Description
Your phone takes sharp, clean, technically perfect photos. Film(ish) makes them feel real.
Film(ish) simulates real analog film stocks – the way light scatters through emulsion layers, how silver halide grains develop unevenly, how highlight halation bleeds warmth into bright edges. The result isn't a look – it's your photo reimagined as if it was shot on film.
WHAT MAKES IT REAL
Every film stock in Film(ish) is built from real characteristic curves – the processing pipeline models real photographic phenomena:
Grain that behaves the way silver halide crystals actually develop. Halation that bleeds warm glow around highlights.
Diffusion – soft highlight roll-off that mimics a Pro-Mist filter on the lens. Dreamy without being blurry.
Characteristic curves – the nonlinear way film maps light to density. Smooth highlight compression, rich shadow separation, and the organic tonal rolloff that digital cameras just don't do. Beautiful deep colors that feel real, not digital.
From warm and candid to cinematic and moody. Cool editorial tones to punchy contrast. Classic black and white to rich, saturated color. Every stock is a complete system — not just a color grade, but a unique combination of curves, dye responses, and tonal character.
FOR CASUAL SHOOTERS
Pick a film stock. Adjust the strength. Export. That's it. Beautiful analog-looking photos in seconds.
FOR COLOR NERDS
Go deeper. Way deeper. Film(ish) gives you over 80 parameters across an 11-stage processing pipeline:
Lift, Gamma, and Gain controls using the ASC-CDL standard — the same framework used in Hollywood color grading. Per-hue adjustments across 8 color zones in perceptually uniform color space. Print contrast curves. Dye saturation modeling based on Beer-Lambert absorption. Scene white balance via illuminant conversion. Split-toning. And more.
This is a mobile app with desktop-grade color science.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Film(ish) processes everything on your device. No cloud uploads. No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Your photos stay yours.
Works with RAW files, HDR photos with gain maps, and video — applying the full film emulation pipeline frame by frame. Export at full resolution in JPEG, HEIF, or TIFF.
Buy once. Use forever.
What's new (v1.2.3)
New film stocks – MF4 (vintage Fuji slide), MC2 (vintage brown), and Kodak Vision3 50D.
Extract HDR – Recover real highlight detail from non-Apple RAW files into a true HDR gain map, derived from your graded image so it tracks every exposure and tone edit. (Requires iOS 18.)
Curves "Preserve Hue" – A luminance-preserving master curve so pushing contrast no longer skews colors.
Apple Log video – Import and edit Apple Log ProRes footage with correct color.
iPad landscape video editor – A new three-column landscape layout that mirrors the photo editor.
Plus faster gallery and library scrolling, more reliable HDR export, and a range of stability and quality fixes.