The iPhone has been around for several years now and has changed the way people make memories. Sure, you can see some people that use their android phones to take pictures, but there are so many more apps now available for apple users. There is a plethora of camera apps that give your phone camera a whole new look.
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Best Apps For Iphone X Camera
- Halide: DSLR camera controls on your iPhone
While somewhat intimidating at first glance, Halide is designed to put the controls back in your hands, letting you set everything from exposure to focus to ISO to shutter speed. The interface includes views for histograms and depth peaking, so you can monitor how the phone is registering and processing the depth of field settings.
Halide is first on our list because it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. It’s designed for photographers who are looking to capture images the way they want to, rather than leave everything to automatic settings and chance. It’s one of the best pro camera apps for iPhone out today.
Halide on the App Store
Screenshots of Halide, a camera app for iPhone
- Obscura 2: A minimalist camera app for iOS
Boasting a simple and clean interface, Obscura 2 takes a minimalist approach to help you take better pictures. It gives you a handful of manual controls to choose from, all of which work via dials on your screen. And with over 19 filters included, you can choose from one of the presets and then proceed to edit your pictures further.
Obscura 2 on the App Store
Screenshots of Obscura 2, a minimalist iPhone camera app
- VSCO: Camera app meets photo editor
Highly praised as one of the best photo editing apps, VSCO also serves a powerful camera. It’s pretty user-friendly, and if you’ve used VSCO to edit your photos, the transition to capturing them with the app will be even easier.
Once you’re in the camera mode, you’ll see a row of icons at the bottom of the screen that give you manual controls over your photos. To unlock some of the more advanced features, you’ll have to sign up for a pro level subscription. That being said, even the free version of VSCO is incredible, pairing sufficient control when taking photos with the ability to edit them within the same app.
VSCO on the App Store
Screenshots of VSCO, a photo editor and camera app for iOS
- ProCamera: A camera app that’s perfect for video
If you shoot a fair amount of video, ProCamera is definitely the app for you. While touting bells and whistles very similar to the other apps on this list, it also provides in-depth control over your videos.
From preset camera modes for things like HDR and Lowlight shooting to giving you control over the resolution and frame rate of the videos you create, ProCamera is surprisingly well-equipped for an iPhone camera app. And with its advanced settings, you’re able to control everything from focus to stabilization to file formats to geotagging.
ProCamera on the App Store
Screenshots of ProCamera, a video camera app for iPhone
- Camera+ 2: A geared up iOS Camera app
Leaning from its predecessor, Camera+ 2 aims to make iPhone photography fun for everyone, regardless of skill level. When you first launch the app, it has a familiar feeling to the native Camera app you’ve probably used. It just has a few more buttons and controls that can all be triggered with a single tap. This makes the app way less intimidating — and with a $2.99 price tag, it also has a lower barrier to entry.
Camera+ 2 on the App Store
Screenshots of Camera+ 2, a geared up iOS Camera app
- ProCam 6: A camera app for the savvy photographer
ProCam 6 is another app that’s made for the photographer who wants to dive in head first and take control of every detail in the image. The interface may look confusing for an average iPhone user, and at $5.99 it’s probably not going to be your first choice when you’re just transitioning from the native iPhone Camera.
However, if you have some experience under your belt, ProCam 6 will give you complete control over white balancing, ISO, focus, exposure, and shutter speed. Plus, it combines the best of iPhone’s own Camera app — video, portrait mode, bursts, and timelapse — with built-in lens effects like fisheye and ripple. The learning curve may be steep, but the result is surely worth it.
ProCam 6 on the App Store
Screenshots of ProCam 6, a pro-level camera app for your iPhone
- Moment: A powerful camera, even without the gear
While Moment is known for their hardware accessories like lenses and cases, the iOS camera app they’ve created to accompany those works great even without them. Moment gives you a lot of manual control, lets you capture photos in RAW, and is a lot more inventive with iPhone gestures. Overall, Moment app is a relatively simple and definitely worth trying out while you’re experimenting with new camera apps.
Moment on the App Store
Screenshots of Moment, a powerful iPhone camera app
- MuseCam: The best free camera app for iPhone
MuseCam is perfect for those just starting out with iPhone photography. Its easy-to-use interface makes the manual controls of the camera seem a little less daunting. Coupled with an image editor, it’s a powerful app to elevate your pictures. And the best part? It’s free, so you can download it with no strings attached and start taking better photos.
MuseCam on the App Store
Screenshots of MuseCam, a free camera app for iPhone
- Filmborn: A camera app that emulates film
Filmnorm’s main claim to fame is its live filters that make your pictures feel like they were shot using an old school film camera. There’s a ton of controls it emulates, from lens sizes to film stock. This is an app you want to sit down and take the time to learn. And once you master it, the proof will be in the pictures.
Filmborn on the App Store
Screenshots of Filmborn, a camera app for iOS
- Manual: A RAW camera app for iPhone
Manual is the most straightforward and stripped down camera app on our list. It excels at giving you a very clean experience, while not skimping on the level of control you have over the image. The only downside with this app is that the features feel hidden and are not as readily presented as they are in some of the other apps we’ve talked about. But if you’re hoping to find an app that lets you shoot in RAW with full control over exposure, Manual is the app you’ve been looking for.
