A camera app for people who miss the days when camera apps were just camera apps.

No ads. No cloud. No account. No telemetry. Just your photos, on your phone.

Tier 1 — Available now

Photo and Video modes
Manual aspect ratio, grid overlays, self-timer
Live luminance histogram and overexposure zebras
Burst mode via long-press shutter, plus time-lapse
EV compensation via vertical swipe, pinch-zoom across all lenses
Extension modes (HDR, Night, Bokeh) where the device supports them
Front and back camera, adaptive portrait/landscape layouts
EXIF preservation, customizable filename templates
Optional geotagging, off by default

Coming next

Tier 2 — Manual controls + RAW

Pro mode with RAW (DNG) capture, focus peaking, manual dials for ISO, shutter, aperture, focus, and white balance, and customizable EXIF metadata (author, copyright, description).

Tier 3 — Computational photography

Native night mode via burst stacking, image alignment, and denoising.

What Halation won't do

No internet permission. The Android manifest declares no INTERNET permission. The app can't phone home even if it wanted to.
No ads. Not now, not on Tier 2, not ever.
No account. Install, open, shoot. Nothing to sign up for.
No cloud sync. Photos land in your device's storage. What you do with them from there is your business.