Lux’s Halide app has been a hit with photographers for its easy-to-use pro-level features, to the point that it has a 4.5-star rating on the iOS App Store. Now, they're bringing that magic to video with Kino, a new app designed to allow iPhone videographers to shoot more professional films. 

Kino takes advantage of the iPhone 15 Pro’s ability to shoot ProRes videos in Log format. If you’re not familiar with Log, It is a super flat color profile that videographers love because it gives them lots of control over the final look of their videos.

One of Kino’s coolest features is “Instant Grade,” which lets you shoot with grade presets right out of the gate. You can also record in Apple Log format and play with the presets later. Another handy feature is AutoMotion, which automatically picks the best exposure settings for that dreamy cinematic motion blur.

Kino also supports Look Up Tables (LUTs), which are tools that adjust the color and tone of your video. You can even import your own custom LUTs—a feature that Apple’s Final Cut Pro for iPad doesn’t have.

The developers are clear about privacy: their apps don’t collect data or analyze your media, and there’s no generative AI involved. 

Alongside Halide and Kino, the team also built Spectre, a camera app dedicated to making long exposure photography on iPhone easier with AI-based stabilization technology. 

You can pick up Kino for $9.99 today. After that, it goes up to $19.99, so get it while it’s hot.

Demystifying the secrets of peak time management has been something humans have been trying to crack for centuries if not millennia. Thankfully, technology has made that easier with digital calendars, to-do list apps, reminders, and more. Now, AI is taking a shot. 

TimeOS is on a mission to create a more autonomous productivity system. It was launched in 2022 as a Chrome extension that lets you easily take notes while in the middle of a meeting, and now the team is back with a big update. 

With the new TimeOS you can automatically sync and hover over your scheduled meetings. From there, you can pull in context from Google Calendar, LinkedIn, and previous meeting notes. It’s the same new tab interface you may have become accustomed to, but with an automated approach.

You can also chat to Prep, the company’s always-on AI-powered voice assistant. Prep is like Iron Man’s Jarvis, but for meetings. You can gain more context by asking, “Who introduced me to this person?” or “Give me a good icebreaker to open with.” You can even get it to handle your calendar by telling it to set up or reschedule calls. 

It will also send you proactive AI reminders about your calls, giving you updates on things like the proposed agenda, important discussion points, and information from previous calls, so you won't have to scramble through meeting notes. 

To top it all off, TimeOS will automatically take notes during your meeting. Once you’re finished, it will format them using community-built templates designed for maximum efficiency and send them to you, making it easier to review the most important points. 

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