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In the Android world, it’s hard to beat Google’s Pixel phones for consistent, lifelike photos. While the HDR-ified look may not be for everyone, there’s no questioning the sheer reliability of a Pixel camera. When you tap the shutter button, you can all but guarantee you’ll get a pleasing and natural picture every single time.
That camera experience is one of the main reasons I like using Pixels so much, and thanks to a new app called Indigo, you can now get something similar on the iPhone.
Indigo is an iPhone camera app created by Adobe, and two of the people behind the app also worked on the Pixel Camera and Google Camera apps. It incorporates the same HDR+ image processing from those apps into the iPhone. And rather than simply copying Google’s approach, Indigo adds its own unique touch, aiming to reduce overexposure, blown-out highlights, and noise-filled shadows.
It sounds like the perfect way to get a Pixel-like camera on an iPhone, but does it work? I tried Indigo side by side with Apple’s camera app to find out.
Comparing Indigo vs. the iPhone’s default camera
Joe Maring / Android Authority
I tested Indigo on an iPhone 16, spending part of an afternoon snapping pictures with it and the default iPhone camera app. Indigo offers a range of manual controls, including shutter speed, ISO, temperature, and more. However, for this test, I ignored all of those settings. I simply opened each camera app and tapped the shutter button.
Across the dozen or so pictures I captured, there’s a pretty consistent difference between Indigo and Apple’s camera. In almost every image, the Indigo picture has more shadows, more contrast, and more balanced highlights.
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