Hydra › Amazing Photography App Reviews

Do NOT buy this app! Horrible. Built in iOS camera is better. Every picture I have taken with this app has been blurry and extremely distorted. Pass on this app.

If youre a photographer or videographer I have confidence you will like this app. It shoots well and doesnt disappoint.

I can confirm that the high res mode does work. I use my phone to take photos of small electronic components and their labels. Normally after the photo is taken and cropped the text is barely readable, 8MP just isnt enough but with this app, the resolution stacking really works and the output is much clearer. Im impressed.

I have tried numerous camera apps and Hydra is without a doubt my favorite. It allows you to take great quality photos in very challenging lighting situations, while at the same time being very easy to use. The quality of the photos I have been able to get is unsurpassed. This is the first app review I have ever done, but I like Hydra so much I had to take time to do it.

Let me just start out by saying i absolutely love this app... It takes great high quality photos (if your still) it takes entirely too long to take a photo.. So if your trying to take a quick picture of your pet or animal its not gonna happen.. Or if your outside and its windy its not going to happen... Center is perfect but everything else is blurry and you cant even decipher what is in the picture... And secondly it KILLS my battery no other app has killled my battery like this does... If the battery issue and the amount of time to snap a pic gets fixed ill give 5 stars... Besides those issues its PERFECT

Pros: - High quality photos. Cons: - Too much time to shoot, comparing with the iphone camera and other cameras app. - need to be stable for long time while shoot.

This does not work! All I get when I take a photo is a creepy photo in which also you have colors off of the subject! If you cant keep your hand PERFECTLY still then Dont Download!!!

Ive owned the OS X version for going on 4 years now and can tell you this company makes awesome software. Now, the iOS version is just as awesome but here are a few tips. HDR requires the taking of several photos and then mixing them in order for the finished product to capture the huge Dynamic Range that makes it look awesome. Most if not all other iOS sos take 2 photos, one light, one dark, then get blended. Hydra will take up to 10+ photos. This process makes it a bit slow. But if you hold your phone still enough it will give you rewarding results. So far the images Ive taken far far out perform the ones from other apps. This app almost does HDR video. Sure it takes a few seconds. Its supposed to. This works the same on a DSLR. Thats how HDR images are made. So, for everyone complaining, get over it. This is not McDonalds, this is a Sirloin steak.

Extends the feature set of built-in camera app with amazing digital zoom and hi-res options. HDR is decent too. There is room for improvement in the algorithm (hi-res sometimes produces spotted artifacts, HDR overdoes color), but no other app I have tried does better, and the ease of use in this one is off the charts.

I have played a lot with this app for some days and found that it is a hit-or-miss when it comes to the final photographs. Let me explain. The low light feature is not worth it at all. Compared to the standard iPhone camera, there is not enough improvement to support the high cost of this app. Since Hydra takes multiple shots of the same scene, it is imperative that you keep your hands steady, and more importantly, there should be no moving subjects in the photograph, or else it will be a total waste. Where this app excels is in HDR, again, for stationary subjects. If there is a high contrast scene (stationary), the app does a wonderful job of blending the multiple exposure shots to produce a photograph that is superior to the native iPhone camera. In my humble opinion, this app is overpriced for what it is capable of doing. It is a very niche photography app, and is not supposed to replace your standard iPhone camera.

Does not work, picture turn out blurry and distorted. Dont waste your money!!!

Im sorry people but its very misleading to read the bad reviews as they are irrelevant. Clearly this app was designed to take massive advantage of the power of iPhone 6 specifically---which is exactly what I want a strong photo app to do. With that in mind dont complain and if you do have a 6, believe me, this app should have thousands of 5 star reviews. Its that good.

Great for taking pictures of scenes with no movement. Not as useful for moving scenes unless shooting HDR video. It would be more useful if it had a HDR photo mode more similar to Googles stock camera app as that allows some movement. Overall great app and far outshines Apples native camera app for specific shots.

This is my Fav app that I have.... If u know how to work it out it can become your best friend app to take those Pik u always wanted

This sonftware generates a lot of heat in the device ( my phone is iphone 5s ) I think this app is not normal ! And dangerous for device !!!! If someone has another experince pleas saying it ...

I bought this app for Apple watch support but it performs much worse than Apple built in app: 1) you have to unlock your iPhone and open Hydra each time to use 2) the video feed is very delayed and is more like a still image every few seconds 3) it locks a lot... All this on the latest iPhone 6 plus.... What a waste of $5!

After updating, ghosts were no longer detected.

App crashed closed first time using

It works pretty well

I have a very expensive stacking program for astrophotography that doesnt do it as well as this does. 4x zoom seems to be stretching the lens resolution (not the apps fault; thats a lot to ask of optics), but 2x works well. High resolution mode is very impressive.