Halation

Shoot on film

A film camera for iPhone. The grade is applied live in the viewfinder and baked into the file at the moment of capture — no editing afterward, no sliders to undo, nothing uploaded anywhere.

  • 8 film looks
  • Photo & video
  • 100% on device
  • iOS 18+

The whole idea

You see the photograph before you take it — and what you took is exactly what you saw.

Each of the eight stocks is a recipe of some twenty parameters — white balance, tone, channel mix, split tone, grain, halation, vignette — evaluated on every frame the sensor hands over, before it is ever written to disk.

Live in the viewfinder
Tone curve, colour, grain, halation and vignette are rendered on the live preview, not previewed as a thumbnail. What is on the glass is the file.
Baked in at capture
The look is written into the photo or video the instant you press the shutter. There is no edit step, no export queue, no second version to manage.
Recipes, not filters
Each look is a full film recipe — white balance, contrast, black lift, channel mixing, split tone, grain and halation — not a colour wash on top.
Eight stocks

The roll

Eight looks, hand-built one at a time. Original recipes — no borrowed film-stock branding, no presets bought in bulk.

  • Neutral

    Clean · True to life

    The straight frame. Honest colour, a whisper of grain, almost no vignette — shoot this when you want no look at all.

  • Emulsion

    Fine grain · Warm · Soft

    Warm highlights, lifted blacks and a soft roll-off. Skin looks kind; afternoon light looks like memory.

  • Pixel

    Cool green · Punchy · Crisp

    Cooled white balance, hard contrast and a green cast in the shadows. Streets, concrete, weather.

  • Nocturne

    Night stock · Teal · Halation

    A teal night stock with heavy red halation — every bright light bleeds a warm ring, the way tungsten does on real film.

  • Silver

    Rich grain · Black & white

    Monochrome with real weight: deep blacks, bright separation and coarse grain that survives the shadows.

  • Faded

    Soft grain · Matte · Muted

    Low contrast, milky blacks, desaturated colour. A print that has been in a drawer since the nineties.

  • Vivid

    Ultra fine · Saturated · Bold

    Crushed blacks, near-invisible grain and colour turned all the way up. Blue hour, painted walls, flags.

  • Cross

    Chemical · Cross-process

    Wrong chemistry on purpose: teal shadows, acid-yellow highlights, channels pulled apart. Unrepeatable by accident.

The camera

Built like a body, not an app

Film roll counter

Load a roll. Watch it run out.

Load 24 or 36 frames and the counter ticks down as you shoot. When the roll is full you develop it — the ritual that makes you slow down and actually look. Not for you? Switch to unlimited frames and the counter steps aside.

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Photo & video

One grade, both media

Video gets the same recipe as stills — same curve, same grain, same halation — written into the recording as it happens.

Fine tuning

Two dials, live

Grain and contrast ride on top of the chosen look and update in the viewfinder as you move them. Two controls, because a camera should not have twenty.

Film strip

Your developed frames

Captures land in an in-app film strip you can scroll through. The keepers get saved out to your own Photos library, on your say-so.

Privacy

Nothing leaves the phone.

Every frame is captured, graded and stored on your device. There is no account to make, no server to talk to, and no code in the app that would know how to send your photographs anywhere.

  • No accounts
  • No ads
  • No analytics
  • No tracking
  • No third-party SDKs
  • No network calls

Read the full privacy policy

Device
iPhone only
System
iOS 18 or later
Hardware
Camera required
Internet
Not required