Lume - The Everyday Pro Camera
Lume - The Everyday Pro Camera
Most camera apps make you choose: simple, or serious.
Lume doesn't.
It opens fast and shoots beautifully on auto. Then, the moment you want more, pro control is right under your thumb.
Quick by default
Pro on tap
Dual
Record with two cameras at once, each to its own file. Get the wide for YouTube and a vertical crop for Instagram Stories from the same moment, and stop choosing between them.
Video
Shoot Apple Log and see a finished picture while you do it. Check exposure with zebras, false color and scopes. When the job calls for it, record ProRes RAW straight to a drive.
Photo
Point and shoot, and Lume handles the rest. Or take the wheel: shutter, ISO, focus and white balance on dials, with any of them back on auto in one tap.
Rangefinder
Frame lines from 24 to 75 mm, just like a rangefinder's finder. Pre-compose your image, shoot, and get the full image plus the crop with just one tap, or shoot RAW and the crop appears in Lightroom, ready for you to edit.
Custom settings
Save everything about a mode under a single button. Up to six per mode, ready from Siri, Shortcuts and the Lock Screen.
Available everywhere
Lume can open via every method iPhone has. Shoot straight from the Lock Screen with your modes and custom settings, exactly as you left them.
Why Lume
Buttons fire the moment your finger lands, not when you lift it. You get the frame you saw, not the one after.
The formats and exposure tools a serious shoot asks for, without reaching for a second camera app.
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Your photos, videos and location stay on your iPhone. Lume sends anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off.
One price.
One subscription unlocks every feature. No tiers, no add-ons. Try it free for 7 days.
The wide and the vertical, recorded together, each to its own file.
Rangefinder frame lines from 24 to 75 mm, so you compose before you crop.
Yours.
Lume reads your iPhone and shows only what it can do. No settings for hardware you don't have.
A clean viewfinder by default. Tap Fn and every control is right there.
Open Lume every way iPhone allows, and shoot from the Lock Screen with your settings as you left them.
Save a whole camera as a custom setting, then switch with a tap.
Who made it
Pat Kay is a Sony Digital Imaging Ambassador who loves his big Sony cameras and his small Apple iPhones equally. With 10+ years as a full-time photographer and 20+ years as a creative, he built Lume as the camera app he wanted on his own iPhone: one that makes it easy to express himself everywhere, at any time, casually or seriously.
Pricing
No tiers and no locked features.
$24.99per year, after a 7-day free trial
Launch month only
$59.99once. No subscription.
Prices in USD. The App Store shows your local price.
Lume needs iPhone 15 Pro or later and iOS 26 or later. It shows only what your iPhone can do: ProRAW, ProRes, Apple Log and Open Gate need an iPhone Pro model, and ProRes RAW needs iPhone 17 Pro or later. Dual needs an iPhone with more than one back camera.
Yes. Everything is on auto until you decide otherwise, so you can open Lume and shoot. When you get curious, each control comes with a short card that explains what it does in plain words.
A yearly subscription keeps the shutter and record buttons working. Your gallery, and everything you've already shot, stay open either way. Nothing you made is ever held back.
It's the same camera, with your modes and custom settings, plus a few limits iOS places on iPhone while locked: no ProRAW Max, no recording to a drive and no 4K at 120 fps.
Into your Photos library, like any camera, or straight to an external drive if you plug one in. Lume has no cloud and no account.
Anonymous usage counts, with no photos, videos, precise location, names or personal details, and you can turn them off. If a capture fails, Lume sends an anonymous error report so it can be fixed.
No. There is one yearly subscription with a free week to try it, and Founders Edition as a one-time purchase during launch month.
Free for 7 days, then $24.99 a year. iPhone 15 Pro or later, iOS 26 or later.
