Acetate: the digital darkroom for purists.
A RAW camera, cine video recorder and colour grading editor for iPhone, with film looks you can make your own. Everything runs on the device.
Phone cameras decide for you.
Heavy processing, baked-in looks and editors that want an account and a subscription. Photographers and filmmakers wanted the raw data, real controls and film looks they could own.
So we built a camera and darkroom that treats the iPhone like a serious tool, and keeps every frame on the device.
Capture. Grade. Develop.
Apple ProRAW (DNG) with Auto, P, S, ISO priority, Manual, Night and long exposures up to 30 seconds.
Up to 4K with manual ISO, shutter, white balance and focus. 10-bit Apple Log, ProRes 422 or HEVC, with timecode and shutter angle.
Film-stock emulations and art-directed looks. Hold to preview live, and see exactly what each one does to the sliders.
Colour wheels, OkLab HSL, curves, split toning, filmic highlight roll-off, dehaze, texture and edge-aware denoise.
Subject, person, background and sky masks from Apple’s Vision framework, plus radial and gradient masks.
Save any edit as a .cube LUT, shoot with it in the camera, or take it to Lightroom, Premiere or DaVinci.
One colour pipeline, stills and motion.
- Shared pipeline
The same colour engine drives the photo editor, the video editor and the camera’s live LUT preview, frame by frame.
- Pro monitoring
Live histograms, a luma waveform, zebras, false colour, focus peaking and a level, without slowing capture.
- Smart LUT
On-device intelligence writes a per-scene recipe, then puts it on editable sliders so nothing is a black box.
- Fully offline
Capture, edit, AI and export all work without a connection or an account.
No account. No cloud. No tracking.
Photos and videos stay on the iPhone. Location is only used to geotag shots, and never leaves the device.
