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Better Camera
Manual iPhone camera. No AI. What you see is what you get.
Better Camera is a manual photography app for iPhone. Manual ISO, shutter, focus, and white balance, plus 10 film simulations with real grain rendered through a Metal shader. No AI processing, no Smart HDR, no scene detection — what you see in the viewfinder is what you get in the photo. Built solo because the stock Camera over-processes and pro apps felt like full cockpits. HEIF, JPEG, lossless TIFF output. iPhone Camera Control + hardware shutter support.
Hey Hunters, David here.
Better Camera is a manual photography app for iPhone. No AI processing. What you see in the viewfinder is what you get in the photo.
I built it because every iPhone update made the stock Camera "smarter" — scene detection, Smart HDR, AI denoise — and the photos started looking less like what I actually saw. Halide and ProCamera exist for pros, but they felt like full cockpits when I just wanted a few essential controls.
So Better Camera sits in the middle: manual ISO, shutter speed, focus, and white balance. 10 film simulations with real grain rendered through a Metal compute shader. HEIF, JPEG, and lossless TIFF output. iPhone Camera Control + hardware shutter support.
A few things that took the longest to get right:
- Building my own ISO Priority and Shutter Priority modes (iPhone doesn't expose these natively)
- A grain shader that's actually monochromatic per-pixel like real film, not the channel-noise that most "film filters" do
- Settings that persist between sessions, so opening the app is one tap from shooting
I shot it for a month across Japan and used almost nothing else – the screenshots and sample photos in the gallery are all from the app, no edits.
Built solo as a 20-year designer + indie iOS developer. Better Camera is by Heygor, my one-person studio.
Launch pricing for Lifetime is $39.99 until June 7, then $59.99. Yearly is $19.99/year with a 7-day trial.
Happy to answer anything – technical, design, business, why no Android (yet?). I'm in Tokyo timezone so replies might be staggered, but I'll get to every comment.
📷 bettercamera.heygor.com
About Better Camera on Product Hunt
“Manual iPhone camera. No AI. What you see is what you get.”
Better Camera was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 19 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Better Camera is a manual photography app for iPhone. Manual ISO, shutter, focus, and white balance, plus 10 film simulations with real grain rendered through a Metal shader. No AI processing, no Smart HDR, no scene detection — what you see in the viewfinder is what you get in the photo. Built solo because the stock Camera over-processes and pro apps felt like full cockpits. HEIF, JPEG, lossless TIFF output. iPhone Camera Control + hardware shutter support.
On the analytics side, Better Camera competes within iOS, Design Tools and Photography — topics that collectively have 513.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Better Camera performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Better Camera?
Better Camera was hunted by David Gor. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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