In this small update, we have a few improvements in the unlikely event something goes wrong when writing a movie. If you have other suggestions for improvements, please let us know in the Discord!

Welcome to Kino 1.4.1! This follows up on our update that adds support for Apple Log 2 by fiddling a bit with gamma. If you have any issues or feedback, let us know at support@lux.camera, or drop a line in #support in our Discord.

Welcome to Kino 1.4.0! We're excited to get back in the swing of things, starting with support for Apple Log 2. Not only can you shoot in Apple Log 2 while using all of our existing Apple Log grades, you can also import your own Apple Log 2 grades.

We've also made a number of performance improvements, especially on iOS 26.

We have many updates in store for Kino. To keep up to date, and offer feedback and suggestions, check out our official Discord. You can allow follow updates at our blog, lux.camera. Thank you for your support!

This update adds support for the new 8× zoom on the iPhone 17 Pro. We've also patched a few issues on these new devices, such as 4× showing as "4.5×," and a crash when selecting custom video configurations. Got any other issues or suggestions for features? Let us know at support@lux.camera. We read every email!

— Team Lux

Welcome to Kino 1.3! This exciting update features three new features based on user requests!

First, we've given you greater control over audio. In the past, we simply picked the best audio source depending on the camera you were recording from, and whether or not you plugged in a USB microphone. With Kino 1.3, by tapping the VU meter in the upper left, you can manually pick your audio source and polar pattern.

Next, you may notice that we support more external drives. Previously, we only supported drives that iOS has verified will not drop frames. Now we allow you to record to any drive that iOS recognizes, regardless of its performance; we just warn you about it when you plug it in.

With Kino 1.3, we've added an indicator that tells when the current recording dropped frames. If Kino drops frames, this is usually due to the speed of your drive. If you can't change drives, try recording at a lower resolution or frame rate.

Finally, we've improved the geo-tagging. For one, it is now more precise. We've also updated how we write movies so that Apple Photos recognizes the geo tag in some workflows.

We've love to hear how we can make Kino better. Just email support@lux.camera.

This update adds two requested features. First, we let you attach location to videos! You can enable this in settings, under the "Advanced" action. We also offer this the first time you launch Kino.

We've also added support for more external drives, even if iOS cannot verify that the drive is fast enough. It turns out there are lots of third-party drives that run fast enough to record videos without dropping frames, so we'll just display a warning and let you proceed.

We have other features in progress, but if you have any feedback and other suggestions, let us know by emailing support@lux.camera. A real human reads every email!

— Team Kino

We're hard at work on our next major Kino update. In the mean time, we have this small update that improves stabilization.

Welcome to Kino 1.2.2! While it doesn't contain any major new features, it does have lots of quality-of-life improvements.

* Manual exposure settings are easier to swipe and tap.
* Fixed a crash when switching lenses after fiddling with manual controls
* Exposure log button is easier to tap
* When reviewing high frame rate recordings, you can now preview it at different speeds
* When shooting 25 FPS, the viewfinder now displays at 25 FPS
* When using auto-motion, we improved our exposure ramping algorithm to avoid flicker

If you have any other issues, feel free to reach out at support@lux.camera.

- Team Kino

We’ve made exciting updates to enhance your app experience:
- Companion Mode: A revolutionary way to communicate, now with live events support and dual reconnect options.
- Voice-to-Text (VTT): Transform speech into text with ease and accuracy.
- Enhanced Interactivity: Real-time microphone effects and vibration feedback for speech recognition.
- Improved Usability: Streamlined navigation and stability fixes for a smoother experience.

Enjoy a seamless and engaging app experience!

Hot on the heels of last week's release, we're releasing this small update full of improvements. We've improved the performance while recording at high frame rates, updated our translations, and fixed two cases where the app might crash. Please continue submitting feedback to support@lux.camera, or message us at @halideapp.bsky.social. Your reports help us know what to tackle next.

Of course this update includes all the awesome feature from  Kino 1.2, “Casablanca”!

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This is a major update, so we have a handful of huge improvements to talk about.

A NEW LOOK

Wow, did you notice that new icon? Kino gets a new, friendlier face, along with support for iOS 18 icon customization like tinting and more. We think you'll reel-y like it.

UPDATED IN SPEED

Kino supports high frame rate capture! That's right, you can capture graded footage at up to 120 frames per second — and that goes up to 4K 120FPS on iPhone 16 Pro! Note that some format options might require an external SSD at the highest quality settings.

UPDATED FOR CONTROL

Speaking of the iPhone 16 Pro, we now have our first update our to support Camera Control. With a few swipes, you can adjust your exposure, tweak your focus, or quickly switch between grades. To prevent accidental swipes mid-recording, we also have a Lock option like in Kino’s sister app, Halide. Stay tuned — there’s even more cool features taking advantage of the Camera Control on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro coming.

