Project Indigo Reviews

I was excited to experiment with this, but after taking my third photo, I got an overheating notice. Puzzled, I went to the kitchen and use my instant read thermometer on my phone, which showed the ambient temperature (79 F°). So it was not overheating at all despite the message.

The photos were a bit better than the iPhone photos, but not outstandingly so. I waited a while and came back to take more photos, and then after two photos, I got the overheating notice. Again, I stopped to take the temperature and again it was 79°. I came here to see many people. Also complaining about overheating warnings. ProjectIndigo is too buggy for me to recommend.

Update: new version fixed some issues but created others. ProjectIndigo took some photos but later failed entirely. Deleting and reinstalling has brought ProjectIndigo back but wondering if this is going to happen again.

Getting overall good results from ProjectIndigo. Will attempt a deeper dive. One thing that I found difficult was that it alerts me that my phone is overheating, but apparently it is ProjectIndigo overheating the phone. On a normally warm afternoon, I can maybe take 4 photos before it makes the phone overly hot.

After just two shots, my iPhone 14 Pro Max got really hot to the touch with ProjectIndigo warning me of overheating. It also crashed twice. That said, I compared the pictures shot in ProjectIndigo to the iPhone’s camera app (in lower lighting) and the quality from ProjectIndigo is hands down superior. I am a graphic designer of over 25 years and use Adobe software professionally. As a bata app, it’s a great start, but the overheating is very concerning.

I’ll start by saying ProjectIndigo produces some of the best images I’ve ever seen from my 14 Pro Max. Exceptional in all light and with all lenses, particularly in macro.

That said, ProjectIndigo runs very hot, takes over my whole cpu (seriously, it even halts music playback with music that is on device) and there is a great deal of computational latency when processing, even if it’s the only app open.

If this is an issue with RAM, then it really should be limited in the devices it works on. If not, and they can resolve these issues, it will be worth waiting through the betas for the images it captures and produces.

Everything works quite well on an iphone 16 pro, needs some optimization for better performance and not getting warm. Otherwise I felt there are features and stuff that I hope ProjectIndigo will gain in future updates:

- Precision controls to tune the way ProjectIndigo handles sharpening and noise reduction before taking pictures.

- Dedicate modes and UI optimization for long exposure and astrophotography features.

-Self timer or delay shutter mode to prevent camera shake when let the phone stay still.

- I felt that the workflow of moving between saved pictures in Apple’s photos app and edits in Lightroom is quite clunky so I hope this camera app will eventually replace the outdated camera in Lightroom app so that everything can be more seamless from shooting to editing dng files in one single app.

- Finally, please bring ProjectIndigo onto older devices that still support iOS 18.5 and iPad Pro devices.

I'm really impressed with the natural photo quality from ProjectIndigo. It reminds me of the excellent camera on my old Pixel phone. I've always found iPhone photos a bit too "processed" for my taste, so it's great to finally love the pictures my iPhone takes with ProjectIndigo! My main concern is that ProjectIndigo can be buggy, frequently freezing and producing inconsistent results. I hope the developers continue to improve it.

13 pro can’t use the night mode, and it keeps closing while the picture hasn’t been done yet. WiFi can be disabled for seconds when ProjectIndigo crashes,and the phone gets overheated easily. I really love the pics taken by the normal/day mode, impressive and fascinating. Hope the bugs get fixed in the near future:)

I’ve been looking for an app like this for a long time and the only options have been paid or kind of garbage. As somebody who already has an Adobe subscription I love this and can’t wait to see how it improves.

Couple of bugs, the overheating warning can’t be exited out of in Landscape mode as the X is blocked by the shutter button. Moderate use on my iPhone 14 leads to over. Hitting the Lightroom button doesn’t immediately open that photo in Lightroom but just brings you to the import page which I feel like is a Missed opportunity for quicker workflow. Additionally it would be nice to be able to go into macro mode without requiring the phone to suggest it first.

Overall great app and I hope I can give it a five out of five soon.

I downloaded ProjectIndigo a few days ago and really enjoy ProjectIndigo so far. So much that it is now the quick shortcut on my Lock Screen.

The photos ProjectIndigo takes are more true to life than the Apple camera app, as well as having a very good app layout

ProjectIndigo does heat your phone up a lot, so you need to make sure that you keep it cool to prevent overheating, I hope as the software continues to improve that this issue is mitigated, or have an option to process photos later so you can birst a bunch of photos.

Another issue I have with ProjectIndigo is when you click the shutter button, it takes a slight second for ProjectIndigo to actually take the photo, this is when ProjectIndigo is “ready to shoot” and not taking burst photos one after another, this makes in motion shots difficult, and I hope as well that improvements happen with future versions of ProjectIndigo

Overall if you are looking for an app that is dead simple to use, and takes more true to life photos with better processing than the official camera app, this is ProjectIndigo for you

The images ProjectIndigo captures are quite frankly awesome! Super high quality and best of all no barrier to entry (absolutely free). It is very computationally strenuous and after using ProjectIndigo for 5-10 minutes it can overheat your device which is the biggest con in my opinion. I do think it would be great if there was a portrait mode but the ability to use manual controls like shutter speed is a big selling point for me. I wouldn’t replace my native camera app with this but it is awesome to use in tandem with it for when you want great quality images.

