Guide · Updated
Halide, Kino and Mood on Android
The iPhone-only camera apps, and what Android has instead.
Halide, Kino, mood.camera, Hipstamatic and Dazz Cam are iPhone apps: none of them is on Google Play (5 November 2026). Android has its own apps for each job. For Halide’s manual control and RAW, Open Camera, ProShot and MotionCam Pro; for Kino’s video, Blackmagic Camera and mcpro24fps; for Mood’s film look made as you shoot, Clack, the app this site is about; for Hipstamatic and Dazz Cam, the retro camera apps such as OldRoll and Kapi Cam.
01 · The apps
The iPhone-only camera apps, and Android
| iPhone app | What it is | On Android, try |
|---|---|---|
| Halide Mark III Lux Optics · free to try; $69.99 once, or $19.99 or $9.99 plans | a pro camera: manual shutter, ISO, white balance and focus, RAW, “Process Zero” without Apple’s computational photography, Looks. | Open Camera (free), ProShot ($8.99), MotionCam Pro ($29.99). Manual shutter, ISO, focus and RAW where the phone’s camera offers them. None copies Halide’s Looks or its interface. |
| Kino Lux Optics · $9.99 | a video camera: grades applied while recording, manual controls, Apple Log and ProRes, your own LUTs. | Blackmagic Camera (free), mcpro24fps ($23.49). Manual video and log recording, as far as the phone allows; Blackmagic Camera is from the cinema camera maker. |
| mood.camera Alex Fox · 7-day trial, then a random emulation free; $1.99 a month or $14.99 once | film emulations baked in as you shoot, grain and halation; no live preview, no editing, no importing. | Clack. Film looks made as you shoot, a week of everything then a free tier, once or monthly. Unlike Mood, Clack shows the look live and shoots video. |
| Hipstamatic Analog Camera Hipstamatic, LLC · free; Camera Club $7.99 a month or by the year | 200+ lenses and 200+ films combined before you shoot, shuffle, a darkroom editor, a community feed. | OldRoll, NOMO CAM, Huji Cam. Many camera and film combinations, some random. Our list of film camera apps compares them. |
| Dazz Cam - Vintage Camera DAZZ PTE. LTD. · free; Dazz Pro $6.99, or $19.99 once; single cameras $0.99–2.99 | retro film and digital cameras (135, 120, half-frame, instant, slide, disposable, CCD), video looks (8mm, 16mm, VHS), manual controls, double exposure. | OldRoll, ProCCD, Kapi Cam. A shelf of retro cameras with photos and video. The Play apps named like Dazz Cam are other developers’. |
From each app’s US App Store listing, 5 November 2026. Ratings: Halide 4.4 (14,000 ratings), Kino 4.7 (2,000 ratings), mood.camera 4.8 (557 ratings), Hipstamatic 4.6 (2,800 ratings), Dazz Cam 4.8 (117,000 ratings).
02 · Why
Why they are iPhone only
Mostly time and the camera hardware. mood.camera’s developer says it plainly in its FAQ: “I am only developing an iPhone version of mood.camera for the foreseeable future.” An iPhone app is written for a handful of cameras Apple makes. An Android camera app meets hundreds of phones, each whose camera driver reports what it allows: manual shutter and ISO, RAW, a flat frame. The same app can do more on one phone than on another. Our guide to the Camera2 API shows how to check yours.
