What's New
Maintenance release with minor enhancements & bug fixes.
App Description
Hydra offers innovative photo capture technology, and lets you take beautiful pictures even in the most difficult lighting conditions, which makes it a great companion to iOS Camera app.
“The Hydra app from Belgian company Creaceed is one of the more interesting iOS camera apps we have seen in the recent past.”
— DPReview
“Hydra is for people who enjoy iPhone photography at a higher and more rewarding level.”
— David Robinson (iPhonographer)
"Hydra has the particularity of offering original features, which are missing from many competing apps."
— iPhon.fr
Hydra captures more light by merging up to 60 frames to make a single high-quality picture (less noise, more highlights/shadows) on iPhone and iPad. Hydra also goes beyond the 8- or 12-megapixel sensor limit, with up to 32-megapixel high-resolution images. It uses the latest evolutions of iPhone and iPad camera hardware, as well as the latest camera APIs and GPU rendering technologies.
Hydra provides 5 specific capture modes: HDR, Video-HDR, Lo-Light, Zoom, and Hi-res modes.
• Hydra's High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode is based on an alternate method that captures up to 20 images and that is made to handle even the most difficult lighting conditions.
• Video-HDR uses single-image tone mapping and device-specific sensor mode to create stunning videos.
• Lo-Light mode removes sensor noise by merging together multiple images and amplifying light by a factor of 10 to provide a better image quality.
• Zoom mode uses real-time, super-resolution technique to recreate missing pixels from hand motion, producing 2x, 4x and 8x (telephoto lens) scale factors with more details than the standard digital zooming technique(*).
• Hi-res mode produces up to 32MP images from the regular 8 or 12MP camera sensor, providing finer details in captured image(*).
• Hydra supports the telephoto & front cameras respectively in Zoom and Lo-Light/HDR modes to shoot portraits & selfies.
• Camera support: ultra wide, wide, telephoto, and front facing.
Hydra also features a photo gallery for reviewing images and their metadata, directly linked with built-in iOS photo album, thus avoiding duplicates and allowing to flag as favorites.
(*) recommended for static scenes or distant scenery. Rendering artifacts can occur for scenes with parallax and for moving subjects.
App Changes
- January 30, 2015 Initial release
- February 06, 2015 New version 1.0.1
- February 11, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- March 12, 2015 New version 1.0.2
- March 12, 2015 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $2.99
- March 20, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- April 27, 2015 New version 1.1
- May 10, 2015 New version 1.1.1
- July 11, 2015 New version 1.1.2
- October 10, 2015 New version 1.2
- October 27, 2015 New version 1.2.1
- November 25, 2015 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $2.99
- December 02, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- July 07, 2016 New version 1.2.2
- November 05, 2016 New version 1.3.2
- November 24, 2016 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $2.99
- November 30, 2016 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- December 21, 2016 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $2.99
- January 06, 2017 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- October 08, 2017 New version 1.3.6
- January 08, 2018 New version 1.4.1
- June 13, 2019 New version 1.6.2
- October 02, 2019 New version 1.6.3
- October 28, 2019 New version 1.7
- November 26, 2019 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $2.99
- December 10, 2019 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
- July 15, 2020 New version 1.7.1
- October 23, 2020 New version 1.8.1
- November 12, 2020 New version 1.8.2
- August 06, 2021 New version 1.8.3