schmamera
hi. i'm vijay. i've been working on a camera app for iphone called schmamera. it's free, there are no ads and no account, and nothing leaves your phone.
it's an early testflight beta and needs ios 26 or later. stuff will be rough. try it and lemme know what you think.
drag the photo or the ruler. same frame, seven looks.
looks you blend with a drag
there are seven looks: natural, warm, soft, vivid, dusk, mono and plain. you drag across the photo to slide between them, and you can stop halfway between two.
the viewfinder shows the photo you're actually going to get.
plain, and raw if you want it
plain is developed straight from the sensor's raw data, so it skips most of the processing iphones normally do.
you can also save a dng with every shot.
raw only works at .5×, 1× and the telephoto lens tho. anywhere else, plain is the regular photo with as little done to it as possible.
manual when you want it
there's a full manual mode: focus, shutter, iso and white balance, with focus peaking, a loupe, a histogram and stripes on blown highlights.
help that never touches the picture
the dot in the shutter drifts when your hands are shaky. hold the shutter down and it waits until you're steady, then takes the photo.
if a shot comes out blurry or someone blinked, it tells you so you can retake it. it never edits the photo itself.
the small stuff
pinch zoom works across all the lenses, there's a selfie camera, and camera control and the volume buttons work as the shutter.
it also opens from the lock screen.
it's free
no ads, no account, no analytics, no subscription. the app doesn't make any network requests at all, so your photos stay on your phone unless you send them somewhere. your photos should be yours.
join the beta on testflight