Halide Mark II Overview
What is Halide Mark II?
Halide is a powerful camera app for iPhone that offers high-end tools and a beautiful interface designed from scratch for the latest iPhones. It is an App Store Editor's Choice and has won multiple awards, including iMore's "App of the Year 2020," Macworld's "Must Have Apps," and The Verge's "Apps We Love." Halide is a groundbreaking app for deliberate and thoughtful photography, with powerful manual controls and professional tools.
Features
- Beautiful, intuitive gesture-based interface, usable with one hand
- Manual focus, and powerful tools like a Focus Loupe and Focus Peaking
- Smart automatic mode with Halide Smart RAW, optimizing settings with Machine Learning for RAW files with less noise and more detail
- Full manual exposure controls including shutter speed, ISO and white balance
- Best-on-iPhone exposure tools: histograms, XDR 14-bit RGB waveform, and color zebra stripes
- Captures RAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPG for the best quality shots
- Grid overlay with built-in level
- A powerful reviewer to view DNG, JPG, HEIC and Live Photos, as well as Portrait depth data and mattes, with a detailed metadata view
- Instant RAW development process to quickly develop your RAW files in a tap
- Technical Readout to view all details of your iPhone camera hardware
- Apple Watch companion app for remote shooting
- Siri Shortcuts support to trigger the shutter remotely, or open Halide in Auto or Manual mode
- Coverage, a powerful new feature to take two photos with a small delay to capture both a maximum-Smart HDR processed image with Deep Fusion and Smart HDR, as well as a DNG RAW.
- Become a better photographer by signing up for comprehensive lessons like a 10-day quick tutorial right from the app.
- Private by Design: Halide does not include any trackers or tracking, has not third party libraries, does not collect data or photos, and never transmits any information. Halide also includes features to reduce spying by companies like Facebook by limiting location information on photos shared from the app.
- Feature limitations: ProRAW requires iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max or iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max. The Ultra Wide and selfie cameras do not support RAW or manual focus unless on iOS 15. Waveform requires iPhone 8 or later. Depth Capture requires iPhone 7 Plus, 8, X, XS, XR, 11, 12, 13 or SE2.
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Halide Mark II Pricing Plans
| Duration | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|
| Billed Once | $11.00 |
| Yearly Subscription | $11.99 |
**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..
Product Details and Description of
**Please note Halide is not free. We offer a 7-day free trial for annual memberships. Don't like subscriptions? You can also buy the app outright with a single in-app purchase.** Halide is an App Store Editor's Choice, award-winning camera from the team behind Spectre, Apple's App of the Year of 2019. Its multitude of awards include iMore's "App of the Year 2020," Macworld's "Must Have Apps," The Verge's "Apps We Love," and The Sweet Setup's "Best Third-Party Camera App for iPhone." Halide is the most powerful camera for iPhone with the most elegant, simple design — A pro camera for everyone. This is a groundbreaking app for deliberate and thoughtful photography. With high-end tools, and a beautiful interface designed from scratch for the latest iPhones and inspired by the controls of professional cameras, Halide is your go-to camera when you want to really take a photo rather than a quick snapshot. Use gestures in Halide to change exposure and manual focus with a swipe, or switch from its powerful automatic mode to manual shooting. Halide’s professional tools are the most powerful in the App Store, with XDR (Extended Dynamic Range) 14-bit RAW streaming waveform views, color zebras, focus assists like focus peaking and loupe, histograms, an adaptive level grid, and manual depth capture. Customize controls to adapt the app to your needs. Halide’s ProRAW support* is unmatched. Strike the right balance between file size and editing latitude by choosing between 12-bit and 10-bit ProRAW, with or without JPEG sidecars. Effortlessly switch to native RAW, for greater detail and speed. Features: - Beautiful, intuitive gesture-based interface, usable with one hand - Take portraits of pets and objects on iPhone XR and iPhone SE - Manual focus, and powerful tools like a Focus Loupe and Focus Peaking - Smart automatic mode with Halide Smart RAW, optimizing settings with Machine Learning for RAW files with less noise and more detail - Full manual exposure