The image quality is very impressive, giving a tranquil tone and more accurate white balance to the stock camera. SR feature is better than expected, hopefully it can output higher resolution photos with newer iPhone (iPhone 15 pro and newer). The phone gets overheated very quickly when using the experimental features such as AI denoise, this should be fixed soon or it will eat up the battery like a monster.

I primarily use my phone for wide shots (landscapes, sunrises) and sometimes for macros.

The good/great:
1) It gets rid of that ring around the rising sun, at least mostly and much better than the native iPhone app.
2) Much better in high contrast situations (like sunrise).
3) Nothing is lost when importing to Lightroom and exporting from there, unlike the native app.
4) Takes excellent macro shots when it allows you to switch to macro mode - at least as good as the native app.
5) no need for additional hardware or extra lenses!

The challenges:
1) It's a litlte glitchy and it's frozen on me twice.
2) If you change a manual setting, such as exposure, but then you close the manual settings bar it goes fully into auto mode. I usually set my exposure to +1. In the native app, everything I take from then on is +1. In Project Indigo, this is only true if I leave hte manual controls open. If I hide them, it is no longer at +1. Where this gets a little awkward is that if you have the manual controls open, it won't give you the option to switch into macro mode and there is no way to manually switch. You have to close the manual controls, let it prompt you, switch to macro mode and then reopen the manual controls. It's no big deal really, but hopefully something they may fix in the future.

I have been trialing PI, using it on a 16PM, yes the phone heats up, but it has not crashed on me, I have not lost any shots. The 10x SR feature & Night mode were put through the paces while shooting at a concert. All shots were keepers, shooting for 50 yards back, the photos were sharp, compared to stock camera shots. Shooting DNG+JPG, there was a 2 sec lag until I could take next shot as the magic happened. Pics were great! Next week, use it on vacation.

I am beyond impressed with the quality of photos I can now take. It’s especially noticeable with nighttime/low-light photos. No more needing to choose between being embarrassing and using flash or grainy photos (even with iOS long exposure). One of the biggest innovations in the iPhone photo space. Adobe has outdone itself with ProjectIndigo and I hope the whole Indigo team that worked to develop it knows how significant their work is.

First, the picture is very beautiful and clear!Thank you for free to use ProjectIndigo for free.
But I'm using iPhone 15 programs I bought in Korea. Shutter sounds come out like crazy right after I run ProjectIndigo . I was surprised that it didn't happen when I used another camera app. It would be nice if only the bugs like the above could be corrected quickly. And maybe if we solve this problem, we can solve the fever problem too!

This is a really pretty awesome piece of software. I love how the pixel look has come to iPhone images. It is so much closer to my normal skin. I am thrilled with the output. 10 X mode with my iPhone 16 Pro is significantly better than what I can get with the native camera app. However it makes the phone hot and burns through battery. These are big issues that the developers need to address urgently if they want more broad adoption of this excellent software.

Have been using it for about a week and taking several different shots with both the native camera and utilizing indigo. In certain situations indigo has shown itself to be significantly better at rendering a more natural looking picture with better resolution and much less noise. Set it up with a dedicated button and it is now my go to app for photography in about 50% of the situations I find myself in.

Since the iPhone 12, I’ve always had problems with the built-in iPhone camera. Specially, when zoomed in it will create this fuzzy mess which makes it almost impossible to see anything at high zoom. Also, when I would try to take a photo of something far away zoomed in, it would be out of focus, and I would have to fanagle it to sort of focus correctly. With ProjectIndigo, it solved all of my camera problems. I can manually adjust any settings (like zoom), and every photo I’ve taken (in both day and night conditions) come out in crystal-clear quality, no fuzziness. I particularly like the night mode, even in the daytime, as it really cuts down on the shakiness and fuzziness. I’ve already recommended ProjectIndigo to many of my friends, who had similar reactions as I did.

I started using ProjectIndigo with curiosity after seeing a social media post. It’s really blowing my mind, it’s like an entire photography toolbox, love it! I particularly like the zoom-in feature with SR, indeed looks so detailed. No wonder it’s from Adobe! I wish it becomes a real product, and you know what, I would love to pay for it!

I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, which isn't the worst camera in the world, but photos from the default camera app or, say, Halide, tend to look a bit punchier than reality. Project Indigo tends to look a lot more balanced in shots that Halide would overrepresent, while still taking extremely pretty and vibrant photos in genuinely saturated environments. It just feels generally a lot more true to life. One of the stated goals of Project Indigo is to make the captured photos look as close as possible to real SLR shots, and while I've personally never used an SLR camera, this certainly looks about up to par with what I'd expect from one. My only gripe is that, like seemingly all third-party camera apps, there is no button to open a photo in the built-in Photos app, nor is there one to open it in the built-in photo editor. There is a button to open the Photos app, but it doesn't take me to the specific photo I was viewing.