360° HDRI capture

Production HDRIs, captured on your phone.

Guided one-minute sphere capture that outputs a true scene-linear 32-bit EXR. Light your 3D scenes with the real world — at home or on set.

Download on theApp Store Coming soon onGoogle Play SOON

iPhone · iOS 26 · one-time purchase

How it works

Capture HDRIs in 3 easy steps.

No rig, no bracketing by hand, no desktop merge. Aim, sweep, export.

Interior Rooms, shade Exterior Daylight, sun INTERIOR · 6 frames · tighter spread −4 EV +4 EV EXTERIOR · 8 frames · reaches the sun −6 EV +15 EV
1Outside or inside?

Choose your scene.

Interior locks a tighter exposure for rooms and shade. Exterior opens a wider bracket — all the way down to the dark frames that actually hold the sun instead of blowing it out. One tap sets the exposure for the whole sphere.

2Follow the dots

Hold it up and turn.

Guide dots show your path around the sphere. Hold steady on each one and the app fires an exposure bracket automatically — no tripod, no menus. Just sweep the space until the sphere fills in.

3Build & review

It builds while you keep shooting.

Tap done and the merge runs in the background. When it lands in your gallery, open the card to look around the finished HDRI in 3D — then export the scene-linear EXR to Files, AirDrop, or straight into your pipeline.

See it in 3D

Look around a real capture.

Shot in bright sun. Drag to look around, slide to change exposure — the same file you'd drop into Houdini, Blender, Unreal or Nuke.

Drag to look · scroll to zoom
EXPOSURE +0.0 EV

Web preview, downsampled to 1K for fast loading. The app exports a full 4096 × 2048 (4K) EXR.

The sun problem

Keep the sun — or rebuild it in CG.

No phone sensor can hold the sun's true radiance. So either keep the sun, or let Pocket HDRI paint it out with a clean feathered fill and record its exact azimuth and altitude.

  • Sun painted out — no blown-out disc baked into your plate
  • Azimuth + altitude exported, ready to drop into a CG sun light
  • Ultimate control of brightness, direction and shadows in Blender, Houdini, Unreal or Nuke
No strings attached

All local. No subscription. Yours forever.

Your captures never touch a server. No account, no cloud, no monthly fee — built for artists who are done with subscriptions and cloud lock-in.

Runs on your device

Every capture, merge and export happens on your iPhone. Nothing is ever uploaded.

No account, no login

Open the app and shoot. Nothing to sign up for, and no data to hand over.

Pay once, keep forever

A one-time purchase — no subscription. The version you buy is yours to keep.

Where it fits

Not out to replace a pro rig.

A bracketed DSLR on a tripod will always win on ultimate quality — and Pocket HDRI isn't chasing that. It gets you ~80% of the way in a fraction of the time, with the phone that's already in your pocket.

For professionals

80% there, in a fraction of the time

Quick reference and reflection HDRIs for look-dev, previz and on-set grabs — for when breaking out the full rig just isn't worth it.

For hobbyists & indies

No expensive gear required

Real scene-linear HDRIs without a DSLR, tripod or nodal head — just the phone in your pocket.

The receipts

Real light, not a pretty picture.

Everything a lighting or comp artist needs to trust the file.

−6 EV · shadow0 EV+15 EV · sun
Output
Equirectangular OpenEXR (.exr)
Bit depth
32-bit float
Color
Scene-linear · Rec.709 primaries
Dynamic range
Up to ~14 stops (exterior bracket · sun retained)
Resolution
4096 × 2048
Capture
Guided · gyro-tracked · auto-shutter
Sun data
Azimuth / altitude embedded · drop into a CG sun light
Requires
iPhone · iOS 26 or later
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Can't wait to try it?BETA

Grab the beta on TestFlight and start capturing HDRIs on your iPhone today.

Get the Beta on TestFlight

iPhone · iOS 26 · TestFlight app required

Full release coming to the App Store — Google Play later.