ghPhoto: RAW Manual Camera

Pro manual control on the iPhone you already own. Set the shutter to 1/500, let ISO follow the light, lock focus on the eye, and watch the histogram confirm it before you press. ghPhoto is a manual camera and a darkroom in one app, for every iPhone since the XS. You buy it once. No subscription, every update included.

Built by a photographer who wanted real camera controls on an iPhone and did not want to rent them.

NEW FOR iOS 27
- Shutter priority and ISO priority, on every iPhone. Fix the shutter and the camera keeps steering ISO as the light changes; fix ISO and the shutter floats. Exposure compensation and bracketing keep working while either is automatic.
- Apple's new neural RAW engine develops your DNGs with cleaner shadows and finer detail. Pick the engine in Settings and compare it with the classic one on your own frames.
- People: face grouping across your library, with naming, merging and corrections.
- Your library inside Messages: tap ghPhoto in any conversation and send a photo without leaving the thread.

SHOOT LIKE A CAMERA
- Shutter in real photographic stops, ISO, manual focus, white balance by temperature and tint
- Every control has its own AUTO/M switch
- Tap to focus and meter, long-press to lock AE/AF, drag anywhere to bias exposure, with a readout that stays until you clear it
- Spot metering, three-frame bracketing in one hardware pass, self-timer and burst
- Free zoom: pinch from 0.5x to 16x, fully automatic
- Or the lens ladder: every physical lens at its native focal length plus every sensor-crop step, labelled in millimeters or magnification
- Macro, portrait depth capture, and a viewfinder that resizes to your aspect ratio so what you see is what the file holds

SEE THE EXPOSURE BEFORE YOU PRESS
- Live luminance or RGB histogram you can drag anywhere on the frame
- Zebra stripes at your own highlight threshold, in your own color
- Focus peaking and a magnifying loupe for focusing by hand
- A horizon level that reads correctly however you hold the phone

REAL FILES
- ProRAW or Bayer RAW, written as a full DNG
- 48MP wherever your hardware offers it

SHOOT THROUGH YOUR LOOK
Build a grade in the editor, save it as a Look, then shoot through it: the viewfinder shows the world already graded, but the file it saves is untouched, with the Look attached as an editable recipe.

FROM THE LOCK SCREEN
Make ghPhoto your Camera Control camera, put it on the Action button, or add it to Control Center and the Lock Screen. It shoots from a locked phone with your real settings and imports the frames when you next open the app.

A LIBRARY BUILT FOR A SHOOT
- Private in-app library with albums, keywords and star ratings. Rate as you swipe, then filter to the keepers
- Times shown in the zone where you shot, wherever you view them
- Full capture metadata: lens, exposure, ISO, dimensions, location
- Copy one photo's entire edit recipe and paste it across a whole selection
- Share a processed HEIC, or export the original file, DNG included, to Photos or Files

A NON-DESTRUCTIVE DARKROOM
- Exposure, contrast, saturation, warmth, highlights, shadows, vignette, sharpness, noise reduction
- Auto Enhance that brightens, lifts shadows and recovers highlights the way you would by hand, then leaves the sliders where it landed
- Effects: grain, glow, negative, solarize, duotone, halftone, posterize, pixellate
- Crop, straighten, rotate and flip
- Re-aperture a portrait shot after the fact
- Develop RAW flat or rendered, and the choice is part of your recipe
- Press and hold to compare with the untouched original
- Nothing ever overwrites an original

FOURTEEN DAYS, NOTHING HELD BACK
The trial includes every feature. When it ends, only the camera locks: viewing, editing, exporting and sharing stay free forever, no watermarks. Your photos are never held hostage. One purchase unlocks the camera for good.

Requires iOS 18 or later (iPhone XS and newer). iOS 27 features light up when you update.