Halide $7.99 | halide.cam

ADVANCED CAMERA APPS offer a huge amount of control but most of them have a learning curve and are hardly ‘point and shoot’. Enter Halide, a powerful premium app that not only gives users pro-level controls, but also makes the entire process as easy as just gliding a finger across the screen. You can fine tune almost everything you need — ISO settings, exposure, shutter speed and white balance. Where most apps have instructions tucked away, Halide has a five-page guide pop up as soon as the app is first opened, making it very clear how easy it actually is to use. Swipe up or down to change any setting, and you can swipe anywhere on the screen, not specifically over a slider control. Halide also offers focus peaking, a grid overlay for composition, an in-built level, RAW image capture and a live histogram. Taking advantage of the tech in the latest Apple flagships, Halide now has a Depth mode for portraits. When you’re done, Halide offers capture review via 3D Touch — swipe left to favourite an image or swipe left to discard.