Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page.
Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads.
For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA
Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range.
PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE
Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted.
Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise.
NATURAL LOOK
Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them.
PRO CONTROLS
Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray.
Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped.
SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM
Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active.
MACRO MODE
Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots.
VIEWFINDER
Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images.
LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION
Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobile app for editing. In addition, our raw DNG files provide maximum compatibility with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
TECHNOLOGY PREVIEWS
Technology Previews will be a place where we will offer an early look at technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe’s flagship products, or that already appear in these products in a slightly different form:
- AI Denoise is a variant of the AI-based denoising from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a new DNG to your camera roll.
- Remove Reflections is a variant of the technology from Camera Raw and Lightroom desktop clients. It uses DNG as input, and it saves a medium-resolution JPEG to your camera roll. It tries to remove reflections when shooting through plate glass windows covering most of the camera field of view.
- Face Dewarp corrects warp on faces near the edge of images captured using wide-angle lenses. It uses DNG or JPEG as input and saves a JPEG to your camera roll.
Running on an iPhone 14 Pro Max I could only have the app open for a few minutes and take one photo before my phone started overheating and the apps performance degraded. It also crashed 2 times while waiting for photos to process. The quality of the shots I got were awesome, but if I can’t use the app, what’s the point? Maybe on newer models it performs better? But on my phone it’s not usable.
Developer Response
Hello there! Project Indigo team is aware of reports that the app may trigger heat warning too easily on some devices, making it harder to use. We are working on optimizing the app experience and will be releasing updates that address these issues in the coming weeks. We're also working on improving overall stability to reduce crashes. Your feedback really helps us prioritize what matters most. ^RC
Nice but buggy
yuhski
I love the pictures but closing the app too quickly makes me lose a bunch of pictures. I guess if they weren’t processed yet. Please fix
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for trying Project Indigo and for sharing feedback. We are very sorry to hear that you have experienced lost photos. To minimize chances of that happening, please do not close the app while the images are being processed (you will see a small badge on the filmstrip showing how many photos are being processed). We are working on improving the performance and stability of the app, as well as adding delayed processing which should completely eliminate photo loss - please stay tuned!
Fix the colour shift
BlueGooseBach
This app is great … except for the colour shift that is introduced with any edits on the images it makes. Renders the app pretty useless.
Developer Response
Hi there. Thank you for trying Project Indigo and for providing us with feedback. We know the tint issue when editing JPEG images captured with Indigo in Apple Photos, and are working with Apple to resolve it as soon as possible. Thanks! ^RS
No support for iPhone 17
catchingzadzadzads
I’ve been using Indigo on my iPhone 15 Pro for a while now and love it! However a little disappointed that the app just doesn’t work on launch day for the 17 Pro. Why is this even a thing? Happy to update the review once this is addressed, but right now this is just silly
Developer Response
Hi There! We are sorry that Indigo is not yet supported on the latest iPhone devices. Unlike other 3rd party camera apps, Indigo uses a fully customized image processing pipeline that relies heavily on device camera hardware access - all captures we take are raw, and precise calibration and image metadata handling are crucial for the system to work end-to-end. This is why it takes us a bit of time to get the app up and running on the iPhone 17 series. The team just received their devices and is working hard on this, and will release an updated version of the app as soon as it is ready. We appreciate your patience and kindly ask you to revisit your rating once the app is updated. Thank you. ^RS
New features:
- New Technology Preview for undoing face warping caused by wide angle lenses. Particularly useful for selfies and ultra-wide camera photos of people. NOTE: this feature processes data on the device only. No data is stored, processed or retained by Adobe or third parties.
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Revamped onboarding experience for Technology Previews.
- Re-instated the EIS (Electronic Image Stabilization) option to camera settings.
- Fixed Number of frames slider in Pro controls not snapping into position.
- Fixed Number of frames slider automatically resetting to Auto.
- Fixed tap-to-focus not working in Pro controls if white balance was set to manual.
Version 1.0.13
The developer, Adobe Labs, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Accessibility
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