Kino’s great for all sorts of iPhones, though. This is a bit of control many wanted: we know everyone has a different favorite grade, so we now let you reorganize them in our grade settings. Move your favorites to the top for easy access in the grade picker or Camera Control adjustment.

UPDATED FOR YOU

Hallo! Bonjour! こんにちは! We've localized Kino into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese.

UPDATED IN DEPTH

Last but not least, we've polished the app's design. We've tweaked edged, rounded some circles, and we are adding more icons to [REDACTED] in the hidden [REDACTED].

We have other updates in the works, and we'd love to hear what to update next. You can reach us at Halideapp on Bluesky, Halide at mastodon.social, @Halideapp on Threads and Instagram, and Halidecamera on Twitter. For any support needs, please reach out at support@lux.camera.

If you love this release, please leave us a review in the App Store! It really helps a lot and supports our continued development of the app.

- Team Kino

While we're hard at work on our next big Kino update, we're releasing this smaller update with quality of life improvements and bug fixes. For example, the record button is easier to tap when you want to stop a recording! We've also improved how we parse LUTs, which should improve compatibility with some LUT generating apps.

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Welcome to Kino 1.1 — “Blade Runner”

Kino 1.1 is our first big update to Kino, coming hot on the heels of our initial big release. “Blade Runner” packs in 3 new Grade presets, powerful white balance controls, toggleable tap to focus and more.

This has been influenced by your comments, emails, and other feedback - so thank you for telling us what you want and please send us more of your feedback if you have it!

Here’s what’s news:

GRADE NEWS

Great news for those that love our grades: new! grades! Stalman Film 03 is a brand new beautiful balanced film look by Tyler Stalman and earns a new slot at the top for all of you Apple Log shooters. Our own Sebastiaan de With has also added a moody, cool set of presets called Wallace and Tyrell. Tyrell is a cold-tinted, moody contrasty Apple Log grade perfect futuristic and architectural shots. Wallace is a Rec709 preset, packing all of Tyrell’s moodiness into all other color spaces.

BALANCED, LIKE ALL THINGS SHOULD BE

Speaking of color, white balance is a crucial aspect to shooting video. We now give you full control of white balance with our new, powerful white balance controls, in the Kino Quickbar. Choose from a set of presets or get precise with our new manual white balance dial, allowing you set a range of Kelvin temperature values. You can also quickly lock or unlock white balance in the new white balance menu.

REVOLUTIONARY NEW TAP TO FOCUS

Kino has great manual focus with our long-throw focus dial. But in Kino 1.1 a unique, intuitive new focus method is packed in too: you can now tap anywhere on the screen to set a focus point. We think you are going to love it. And if you do not, you can turn the feature off entirely to prevent any accidental taps from ruining your focus.

A note: our focus attention point stays until Kino detects a scene shift. You can always tap the focus reticle to immediately dismiss it.

QUICK(ER) START

Are you a new user or still learning, or curious about Kino’s features? Those setting up Kino will be presented with a few quick tips, including our new 10 minute Quick Start video where Sebastiaan will show you around. Not new, but interested? Find this via the Settings - just tap the top card to view it.

BUGS, TWEAKS, SECRET STUFF

This update also packs in numerous tweaks, fixes and more. You’ll be delighted at the little touches we added and improved. And if you’re a particularly thorough fan of our apps, you might find a really nice bonus hidden somewhere in there. It might take you a few taps, though!

Thanks for being a Kino user! Team Kino is shifting a bit towards our big Halide update  next; stay tuned. If you love the work by our small team, spread the word, leave us a review, and share your beautiful videos with us on social media. Thank you!

I was expected to just write ‘bug fixes and minor improvements’ in here, but I refuse! I am a creative, a writer, and this is my canvas. A blank sheet of expression, like a block of marble for a sculptor.

Can I, instead, take you, my humble reader, on a journey into the world of Kino? A story of a small team that relished its user feedback and bug reports so it could make its video app even better? Dive in:

Kino 1.0.6 is here!

Kino hasn’t been out for a month yet, but here is our sixth (!) update. And if you think that’s impressive, you should see what’s coming very soon. In this update, Ben worked hard on this one:

• Fixed audio dropping if the device is under heavy load

Sometimes, iPhones can get extremely heavy system load from recording video and audio. It is about the most intensive thing for the hardware for your iPhone to do. This can degrade recordings, but we do our best to keep things running smoothly. We found an issue, however, where audio would very rarely get affected by this and skip or fail to save properly. This update fixes that.

• Persist the grid and waveform settings between launches

You asked, we shipped. We now persist your last chosen setting for the grid and waveform between launches.

• The 2.5× lens label looks nice now

It didn’t before. It had a makeover. It is happy about the result, which “represents [my] character and personality much better”. It’s said the 2.5 lens label is living its best life and “vibing”, whatever that means.

