Capture One Mobile 4.0 Is Here

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Capture One Mobile 4.0 is here, bringing a few more of the desktop app’s editing tools over to iPhone and iPad. Capture One first launched its mobile app in 2022 and has been gradually adding to it ever since, with tethering and many of the familiar editing controls already available. Version 4.0 adds four more tools that users have been asking for, Enhanced Denoise, Colour Balance, Heal/Clone, and Keywords. According to Capture One, healing was actually the most requested feature for the mobile app, with Enhanced Denoise not far behind.

The new tools cover a few pretty obvious gaps in the mobile workflow. Enhanced Denoise lets you clean up noise in high-ISO photos directly on an iPhone or iPad, while Colour Balance gives separate control over the colours in the highlights, midtones, and shadows. Heal/Clone can be used to remove distracting objects or copy one part of a photo over another, which is certainly a useful tool to finally have on mobile. Keywords, meanwhile, is about organisation, letting you tag and sort your photos without having to wait until you are back at a computer.

Capture One says it is not necessarily trying to make its mobile and desktop apps identical. Instead, they want to bring across the tools that actually make sense on a smaller device, particularly for photographers editing on location or while travelling when pulling out a laptop is not always practical. The mobile app also keeps features such as second-generation wireless tethering with supported Canon cameras and integration with Capture One Live. Capture One Mobile 4.0 is available for iPhone and iPad, with a paid Capture One subscription required after the seven-day trial.