Indie alternatives to Halide

Halide Mark III - Pro Camera

Lux Optics Incorporated

Two people built the manual camera Apple did not ship. It is the app that convinced a lot of photographers the iPhone was a real camera.

Darkroom: Photo & Video Editor

Bergen Co.

Photo and video editor with AI-powered depth detection and object selection. Desktop-class editing tools on your phone.

Obscura — Pro Camera

Ben McCarthy

A manual camera app that spent 10 years becoming the one photographers actually use.

Kino - Pro Video Camera

Lux Optics Incorporated

A video camera that applies filmmaker-grade color presets on record, or lets you go fully manual.

Splitscapes - Photo Carousel

Life Utility Apps, LLC

Added 8 days ago

Splitscapes turns your panoramic photos into perfectly sized carousel posts for Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, and more. Choose a panorama, pick your split count, and export crisp, seamless panels ready to upload. Whether you're sharing breathtaking landscapes, city skylines, or wide-angle group shots, Splitscapes makes sure every panel lines up perfectly — so your followers…

Hush Hush Snap Snap

Sean Dryden

Added 11 days ago

SILENT CAPTURE. FULL MANUAL CONTROL. Hush Hush Snap Snap is a silent-capture camera for iPhone. Sound, flash and screen glow are separate controls, and you decide which of them fire — with a complete pro camera underneath. Pets, wildlife, theaters, museums, ceremonies, sleeping babies — every moment a shutter sound would ruin. THREE INDEPENDENT CUE TOGGLES Visual, haptic and audio, each on or…