What shipped, and when.
Every released version of xMosaique, newest first. A build still in review is not listed until the App Store serves it.
Version 1.8.4
Latest- xMosaique now runs on iPad and iPhone Duo — the same camera on a bigger screen, with every control laid out below the viewfinder.
- Selfies now save the way others see you, as the iOS Camera does: Mirror Selfies starts off, and the viewfinder still shows you mirrored. If you had already changed the setting, your choice is kept.
- Fixed: on iPhone SE, XS, 11 Pro, 12 mini and 13 mini the camera screen sat off-centre, cutting off the right edge of the image and the end of the bottom row of controls.
Version 1.7.4
- LUT presets are new: import any 3D .cube LUT and shoot with it live, just like an XMP preset — swipe to it, set its intensity, and add grain, halation and the other effects on top.
- Every preset in the list is tagged XMP or LUT, and a LUT whose title names a log format is marked as made for log footage.
- 18 LUTs and 10 more XMP presets are built in, so 41 looks now ship with the app.
- Any preset can be exported as an .xmp file or as a .cube LUT — to Files, through the share sheet, or saved straight to Google Drive or OneDrive.
- Saving to Google Drive or OneDrive asks for permission to write the first time; until then the app only reads from them.
- An .xmp or .cube file opened from another app — Mail, Messages or Files — is imported and applied in one step.
- Reorder puts your presets in the order you want, and Reset Order puts them back.
- Correct Chromatic Aberration is a new setting, off by default: it removes colour fringing in the viewfinder and on every saved photo, with a strength slider.
- Working Color Space is a new setting — Display P3, the default, or sRGB — and takes effect the next time the app opens.
- Tips is a new setting that shows or hides the explanations under each section of Settings.
- Photos save faster, and GPU Rendering works with film presets again.
- The app icon is refreshed.
- Fixed: the first shot at a manual shutter speed was slow, halation on saved photos could glow in the wrong place, the live view could show banding, and toned black-and-white presets could lose their tint.
Version 1.6.3
- Multiple Exposure is new: two to nine frames stacked into one photograph, blended by Average or Lighten, with the composite building up in the viewfinder as you shoot.
- Undo last takes back the frame you just added, or you can cancel the whole shot. Multiple Exposure is off until you switch it on, and does not combine with RAW, long exposure or bracketing.
- Aperture is new too: a soft background blur behind your subject, with the amount on a slider and four bokeh styles — Creamy, Bubble, Cat eye and Swirly.
- It uses depth where the iPhone can measure it and finds the subject on its own where it cannot, so it works with the front camera and on single-camera iPhones too.
- The blur is added to the saved photo rather than shown in the viewfinder, and it is made at 12 MP — RAW, 24 MP, long-exposure, bracketed and multiple-exposure shots are saved without it.
- Mirror Selfies is a new setting. It starts on, so front-camera photos stay mirrored as before; switch it off to save them the way the scene really looks, RAW included.
- Halation, Aperture, Grain, Bloom and Light leak each have a button on the live view. Tap one to switch the effect on or off and bring up its slider under the frame — dragging the slider switches the effect on too.
- Grain, Bloom and Light leak gain intensity sliders of their own.
- Switching presets is faster: a quick preview of the next look appears at once and the full render follows — and a quick swipe now carries on to the next preset.
- The built-in looks carry subtler grain by default.
- The first shot after you dial in a manual shutter speed is now taken at that speed.
- Exposure Readout now shows the shutter speed and ISO actually in use in shutter-priority, ISO-priority and long-exposure modes.
Version 1.5.3
- Exposure Readout is new: the shutter speed and ISO the photo will be taken at, across the top of the frame — yellow where you have locked a value by hand, white where the camera is metering.
- Beside them sits a live histogram of the frame as you see it — through the look with Graded on, of the original with it off. Tap it to switch between Luminance and RGB.
- Yellow marks at either end show when the picture is clipping, so blown highlights and crushed shadows show up before the shutter, not after.
- The readout ships switched off — turn it on in Settings > Live View > Exposure Readout.
