Metamer
Chunhou Li Photo & Video iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Metamer is a free Photo & Video app for iPhone and iPad by Chunhou Li. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 11, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 12 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 11
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Metamer
Metamer points your camera at the world and shows it through different color vision. Live simulation of protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, and achromatopsia lets people with typical color vision experience what friends, family, and audiences see. Daltonize filters do the inverse: they boost color separation so people with color vision deficiency can tell confusing colors apart. —— LIVE COLOR VISION CAMERA —— Pick from seven simulation and daltonize filters and watch the world change in real time. A severity slider tunes every filter for color weakness, and each filter remembers its own last setting. Flashlight, front/back flip, and a zoom control that speaks the same 0.5x / 1x / telephoto language as the system Camera. —— TRUE COLOR NAMING —— A movable reticle names the real color under it, even while a filter is active: a carefully chosen palette of everyday names, the measured swatch, and the exact hex value. Freeze the frame to inspect a moment, move the points, and switch filters on the held still. Add a second point to compare two colors and get a plain-language verdict on how different they really look. —— FILTER YOUR PHOTOS —— Pick any photo and compare original and filtered side by side with synced zoom and pan. Tune the filter strength, then share the result as JPEG or HEIC with full metadata preserved. —— ISHIHARA PLATE GENERATOR —— Build custom color vision test plates: digits, short text, or arrows, with confusion-line colors for each CVD type and adjustable difficulty. Export print-grade PNG or PDF at 300 DPI. —— KNOW YOUR TYPE —— An optional quick check at first launch suggests a starting filter, with graded follow-up plates that estimate how strong it should be. Already know your type? Skip straight to it. It is a quick check, not a medical diagnosis. —— ACCESSIBLE & PRIVATE —— Every screen works with VoiceOver, including an optional spoken color readout. Everything runs on your device: no images ever leave it, no accounts, no tracking, no data collection. Metamer is for designers checking their work, teachers and presenters building accessible materials, families understanding how a loved one sees, and anyone with color vision deficiency who wants colors named and separated.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated October 11, 2026
Metamer 1.1 makes the color science more accurate and the camera easier to use. • Color vision check: answer on a number pad, catch milder color vision deficiency, and get a suggested filter strength from your answers • Ishihara plates no longer give the answer away through brightness, so they test color alone • Red-green daltonize filters separate confusing colors more clearly, and reds no longer wash out to pink • Color names and comparisons match what you see more closely: muted colors like navy are no longer called gray, and there are five new names • Achromatopsia simulation now models rod vision: reds turn nearly black and blues look brighter • Take a photo with Camera Control, the volume buttons, or AirPods • On iPad, the camera keeps running in Split View, Slide Over, and Stage Manager, and keyboard shortcuts cover photos, filters, and export • Clear messages when the camera pauses, and a hint when the lens looks smudged • Fixes: dim-light photos save fully processed, photos taken sideways save in landscape, and "Match Source" saves camera photos as HEIC
App privacy
The developer, Chunhou Li, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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