Camera Ready

A tiny Mac app that lets you choose the color palette that’s right for your room, lighting, and skin tone.

I'm on video calls all day long, thanks to my job. Also, I'm more vain about my appearance than I should be. I hate when my face looks ghostly or washed out from the bright light of my monitor shining on me. Ring lights help, as does Apple's newish "Edge Light" feature — but not enough.

Camera Ready is a tiny Mac app that lets you choose the color palette that's right for your room, lighting, and skin tone, and it makes you look a little better on video calls. To be clear, you already look great.

The app is free. Download it now.

Before / After

Camera Ready’s interface showing the color palette chooser with multiple selectable lighting tones — Camera Ready’s palette chooser lets you pick the lighting tone that works best for you.

Example of a warm khaki-colored light shining onto a person’s face — An example of the khaki light reflecting onto your face during a video call.