- GPU Rendering is new too, and also off until you ask for it, in Settings > Saving.
- With it on, the photo is rendered the way the viewfinder draws it, so the file follows the frame you were looking at — and saving is much faster than the processing xMosaique has used until now.
- A shot the GPU cannot take falls back to the usual processing on its own — nothing is lost, that photo is simply saved the old way.
- Photos saved with GPU Rendering can differ slightly from the same shot saved without it.
- The date stamp's glow now fades out in the viewfinder instead of sitting on a faint, hard-edged rectangle behind the digits. Saved photos are unchanged.
- The corner controls are anchored to the viewfinder and scale with it, so they stay in proportion on every iPhone size.
- In a fresh install, Keep Unprocessed Original is now off: one shutter press saves one photo. Switch it on in Settings > Saving to keep the untouched original beside the graded one.
- If you already have xMosaique, that setting stays exactly where you left it — this update does not change it.
Version 1.4.3
- Manual focus: tap the focus pill to lock the lens, then dial it by hand on a track that runs from near to infinity.
- Focus peaking marks sharp edges in red as you turn, so the plane of focus is something you can see rather than guess at.
- Peaking lives in the viewfinder only — it is never written into a photograph.
- Five shooting formats: 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 5:4 and a 65:24 XPan panorama.
- The viewfinder keeps showing the whole sensor frame and greys out what the crop will take, so you can see what is about to enter the picture.
- RAW files stay full-frame, with the ratio noted in their description.
- Halation is rebuilt from film scans — an orange-red tint, a gain that saturates the way emulsion does, and a wider, softer spread.
- The glow is the spill of the bright light itself, so flat walls and open skies no longer pick up a tint that was never there.
- The viewfinder and the saved photo take their glow from the same frame, so what you see is what the shutter keeps.
- The glow holds steady while you hold the frame, instead of shimmering as the scene moves.
- Jade Night is the thirteenth look, measured from paired iPhone and film night frames.
- The date stamp's glow now sits in the picture rather than on top of it, and zoomed shots hold the exposure the viewfinder was showing.
- Because halation was rebuilt, photographs with bright lights in them will look different after this update, even with the same preset selected. The looks themselves are unchanged.
Version 1.3.2
- xMosaique now runs on iOS 18 and later, several iPhone generations further back than before — including phones the app would not install on at all until this version.
- Bloom is new: bright highlights spread into a wide, soft glow as you shoot — the Pro-Mist filter look, made in the light itself rather than painted on afterwards.
- Light Leak is new too — a warm wash across the frame, as if the film door had been left ajar. Set how strong and how saturated it is, and it turns with the camera as you rotate the phone.
- Both effects sit in the pills beside the shutter: tap to switch one on, press and hold to adjust it.
- Highlights, Shadows and Whites read the scene before they act, so a bright sky and a dim interior each get the recovery they need.
- Deep shadows hold their colour instead of sliding towards grey.
- Contrast carries saturation with it now, the way film does.
- Strong colour rolls off smoothly at the top end instead of shifting hue.
- All twelve bundled looks render through the rebuilt engine. The looks themselves are unchanged — the same preset renders your photograph more cleanly than it did before.
- The date stamp burns deeper and hotter, with its own saturation control.
- The stamp holds its colour over a vivid background as well as a dull one.
Version 1.2.2
- XQ Digital is the twelfth look, and the first that is not a film emulation — bright and vivid, with lush greens, golden yellows and clean sky blues. The one to reach for on a landscape.
- Select several presets at once in the Preset Manager and delete them together, instead of one at a time.
- Export a selection straight to Files — for backing up a collection, or moving it to another phone.
- The delete confirmation says exactly how many presets you are about to remove, correctly, in every language.
- Changing lenses is about twice as fast on the main and ultra-wide cameras — they now switch about as quickly as the telephoto always did.
- Opening the app no longer starts on black: the last thing the viewfinder saw covers the moment before the camera is ready.
- Lens changes dissolve softly instead of holding on a frozen frame.
- The date stamp burns onto the photo the way the adjust menu shows it — it had been previewed against a dark panel, where it looked brighter than it landed.
