Film(ish)

Name: Film(ish)
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: Catalin Bridinel

True to film photo editing

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

6 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

Catalin Bridinel
Language

EN
English
Size

68.3
MB

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. 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.

Ratings & Reviews

5.0

out of 5

6 Ratings

5/5
Apr 26
AMRAT333
I’ve tried a lot of photo apps and most of them fall apart the second you start pushing the image. This one doesn’t. The grain is the thing. It’s built into the image, not sitting on top, and the ISO settings actually change the character of it, tighter, rougher, more open, the way you’d expect.You can push color and contrast pretty far and it keeps its shape. Highlights don’t blow out in a cheap way, shadows don’t turn into a flat mess, and the whole image keeps a sense of density that’s hard to get on a phone.The grain alone would have been enough for me, but the way everything reacts together is what makes it stick. I use it every day
5/5
Apr 26
AMRAT333

I’ve tried a lot of photo apps and most of them fall apart the second you start pushing the image. This one doesn’t. The grain is the thing. It’s built into the image, not sitting on top, and the ISO settings actually change the character of it, tighter, rougher, more open, the way you’d expect.You can push color and contrast pretty far and it keeps its shape. Highlights don’t blow out in a cheap way, shadows don’t turn into a flat mess, and the whole image keeps a sense of density that’s hard to get on a phone.The grain alone would have been enough for me, but the way everything reacts together is what makes it stick. I use it every day
I’ve tried nearly every mobile editing app promising a film look. I can finally stop searching.
May 17
reviewunit
Most of those apps have one or more of these issues- the filters are terrible, either overdone or just unnatural- you don’t have enough control over your edits, you can put on a filter, reduce the intensity, then apply basic edits that look awful 9 times out of 10- they require a subscription Film(ish) fixes all that. It’s a one time purchase (that costs as much or less than a yearly subscription for many other apps), which alone is enough for me to love it.The presets are *beautiful*. There’s a bunch of them, plus even more film stocks that you can start from instead, if you want a more personalized look.The editing freedom is unmatched. Aside from the obvious (exposure, contrast, etc) you get editing tools that most editing apps refuse to include (HSL, color grading, curves), but you also get to fine tune so many aspects of your chosen preset/film stocks (color density, push/pull, micro contrast, sharpening).Plus you get control over grain, diffusion effects, and halation. As far as I know, the only app that lets you add and control halation is VSCO, and what do you know? They’re went subscription based years ago 🫩There’s so much more (frames and the fact that you can also edit videos, for example), but the biggest reason why I love this app is because the creator seems to be on a mission to break the record for “most active dev in existence”.This man has been adding new features on a near weekly basis since this app was in alpha. I was in the TestFlight for it and was already sold on day one, then he just started pumping out new features I didn’t even know I needed, but that made the app somehow even better than it was.I know I sound like a paid ad, but I have absolutely no connection to this thing. I’m sitting here at 1am spending 30 minutes writing this long ahh review only because I genuinely think this is a great app and I believe devs like this deserve all the support and success. Get this app already.
I’ve tried nearly every mobile editing app promising a film look. I can finally stop searching.
May 17
reviewunit

Most of those apps have one or more of these issues- the filters are terrible, either overdone or just unnatural- you don’t have enough control over your edits, you can put on a filter, reduce the intensity, then apply basic edits that look awful 9 times out of 10- they require a subscription Film(ish) fixes all that. It’s a one time purchase (that costs as much or less than a yearly subscription for many other apps), which alone is enough for me to love it.The presets are *beautiful*. There’s a bunch of them, plus even more film stocks that you can start from instead, if you want a more personalized look.The editing freedom is unmatched. Aside from the obvious (exposure, contrast, etc) you get editing tools that most editing apps refuse to include (HSL, color grading, curves), but you also get to fine tune so many aspects of your chosen preset/film stocks (color density, push/pull, micro contrast, sharpening).Plus you get control over grain, diffusion effects, and halation. As far as I know, the only app that lets you add and control halation is VSCO, and what do you know? They’re went subscription based years ago 🫩There’s so much more (frames and the fact that you can also edit videos, for example), but the biggest reason why I love this app is because the creator seems to be on a mission to break the record for “most active dev in existence”.This man has been adding new features on a near weekly basis since this app was in alpha. I was in the TestFlight for it and was already sold on day one, then he just started pumping out new features I didn’t even know I needed, but that made the app somehow even better than it was.I know I sound like a paid ad, but I have absolutely no connection to this thing. I’m sitting here at 1am spending 30 minutes writing this long ahh review only because I genuinely think this is a great app and I believe devs like this deserve all the support and success. Get this app already.
Amazing!
3d ago
afurrylittlerabbit
This is the best film emulation app I’ve ever used on the iPhone. It’s awesome. It makes it so easy so quick and the results are out as astounding. Best best ever you’re gonna love it.
Amazing!
3d ago
afurrylittlerabbit

This is the best film emulation app I’ve ever used on the iPhone. It’s awesome. It makes it so easy so quick and the results are out as astounding. Best best ever you’re gonna love it.

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.

Version 1.2.3 Jun 3

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Seller: Catalin Bridinel
Size: 68.3 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.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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In-App Purchases: Yes

Film(ish) Pro $19.99

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Ratings & Reviews

5/5

I’ve tried nearly every mobile editing app promising a film look. I can finally stop searching.

Amazing!

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