West - Film & Effects

- Bug fix: Sometimes older devices would crash when attempting to setup cameras.

- Importing from your photo library no longer requires West Pro. - Updated onboarding. - Updated West Pro upgrade screen. - Other small changes and improvements.

- Possible bug fix: Sometimes a crash would occur when presenting the editor. - Possible bug fix: Sometimes a crash would occur during the onboarding. - Bug fix: Layer kind picker now resets back to "Empty" when adding a new layer when the layer kind picker is already presented. - Bug fix: Fixed a layout issue visible when presenting and dismissing the layer kind picker. - When selecting a selected layer it will now always unselect it. It would previously navigate to the controls for that layer if you had just chosen a kind for the layer. - Other bug fixes & improvements.

- Bug fix: Crash occurring during the app onboarding on iOS 18. - Bug fix: Texture icon not showing during app onboarding on iOS 18.

- New "Unsharp Mask" filter to get the oversharpened effect that camcorders and some other older cameras have. - Faster time to launch. - Bug fix: exporting a video that doesn't have audio would result in a crash. - Bug fix: "Distortion Blur" filter would have some artifacts when exporting. - Small performance improvements. - Small interface changes. - Small bug fixes.

- New West 4000 color preset! - New vignette effect! - Exporting videos now includes all of the original metadata (lens information, etc.). - Add West Pro yearly subscription option. - Bug fix: Sometimes the front facing camera preview was zoomed in slightly. - Bug fix: Distortion blur now has improved quality. - Example images in the West Pro upgrade screen are randomly shuffled now.

- More controls for Pixel, Fisheye, & Distortion Blur. - Faster editing and exporting. - Bug fix: Exporting large images with some filter combinations would fail. - Bug fix: iPhone 17 front facing camera aspect ratio buttons would rotate when the device rotates which would make the symbols misleading. - Effect sliders now allow for more precise control. - Other small changes & improvements.

Small bug fixes and improvements.

- Introducing Presets: use one of the pre-installed presets or create your own to quickly apply edits. - Redesigned camera with support for browsing and previewing presets live before capturing. - Option to display a grid over the camera preview. - New tab bar design. - New "Pixel" filter that applies a pixel art style. The old "Pixel" filter has been renamed to "Scan Line". - New "Midtones" mode for "Texture" that applies grain primarily to the midtones. - Added new control to adjust the scale of "Texture". - The "Texture" amount control is now a slider to allow for more precise control. - "Texture" updates at 24 FPS when applied to videos. - The base scale of "Texture" applied to videos now matches photos. - Small changes to how "Texture" is applied. - West Pro is no longer required to adjust the amount or scale of “Texture”. - The "Light" layer kind no longer requires West Pro. - When some types of layers are selected (like "Texture"), media will zoom to fill the available space so details can be seen. - Images re-render when the image view changes size. - Smaller minimum blur radius with the "Blur" filter. - Improvements to the "Stretch" filter animation when applied to videos. - Added a "Remove All Layers" button in the editor for a quick reset. - Performance improvements for the gallery and editor. - Improved camera preview performance. - Improved camera capture performance. Faster consecutive captures. - Capture button updates to show when you can capture another photo. - New options in settings to control how much processing occurs when capturing a photo. - Image thumbnails take up less storage space. - Translations for many more languages. - Various other small changes and bug fixes.

- View and post feedback / feature requests within West. - Better camera permissions handling and UI. - Haptic feedback for selecting items when in edit mode in the gallery. - Fixed sharing photos directly to WhatsApp. - Other small changes & improvements

- Small bug fix.

- Media metadata sheet. - Fisheye filter allows distortion in the opposite direction. - Editing is faster and has better performance. - Slight changes to the halation filter. - Other bug fixes and improvements.

- Intensity slider for the "Color" layer. - New `E001` preset. - Bug fix: Widgets would sometimes crash. - Bug fix: Sometimes images would not appear immediately when opening the editor. - Other small changes and bug fixes.

- Sharable image that has your photo and capture info in a beautiful layout. - Optional evening golden hour notifications. - Camera support for iPad. - Copy & paste layers in the editor. - Capture sound plays at lower volume & does not play if connected to speaker or headphones. Settings switch to turn on or off interface sounds. - Better export sheet states and styling. - Other bug fixes, improvements, and changes.

- Shadow and highlight sliders within the "Light" filter. - Other bug fixes & improvements.

- Video playback and editing is much more responsive. - Vignette, bloom, and blur effects are included without West Pro. - Two additional presets are now included without West Pro. - Other improvements and bug fixes.

- Performance improvements.

- New presets / layers mode toggle in editor. - Updated export experience. - Import progress sheet with warnings if something goes wrong. - Home Screen quick action for launching the camera. - App Shortcuts for launching the camera. - Accessory widgets for launching to the camera. - Quick review (long press camera to preview last photo captured) has been reworked to be faster and have better quality. - Performance improvements. - Small bug fixes & improvements.

- Redesigned root layout. - Redesigned editor. - New effects: Posterize, Chromatic Aberration, Color Shift, Mirror, Invert, & Channel Mixer. - Light effect now has black point, white point, white input maximum, and black input maximum controls. - Tap a slider title in the editor to present a "Reset to default" menu. - Long-press the presets button in the camera to quickly return to your default preset. - Enable / disable "Natural capture" and change photo resolution from the capture extra options button. - Faster video preview. - Setting for changing if the app opens to the camera or the gallery. - Bug fixes and small improvements.

- Bug fix for new installs.

- This version removes home screen widgets. Continuing to support widgets requires maintenance and time that we'd rather spend on better effects and editing tools. If you really enjoyed West widgets, let us know and we'll consider adding them in a future release. - Small bug fixes and improvements.

- New Solarize filter. - 24MP support for some devices. - Icons for buttons in West settings. - West watermark hides instantly after upgrading to West Pro rather than requiring the image to be re-edited. - Bug fix: Using the 2x camera in video mode would have the wrong resolution. - Bug fix: If "Preview Texture" & "Preview Color" were turned on, they we're applied in the wrong order. - Design: Increase the corner radius of the image controls container and its subviews. - Design: Add very thin border to layer cells. - If importing an image or video with an unsupported file type, the alert will mention the file type that could not be imported. - Localized some errors. - Other small bug fixes & improvements.

- iPhone 17 lineup support and bug fixes. - Performance improvements. - Bug fix: Tap to expose / focus didn't fully work during while recording a video. - Bug fix: Sometimes West would crash when changing the capture mode if a camera was not yet setup. - Bug fix: Sometimes West would crash when attempting to reload an item in the gallery. - Bug fix: 24MP images now have metadata (location, date, lens information, etc.) attached. - Bug fix: Solarize filter controls used an icon that is not available on older iOS versions. - Design: Lens / zoom level buttons are now circular. - Other small changes.