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FlyScreen – Screenshot Manager
FlyScreen – Screenshot Manager is an image organizer that focuses on screenshots rather than camera snaps. Open it up and your screenshots will be displayed on a scrolling grid. Give the app a little time to rifle through them all and you’ll be able to search by text that appears within the screenshots – very nice.
Naturally, you’ll likely want to group images in other ways, which is where FlyScreen’s straightforward tagging system comes into play. There are further nice touches on each image’s details pane: copy/share actions, a single field that contains all detected text ready for copying, and similar images if very similar screenshots to the one you’re looking at exist.
For free, this is a generous app, and an essential download to make more sense of – and get more from – your screenshots.
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Photoshop Camera
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Photoshop Camera
Photoshop Camera is a world away from the Photoshop desktop/iPad app, which remains a high-end professional tool likely to baffle and impress in equal measure. Photoshop Camera is instead about creative spontaneity – a way to add punch and imagination to even the dullest of snaps.
The free iPhone app works in real-time, applying live filters and effects to whatever you’re looking at through your iPhone’s camera. Alternatively, you can load an existing image and have the app transform it into something unrecognizable.
That’s not to say Photoshop Camera doesn’t also flirt with the conventional. There are filters for improving snaps of scenery and food. But this app’s at its most fun and essential when you’re turning whatever’s in front of you into an eye-smashing slice of pop art, or having gigantic lollipops embed themselves in an otherwise ordinary landscape.
Assembly
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Assembly
On the face of it, Graphite by BeCasso is yet another in a long line of free iPhone apps that turn your photos into a facsimile of art. In this case, it’s all about sketching, with a smattering of color, instantly transforming even the most mundane snap into an eye-catching combination of scribbly pencil work, pens, and paints.
As ever, the end results can be a touch mechanical, but the effects here are among the best we’ve seen on iPhone. What’s more, they can be fiddled with to some extent as well. Dip into the Edit tab and you can make adjustments that can radically update the look and feel of your picture.
Delve into your wallet and pay for monthly IAP and you can take things further, even messing around with the strokes laid down by the virtual artist.
Darkroom
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Darkroom
Darkroom is a photo editor from the classy end of the spectrum. It also doubles down on productivity.
As soon as you open Darkroom, it has you select an image from your iPhone to work with. You can then set about making it look extra fabulous by way of cropping tools, adjustment sliders, or – if you’re feeling a bit lazy – one-tap filters.
Whatever you create can overwrite the original, or be saved as a copy. In the former case, edits are non-destructive, as are they when using the app itself. This makes it easy to experiment without fear of ruining your original image.
For $9.99/£9.99/AU$14.99, you can upgrade to unlock a curves tool, a color tool, and dozens of extra filters. But even for free, Darkroom is a prize app.
sok-edit
sok-edit
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sok-edit is a collage app that doubles down on immediacy. Instead of neatly aligning photos to a grid, it’s the digital equivalent of hacking photos to bits with scissors, and sticking them on other photos for purposes of amusement and creativity.
The app is tactile and noisy. You drag to cut out elements, which can then be rotated, resized, cloned and flipped. Most actions come with sound effects. It’s all a lot of fun.
The only minor snag is if you have too much fun – in the sense of using three layers – you have to watch an advert to add another object, or plump for the ‘pro’ IAP. Mind you, even the latter is a mere US$0.99/99p/AU$1.49, which seems like a bargain for unlimited collage larks.
Visionist
Visionist
Visionist has quite a lot in common with Prisma, in that it’s using neural networks to transform photos into something resembling art. The main differences with Visionist are that it affords you a level of control Prisma does not, and it doesn’t drown you in IAP and endless filters.
In fact, you get just 10 (60 more sit behind a one-off US$1.99/£1.99/AU$2.99 payment), but even those have a range that can turn the dullest snaps into something pretty amazing.
This is largely because you can adjust abstraction levels and how images interact; there’s support for Portrait images (and depth data is retained during export); and styles can be mixed and merged. It’s a world away from Prisma’s more simple interaction.
For bringing a little artistry to your photos, Visionist is well worth a download, then, whether you stick with the free version or plump for the IAP.
Infltr
Infltr
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Infltr started out as a photo filter app for people who considered choosing filters too much effort. You simply dragged your finger across the screen, and the chosen filter updated live. Simple. Fast. Random.
That tool still exists, but today it’s just one of several in a photo editor that increasingly has much in common with Snapseed. Now you can make all kinds of adjustments, from fiddling with brightness through to subtly altering perspective. Edits are non-destructive, and can therefore be reverted or changed later.
There are some limitations unless you’re willing to subscribe: no HD export, only saving three custom filters (rather than an unlimited number), and the odd locked tool. But the free version is nonetheless a must-have for iPhone photographers who fancy a great toolset with a dash of chance.
DailyFocus
DailyFocus
DailyFocus wants you to spend five minutes every day becoming a better photographer. This is achieved by way of super-fast lessons – short videos that outline how to succeed regardless of what you face when armed with a camera. (We’re not kidding – at the time of writing, the day’s lesson was about lenses, but an upcoming one was “capturing eggs and bacon in motion”.)
The app gamifies your viewing, listing a daily streak total, and offering further encouragement by way of optional notifications – although be mindful those are sent 24 hours after you last used the app.
Also, DailyFocus emphasizes the ‘daily’ bit. There’s no archive – miss a video and it’s gone for good. This is likely because DailyFocus is in part a teaser for a CreativeLive subscription; but for the camera-curious and pro photographers alike, it’s a fab freebie too.
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