Afterglow turns your iPhone into a real long exposure camera. Every shot is built from hundreds of live camera frames and blended on the device, so you watch the photo develop in front of you: light trails growing, water going soft, stars drawing arcs across the sky.
No ND filter. No DSLR. No editing afterwards — unless you want to.
EIGHTEEN CAPTURE MODES, IN FOUR FAMILIES
• Motion — Light Trails, Silky Water, Motion Blur, Zoom Burst, Spin Blur, Freeze + Trails, Ghost Trails
• Night — Night Handheld, Declutter, Fireworks, Light Painting
• Sky — Star Trails, Stars & Milky Way, Meteor Watch, Aurora, Moon & Planets, Cloud Streaks
• Video — Timelapse of the photo forming, in HD or 4K
CHANGE THE LOOK AFTER THE SHOT
Afterglow keeps your frames, so nothing is locked in when the exposure ends. Re-blend the same capture as Average, Lighten, Comet, Stacked Lighten, Glow, Motion Only or Freeze + Trails, move the strength slider, trim the start and the end, then adjust exposure, contrast and warmth. One capture, every look.
THIRTY-ONE GRADES
Six families — Natural, Cinematic, Neon, Astro, Mono and Film — with one free look in each, so every family can be tried before anything is paid for.
WATCH IT DEVELOP
A live preview, a histogram and the elapsed seconds while the exposure runs. A stability meter says when the phone is steady enough, and the modes that need a tripod say so. The result screen shows the duration and how many frames went into the photo.
ONE SECOND TO THIRTY MINUTES
Presets from 1 s to 30 min, plus Bulb for as long as you hold the scene. Star Trails adds an interval programmer: the gap between frames, and how many frames to shoot.
MANUAL CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT IT
ISO, shutter per frame, white balance, exposure compensation and focus — with a one-tap lock at infinity for the sky modes. Or leave it all on auto and press the shutter.
KNOW TONIGHT'S SKY
The Tonight planner shows golden hour, blue hour, the dark-sky window and moonrise and moonset where you are, and marks the good nights for long exposures. Your location is used on the device and never leaves your iPhone.
EXPORT
Full-resolution HEIC or JPEG, RAW/DNG for editing, and timelapse video in HD or 4K. Shortcuts and App Intents for your own automations. Made for iPhone and iPad.
PRIVACY
Afterglow only adds the photos you make to your library — it never reads it. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no servers. Everything happens on your iPhone.
Light Trails, Silky Water, Motion Blur and Fireworks are free, with no watermark and no shot limit. Afterglow Pro opens the other fourteen modes, re-blending after capture, the full grade library, RAW/DNG export, 4K timelapse video, the manual panel and the Tonight planner. Choose a one-time Lifetime unlock or an annual subscription with a one-week free trial; both support Family Sharing.
