FilmDeck TestFlight

An iPhone app from Nate’s Software

Shoot like it’s
Sunset Blvd

Real film looks for digital photographers.

Shoot on your iPhone with the film look live in the viewfinder. Put matching film-inspired palettes inside your Canon, adapted to what each camera can set. Develop RAW files from the camera or your library, right on the phone.

Coming soon to theApp Store

01 / The deck

A shelf of film stock, in your pocket

Each look is a film-inspired palette, built by eye, with classic Kodak and Fuji film stock as the reference. Pick one, point, shoot. What you see in the viewfinder is what you get.

FilmDeck’s deck of film looks on iPhone
The deck
The FilmDeck viewfinder with a film look live on a sunset street
Live viewfinder
A Canon camera connected to FilmDeck over Wi-Fi, a look being applied
Inside your Canon
The RAW developer with a before and after split
Develop RAW
A finished photo exported to the Photos library
Export full size

02 / iPhone camera

The look is live

FilmDeck is a camera. Open it, pick a stock, and the viewfinder shows the finished look while you frame. The grain and the colour are there before you press the shutter, so you shoot for the film instead of fixing it later.

03 / Your Canon, your look

Matching palettes, inside the camera

Connect a Canon over Wi-Fi or USB and FilmDeck writes the look into the body’s own picture settings. Shoot JPEG with the stock baked in and the RAW untouched beside it. Every change is backed up first and read back after, and one tap puts the camera’s settings back to what they were before the tap. More brands are coming.

04 / Develop RAW

Develop on the phone

Pull RAW files straight off the camera or from your library and develop them with the same film stock. Before and after, strength, exposure, then a full-resolution JPEG into Photos. Nothing is uploaded. The original file stays where it was.

05 / Two ways to shoot

Two ways to shoot

FilmDeck is the whole camera on an iPhone, and the companion app for serious shooters with a real camera.

Just an iPhone

FilmDeck is your camera. Pick a film stock and the look is live in the viewfinder. Saves the RAW too on iPhones that shoot it (ProRAW or RAW), the finished frame everywhere.

iPhone + your camera

FilmDeck sets the look inside the camera, pulls the RAW back, and finishes it on the phone.

How the camera takes the look

Canon EOS 250D
  1. 1

    Tap a stock on the deck

    Pick the film stock on the phone, same as you would for the iPhone camera.

  2. 2

    FilmDeck writes the camera’s own settings

    Over Wi‑Fi or USB, then reads them back to confirm.

    • Picture Style
    • Sharpness
    • Contrast
    • Saturation
    • Colour tone
    • White balance
    • WB shift
    • Exposure comp
  3. 3

    You shoot on the camera

    The JPEGs already carry the look.

  4. 4

    The RAW comes back to the phone

    The finisher adds what no camera menu can: grain, halation, the full curve of the stock.

A camera’s menus get you most of the way to a film look, not all of it. Grain, halation and the exact tone curve of a stock aren’t settings a camera exposes, so FilmDeck does that part on the RAW afterwards. What the camera can set, it sets; what it can’t, the finisher adds.

Built and tested on the Canon EOS 250D. Other EOS bodies with the Camera Control API should connect the same way; tell us if yours doesn’t. Fujifilm, Nikon and Sony support is coming.

06 / Setup guides

Setup guides

Getting each brand talking to FilmDeck, with pictures of the camera menus.

Canon

Camera Control API, hotspot or home Wi‑Fi, USB. One-time activation on most bodies.

Read the guide

Fujifilm

Bluetooth pairing, then the camera’s own hotspot. USB tether mode.

Read the guide

Nikon

Camera hotspot or home router from the network menu. USB as MTP/PTP.

Read the guide

Sony

Smartphone Connection hotspot, home Wi‑Fi on newer bodies, USB Remote Shooting.

Read the guide
Download the PDFAll guides on one page

07 / FAQ

Questions

What does it cost?

$8.99, once. That’s the whole app: every film stock, the camera control, RAW development and export. No subscription, no in-app purchases.

Does it upload my photos?

No. Everything happens on the phone. There are no accounts and no analytics, and no server ever sees your pictures. Nothing leaves the phone except what you type into the “Don’t see yours?” box (the camera name and app version) and the email you give the beta form.

Will it change my camera settings?

Only the picture settings you ask it to, and only after backing up what was there. FilmDeck reads every change back to confirm it landed, and Undo puts the camera’s settings back to what they were before the tap. It never touches firmware and never formats a card.

Can I get the same look on the iPhone and on my Canon?

Close to it. Each stock has a matching palette for the Canon’s picture settings, adapted to what the camera can set, and the finisher adds the grain and halation on the RAW afterwards.

Do I need RAW files?

Yes, the finisher develops RAW. Bring in RAW from your camera, Files or your library, or let FilmDeck pull it off a connected camera for you.

Which iPhones?

Requires iOS 26 or later. The viewfinder is smoothest on the Pro models.

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