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5/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for Hydra › Amazing Photography for iPhone.
Hydra › Amazing Photography is paid iOS app published by Creaceed SRL
Horrible
carly overton
This camera is worse than my default camera. I can’t believe I even paid money for this app. Such a disappointment
Precision
Wesley Brilhante
This app does such a great job on Getting Precision correct every time it’s amazing,very impressive how accurate it is and how you can use the app for different pictures modes even more fun then you can get blown away by the app easy easy,it’s a great well designed app for those who love taking pictures from their phones and have been searching for features like super sampling,super resolution photos,merging pictures together etc really quick is a great app for any iPhone and I’m sure android users can get some fun from it!
App that pushes the conservative limits of the iOS camera app
Pakitt
The iOS camera app is limited and conservative, without allowing any experimentation: it provides excellent pictures in most situations, but doesn’t dare when conditions are tough. Namely low light, strong HDR lighting conditions and digital zoom. Hydra overcomes this in all 3 situations. The enhanced zoom is fantastic. HDR is more aggressive than Apple’s own version and can generate some tone mapping issues vs more conservative Apple’s approach, but can help when all else fails. Low light brings out detail where the iPhone can’t as the Apple’s camera app doesn’t do more aggressive averaging. The only 2 issues I have with the Hydra app (hence 4 stars), hopefully coming in a new release, are: 1) the app doesn’t save in HEIC format, only JPG and not even RAW. So those 32 MPix pictures are taking a lot of space, that is where HEIC would help a lot (also for regular pics); JPG also loses more detail than HEIC does; saving RAW would allow to convert a pic in HEIC on a Mac once a picture is reviewed and saved in case the developer doesn’t want or cannot support saving in HEIC format ; (Halide app allows saving in RAW so the data is available to the developers); 2) in HDR mode a slider would be better instead of only 2 possible effect settings, and I’d like to save both “strong” and “medium” effect images rather than just one version, since I might decide later on a bigger screen which pic is best for me. I don’t understand the B/W option. I could convert the pic to BW myself later in photos...
Even better with iPhone Xs!
Stevearcher
Using this app with earlier iPhones still produces impressive detail-rich images. But, upon closer examination, they also usually have noise, especially noticeable in flat tones. Not so, with the latest generation hardware!! Very clean details! There are, frankly, a number of 'magical' camera apps out now that make iPhone-ography a lot of fun. But I'm glad I tried Hydra again to discover the best way to capture high-res 'zoomed telephoto' shots!
Just okay
Jase1125
Hydra is an okay app. I’m not sure I would recommend purchasing it. There are absolutely no manual controls. The oversampling results in soft images. You will need to take the finished result and sharpen them with another app like photoshop fix or Snapseed. Otherwise, they look over processed for noise reduction. I found the HDR app wanting. Honestly, I really don’t use this anymore as there are better options.
Bracketing on iOS
Wrave
Hydra is the best option I've been able to find for taking bracketed photos. I do wish I could control the dynamic range with sliders instead of "low" and "high" both of which are sometimes too strong. But under the right conditions, it's awesome
Waste of money
catboiiiii
I can not believe I spent this much money on this app. If you have an iPhone you don’t need this app. It practically does everything that an iPhone does. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Not for me ☹️
nehdje
I’m sure this is a great app but I got it to take pictures of my kiddos and they will not stay put long enough for all the pics to be taken. Just wasted $5.