The top 5 ios apps measured by RiseFinder over the 1d window ending 4 October 2026.
NightCap Kamera is a camera app for low-light and night photography. It offers astrophotography modes for star trails, meteors, the ISS and aurora, long exposure modes for light trails and motion blur, and low-light tools such as ISO Boost, Light Boost and Noise Reduction. It also includes manual control of exposure, ISO, focus and white balance, plus an Apple Watch app with remote control.
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Open source ↗Knots 3D is an iOS reference app for learning to tie knots, first released in 2011. It includes 241 knots across categories such as climbing, fishing, boating, camping, and scouting, each shown as a 3D animation that users can pause, slow down, rotate, and scrub through. Knots can be browsed by category or type, searched by name, synonym, or Ashley Book of Knots number, or found by describing a task, and the app works fully offline with no ads or in app purchases.
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Open source ↗LumaFusion is a touch-screen video editing app. It provides six video, audio, or graphic tracks plus six additional audio tracks, a track-based and magnetic timeline, transitions, and external monitor preview. Editing features include green screen and chroma keying, color correction, LUT import, unlimited keyframes, multilayer titles, and audio tools such as EQ, voice isolation, and audio ducking. It supports frame rates from 18fps to 240fps, editing from Photos, Frame.io, and USB-C drives, and optional enhanced features available individually or through a Creator Pass subscription.
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Open source ↗myLightMeter PRO is a photography app that provides light metering for exposure measurement across film and digital workflows. It offers incident and reflected-light metering with manual control over aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and exposure compensation, plus aperture-priority and shutter-priority modes. Users can average multiple readings, import exposure settings from photos in their library, organize readings into Sessions with notes and camera details, sync Sessions through iCloud, and export them as PDFs. It also includes a hyperfocal-distance calculator and configurable presets.
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Open source ↗AstroShader is an iOS astrophotography app for capturing, stacking and editing images. It aligns and stacks exposures live during capture, or from the Photos library, without needing a computer. Users set exposure time, ISO and white balance, then edit with tools such as background extraction, histogram curves and sharpen layers, saving as HEIF, PNG, JPEG or 16bit TIFF.
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