Film(ish) photo editing Apple

Film(ish) photo editing

True to film photo editing
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Overview

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. 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.

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App
By:
Catalin Bridinel
Rating:
4.20
(12)
Version:
1.7.6 Last updated: 2026-09-16
Version code:
891429765
Creation date:
2026-04-17
Compatible devices:
Size:
85.11MB
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Data ingested on:
2026-09-24
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Developed by:
Catalin Bridinel
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/film-ish-photo-editing/id6761363553
Website:
https://filmish.app/

User Reviews

I've tried so many apps that claim to emulate film and so far, this is the best one. Custom controls for glow, halation, and grain are levels above apps like Lightroom, Snapseed, and Liit (my previous fave). Highly recommend. I haven't even tried the pro paid version, a lot of these are available for free and they still transform your photo and give it that soft natural feel, removing the iPhones annoyingly over sharpedened mechanical feel. Highly recommend for photo enthusiasts! The presets make this a one-click solution, or let you go as deep in editing as you care to. Thank you for creating this app.
by ma*****, 2026-09-12

Do not pay for this. Just someone trying to make a quick buck. The implementation of many filters is poor.
by Ev*****, 2026-08-22
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