ENLIGHT QUICKSHOT

AI-POWERED EDITING. Free, with subscription tiers lightricks.com With the iPhone’s camera always improving, AI in photography was always hovering over the horizon. With Quickshot, it’s finally here — an app that offers to fix your photos before you’ve even pressed the shutter button. For example, it uses your iPhone’s orientation sensors to deskew photos before you take them, so you always end up with a level horizon. It also offers to adjust things like lighting in real time, and can apply filters before you shoot.

Instagrammers will love the deep selection of presets, but hit the individual settings button and there’s even more: shadows, highlights, vibrance and saturation can be edited individually, as can colour temperature and tint, taking Quickshot’s editing capabilities way beyond the iPhone’s stock arsenal. The final nudge into pro-level spec is the app’s ability to batch edit, applying the same fix to multiple images together.

The Strobe mode is designed to mimic the effect of a long exposure and multiple flash bursts; the app takes multiple exposures and blends them together, theoretically keeping static elements in one place, while moving subjects appear multiple times as they move across the frame. In practice, this is challenging to use.

The subscriptions begin at $2.99, ranging up to $30.99 for a year’s use. This is a flexible and powerful photo editor for your iPhone.