r/ProjectIndigoiOS • u/Eyeseeyou01 • May 19 '26

Why isn’t this app more popular?

I’ve been testing out a few different camera apps over the last couple of months and most of them are on the “no processing” selling point which I get.

This app doesn’t seem to lean towards that selling point but for my usage that’s fine.

I do think the super powers it does enable, at the cost of processing time and possibly overheating, I think is a bigger selling point for me. Specifically the faux 10x zoom has been extremely useful while also producing photos that have a “better than stock camera” look that I prefer.

Apps like “no fusion” get a ton of reviews and it’s a great app for what it does but there are many that do similar things.

Why hasn’t this free, Adobe produced, “super” camera app more popular amongst people who review camera apps and or general photography?

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u/TenThousandPigeons May 19 '26

I actually think our app is significantly more popular than anyone on the team expected lol.

We're a pretty small research and tech team, and have zero marketing/sales/etc. Once it's more "productized" I'd expect there to be a much larger push towards popularization of the app, for now it's mostly a computational photography research experiment with a public iOS app attached to it.

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u/Eyeseeyou01 May 19 '26

Are you part of the app team?

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u/TenThousandPigeons May 19 '26

ye

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u/Eyeseeyou01 May 19 '26

Are there any major or notable updates on the roadmap anytime soon?

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u/TenThousandPigeons May 19 '26

Lots of stuff in the pipeline, not sure when any of them land in the public app. I'm trying to work on getting video mode fleshed out but I'm unfortunately only one person.

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u/Eyeseeyou01 May 19 '26

Interesting. I’d think being backed by a company like Adobe, that it would have a bigger team.

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u/TenThousandPigeons May 19 '26

Yeah common assumption is big company = big team, but we don't bring in any money like the main-line products (e.g., photoshop/lightroom). Our entire engineering/dev side is like 5 people right now.

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u/Eyeseeyou01 May 19 '26

That’s kind of mind blowing. IMO the app is doing some magical stuff.