Obscura 3 gets an all-new look, new camera modes, and more

Obscura Feature Wall (Image credit: Ben McCarthy)

What you need to know

Popular camera app Obscura has been updated to version 3.
Obscura 3 includes a whole new interface.
A new Apple Watch companion app is included.

Fans of taking photos on an iPhone have a new app update to try after Obscura 3 was released to the App Store earlier today.

An update to the already popular Obscura 2, the new version 3 update brings with it improvements to the existing app as well as whole new features not to mention a companion app for your wrist. This is surely one of the best iPhone camera apps around, and it was already pretty great.

At the top of the new changes is an improved interface including new support for landscape mode when browsing your library. The library itself has changed as well — recent photos are displayed while quick access to important photo albums is also offered. Your library can also now be filtered in various ways including to hide screenshots and more.

The new camera also comes with five distinct modes designed to give people as much or as little control as they need.

Photo - simple, fast performance
Pro Photo - maximum control
Depth - portraits & depth data
Live Photo - for.. Live Photos
Video - video capture with pro controls

There's a lot more going on as well — new exposure controls, options for adjusting focus, and more are all present and correct and the included Apple Watch companion app allows for remote triggering of the shutter without having to touch the iPhone at all. There is so much that's new in Obscura 3 that I can't get into it all here — check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

All of this and more is now available in the App Store. Obscura 3 is available for download now and is priced at $9.99. There are no in-app purchases and everything is available in that one-time cost.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.