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Spectre App

Smart
Long
Exposures

Long exposures have always been limited by technical factors, from keeping the camera steady, to guessing the amount of light. We’ve taken care of all of that.

Spectre is an AI-powered shutter for your iPhone, letting you create amazing long exposures.
From the team that brought you Halide.

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Features

Nowhere too crowded

Features

Nowhere too crowded

Spectre can help you take photos of crowded, touristy places that nobody has seen before. Simply set a medium or long duration and take a shot to erase the crowd from a location. Capture the most special places how you experienced them.

Nowhere too crowded
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Rivers of Light

Rivers of light
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Rivers of Light

At night, AI scene detection automatically switches modes to draw beautiful light trails, for stunning nighttime city photography or light painting.

Golden Gate Bridge
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Live icon Live in the moment

Long exposures are typically limited to just the final image. Spectre saves the entire exposure process as a Live Photo, letting you re-play the exposure as it happened. Watch cars shape ribbons of light or water becoming ghostly and smooth as it crashes ashore.

Share your shot as a still, a video, or both — Spectre gives you the choice.

Endless smarts

Auto-Stabilization
Auto-Stabilization
Scene Detection
Scene Detection
Intelligent Exposure
Intelligent Exposure

Spectre is a packed with powerful technology from by the team that brought you Halide.

In Spectre, we use all of our most cutting edge computational photography technologies to simplify what previously made long exposures such a dark art.

From machine learning-based scene detection to computer vision aided image stabilization, Spectre is jammed full of impressive technologies to get the best possible image.

Designed for humans

Spectre is meticulously designed.

Its dark UI is gentle on the eyes when you shoot at night. Gorgeous glowing highlights infuse it with a unique style.
Custom typefaces and iconography combined with unique, smooth controls make it as tactile and delightful as an actual physical camera.

The app is easily usable with one hand, even on the largest iPhones.

Designed for humans

Technology

High-tech showcase

Build with the latest tech, Spectre isn't just a long exposure camera — it’s the cutting edge technology showcase of one of the App Store’s foremost camera apps, Halide. Here’s just a few of the latest technologies that we use in Spectre:

DESCR
DCI-P3 Wide Color Gamut
Live Photos
Live Photos
HEIC Capture and Pipeline
HEIC Capture and Pipeline
Metal Graphics Acceleration
Metal Graphics Acceleration
Tripod Detection
Tripod Detection
Auto-Stabilize
Auto-Stabilize
Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Computer Vision