Full Analogue Suite.

Meter and log every frame on iPhone. Convert, edit and export the whole roll on Mac.

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A golden-hour photograph of a couple in tall grass in Workspace, with the Balance, Tone and Color controls and the roll in the filmstrip.
Film Buddy for Mac · Workspace
Film Buddy light meter with a held reading of f/5.6 at 1/500 for Portra 400

On the roll

The iPhone app meters the light, logs every frame, times your development and lights your scans. It’s free.

Buddy Log showing a Portra 400 roll in a Nikon F3 and an HP5 Plus roll in an Olympus OM-1.
Buddy LogRolls by camera and film.
Three logged frames of a Portra 400 roll, each with aperture, shutter speed and a note.
FramesSettings and a note for each.
A develop timer at 3:17 for CineStill Cs41 at 39°C, with agitation instructions.
DevelopTimers for every step.
Backlight with white, red, green and blue, a brightness slider and a Show white button.
BacklightWhite, or red, green and blue, under your film.
Sun showing a low sun from the west-southwest and golden hour at 6:35 PM.
SunGolden hour and where the light is.

Optimized for iPhone Duo

Unfold it and the meter sits beside your notes, the roll lays out as a contact sheet, and the timer keeps the next bath in view.

Film Buddy on an open iPhone Duo, with the meter on the left and the Portra 400 roll’s frame notes on the right.
Meter and notesMeter beside the roll you’re logging.
An open iPhone Duo showing a 12-frame Portra 400 roll as a contact sheet of exposure settings.
Contact sheetEvery frame of the roll at once.

Meter, Develop, Sun and Backlight work without an account. Create a free account to sync your Buddy Log and personal recipes. A Film Buddy invitation, not the free account, unlocks the Mac beta.

At the deskPrivate beta

The Mac app takes a roll of camera-scanned negatives from import to finished TIFF or JPEG files.

Film Buddy Media showing the 18-frame Golden Hour roll, with eight rolls in the sidebar.
MediaThe whole roll at a glance.
Film Buddy Export after a 16-bit TIFF export of 18 frames, with destination and naming controls.
Export8- or 16-bit TIFF, or JPEG.
Workspace after converting the Golden Hour roll, showing a couple holding hands in tall grass.
ConvertThe whole roll at once.
Workspace with the Saturation slider being dragged on a photograph of a couple in tall grass.
EditsBalance, tone and color change as you drag.
Workspace with the Highlights color wheel open under Grade.
HSL and GradeAdjust each color, then grade the shadows, midtones and highlights.
A linear mask drawn across a photograph of a couple, with its tone and color controls.
MasksRadial and linear masks for local edits.
A close portrait in Workspace at 100 percent.
HealPaint out dust from a clean donor area.
Crop and Straighten with the photograph rotated inside a 3:2 crop.
CropDrag the handles to crop, or outside the frame to straighten.
A medium format negative stitched from four captures, 9006 by 6199 pixels.
StitchOne large frame from several captures.
A portrait among cherry leaves inside a white print matte on a black canvas.
Print MatteA border on a canvas that matches the crop or a print ratio.
Export rendering and verifying a 16-bit TIFF export of 18 frames.
ExportEvery file checked after it’s written.
Media with the Capture frame button and the Golden Hour roll.
RGB captureWhile tethered, the Mac steps your iPhone backlight through red, green and blue and combines the three shots.

Photos in the app screens by @bonnieannphotography on Instagram

Hover over FilmBuddy or his speech cue, tap, or press Enter or Space to read three messages. Escape closes the bubble. Moving through the tree or meadow stirs the leaves.

Print your own scanning enclosure

Scanning Enclosure R2 is fully 3D printed except four O-rings. The print files are free for non-commercial use.

See the R2 print files
Scanning Enclosure R2 on a black desk, lit red from below by an iPhone in its phone tray, with spare parts behind it.The R2 from the front corner, lit green.The R2 from the other corner, lit blue.