Version 1.2.1
- Built-in looks now update with the app — until this version, an update could not revise a look already on your phone. Your imported presets and your own names for things are left alone.
- Seven of the eleven bundled looks were revised against colour measurements rather than by eye.
- Tungsten is genuinely cool now — it was named after a white balance it never applied — with red saturation held up so skin stays alive.
- Golden carries its warmth in the midtones, where a blue highlight tint had been working against it, and Green Accent finally lifts green.
- Mono Tone gains a cool-shadow, warm-highlight split, so black and white is no longer flatly neutral — and a black-and-white photo can take a pure white glow with no colour cast.
- The cinema-inspired looks carry more grain, dialled to the format each production was shot on.
- Fine, Medium and Coarse grain are properly distinct — they used to differ so slightly that the choice barely showed — and fine grain no longer breaks up in the viewfinder.
- Grain fades away in deep shadows and blown highlights instead of sitting on top of them, which was what made it read as digital noise rather than film.
- Each film stock has its own grain strength, the way real film does — some are three or four times grainier than others.
- Switching lenses is clean: no wrong framing as you cross a zoom step, no brightness re-measure and no blink.
- Exposure bracketing captures the right steps at both photo sizes, and shows its progress as it goes.
- The viewfinder no longer jumps or stutters when you tap shutter, ISO, flash or resolution.
- The zoom control is easier to reach, with the exposure readout on the dial and a small map showing where you are in the frame.
Version 1.2.0
- Flash photos now run end to end on the iPhone's own flash exposure system — a dark room takes one clean burst, with nothing lighting the scene beforehand.
- Fill flash in a room with decent light no longer overexposes: the background is held back so the flash lights your subject.
- Auto flash in daylight stays quiet and takes the ordinary exposure.
- With flash on, the Camera Control and volume buttons fire as quickly as the on-screen shutter — they used to hang back.
- The front camera's screen flash gets the same highlight handling as the rear.
- The white balance slider is even across its whole length — the cool half used to be crushed into a sliver at one end.
- Semi-auto white balance sits exactly on neutral in the middle, with a gentle warm or cool lean either side that behaves the same in any light.
- With shutter and ISO set by hand, the viewfinder matches the brightness of the photo — a slow shutter used to preview far darker than it saved.
- Dim scenes with a face in the frame reach the slower, cleaner exposure more reliably, and every manual shot tells you if it could not use the settings you dialed.
- Swiping between looks no longer stops working after a stray two-finger touch on the viewfinder.
Version 1.1.0
- Flash photos expose for the light the flash actually adds, so faces close to the camera stop washing out.
- A dark room is lit steadily rather than by a pulse, at any distance — night shots keep their warmth instead of clipping.
- Dim scenes reach for a slower shutter before pushing sensitivity, and faces are metered before the flash fires.
- Presets exported from recent versions of Lightroom now load completely — some of their settings used to be skipped.
- Adjustments a preset applies to only part of the frame come through at their full intended strength.
- Grain holds its size relative to the frame, and vignettes, contrast and colour shifts follow the preset's design far more closely.
- Sharpening, local contrast, haze removal and vignetting look the same in the viewfinder as in the saved file.
- The viewfinder no longer slows to a crawl after a one-second exposure.
- A shutter or ISO change mid-shot applies to the next photo, and long exposures hold one exposure from the first frame to the last.
- A higher-fidelity colour option, plus Low Light Enhancement and iOS Processing switches in Settings.
Version 1.0.0
- Eleven film looks built in, live in the viewfinder — swipe to change them.
- Import your own .xmp presets from Files, iCloud Drive, Google Drive or OneDrive.
- Film grain, halation, a retro date stamp and black and white.
- Manual shutter, ISO and white balance, plus long exposure up to 20 seconds.
- Exposure bracketing for high-contrast scenes.
- RAW capture, and every lens on the iPhone.
- Steady Shutter keeps the sharpest frame from a handheld burst.
- Shoot from the Lock Screen or the Camera Control button.
- Thirteen languages.