Shoot RAW photos and video, apply film looks on-device, and bake your own LUTs to shoot in them live. The digital darkroom for image-makers, not filter scrollers.
The Digital Darkroom for Purists.
Acetate bridges pure RAW capture and the soul of analog film — now for stills and motion. Built for image-makers who understand that a frame is made, not
taken. Every adjustment runs on-device: no cloud, no account, no tracking.
PURE RAW CAPTURE
Shoot Apple ProRAW (DNG) on every supported iPhone. Acetate bypasses standard processing and writes the sensor's uncompressed data straight to your library,
preserving every stop of dynamic range for post.
PRO SHOOTING MODES
Full manual or assisted: Auto, Program (P), Shutter Priority (S), ISO Priority, Manual (M), Night, and Long Exposure to 30 seconds. Swap ultra-wide, wide, and
telephoto with a tap, or flip to the front camera. Self-timer and burst on the hardware shutter.
MOTION — SHOOT CINE
Video with the same discipline as stills. Full manual ISO, shutter, white balance, and focus. Up to 4K, high frame rates on supported devices, 10-bit Apple
Log, ProRes 422, or HEVC. Cinematic stabilisation, Cine mode with shutter-angle control, broadcast timecode, and multi-source audio with a live meter. Bake a
LUT into the file, or keep it monitor-only and grade later.
THE VIDEO EDITOR
Open any clip — from your library or shared straight into Acetate. Trim with frame-accurate handles, scrub and step a frame at a time, apply any look or your
own .cube LUT, push exposure and tone, hold to compare, and export at source quality. The same colour pipeline as the photo editor, frame by frame.
FILM LOOKS
Twenty 3D LUTs in two families: research-informed film-stock emulations (Soft 400, Warm 200, Slide 100, Mono, Noir…) and art-directed looks (Teal & Orange,
Bleach Bypass, '90s Cinema, Golden Hour…). Press and hold to preview live.
OPEN LUT
Tap any filter and the editor sliders move to reflect the look — see exactly what each LUT is doing and tweak from there. A tick mark shows the filter's value;
reset snaps back, long-press clears to zero. Works for built-in films, looks, and imported .cube LUTs.
BAKE YOUR OWN LUTs
Save any edit as a portable .cube LUT and apply it to photos and videos with one tap — or load it in the camera and shoot your own signature look. Import from
Files, iCloud, or AirDrop, in the camera or the editor. Export to Lightroom, Premiere, or DaVinci.
THE EDITOR
Full-strength tools: three-way colour grading wheels with per-range luma, OkLab perceptual HSL, RGB curves, split toning, filmic highlight rolloff, dehaze,
texture, edge-aware denoise, and selective masks — radial, linear-gradient, and one-tap Subject / Person / Background / Sky via Apple's Vision framework.
ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE
Smart tools that run on your iPhone — and explain themselves. Smart LUT writes a per-scene recipe, then drops it onto editable sliders so you see and adjust
every move. Plus auto-enhance, auto-straighten, and one-tap Object Removal (A15 / M1 or newer).
PRO TOOLS
Live RGB and luminance histograms, a luma waveform, zebras, false-colour exposure, focus peaking, a manual-focus loupe, framing guides, and a haptic level
indicator. Continuous Kelvin/tint white balance with lock, plus AE lock — in photo and video, no drift mid-shot.
PRIVACY FOCUSED
Your photos and videos are yours. No account, no cloud, no analytics. Location is used strictly for EXIF geotagging on what you capture, and never leaves your
device. Capture, edit, AI, and export all work offline.
Don't just filter. Develop.
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Video — capture
- Photo/Video toggle; full manual controls in video (ISO, shutter, EV, WB, focus)
- Resolution + frame-rate picker up to 4K 120/240 fps; default 24 fps
- Apple Log (10-bit), ProRes 422, HEVC; LUT baked-in or preview-only
- Cinematic stabilisation; Cine mode + shutter-angle picker; shutter in degrees / clean 1/x steps
- Multi-source audio, record-level (gain), live audio meter, mute; broadcast timecode
Video — editor & gallery (new)
- Video editor: trim, LUT presets + import .cube, light adjustments, play/scrub timeline, frame-step, hold-to-compare, source-quality export to Photos +
Acetate album
- Gallery shows videos + photos, endless scroll, duration badges
- "Edit in Acetate" share-sheet support for videos
Pro camera (photo + video)
- Pro white balance (Kelvin + tint + lock); AE/exposure lock
- Luma waveform monitor; draggable histogram + audio meter (position saved)
- Focus-magnify loupe on manual focus; aspect-ratio framing guides
- Front (selfie) camera — manual controls, mirroring, flip
- Import .cube LUTs from the camera filter strip; 14 built-in looks re-authored
- Shutter snaps to ⅓-stop DSLR scale; lens-ring long-press step; incompatible settings auto-correct/grey out
Fixes & accuracy
- 48 MP ProRAW capture fix; orientation correctness on tilt/flip
- EXIF + location metadata preserved on filtered photos and locked-camera shots
- Permission strings updated to cover video; recorded videos join the Acetate album; gallery icon refreshes after a clip
- Extensive stability/layout/colour fixes across camera and video
Version 1.2.0
The developer, BMB Enterprises, 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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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Information
Provider
BMB ENTERPRISES LTD
Size
257.7 MB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.2 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.2 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.