Brightroom
Film Negative & Slide Scanner
Only for iPhone
$0.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Turn your iPhone into a darkroom. Brightroom converts color, B&W, and slide film negatives into beautiful digital images — instantly.
Brightroom turns your iPhone into a precision film scanner. Photograph color negatives, black-and-white negatives, or color slides — on a lightbox, iPad screen, or bright window — and Brightroom instantly converts them into sharp, accurate digital photos you can crop, adjust, caption, and save.
FILM CONVERSION
• Color Negative (C-41) — removes the orange film base cast with per-channel auto-levels and white balance correction, plus an S-curve for shadow richness and highlight pop
• Black & White Negative — desaturates before inversion with a classic film contrast curve
• Slide / Positive (E-6) — gentle levels correction preserving the film's inherent color balance
ADJUSTMENTS
• 10 live controls in a scrollable toolbar: Crop, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Black Point, Saturation, Vibrance, Warmth, Sharpen, Vignette
• Every slider updates the image instantly as you drag — no tap to apply
• Changed controls highlighted in orange; one-tap reset per control
IMAGE QUALITY
• Supports DNG and Apple ProRAW imports alongside JPEG and HEIC
• Single-pass Core Image pipeline — no intermediate resampling steps, maximum sharpness at full sensor resolution
• Captures full pixel density from both 1x and 2x lenses
CROP & SAVE
• Manual crop with corner handles and rule-of-thirds grid
• Save to Photos Library or directly to any Files location — iCloud Drive, network shares, NAS, cloud services
• Save location remembered: pick a folder once, Brightroom saves there automatically
• Save with optional 90° rotation — corrects sideways negatives at save time
CAPTION
• Type or dictate an IPTC caption before saving — embedded permanently in the JPEG, readable in Lightroom, Photos, and any IPTC-aware app
• Voice dictation uses on-device speech recognition — nothing leaves your iPhone
WORKFLOW
• Scan → camera direct; Convert → camera or library (supports DNG/RAW)
• After saving, immediately prompts for the next negative — no extra navigation between frames
• Before/after toggle: tap Converted badge to compare with the original capture
• Full-resolution JPEG output with EXIF orientation and IPTC metadata embedded
Ratings & Reviews
Bug fixes
The developer, Greg Anderson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Greg Anderson
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Greg Anderson
