III - Pro Camera by Lux Optics Incorporated

Zero AI, Natural Photos, RAW

Strong Contender

4.4😊(13K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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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.

What We Love

🚀 Powerful manual controls
👍 Intuitive and clean interface
🔍 Excellent RAW capture and editing
📷 Macro and depth features
🎨 Great image quality and color
🔧 Frequent updates and improvements

Room to Improve

🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
🔍 Depth/portrait mode limitations
🕰️ Slow performance on older devices
💰 Expensive subscription model
🔒 Lack of free trial or demo

Manual Camera – Focus, ISO, WB by Vladislav Dugnist

Slow shutter, Pro RAW photo

Worth Considering

4.3😐(440 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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Take full control of your mobile photography with manual adjustments for focus, ISO, shutter speed, and white balance. Achieve professional-looking shots with reduced noise and creative motion blur effects.

What We Love

👍 Useful for manual focus
👍 Good for astronomy photos
👍 Allows specific parameter settings
👍 Great for low light environments
👍 Free long exposure photos
👍 Nice design, easy auto settings
👍 Sharp photos with control

Room to Improve

👎 Free version HEIF format
👎 Requires access to all photos
👎 Aspect ratio issues in free version
👎 Difficult to use slow shutter
👎 Cannot take selfies
👎 Limited longest exposure (1/4 sec)
👎 No telephoto lens support
👎 Inconvenient manual photo saving
👎 EXIF data not displayed natively
👎 ISO value discrepancy
👎 App crashes/knocks user out
👎 Misleading free app, subscription needed
👎 Cannot change lenses on iPhone 12Pro
👎 Limited settings and controls
👎 Patchy resolution

More Manual Focus Camera apps to explore

Blackmagic Camera

by Blackmagic Design Inc

Digital film camera controlsCinematic 'look' for Hollywood filmsAdjust frame rate, shutter angle, white balance, ISO

Transform your iPhone or iPad into a professional digital film camera. Achieve a cinematic look with Hollywood-grade controls, including frame rate, shutter angle, and ISO adjustments. Record in industry-standard formats directly to cloud storage for seamless global collaboration.

Manual Focus Camera: Peaking

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free

Sharp past glass and fences

This app offers advanced manual controls for photography and videography, including exposure, focus, and white balance. It supports RAW image capture, high frame rates, and various shooting modes like burst and time-lapse. An integrated editor allows for non-destructive adjustments and creative effects.

Manual exposure, shutter speed, ISO, focus, white balanceRAW (DNG) and TIFF file format supportMultiple shooting modes (Photo, Burst, Slow Shutter, Portrait, Video, Time Lapse)

(35K)

DSLR, Bokeh & Large Aperture

Focos

AI-powered depth calculationAdjustable aperture and bokeh effectsRefocus photos after capture

Transform your iPhone and iPad photos with DSLR-like bokeh and depth-of-field effects. This app uses computational photography to let you refocus, adjust aperture, and add multiple lights in 3D space, unlocking endless creative possibilities.

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M-Camera Lite - Manual Control Camera

by Simon Ma

Manual exposure controlManual ISO controlFocus modes (Lock, Auto, Auto Continuous)

This app offers manual control over camera settings like exposure, ISO, and focus for improved photography on iPhones and iPads. It includes a timer for stable shots and automatically saves images to your camera roll.

Pro Camera-Omnipotent Camera

free

RAW, Manual&HD Video App, DSLR

Manual camera controls (focus, ISO, shutter)RAW and ProRAW photo capture4K video recording up to 240fps

This app offers professional-grade photo and video capture with extensive manual controls and advanced editing tools. It leverages computational photography to unlock your device's camera potential, supporting RAW formats and high-resolution video recording.

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Manual focus when recording

Manual Focus VideoCam

Macro Camera Pro: Manual Focus

Photography & DSLR Controls

Manual focus slider with haptic feedbackLens lock for Ultra-Wide macro lensReal-time focus peaking

Gain precise control over your iPhone's camera for stunning close-up photography. Manually adjust focus, lock lenses, and fine-tune exposure for professional-quality macro shots. Features like focus peaking and a variable torch help illuminate and capture intricate details.

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ManualControls 48MP RAW/ProRAW

Lumina: Manual Camera

Manual exposure controls (Shutter Speed, ISO)Manual focus with focus peakingFull 48MP RAW capture

Take full creative control of your iPhone photography with advanced manual settings for exposure, focus, and more. Capture stunning RAW images at full 48MP resolution and utilize features like bracketing and intelligent selfie selection for professional-quality results.

YouCam Perfect:AI Photo Editor

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paid

Photo Edit, Filter, Beauty Cam

AI Agent for photo and video editingText-to-image and image-to-image generationAI group photo creation

This AI-powered photo editor and beauty camera offers advanced tools for retouching selfies, enhancing image quality, and creating unique visuals. Generate videos from text or images, merge photos with AI, and remove unwanted elements with ease.

(119K)

Focus Puller

Blackmagic camera focus

Manual focus control with extended throwOptional haptic feedback for focus pointsLiDAR focus control for compatible devices

This app provides two focus control solutions for Blackmagic cameras with Bluetooth connectivity. It offers manual focus control with extended focus throw and haptic feedback, as well as LiDAR-based focus control for compatible iOS devices. Both methods allow for remote operation separate from the camera operator.

(15)

Fjorden Camera

Manual Controls + RAW

Manual camera controlsExposure compensationISO & shutter speed adjustment

This app provides advanced manual camera controls for your iPhone, mimicking the experience of a DSLR. It allows for precise adjustments to shutter speed, aperture, and zoom, along with shooting in various RAW formats for greater editing flexibility.

Focus [+] - A Different Camera

(1.2K)

free

by Yue He

Manual focus controlManual zoom controlManual exposure control

This camera app provides advanced manual controls for focus, zoom, and exposure, mimicking the experience of using a real camera. It offers automatic focus zooming and smooth zoom control for video recording.

Manual Camera Pro - DSLR Mode

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Control Focus, Shutter, ISO

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