In 2025, Adobe’s Nextcam team developed and released an experimental iPhone app via Adobe Labs called Project Indigo. The idea behind this app is to bring a different approach to computational photography using techniques like capturing and combining multiple frames to reduce noise and preserve highlights, giving a more natural look to photos.

With the 1.0.11 update, Adobe has provided early support for the iPad. The company stresses that this app is not fully iPad optimized, and the better experience will still be on the iPhone. The iPadOS version is “supported” on iPads with 6 GB of RAM or more. Those iPads would be:

iPad Pro: 2020 iPad Pro or later

iPad Air: M1 iPad Air or newer

iPad Mini: A17 Pro or later

iPad: A16 or later

Adobe is very clear this isn’t fully ready for iPad, so I’m not going to complain about any interface issues at this point. But as you know, I’m very iPad camera positive here, so it’s nice to see the Adobe Labs team even bother to consider iPad support for this app.

What Makes This App So Special?

Project Indigo brings a different approach to computational photography. Where most smartphone cameras capture a handful of frames and apply heavy AI processing, the Indigo app captures up to 32 frames per shot, merges them to dramatically reduce noise, and then applies only minimal processing to preserve a more natural look. The goal is to avoid the arguably over-processed “smartphone look” that some complain about.

The app also exposes full manual controls like shutter speed, ISO, focus, white balance, and frame count for those who know what they are doing.

The output you get comes in both JPEG and raw DNG formats. Apparently, most cameras that do multi-frame merging only give you a JPEG. Indigo gives you a merged DNG, which means you get all the noise reduction and highlight preservation benefits of burst merging, but with full editing latitude in Lightroom afterward