A couple of weeks ago, Leica announced the Leica LUX camera app, the legendary German company’s first smartphone app for taking photos. While the company has produced its FOTOS app for many years, this is its first dedicated to smartphone photography.
Analog photography remains extremely compelling to many shooters, carving out a relatively small but passionate niche in the photo space. Alongside the resurgence in film photography in recent years, digital platforms have become increasingly crucial for photographers at large.
Swiss start-up Reeflex recently launched a new iOS camera app, ReeHeld, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver enhanced long-exposure photography compared to the native Camera app on iPhone.
Earlier this spring, a new photography-focused app, Luma, hit the App Store with the promise to give control back to mobile photographers and ensure that shutterbugs got the most they could from the iPhone's impressive image sensor. Luma's developer, Rafal Kopiec, recently returned to the drawing board and created a redesigned Luma's "Pro Cam."
Lux Camera, has announced a new app, Skylight Forecast, designed to predict evening light, helping photographers capture better sunset shots more consistently.
Instagram alternative 100ASA has launched its long-awaited iOS app, further enhancing 100ASA's competitive viability as a social media platform for passionate photographers.
The NoFilter app is designed to help photographers discover picturesque locations all over the world. It focuses on the natural beauty of destinations and promotes showcasing locations without artificially enhancing them.
Pixelmator Photo—the iPad version of the popular Mac app Pixelmator Pro—has just released a major update with a new machine learning-based tool at its core. Called "ML Super Resolution," the tool allows you to upscale (AKA "Enhance!") your photos with just one tap.
This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaffe. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped users' photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud. Adobe has confirmed that there is no way to get them back.
Earlier this week, Apple announced the winners of its annual 'Design Awards,' and as usual, one of the honorees was a photo editing app. This year, that app was Darkroom, and while the photo and video editor for iOS is impressive in its own right, the most interesting thing about Darkroom might be the story behind how it came to be.
After previewing the app last year, Adobe is finally ready to debut Photoshop Camera: a free AI-powered camera app for iOS and Android that promises to take your filter game to the next level.
On October 1st, inventor of the smartphone photo filter Hipstamatic made its grand return to the spotlight by releasing Hipstamatic X: a free iOS camera app that hopes to "bring all the joy, quirk, and randomness of film photography to your pocket."
Nikon launched version 2.6 of its wireless image transfer app Snapbrige yesterday, and the latest update comes with two long-awaited features: RAW image transfer and wireless camera control for Snapbridge compatible DSLRs and mirrorless cameras.
PhotoShelter has just unveiled a new photo sharing app that takes the photographer/client relationship mobile. It's called FileFlow, and it allows you and your clients to search, download and share images instantly through the app—no computer required.
I ditched my DSLR in favor of an iPhone back in 2012, well aware of what I was giving up. But I love to travel light, and by using the iPhone as my only camera, I could get rid if the heavy and bulky backpack with all the lenses and stuff.
VSCO's app for iOS is a go-to for many mobile photographers, and this week it's getting an important update: RAW support. But not just RAW support for your iPhone photos, VSCO's mobile app can edit RAW photos from your phone and DSLR.
Film fanatics have a new app to drool over today. Mastin Labs—purveyors of the self-styled "only" Lightroom and Photoshop presets "that truly match film"—is taking their obsessive devotion to accurate film emulation into the world of smartphone photography.
Only a month and a half after Instagram got rid of its photo maps, an iOS app calling itself the "Instagram for maps" is generating some buzz. It's called Streetography, and it offers you a refreshing new way to explore the world ... in pictures, of course!
It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here. Prisma, the app that offers users the algorithmic ability to transform their photos into paintings in the style of the great masters, now works on videos as well.
Fotr is as close to film photography as you're likely to get out of your iPhone. The new iOS app acts just like a film camera: you have to buy "digital" film, and every single photo you take with that "roll" is printed... even the crappy ones.
Google released the Cardboard Camera app back in December, but until this week it was Android only. Well, no longer. The iOS version of the app just launched, enabling iPhone users to capture and share immersive 360° VR photos in a snap.
When you think of modern app design, clean lines, a minimal aesthetic, and a sleek interface probably comes to mind. Imagine the exact opposite of that and you've got A E S T H E T I C A M, the self-styled "World's Worst Camera App."
Google just made Apple's 'Live Photos' feature a whole lot more usable. No, that's not a typo, a new iOS app created by none other than Google just took the neat-but-often-ignored Apple feature to the next level.
"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." — Henri Cartier Bresson
The creators of Scanbot—an app that lets you quickly and effectively scan documents using your phone's camera—have turned their attention to your old photos. Their new app Unfade promises to make digitizing old prints a snap, and features some built-in color restoration to boot.
Ever since iOS 8 was released, most major camera apps have released updates allowing you to control things like exposure, focus, ISO and more thanks to the unprecedented access to iOS camera settings the new release allowed.
The MultiCam app also lets you adjust focus and exposure on iOS 8... but it handles things a bit differently. It lets you do it AFTER you've taken the shot, and it uses a creative approach to doing it.
Admittedly, it's a VERY first world problem, but a problem it is nonetheless: you hand your friend your phone to look at certain photos you took, and they go on a swiping spree. Immediately your mind goes into overdrive as you try desperately to snag the phone out of their grasp without looking too much like you're hiding something.
We'll call it 'overswiping,' and it's even got its own meme. But you can save your ulcers, because a new app is making sure that overswiping is a thing of the past.
Characterizing a black and white camera app as 'minimal' feels a bit like characterizing an elephant as 'big'... or a coffee shop in Williamsburg as 'hipster.' Of course it's minimal, it only shoots black and white! But one look at the new iOS app Lenka and you'll realize why we used that term.
Does waiting for your photos to develop make the experience of picture taking more enjoyable? More importantly, does it make you more deliberate about the photos you do take? Nevercenter Labs' answer to both of those questions is a resounding "yes," which is why they created a neat new smartphone photography app called 1-Hour Photo.
Almost a year to date after iOS 7 was announced and released to developers, GoPro has finally given its GoPro iOS app a visual makeover, ditching the clunky, old design that the app has sported for quite some time.