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Liquid Lens is a camera built around one idea: layer effects live, save the look, shoot it again in one tap.

Most camera apps make you pick a single filter. Liquid Lens lets you stack chromatic aberration, film grain, warped glass, and a hand-tuned gradient map all at once — and watch it composite in real time on your screen before you ever press the shutter. When you land on a combination you love, save it as a named preset and it's one tap away forever. No rebuilding your look shot by shot.

EVERYTHING RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE
Every effect is a custom Metal shader running locally through your GPU. Nothing is uploaded, nothing routes through a server — your photos and video never leave your phone. That also means zero lag between moving a slider and seeing the result on screen.

LAYER YOUR EFFECTS, LIVE
Combine any number of effects at once and see the composited result in the viewfinder in real time — not a preview render, not a "processing" screen. What you see is what gets captured, at full 48MP resolution.

SAVE YOUR LOOK AS A ONE-TAP PRESET
Dial in a stack of effects exactly how you want it, then save it and name it. Every slider value, every palette choice, and your warp level are stored together. Tap a saved Look and your entire stack snaps back instantly — no more re-dragging six sliders to match a look you had yesterday.

EDIT PHOTOS FROM YOUR LIBRARY, TOO
Effects aren't just for new shots. Pull any photo from your camera roll into the same live editor — same sliders, same presets, same Metal pipeline — and apply your layered look to photos you already have.

20+ EFFECTS TO STACK

Color grading:
Chromatic Aberration — edge-weighted RGB split
Halation — warm highlight bloom
Hyper — saturation that pushes color while crushing shadows
Pink & Glow — a two-part beauty grade (faded-film color shift + dreamy highlight bloom)
Blacks — shadow crush
Oil Slick — drifting thin-film iridescence on highlights
Solar — Sabattier tone-inversion on highlights
Gradient Maps — 10 cinematic color-grade palettes (Sunset, Vapor, Ocean, Neon, Aurora, Ice, Acid, Rose, Noir, Matcha)


Texture & distortion:
Grain — animated film grain
Sharpen
Zoom Blur — radial motion blur from center
Mesh — live 3D wireframe displacement
Chrome — liquid-metal relief effect
Polar — polar coordinate warp
Trails — light trail smearing
Ripple — animated water rings
Fractal — reeded shower-glass refraction
Marble — flowing ink/marble domain warp
Warp — 4-level reverse-fisheye distortion, tap to cycle


BUILT FOR ACTUALLY TAKING PHOTOS

Full-resolution capture
Photo and video capture, front and back camera
Drag-to-adjust exposure control (-2 to +2 EV), right on the live preview
Three aspect ratios: 4:5, 5:7 and 9:16
Flash for back camera, simulated screen-flash for front camera selfies
Built-in gallery for everything you shoot in-app


ONE PRICE, NOTHING ELSE TO BUY
$2.99, once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account required.