03 · Pro
Halide and Kino on Android: manual photo and video
Halide is a manual camera with RAW and “Process Zero”, which skips Apple’s computational photography. Kino is a video camera that records a grade as you shoot. On Android these jobs are split across apps:
| App | Installs | Rating | Ads | What you pay | What its listing says |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Camera Mark Harman | 126 million | 4.0 (288,000) | Yes | Free | open source; manual exposure, focus and white balance where the phone allows, RAW |
| ProShot Rise Up Games | 718,000 | 4.5 (19,900) | No | $8.99 to buy | a manual camera for photos and video; a free Evaluator app checks your phone first |
| MotionCam Pro MotionCam | 15,000 | 4.6 (1,245) | No | $29.99 to buy | RAW video, RAW photos and log video, with full sensor control |
| Blackmagic Camera Blackmagic Design Inc. | 4.4 million | 4.6 (15,900) | No | Free | free; a digital film camera’s controls for video: frame rate, shutter angle, white balance, ISO |
| mcpro24fps Chantal Pro SIA | 17,000 | 4.6 (4,072) | No | $23.49 to buy; in-app $1.09–10.99 | a manual video camera with log and RAW recording; a free demo checks your phone |
Installs, ratings, the ads flag and in-app prices are Google Play’s, read on 5 November 2026 in the US store; they change. Clack is not affiliated with any app on this page.
ProShot and mcpro24fps each have a free app that checks what your phone supports before you buy. Most Android phones also have a Pro mode in their own camera app. For what RAW gives you, see RAW vs JPEG on Android.
04 · Film
mood.camera and Hipstamatic on Android: film looks
mood.camera bakes a film emulation into each photo as you shoot, with no live preview and no editing; its developer says the effects are too complex to render live. Hipstamatic combines lenses and films before the shot. On Android, the retro camera apps work like Hipstamatic, with many looks to pick from or shuffle: our film camera apps for Android compares them.
Clack is closer to Mood. It has eight films, each modeled on a real film’s published data, and a digicam; the look is made as you shoot, from a single exposure. Where Mood hides the look until after the shot, Clack shows it live in the finder, and it shoots video with the film in every frame. The money works much as Mood’s does: seven days of shooting with everything, then the whole camera, video and one film free; Clack Pro is $24.99 once or $2.99 a month in the US. Clack is new (on Play since 5 November 2026) and tested mostly on the CMF Phone 2 Pro.
Free to download. More about Clack
05 · iPhone look
An iPhone camera for Android?
Some people searching for an iPhone camera on Android want the iPhone’s own look. No app can give an Android phone that: it comes from Apple’s processing, which runs on the iPhone. Apps on Play named “iPhone camera” put a filter of their own on your phone’s photo.
Questions
- Is Halide on Android?
- No. Halide Mark III, by Lux Optics, is for iPhone and iPad. For manual control and RAW on Android, Open Camera, ProShot and MotionCam Pro are on Google Play; what each can do depends on your phone’s camera.
- Is Kino on Android?
- No. Kino is an iPhone video app by Lux Optics. On Android, Blackmagic Camera (free) and mcpro24fps offer manual video and log recording; what works depends on the phone.
- Is mood.camera on Android?
- No. Its developer’s FAQ says: “I am only developing an iPhone version of mood.camera for the foreseeable future.” Clack, a film camera app for Android, works on a similar idea: the film look made as you shoot.
- Is Hipstamatic on Android?
- No. Hipstamatic’s camera apps are on the App Store; Google Play lists none. On Android, film camera apps such as OldRoll, NOMO CAM and Huji Cam combine camera and film looks the same way.
- Can an app make an Android phone take iPhone photos?
- No. The iPhone’s look comes from Apple’s camera processing, which runs on the iPhone. An “iPhone camera” app on Play applies its own filter to your phone’s photo.
Sources
- App Store: Dazz Cam - Vintage Camera
- App Store: Halide Mark III
- App Store: Kino
- App Store: mood.camera
- App Store: Hipstamatic Analog Camera
- mood.camera FAQ
- Google Play: Open Camera
- Google Play: ProShot
- Google Play: MotionCam Pro
- Google Play: Blackmagic Camera
- Google Play: mcpro24fps
Listings read on 5 November 2026. Halide, Kino, mood.camera, Hipstamatic, Dazz Cam and every other app named here belong to their developers; Clack is not affiliated with any of them.