• Added volume button capture support

Click the volume button to start or stop recording. This also means Kino can capture / start recording with a host of accessories. If you have one, please test it and let us know if it works!

• Fix onboarding getting stuck if photo library access is denied

We would love to get Photo Library access if you intend to save videos to Photos, or want to apply a filter to your videos in Kino. Just a reminder: we have no analytics and do not gather any personal info or photos and videos — that’s how a camera should work. We should also respect it, however, if you choose not to share access to your Photo Library with us, and we previously had an issue around that. This update fixes that.

We hope you love Kino. If you do, please leave us a review, and give us a shout out on social media! It really helps. Thanks from the Kino team!

Hello folks, welcome to another episode of Kino: Pro Video for iPhone. In this episode, our characters spoke to users and tested things to find and fix issues relating to audio, stability and grade presets. Read on for the plot summary of this week’s intruiging events:

[Spoilers ahead!]

**Crash**: Kino 1.0.5 fixes a crash some users could see when recording / writing a huge file under stress. Thanks to everyone who helped us troubleshoot this. If you had any issues with crashing, please let us know ASAP and we’ll work hard to fix it! This particular issue was caused by the system being under heavy stress.

A note from the team: recording 4K video at 60FPS in ProRes is amongst the most intense things your phone can do, so while we of course shouldn’t crash, you can except occasional slowness and high battery drain when in these kinds of settings.

**Audio Stutter**: Similarly, when under extremely high stress and when iPhone was hot, Kino could occasionally suffer from audio issues, including stutters or cut-outs. This version should fix that.

**Where are my Grades?** Our top question by far via support has been, 'hey, where are all my grades?'. In Kino, when you are picking a grade preset, we only show the ones compatible with your record settings. That means that you will see our special Apple Log presets for Apple Log, and regular presets in non-Log. That can be confusing when you see all of them in Settings. If you are looking for your preset, try switching capture modes from Apple Log to say, SDR P3.  We will have a way to swich settings quickly in the Grade picker in a future update.

That being said, only iPhone 15 Pro can record in Apple Log. Despite this, we still showed all presets that Kino has bundled in our Settings menu, which was confusing. We now only show the presets that are compatible with your device in the Settings menu for Grades.

**Posterization**: Some LUTs showed some banding at times, which we addressed. Less banding at lower quality settings for all.

There’s, of course, little tiny changes, improvements and touches about.

That is it for this episode. If you enjoy Kino, leave us a nice review — it really helps us a lot! Our tiny team is thrilled with your feedback, so send us any including any bugs you might encounter so we can fix them for you promptly. All the best from your Kino + Halide team.

Thank you for using Kino 1.0! We're humbled by the kind words, and listening carefully to your feedback. We have big plans ahead, but first, we're releasing these small updates to add some more polish and fix bugs.

In 1.0.4 we've fixed an issue where recording might stutter, an issue with banding on HEVC files, and worked around a bug in iOS that prevents the telephoto camera from working.

If you have any issues, please let us know at support@lux.camera. If you appreciate our hard work, we'd love it if you could leave us a nice review. It goes a long way!

Thanks,
Team Kino

Thank you for using Kino 1.0! We're humbled by the kind words, and listening carefully to your feedback. We have big plans ahead, but first, we're releasing these small updates to add some more polish and fix bugs. In 1.0.2 we...

* Fixed an issue where the first few frames of your first recording might flicker
* Fixed grades not being applied in the reviewer if you were at the end of the clip
* Fixed a crash when switching capture configurations and toggling stabilization
* Fixed the UI breaking in a few places if you have a large text settings
* Fixed the remaining storage estimate being off when Instant Grade is enabled
* Fixed files having long, random looking filenames when you share them
* Fixed USB-C microphones sometimes not connecting
* Fixed audio sometimes playing through the earpiece instead of the speakers
* Fixed a crash if you tried to contact support after deleting the Apple mail client
* Updated the Lektar Grade
* Added lots polish around padding and spelling

If you have any issues, please let us know at support@lux.camera. If you appreciate our hard weekend work, we'd love it if you could leave us a nice review. It goes a long way!

Thanks,
Team Kino

Welcome to the very first Kino update! (that was quick)

We’re addressing a few small items in this update:
* Some recordings had an issue with the first moment of video not capturing audio correctly; this has been promptly fixed
* We removed a few high-frame-rate settings that caused issues with Apple Log
* The footer at the top of the Libraries hierarchy would confidently, yet incorrectly claim you were saving to Files when you had actually set Photos as storage for your recordings. It has been reprimanded and corrected in its behavior

It would mean the world to us if you could tell your friends about Kino during our limited-time launch sale, and leave us a review if you love the app! Thanks from Ben & Seb.