Macro focus stacking · on iPhone

Impossibly sharp. Impossibly close.

StackFocus turns your iPhone into a professional macro camera. One tap sweeps focus through your subject, stacks the sharpest pixels from every frame, and exports one tack-sharp photograph — no computer, no cloud, no subscription.

One-time $4.99 · no subscription · no account · your photos never leave your phone
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Macro has a
paper-thin problem.

Two centimetres from your subject, a camera can only hold a sliver thinner than a credit card in focus. Everything in front of it, and everything behind it, melts away. One shot was never going to be enough.

0cmworking distance
0mmin focus per shot
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Macro photo of dew drops on a blade of grass A single shot at 2 cm
frame 01 / 18
Dew-covered damselfly on a grass blade, focus-stacked
01 · sweep

The lens sweeps through your subject —
up to 28 focus planes in seconds.

02 · align

Every frame is re-aligned to the pixel,
even if your hands weren't still.

03 · stack

Only the sharpest pixels survive.
One impossible photograph.

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One tap.
Start to finish.

The actual capture flow — sweep · align · stack

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Everything the pros do.
None of the desk work.

Automatic focus sweep

One tap drives the lens through your whole subject — 12 to 28 frames, metered to the scene. Macro lock means the lens never jumps mid-stack.

Handheld is fine

Every frame is re-registered with dense optical flow — pixel by pixel, not just globally. Tripods optional, shaky hands forgiven.

True 48 MP export

The stack is recomposed at full sensor resolution when you export. Every hair, every facet, every scale — kept.

Live focus peaking

See exactly what's sharp before you shoot — painted over the live view in amber, tuned for macro's razor-thin planes.

Edit the master

Light, colour and detail on a 16-bit master — non-destructive, re-editable, with your look applied to every stack.

Private by design

No account. No cloud. No analytics in the app. The entire pipeline — capture to export — runs on your phone.

StackFocus has no servers to send anything to. Your macro work is yours — captured, stacked, edited and exported without a single byte leaving the device.

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Pay once. That's it.

$4.99once

Free to download and try — your first three exports are full-resolution and watermark-free.

  • The complete pipeline — capture, stack, edit, export
  • Full 48 MP, watermark-free exports
  • Every future update included
  • No subscription. No account. Ever.
Coming to the App Store

Requires an iPhone whose ultra-wide camera can focus: iPhone 13 Pro and newer Pro models, iPhone 16 / 16 Plus, and the iPhone 17 line. 48 MP capture only where the ultra-wide supports it; other models stack at 12 MP. More

Questions? [email protected]