Film(ish)

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

By: Catalin Bridinel

True to film photo editing

Features & Capabilities

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.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Catalin Bridinel

Rating:

5.00

(5) 1 new ratings

Version:

1.2.3 Last updated: 2026-06-03

Version code:

886478435

Creation date:

2026-04-17

Compatible devices:

Size:

65.15MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

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Ranking

# 500,330 ▲ 45,425

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#36 in film keyword 9 ▲

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Developed by:

Catalin Bridinel

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/film-ish/id6761363553

Website:

https://filmish.app/

User Reviews

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.

by re*****, 2026-05-17

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