Hi Product Hunt — maker here. NaturalCam started from a complaint, not a feature list: the stock Camera app adds so much post-processing and sharpening that the results look unnatural, and there was no way to just... turn it off. Every "RAW" option on iPhone turns out to be something else — Apple ProRAW is already demosaiced and already fused with Smart HDR and Deep Fusion before you ever see the file. It's a processed photo wearing a RAW container. So NaturalCam does the other thing: one Bayer RAW frame, straight off the sensor mosaic, from one physical lens locked at its native focal length — no digital zoom pretending otherwise. It's developed with a flat pipeline (demosaic + colour rendering only), and the untouched DNG is kept beside every shot so you can redevelop it later with a different look, exposure, or white balance. Nothing is decided for good at capture time. A few things I'm proud of under the hood: Nine looks — four film stock emulations, four camera-JPEG renderings, one true neutral — applied live in the viewfinder, so black and white is something you compose in, not discover afterward. Long exposure without lying about it. iOS caps a third-party shutter at one second, full stop. So night shots are built from 2–32 real one-second frames, added together in linear light — the same arithmetic an observatory uses, not a denoiser you can't inspect. Camera Control support on iPhone 16 — full press to shoot, swipe to zoom, both wired to the same code path the on-screen controls use. It's also honest about what it can't do: 12 MP output (native Bayer RAW resolution, not the fused 48 MP path), no flash, no burst, no video, and a held focus that doesn't survive a lens change. Limitations by design, not bugs I haven't gotten to. It's on TestFlight now, free, iOS 18, needs an iPhone with a Bayer RAW rear camera (no simulator — there's no camera in one). Would love to hear what you think, especially from anyone who's fought with iPhone photo processing before.

NaturalCam

One Bayer RAW frame. No Smart HDR, no Deep Fusion.

One Bayer RAW frame. No Smart HDR, no Deep Fusion.