I Love Film - Grain Filter

Update, Aug. 2024: this app is dead. Doesn’t open at all. This app has a lot of bugs when it comes to simply loading or opening/closing things. It takes 15 seconds or more after tapping the + icon to begin an edit. There’s similar lag when your camera roll loads up, and you have no ability to sort by recently added vs capture date. The album icon doesn’t work at all and just freezes the app on my iPhone 14 Pro Max (using the paid premium $5 version). Other similar stuff like tapping X to close an image, or tapping the yes/no prompts takes 5-10 seconds for the app to respond. It’s so laggy that my iPhone screen often times out and turns off before the app opens a photo. That’s pretty bad. I don’t have any of these issues in Lightroom, which I’m sure is a much larger and more complex app In terms of the film filters and editing options, that’s definitely the strongest element of the app but could use some improvements. Sliding the film ISO to another setting doesn’t lock in the ISO, you have to tap a second time to set it or the app discards your change. Unnecessary. I’d like to see an option to rotate the dust and light leak overlays so you can choose what side of your photo the effect displays — that would make them much more usable and flexible An option to add film frames / borders would be nice and feels like something you’d expect to see in an app like this; kind of silly to go all-in on film vibes here only to export the photo and open it in another app just to add film border

I love, love, love the esthetics of this app. It’s bright, uncluttered, and sleek. The UI design is totally user-friendly, and the filters themselves each have an identity. They’re carefully chosen, IMO—I think Marcus Carlson prefers quality over quantity. (Seriously, too many filters becomes overwhelming. Better to have a good basic set of filters, than to have hundreds that just repeat themselves). I definitely recommend this app, as I do the developer’s other photo apps. He brings attention and dedication to each one.

Really responsive developer and the app is working correctly now with the latest update:) It will even process my 50mp Canon 5ds raw files without hesitation. Now I can get a little closer to the old days/looks of shooting with my Nikon F3’s and Contax and Zeiss lens combos without having to be in the darkroom....Thanks for the awesome support!!