Unpro Camera
Unpro Camera is a skeuomorphic camera app designed to take naturalistic photos with greatly reduced post-processing. Unlike most camera apps, Unpro features a carefully-crafted photo processing pipeline that produces excellent JPEG renditions of RAW and ProRAW photos without the need for manual editing.
Photos straight out of Unpro. For honesty, all images are unedited — except for the fern photo, which is cropped and uses the built-in Low-Con filter. Also, the colors are less saturated than they should be because Squarespace doesn’t support the Display P3 color space. The fern and cat photos were taken in RAW, while the rainbow and beach photos were taken with ProRAW.
A standard HEIF photo taken on an iPhone 14 Pro with the telephoto camera, with a -0.4 exposure bias.
A RAW photo captured with the same exposure bias and automatically processed into a JPEG by Unpro. No edits applied.
Drawing on years of experience shooting and editing RAW photos, as well as working with image processing, I’ve created Unpro to deliver photos that look both beautiful and real. On all iPhones, you can capture RAW, saving JPEGs to your Photo Library, with the option to also save RAW for greater editing flexibility later. On iPhones that support ProRAW — that is, Pro iPhones since iPhone 12 Pro — Unpro can capture and develop the natural image contained within ProRAW, without sharpening and overbearing local tone-mapping. Other iPhones have access to an original “deprocessing” pipeline to actually undo much of the post-processing that makes phone photos look like phone photos.
Another feature that, as far as I know, is unique to Unpro: the ability to capture a RAW and ProRAW (or RAW + a deprocessed photo) in rapid succession. I used a development version of Unpro with a variant of this feature to produce the camera default vs RAW comparison above.
There are three built-in filters: SHIFTY, Low-Con, and Monoport. These filters are unique in that they adjust the exposure bias at capture time in addition to post-processing. On compatible devices, aside from photos taken with the Low-Con filter or with flash, all photos taken with Unpro are saved as Adaptive HDR JPEGs by default. I’ve put a good deal of work into making this HDR presentation a pleasing and gentle improvement over the base SDR images; it’s greatly toned down compared to the default camera captures.
All this runs behind a simple, retro-styled skeuomorphic interface focused on responsiveness and ease of use. It’s free to try, but saving without watermarks requires either a one-time purchase or a subscription.
