u/alexfoxy

Hey all! The 2.0 update is now available on the AppStore!

This release re-works large parts of the rendering pipeline to deliver greater consistency, improved tone mapping, colours and filmic effects. I've been working on these improvements since Christmas 2025, spending countless hours tuning the effects to be filmic and consistent, while still running smoothly on-device. It's been tough, but worth it!

• Dynamic Range has been rebuilt from the ground up and is now available on all devices. It’s significantly more consistent, with compressed shadows and clipped highlights that better capture the look of film.
• Bloom is now sensitive to the luminance of the scene. Brighter areas produce a softer, more pronounced glow, while darker regions are less affected, resulting in cleaner images with improved highlight roll-off and separation.
• Halation has been reworked in a similar way. Instead of a uniform “bleed,” it’s now driven by highlight intensity, creating a more natural rendering, especially in high-contrast scenes. The effect is more restrained, but far more consistent.
• Saturation now behaves more like vibrance, affecting muted colours more strongly while remaining controlled in already vivid tones. As colours intensify, their brightness is gently reduced, producing deeper, richer results without a harsh, neon-like look.
• Contrast has been adjusted to respond more intelligently to each scene, delivering more reliable and pleasing results.
• The Emulation Preview now contains photos from real iPhones to help provide more accurate representations of emulations.
• You can now press on the emulation icon in the Gallery to load that specific emulation.
• On top of these changes there has been a focus on improving performance and stability of the app.

You can read more about the changes and see some side-by-sides here:

Huge thank you to everyone who beta tested it over the past months, it really helped refine the update before the public release <3

Enjoy!