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.

Coming to Google Play Halation viewfinder framing a backlit dandelion, showing the chip row, mode selector, and shutter.

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

See what you're capturing

Live luminance histogram and overexposure zebras help you nail exposure before the shutter fires.

Halation viewfinder showing a cloudy sky with yellow zebra stripes overlaying the blown-out highlights.

Coming next

Tier 2 — Manual controls + RAW

Pro mode with RAW (DNG) capture, focus peaking, and manual dials for ISO, shutter, aperture, focus, and white balance. Guided panorama, custom picture profiles, external mic support, and a home-screen shutter widget.

Tier 3 — Computational photography

Native night mode via burst stacking, image alignment, and denoising. One well-executed computational feature — done right, not just checked off.

Tier 3 is a milestone, not the finish line. Halation is a long-running project — the roadmap grows from what you tell us matters.

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.