RNI Films: Photo & RAW Editor 4+

Absolutely fantastic!

If you find the color editing capabilities of your built-in iPhone software to be a little lacking, RNI Films might be exactly what you’re looking for. With just a few taps, you can apply decades worth of simulated photographic film to your images and then tweak them further with the usual selection of photo editor tools. In twenty or thirty seconds you can take a photo from alright to special.

Unlike some other tools (sksksk), there are no subscriptions here and the freebie options are copious — the basic starter pack of films is generous, varied, and will keep many people happy for a long time without spending a cent. A small one-time payment unlocks each additional film pack, which again are generously-sized (ranging from 12–22 film variations per pack) and offer plenty of variety.

As a photographer, I was familiar with RNI from their desktop film simulations, and they’ve captured that same quality here with a fast, optimized workflow for mobile devices. This isn’t some watered-down version for on-the-go editing; I’ve been known to AirDrop images from my notebook to my phone just to run them through RNI Films. It’s that good.

Edit: developers care about the community

After the backlash developer team had made changes to the way date stamp tool works: now disabling it does not require a Pro subscription. Props to the team for listening to the community. Hope to see more compelling features coming to the Pro package, like additional editing tools and more film emulsions.

Old review for the context: Newly added date stamp tool is actually just a way to force an app watermark on your images, that cannot be disabled without a subscription purchase. Even though release notes state that we get to keep all our previous filter purchases, it does not make much sense to continue using them if there is going to be a watermark plastered over your images. Also locking app unless you sign up with your Apple account is unfair if you are not going to use any subscriptions. From a long-time user, not a good look, guys.

Developer Response ,

Hi and thanks for your feedback. You can now disable the date stamp in the Tools section or on the Export screen. Hope this helps.

better than vsco

i thought this was gonna be one of those apps where you delete it after using one time. now i use this for editing all my pictures. i don’t even use vsco anymore. rni films is where it’s at. i love the variation of filters compared to other editing apps. just for black and white filters alone there’s like 5 different kinds. i love that there’s a pre warmth and post warmth i use that a lot. pre warmth makes it look natural and from within while post warmth makes it look from the outside. also another thing i love is the grain. you can have big or smaller grain and you can adjust the intensity. the sharpen is very helpful too it goes both ways you can sharpen for right and UNsharpen for left if you want the blurry effect. last but not least is the dust! it adds more to the picture and i haven’t seen many apps with it. there’s white and black dust and you can adjust the intensity. the only thing they should add is saving the pictures bc you can lose the edited version if you don’t save it. i wish it has its own gallery to save edited pictures. try it out!