The Reeflex Pro Camera has become my go-to app for critical photos, and in many ways I love it! The recent update for stacking focus bracketed shots crashes while processing at times, leaving me with a slew of pictures and no way to complete the task “in post.” It may be good to implement a method to group/select photos and then to complete the stacking task later.

I love the interface!Professional shooting with a very intuitive GUI.. Thank you Reeflex! The added 48 mp on the UW lens is really great! The focus peaking is a must for certain shots, like macro, for pinpoint accuracy. When I show my friends what I do with your lenses (tele with two macros), they can’t believe it’s from a phone!

Reeflex is an excellent program which is just missing a couple of features. Please add support for camera button (iPhone 17 Pro). I would use more if it were easier to access! Focus stacking is a fantastic idea; that is why I tried Reeflex in the first place. It would be great if focus stacking (I always shoot RAW) resulted in a (lossless) TIF or PNG instead of lossy JPG. The workaround is to process the stacked photos in Photoshop on Mac.Great application, give it a try! It’s way better than some of its competition.

As soon as you try to adjust the ISO manually, images come out flat (no HDR extra brightness range). So the higher brightness the screen is capable of is lost and you cannot get that back with editing. Images end up looking flatter in most cases compared to auto mode. That’s hard to give up. In Auto mode this is not a problem for me. I will use auto mode more often.

After downloading the app, you are given a 3 day trial. Once you accept that, you are locked into a yearly contract (which you can cancel) but the lifetime price is no longer an option. Contacting tech support, they say to take it up with Apple and you cannot get it changed. Don’t let the lifetime price fool you. It is yearly only from Apple Store regardless of what their pricing says here. It’s a shame as the camera is good but I’m not paying every year when, for less than 2 years cost I should be able to have it for lifetime. Fix this or take that misleading option off your info.Update - you can update to lifetime after your year is up if you cancel your auto renewal. However, don’t accept the three day trial since that will not let you choose anything but yearly if you do. Bad policy. That needs to be changed or explained

TL;DR: Not as pretty as ProCamera and not as simple yet flexible as Halide, but a darn good fit right between the two. The low purchase price is a one-off and makes ReeFlex an incredible value.I’ve been using ProCamera since 2014, and Halide for almost a year. I was always intimidated by ProCamera’s multitude of settings and never felt like I was getting the most out of the app. I often reverted to the native iOS Camera app just for ease of use. Then I found Halide as part of a re-kindling of my photographic ambitions, and a new iPhone that could take advantage of it. Halide at first seemed like a perfect solution for me, until it wasn’t. Meanwhile, ProCamera revamped its UI, the settings seemed less daunting, and I started using it a lot more. Then, through a series of happy accidents, I found ReeFlex (and ReeXpose).ReeFlex is simple and flexible, and has an intuitive and pleasing UI. The image quality for RAW and ProRAW is on a par with ProCamera, and, I think, just a touch better than Halide. Plus, there is no subscription to commit to, no in-app purchases to make, and a really reasonable purchase price. I figure ReeFlex makes their money off of their lenses (which I don’t need at this time), so they can offer their app at a significant discount. I don’t really fuss about that because the app is so useful and effective.

There’s nowhere on their website to leave reviews (how convenient) so I guess I have to do it here. The lens I ordered showed up with two scratches on the surface. Website return policy says they don’t take returns or exchanges if the lens is “used”. Well how is someone supposed to know if there’s an issue without taking the lens out of the box and looking at it or using it?? When I ordered the lens it was over $300 USD. I’m fine with this because it does take amazing photos and I like the product aside from the defects. However I started getting spammed with emails from FedEx about having to pay a $50 duty/tax fee? There was absolutely nothing to indicate that there would be extra import fees when ordering the lens. If there had been I would’ve waited a little bit before ordering. Very scummy. Finally as for reviewing this actual app, it’s awful. Using Final Cut Camera with the lens = amazing video results. Using it with this app, something is broken. The lighting in the photos always looks terrible and it washes all the colors out. I’ve been trying to take photos of brilliant fall foliage in southern Appalachia and all this app has been making the trees look gray and lifeless. It doesn’t capture the color of anything that’s in front of you. Very strange. Need to find a different app to use.

With the native app you can snap great photos and Apple has added some manual controls which is nice. BUT it’s got nothing on the Reeflex app, you have full manual control, oh and 98% of the app is FREE! The ONLY in-app purchase is $5-6 to unlock the long exposure feature. The UI is very easy to use and translatable to a DSLR. I picked up my sisters camera and was able to clack off a few nice pics. So if you’re like me and using your phone until you can purchase a real dedicated camera, Reeflex is the only photo capture app you need. Right off the rip you get focus peaking, zebra stripes and histogram. Pick which lens you want to use and select HEIF, Raw or ProRaw. Different grid options to compose your shots in creative ways. Flash and timer controls. I’m still blown away that all of that is free! Don’t feel silly and purchase other apps and then get sucked into more in app purchases. Download Reeflex and if you want to get creative with long exposure then spend the extra few bucks. But this is the only photo capture app I use!

I like this camera app. I’ve been using it for over a month. There a lot of features to play with. It has the capability of shooting like a DSLR. The focus peaking, zebra stripes and histogram are helpful when capturing images. However, I do find that images that I thought were in focus, sometimes aren’t, even when using the focus peaking feature. I also find that the images sometimes are either too dark or blown out even though they look fine on the screen. Also, sometimes the images aren’t as crisp as the native camera app either. They tend to have a softer appearance. It doesn’t seem to take macro photos like the native camera app. You could, if you had an external lens kit. I’m going to continue to use this app to see if I can get it to work better for me. I would love for this to be my go to app for photography. I think there’s potential for this app to keep improving and adding options, like video taking and an external shutter button support. I was assured the external shutter button support was coming when I reached out to the reeflex team.

I just got the disappointing realization this is a tiny company wringing every dime out of their customers. Despite watching dozens of videos on Reeflex and their lens and apps, no one says anything about this app costing $20! And yes, you need a third party app to use the 240mm super zoom lens because the native Apple camera app will not let you use the 5x telephoto lens on the iPhone 16 Pro with the lens on. It thinks the camera is blocked and switches to the 1x lens. The upgrade message makes you believe that it’s the long exposure feature that you need to purchase but beware, it’s $20 just to use the app for any pictures beyond the first 10. This has gotten my relationship with Reeflex off to a bad start. Typically a company selling hardware will supply the software needed to use the hardware. Not so with Reeflex, they want to get you from both ends. I really hope I don’t have any problems with the hardware I just bought from them, companies that play games like this to get more money from their customers aren’t likely to provide good customer service. I think I should have thought more about going with Sandmark on this one.