Turn the photographs you already love into expressive black and white, with classic filters, film grain and creative effects.
Simply B&W is an easy, focused way to explore monochrome on iPhone. Start with tone, brightness and contrast, then go further with photographic filters, grain, optical effects and selective focus.
FIND THE BLACK & WHITE WITHIN
Black and white is about more than taking the colour away.
Simply B&W lets you change how the colours in your photograph translate into shades of grey. Red filters can turn a blue sky dark and dramatic. Yellow filters brings out clouds more gently. Green changes the balance of foliage and skin. Orange falls somewhere in between.
They work like the familiar colour filters used by black and white photographers, but applied to the photograph you’ve already made. There’s infrared too, for luminous foliage and dark skies, and a polariser effect for deeper skies and stronger definition.
GIVE IT CHARACTER
Not every photograph needs to be perfectly sharp.
Toy adds the soft corners, swirl and gentle vignette of a plastic lens, with a sharp area you can position anywhere in the frame. Prism fractures and repeats your subject, inspired by the faceted filters of the seventies.
Bokeh uses Portrait depth information to soften backgrounds and draw attention to your subject. Out-of-focus highlights can bloom into luminous, softly edged bubbles, creating the dreamy optical character of classic vintage lenses.
THE FEEL OF FILM
Add grain from the almost invisible texture of ISO 25 to the gritty character of ISO 3200.
Shape the finished photograph with exposure, brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights and vignette.
Everything is controlled from one set of dials, right under your thumb. Choose what you want to change on the outer ring, then turn the inner one to adjust it.
The controls stay out of the way. Your photograph fills the screen.
MADE FOR YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS
Simply B&W works with JPEG, HEIC and RAW photographs from your library. With RAW files, it develops the original image data rather than using the embedded preview.
Save your finished photograph as JPEG, HEIC or lossless TIFF, with EXIF, IPTC and location details preserved.
Find a look you love and it stays with you, photograph after photograph.
Everything happens on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded.
No account. No subscription.
Simply Photography. Simply B&W.
Nice simple controls, choose image, alter exp etc... then what? No way to save it??? For info to the Developers, if they read this, I’m using an iPhone SE, it’s a small screen but still should be able to save image!Update... found how to save image.. use right/up pointing arrow THEN scroll down! Didn’t do this, didn’t see “save image” ....oops,👍
Developer Response
Great news and thanks for the update. I tested on an SE and noted that the save dialog sometimes isn’t fully visible. You can reorder these in the view preferences under “Edit Actions” but again this is at the bottom (again you need scroll down) to get these but it then updates your preferred actions system-wide.
SimplyBW
chippy 12
Why has this lovely app been changed or updated I can no longer pick a film stock to suit cannot create a vignette there’s no info on what you can achieve with it and after playing with it where can you save it to it’s been ruined
Developer Response
Sorry to hear this. Hope you persevere and get some of the results you expect from the app. Vignettes may return with some additional features
I love the new look
Huntikens
I love your new update. Lots of possibilities and so simple to use AND no more bugs. Brilliant! Thank you so much!!
Developer Response
Sorry you’ve been having trouble with the app. The newly updated version (3.0) should address the problems you describe. Thanks for your patience.UPDATE: thanks for your kind comments. All feedback means a lot to me.
Love it
JCRocky5
Cracking little app, love the look I can get from using it, worth the money. Only issue, is when I save an image it crashes the app, but it does this after the image has been saved so not such a big problem, more an annoyance.
Simply B&W has had a big update, with much of the app rebuilt from the ground up with a new experience dedicated to iPhone Duo.
A new set of dials puts everything under your thumb while your photograph fills the screen. Pinch to zoom in and take a closer look at your work.
Bokeh softens the background of Portrait photographs. Prism repeats and fractures the image across the frame. Toy adds soft corners, swirl and vignette, with a sharp spot you position yourself.
Exposure joins the tone controls, and film grain now runs from the fine texture of ISO 25 to the grit of ISO 3200.
Simply B&W now works directly with RAW image data rather than the embedded preview, preserving much more of the original photograph.
Export your finished image as JPEG, HEIC or lossless TIFF, straight to your photo library, with EXIF and location information preserved.
Version 4.0
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