A red torii gate standing in the sea at sunset, Itsukushima Shrine, Japan

Prolens

Composition, exposure and light in your pocket. Built in the open, shaped by the photographers who use it.

Free · open source · no ads · Android 7+

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    Miyajima, Japan — Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0

    free · open source · no ads · no account · works offline · Android 7+ · 13.6 MB

    Every frame starts before the shutter.

    Where you stand, how you hold the phone, what the light is doing. Prolens puts that on the screen.

    A woman in a black headwrap and gold hoop earring, in profile
    Nikon Z 7_2 · 320 mm · f/5.3 · 1/100 · ISO 2500Photo: Wilfredor, CC0
    A fishmonger laughing at his stall in a Maracaibo street market, in black and white
    Nikon D300 · 50 mm · f/5.6 · 1/125 · ISO 100Photo: Wilfredor, CC0
    The Milky Way rising over snowy mountains in the Marukha valley
    Arkhyz, RussiaPhoto: Alexander Kurilov, CC BY 4.0
    A red fox drinking from a lake, mirrored in the water
    Canon EOS R7 · 800 mm · f/9 · 1/1250 · ISO 1250Photo: Alexis Lours, CC BY 4.0

    Compose on 23 grids.

    Spirals, triangles and perspective lines over the live view. Tap one to redraw the frame.

    A lone pine and its reflection on a still lake in Swedish Lapland

    Two lines each way at 1/3 and 2/3. Put subjects on the lines or on the four crossings.

    Kungsleden, SwedenFujifilm X-T1 · 24.3 mm · f/11 · 1/45 · ISO 200Photo: Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer), CC BY 4.0

    Get the horizon dead level.

    It turns green inside half a degree. Drag the bar until the fog line settles.

    Wooded hills rising out of a sea of fog at dawn
    Roll 4.5° · Pitch 0°Eye level

    Vosges, FranceNikon D300 · 82 mm · f/8 · 1/13 · ISO 200Photo: Thomas Bresson, CC BY 3.0

    See exposure. Don’t guess it.

    The real photo, measured pixel by pixel. Zebras stripe what’s about to clip; peaking outlines what’s sharp.

    Baden-Württemberg, GermanyCanon EOS R5m2 · 50 mm · f/6.3 · 1/400 · ISO 100Photo: Thomas Heins from Friesenheim, Deutschland, CC BY 4.0

    Know when the light is good.

    Golden and blue hour for wherever you’re standing, worked out with no signal.

    • Sunrise to sunset —
    • Morning blue hour —
    • Morning golden hour —
    • Evening golden hour —
    • Evening blue hour —

    Sun times from SunCalc by Vladimir Agafonkin (BSD-2).

    Built in the open. Shaped by you.

    Every line is on GitHub under Apache-2.0: the app, the exposure maths, the sun tracker and all 23 grids.

    Shoot with it, then tell us what a real day out needed.

    github.com/venkataPhanindraVutla/Prolens
    23
    composition grids
    7
    capture modes
    6
    exposure tools
    15
    shot recipes

    Take it out tonight.

    Free, no account, no ads. Install the APK, point it at something, and tell us what's missing.

    Download Prolens v1.1 for Android

    13.6 MBAndroid 7+

    1. Download the APK.
    2. Allow installs from your browser when Android asks.
    3. Open Prolens and grant camera access.
    Verify the download

    SHA-256 274ed215…52bf5117

    Want the store version? Watch releases on GitHub to hear first.

    Budapest, Hungary — Wilfredor, CC0