controls including shutter speed, ISO and white balance - Best-on-iPhone exposure tools: histograms, XDR 14-bit RGB waveform, and color zebra stripes - Captures RAW, TIFF, HEIC or JPG for the best quality shots - Grid overlay with built-in level - A powerful reviewer to view DNG, JPG, HEIC and Live Photos, as well as Portrait depth data and mattes, with a detailed metadata view - Instant RAW development process to quickly develop your RAW files in a tap - Technical Readout to view all details of your iPhone camera hardware - Apple Watch companion app for remote shooting - Siri Shortcuts support to trigger the shutter remotely, or open Halide in Auto or Manual mode - Coverage, a powerful new feature to take two photos with a small delay to capture both a maximum-Smart HDR processed image with Deep Fusion and Smart HDR, as well as a DNG RAW. - Become a better photographer by signing up for comprehensive lessons like a 10-day quick tutorial right from the app. - Private by Design: Halide does not include any trackers or tracking, has not third party libraries, does not collect data or photos, and never transmits any information. Halide also includes features to reduce spying by companies like Facebook by limiting location information on photos shared from the app. - Feature limitations: *ProRAW requires iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max or iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max The Ultra Wide and selfie cameras do not support RAW or manual focus unless on iOS 15. Waveform requires iPhone 8 or later. (8, X, XS, XR, SE2, 11, 12, 13) Depth Capture requires iPhone 7 Plus, 8, X, XS, XR, 11, 12, 13 or SE2 Terms of Use can be found here: https://halide.cam/terms Privacy: https://halide.cam/privacy
Top Reviews
By emenamore
XR Camera Dream Come True
I’m a designer and DSLR photographer, so the camera features on my phone is a big deal to me. When I upgraded from a 6, I was torn between the XS and XR. I’d been gravitating toward the XR due to the colors, battery life, price, and better lowlight photos, but was devastated it only had portrait mode for people. I heard about Halide finding a solution to this problem, so I went with the XR and bought this app. I took a photo of my dog and I’m in love with its ability to pretty accurately map out data for bokeh shots. My photo went straight to the default apple photos app, and reads it as a portrait photo now so I can adjust the blur like I can on people portraits. The only setback is not seeing bokeh in live mode, but it’s no biggie and who knows what exciting features future updates will bring. Thank you Ben & Sebastiaan for using your intelligence, skills, and talent to make a camera like this for the iPhone XR. Buying this app finally made me 100% happy with my decision to get the phone I did.
By Rbrto.fl
Hands down the best
If it weren’t for the article I read on medium I wouldn’t have stumbled upon this app hearing about its journey in design to truly be tailored to this new iPhone X is what not only sparked my interest but it’s what made me willing to spend the money on it. It was no longer a random app on the AppStore. I had insight on its origins and an understanding of the detail put into place for it. As far as my usage goes I love it. It brings powerful features and a one handed UI to the iPhone X. Every interaction seems to have been thought of and much like the X you have to familiarize yourself with the gestures and icons. There are however a few bugs with the app one of them being landscape mode. Yes it orients the photo correctly but the UI does not shift. I’m sure this will be and can be fixed in a future update. But for now this is the best app to take advantage off both the camera technology in the iPhone X and it’s design. Bravo, 5 stars.
By Keyur82
Issue with Raw files was iOS 13.0
Issue with raw files not being handled properly was an system wide issue with iOS 13.0. It has been fixed on iOS 13.1. All in all I am happy with Halide. Now that I can save photos in both raw and jpeg formats, I have the flexibility of either playing with raw files or use jpeg as it is. Generally the results I get buy editing raw files are superior (better colors.) Darkroom integrates nicely with Halide, I with premium upgrade on darkroom was little cheaper than $10. Anyone with iPhone should have an option for capturing raw files. Until Apple integrates that in built in camera app, Halide is an excellent option. I like its smart raw capture more than other manual camera apps. It doesn’t offer lot of granular controls, but I like it for keeping it simple. ProCam 7 offers more manual camera controls, but it can get little overwhelming. Halide over any other manual camera apps any day.
