It’s live. Chromaform v1.0 is available now on TestFlight.
If you’ve been following along, you know what’s inside — a 15-module Vulkan compute pipeline, film curves, zone system, frequency equalizer, selective foreground/background editing, closed-loop AI matching, and everything else we covered in the feature deep-dive. All of it running on-device, at full sensor resolution, in 16-bit floating point.
We’ve been building Chromaform for photographers who’ve outgrown what mobile editors can do — who’ve reached for a zone system control or a frequency decomposition and found nothing there. v1.0 is feature-complete and heading to TestFlight soon. Here’s what we’re bringing to iPad.
Chromaform started with a simple plan: download darktable on an iPad and start editing. Then we discovered it wasn’t on iOS. Then we discovered it couldn’t be ported — darktable’s architecture is deeply tied to desktop Linux and its CPU-bound processing model (and its GPLv3 license is incompatible with App Store distribution). There was no path to getting it onto an iPad.