The replace additionally introduces the app’s tackle movie inventory simulation.
Halide, the most effective options to the iPhone’s built-in digital camera app, is getting one other improve. Developer Lux Optics is rolling out Halide Mark III, a paid replace that provides a photograph editor and filters that simulate movie inventory. The options prolong Halide’s method to images after Lux Optics added a technique to circumvent Apple’s image processing pipeline with the discharge of Halide Mark II in 2024.
Seems, Halide’s new filtering system, is a component of a bigger “movie simulation engine” that is being launched in Mark III. All of the app’s picture options may be custom-made or disabled, however Halide will now add issues like grain and halation to photographs you seize relying on the look you selected. Halide Mark III contains 5 new appears alongside Course of Zero, the app’s zero-processing possibility, and Apple’s default picture processing. These embrace:
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Valencia: A glance designed for landscapes and cityscapes, with “thick distinction, deep saturation and stable colour separation.”
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Rembrandt: A search for portraits that options “thick distinction within the mid-tones” and “ample colour within the low finish” to focus on bone construction and seize uniform skin-tones.
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Nova: One other look that works finest with landscapes, and is “exceptionally colourful, with tight distinction and easy peachy highlights.”
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Zephyr: The “most refined and restrained” look, with “filmic distinction” and “the character of a conventional print.”
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Chroma Noir: A black and white look with “medium distinction” and “a contact of additional grain.”
All these new appears embrace HDR help if you need extra element in highlights and shadows. They’ll additionally all be edited and tweaked with Halide’s new Picture Lab editor. The built-in editor is designed to be approachable. There is a Fast Edit tab if you wish to rapidly change movie simulations or toggle HDR, together with devoted sections for making in-depth modifications to issues like colour steadiness and publicity. The entire thing is designed to point out you as a lot or as little as you want, however the iPad model of Halide Mark III looks as if the best place to edit due to its two-panel setup.
These new options are being paired with updates to Halide’s design and the position of its digital buttons. The brand new design adopts a few of Apple’s Liquid Glass tenets, whereas exposing a very powerful controls — issues like focus, side ratio and a lens picker — in order that you do not have to go digging via menus.
As with earlier updates, Halide Mark III is on the market for a month-to-month subscription of $10, a yearly subscription of $20 or a one-time buy of $60. Current subscribers and anybody who bought Halide Mark II will get the replace free of charge.
That is the primary main Halide replace Lux Optics has rolled out since its co-founder, Sebastiaan de With, left the company to join Apple in January 2026. The cut up has reportedly been a bit extra difficult than it initially appeared. Not solely did Apple originally try to acquire the company, however de With was reportedly fired from Lux Optics after the corporate’s different co-founder Ben Sandofsky started investigating him for allegedly misusing funds.
