DWS

DWS ships apps too. Two so far: one for your Mac's audio, one for your iPhone's camera.

Both came out of DWS Research. Skiff from the computational audio work, Amidol from computational photography.

SkiffmacOS 14 or later AmidoliOS 27, in beta
Fig. 1 Two apps.

01Skiff.

Skiff runs Audio Unit plug-ins on everything your Mac plays and everything its mic hears.

Pick the modules, patch them in order, and every device keeps its own chain. It lives in the menu bar.

  • Atmos, every layout up to 9.1.6.
  • 44.1 to 192 kHz, bit-perfect when nothing's running.
  • Headphone EQ from AutoEq profiles in one step.
platform
macOS 14 or later
price
free trial, then $9.99 once
site
skiff.dws.rip

Skiff →

Skiff's window for a MiniFuse 4 output: a chain of TDR Nova, Klanghelm IVGI2 and a Sennheiser HD 800 S headphone EQ.
Fig. 2 A MiniFuse 4 output's chain: TDR Nova, IVGI2, then an AutoEq profile for the HD 800 S.

02Amidol.

Shoot it, get film back. Amidol is a film camera for iPhone, and it develops every photo on the phone.

Pick a film and take the picture. It develops from one RAW frame off the sensor and lands in your library finished, with nothing left to edit. Real dials, and no data collected.

platform
iOS 27
price
free during the beta
capture
12 MP Bayer RAW · 48 MP ProRAW
films
7
site
amidol.dws.rip

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Amidol's camera screen: a tabby cat in the viewfinder, aperture, ISO and shutter dials above it, lens and film dials in the bottom corners. The same tabby, developed on Calida and printed as a 4 by 6 with a white border.
Fig. 3 A tabby in the viewfinder, and the same tabby developed on Calida, printed 4×6.