Film(ish) photo editing
True to film photo editing
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
True to film photo editing. A no-compromise approach to film simulation – realistic grain, precise film response curves, halation, diffusion, and much more.
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. And it works on video, frame by frame, with the same pipeline.
WHAT MAKES IT REAL
Every stock is a complete system, not a color grade:
Grain that develops the way silver halide actually develops – stochastic, chromatic, part of the image rather than noise laid on top.
Halation that bleeds warm glow around highlights. Diffusion with the soft roll-off of a Pro-Mist filter – 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 digital cameras just don't do.
OVER 90 FILM STOCKS
Kodak, Fuji, Agfa, and the films history forgot – color negative, slide, cinema, instant, black and white, from the original 1936 Kodachrome to stocks that disappeared decades ago. The new cinema stocks render as a projected print, and a Print stage can put any photo on real print film – Kodak 2383, Fuji ETERNA – or photographic paper.
FOR CASUAL SHOOTERS
Pick a film stock. Adjust the strength. Export. Beautiful analog photos in seconds.
FOR COLOR NERDS
Go deeper. Way deeper.
Develop RAW on your own terms: As Shot, Normalized, or Log. Normalized strips the camera's processing and develops every RAW to one uniform base, so a preset renders the same across cameras and conditions. Decoder MIX blends your own decode and exports it as a linear DNG.
Then grade like a colorist: Hue vs and Sat vs curves, Split Tone built on real toner chemistry, per-hue color across 8 zones with dye-density control, Shadows, Midtones and Highlights in perceptual space, print contrast curves, and scopes – histogram, waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope – with a clipping warning that knows each stock's latitude. Masks stack: linear, radial, luminance, color, depth, sky, subject, and a brush.
FINISHING
Text that develops into the film, with variables for camera, date, ISO, and place. Frames: 35mm with real perforations, 120 with the maker's own edge print. Light leaks, lens blur with real bokeh, motion blur, anamorphic flares, double exposure, a date stamp that burns in as light, and on-device Erase.
VIDEO
The full film pipeline on every frame. Edit LOG from any camera with your own conversion LUT, grade Apple Log, keep HDR. Gate weave and animated light leaks for the projector feel.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything happens 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. Full-resolution export as HEIF, JPEG, or DNG.
Free to use, with real tools and real stocks in the free tier. Pro unlocks everything – buy once, use forever.
NEW
MIST - A new diffusion, next to Bloom. Mist softens the whole picture without sacrificing detail. A dreamy cinematic look.
Updated 35mm frame with new options.
UPDATED
Grain amplitude grows more with size giving large grain more structure.
A new Amplitude slider let's you control grain density separate from size.
Video exports are up to twice as fast.
FIXED
Grain works with no film stock at all.
Digital grain has a more distinct structure that separates it better from film grain.
Various bug fixes.
The developer, Catalin Bridinel, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- Catalin Bridinel
- Size
- 89.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 7 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Film(ish) Pro $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Catalin Bridinel

