One press. Many frames. One clean photo.
Klick is a fully automatic camera. It shoots a burst of RAW frames chosen for the scene, then a native Rust engine on your phone aligns, merges, develops and sharpens them into the best photo it can make. Nothing to set.
Automatic, but not simple-minded
The scene decides how many frames to shoot and how long to expose each one.
Scene aware bursts
Bright light gets 3 or 4 short frames. Low light gets 8 to 12. Badges show Night, HDR or Normal, and the frame count, live.
Highlight protection
Frames are deliberately exposed a little short so skies and lights do not clip. The engine lifts the shadows back from the merged result.
Shake limited
The gyroscope caps each exposure so a shaky hand gets shorter frames and more of them, not blur.
Keeps the RAW
The reference frame is saved as a DNG next to the JPEG, so you can edit it later. Switch it off in Settings if you want to save space.
Keep shooting
Photos process in the background. Take the next shot while the last one is finishing. A pill shows what is in the queue.
Before and after
The built-in gallery lets you flip each photo between the single reference frame and the processed result, and share it.
What the engine does
Written in Rust, running on your phone.
- Align. A coarse-to-fine tile search on a Gaussian pyramid finds how each frame moved.
- Merge. Tiles are blended with weights from the sensor noise model, so noise averages out and moving subjects do not ghost.
- Develop. Black level, lens shading, white balance, demosaic and camera colour matrix turn the RAW into colour.
- Tone. The histogram decides how much exposure fusion is worth: shadows up, highlights down, only when the scene needs it.
- Clean up. Luma and chroma denoise scaled to the noise level, then sharpening without halos, a touch of local contrast and vibrance.
- Save. A JPEG at your chosen quality goes to Pictures/Klick with orientation, exposure and ISO in the EXIF.
Permissions and privacy
Photos are processed on your phone. The only network call is the update check in Settings.
| Camera | To show the viewfinder and take photos. |
|---|---|
| Photos folder | Klick saves to Pictures/Klick through the Android media store. It needs no storage permission. |
| Location | Only if you turn on location tagging in Settings. It is off by default. |
| Internet | Only for the update check in Settings. |
Requirements
Android 10 (API 29) or newer. RAW capture needs a phone whose back camera exposes it to apps; others use the YUV path.
Install
Klick is not on Google Play. Tap Download APK on your phone and open the file. If Android asks, allow your browser to install unknown apps. Or install Ash Store once and get updates from it.