I started Pro2Camera in early 2023 because every camera app I tried made me choose between manual control and a decent look. The manual ones gave me ISO and shutter and then dumped a flat file on me; the pretty ones let me pick a filter and nothing else. Pro2Camera is me refusing to pick: ISO, shutter, white balance in Kelvin, EV and focus on their own rails, 72 filters and 24 effects running live on the preview, and a real editor behind it. It is on 3.1.0 now.
The decision I would defend hardest is that the filter is applied before the shutter, not after. The preview and the captured frame go through the same processing graph, so what you framed is what you get. It is more work than post-processing a capture and it constrains what a filter is allowed to cost, but the alternative — composing against one image and receiving another — is the thing I built this app to stop doing.
The second one is the in-app album. Photos gets unusable when you shoot a hundred frames chasing a look, so shots can go to an app-private album instead: date sections, pinch from one to six columns, batch export to Photos when you have picked the keeper, and a metadata panel with the ISO, shutter, aperture, focal length and GPS actually recorded. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no sign-in — the app has no networking of its own.
What is in it, concretely: ProRAW and 48MP on supported iPhones, DNG output, a live histogram with shadow and highlight clipping, spot/centre/average metering, eight date-stamp styles including one that resolves and prints the address, five aspect ratios, camera presets that store the whole look at once, and an editor with RGB plus per-channel curves, four-corner perspective warp, background replacement and object removal that runs a Core ML inpainting model on the device.
What still annoys me: the long end of the shutter stops at whatever the active format reports, which is around a second, so the long-exposure work I wanted is really bracketing rather than minutes. And it needs iOS 26, which I know cuts people out.
\*\*To claim:\*\*
1. Download Pro2Camera from the App Store
2. Comment on this post, anything works
3. I'll send you the link that unlocks a full year of Pro ($24.99/year)
One per Apple ID, good through December 31.
If you end up using it, an App Store review helps more than almost anything else at this stage — would appreciate it. And if something annoys you, tell me instead; that's more useful to me than a star.
[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6444691085](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6444691085)

I made a manual camera app for iPhone — real dials, ProRAW, and an editor that never uploads your photos (free year of Pro if you want it)