Halcyon brings the soul of film to your iPhone.
Download on the App Store
Twelve hand-crafted film stocks — Kodak Portra 400, Cinestill 800T, Velvia 50, Tri-X 400 and more — each with the temperature, tone curve, grain, and halation of the real thing. Apply them live, before you take the shot, and what you see is exactly what you get.
Full manual ISO, shutter, focus, white balance, and exposure. Tap to focus. Long-press for AE/AF lock. Pinch to zoom. Volume buttons fire the shutter. Lens switcher for ultrawide, wide, telephoto. Halide-style focus loupe magnifies the sharpness plane as you rack focus. Histogram, waveform, focus peaking, zebras, false color, horizon level — when you need them, hidden when you don't.
• Multi-frame long exposure — 2, 5, 10, or 20 second stacks with automatic alignment for handheld light trails, silky water, and star fields
• Slow-motion capture at 120fps and 240fps
• Live Photo for every film stock — the frames before and after, with the film baked in
• Thermal and storage health warnings before a long take can bite you
• Alternate app icons: Amber, Midnight, Noir
• Histogram — real-time RGB
The download is free, but Halcyon Camera has in-app purchases. Halcyon Camera also offers in-app purchases; the App Store listing has the current terms.
Halcyon Camera runs on iPhone and iPad and requires iOS 17.0 or later.
The download size is 4 MB.
The current version is 3.3, released on 2026-09-26.
Halcyon Camera is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and more.
Halcyon Camera is built by BIR (Build Intelligent Reality), an independent software studio founded by Birkan Aksoy. BIR has 38 apps on the App Store.
