Project Indigo
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 27 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAdobe Labs, Inc.
CategoryPhoto & Video
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 2.7 (272)
Version1.1.3
Age rating4+
First seen by us🇷🇺 25 Sep 2026
Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
2.7 ★
272 ratings
Measured
Project Indigo downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time per daily user
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
2.7 ★
272 ratings
Measured
Ratings
272
Measured
About Project Indigo
Welcome to Project Indigo, a new camera experience from Adobe Labs. With a custom computational photography pipeline, a natural image look, and full set of manual camera controls, it offers something for professional and casual photographers alike. Also with new controls for computational cameras and a glimpse into the future of AI image processing on our Tech Previews page.
Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads.
For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA
Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range.
PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE
Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted.
Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise.
NATURAL LOOK
Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them.
PRO CONTROLS
Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray.
Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped.
SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM
Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active.
MACRO MODE
Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots.
VIEWFINDER
Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images.
LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION
Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobil
Available for iPhone 12 and 13 Pro/Pro Max, and all 14, 15, 16, or 17-series devices, and initial support for iPads.
For best experience we recommend using iPhone 15 Pro or newer.
A COMPUTATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CAMERA
Instead of capturing a single photo, for every shutter press Indigo captures a burst of photos and combines them together to produce a high-quality photo with lower noise and higher dynamic range.
PHOTO MODE VS NIGHT MODE
Photo mode is intended for everyday use in good lighting and has zero shutter lag, meaning it captures the moment you wanted.
Night mode is intended for use in low light. In this mode images are captured after you press the shutter button, but use longer exposure times, further reducing noise.
NATURAL LOOK
Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them.
PRO CONTROLS
Take full control of how Indigo captures the image: manually specify focus, exposure time and ISO, exposure compensation, or white balance. Includes an optional magnified loupe for setting precise focus, and white balance control allows you to tap on an object known to be neutral gray.
Unique to Indigo’s Night mode is manual control over the number of frames aligned and merged into a final photo. More frames result in lower noise but longer capture time. There is also a Long Exposure mode: if the phone is on a tripod, this allows the capture of synthetic long exposure effects like “water-into-silk" with infinite number of frames where the camera captures and merges images until stopped.
SUPER-RESOLUTION FOR ZOOM
Using pinch-to-zoom in any camera app often results in image quality loss. To recover the image Indigo employs multi-frame super-resolution which can restore much of the lost quality. ‘SR’ indicator on the zoom buttons shows when it is active.
MACRO MODE
Enable Macro from the viewfinder and capture stunning close-up shots.
VIEWFINDER
Provides a view of the camera parameters that will be used for capture, a live histogram of the scene, zebra striping that shows you where there are over-exposed areas in the image, and a level to help you capture straight images.
LIGHTROOM INTEGRATION
Adobe Lightroom for mobile is the most powerful photo editor in the App Store. Indigo filmstrip allows you to send an image directly to Lightroom mobil
Latest updates
1.1.3
iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max readiness: this release includes first steps to prepare Indigo for newly announced iPhone devices.
AI Playground
- Identity preservation in Distractor Removal: if faces are detected in the scene, Indigo will try to preserve them in the resulting image. Works best if applied on the original Indigo-captured image. NOTE: This feature processes data on the device only. No data is stored, sent, or retained by Adobe or third parties.
- 2 new one-tap features: Remove shadows and Add fill light.
- Moved all relighting features into the Scene Editing section.
New features
- QR code scanning is now available in the viewfinder.
- Added crosshairs to help users when trying to frame captures by pointing straight up or down.
Other improvements:
- Fixed a regression in the Indigo look for backlit portraits that rendered subjects too dark.
- What’s New text now does not block you from quickly capturing after an app update. Simply tap the gift icon on the viewfinder and see what is new in this release.
- Improved new feature discoverability with a blue-dot UI which disappears the first time a new feature is used.
But fixes:
- Fixed an occasional crash when switching lenses, especially between front and back camera.
