Analogue User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience87.7% of reviews
Neutral3.5% of reviews
Negative experience8.8% of reviews

~ Based on 57 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Analogue Safe?

Analogue - BW Darkroom appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Analogue is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 110 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 110 App Store ratings for Analogue.

Is Analogue Legit?

Analogue - BW Darkroom appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Analogue is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Love

By just reading a couple of the tutorials, it makes me to understand the amount of love in it. Is not only another camera app. But the time invested by the author, that even his personal camera was made by him.
There’s a lot of apps in the store, this one goes far for them, because it’s have had been done with knowledge. Most of all, with passion in photography, with love.
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Best app for film photographers

An excellent film development simulation. The tutorials are an additional help for ambitious photographers.

Excellent app

Love using this app. The quality is great and reminiscent of when I used a 4x5 camera.

标题党

以为是大画幅摄影的工具app,买下才发现是一个非常基础的教程,我有上当的感觉。

흑백사진에 관한 한 최고의 앱

최근까지 어떤 흑백사진앱을 다 써봐도 이 앱을 뛰어넘는 흑백사진앱은 없다.
흑백사진에서 최고의 앱!

Same as other dev’s app Darkr

ok well it appears ive purchased the same app twice. i have the dev’s other app Darkr, i liked it a lot and purchased the pro license. so i thought i’d try this one too and its the exact same thing. this is misleading. oh well a few dollars down the drain, everything is cooler as a negative however

暗房黑白非常好👍

暗房黑白非常好👍

Not good

It doesn’t let you import photos and the cameras are atrocious filters are ok too bad I can’t use them since the thing won’t let me import photos

Terrible. Impossible to use

I spent 15 minutes trying to access my camera roll and couldn’t figure out how to launch it. Maybe the app has good results but I’ll never know. Delete.

Thank you for teaching me some amazing photography rules/skills

Thank you for teaching me some amazing photography rules/skills. Instructions are clearly and concisely written.

Please don’t hesitate to add more photography rules and guidelines if they are available. (Especially, while working with the Black and White shots)

My Device: iPhone 14 Pro Max (latest iOS),
iPad Pro 12.9” (3rd Generation, 2018, latest iPadOS)

Note: I regularly update my review/rating for this application.

With Kindest Regards-BR
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Klasse

Sehr schön gemachte App. Die Kameras und die anschliessende "Laborarbeit" machen in ihrer Anwendung echt Spaß. Mit den Kontrasteinstellungen, partiellem Aufhellen und Nachbelichten lassen sich tolle Ergebnisse erzielen! Ebenso mit den verschiedenen Filmen und Tonungen. Bin echt begeistert👍

素晴らしいアプリです。

最高にファンタジックな写真の世界に入るための唯一のツールですね。
これさえあれば、十分です。

Jaaaa… mit 3 AAA, und 5 Sternen

Warum?
Weil „ANALOGUE“ Euch 100%ig…
fo-to-gra-fie-ren beibringt… plus DREI Kameras!

In einer Dunkelkammer… wie sie (als digitales Pendant) nicht besser zu gestalten ist!

Ich glaube zu wissen wovon ich rede, da ich ca. 50 Jahre im Rotlicht, sprich Dunkelkammer gearbeitet habe… und es auch heut‘ noch mache.

„ANALOGUE“ besitzt neben einer Kleinbild auch noch eine Mittelformat-Kamera (6 x 6 ~ Hasselbladish).
DAS… kann die Software noch TOPPEN;
Ihr habt zudem eine GROSS-Format dabei!!

Für die/den Beginner:
Die Dinger auf‘m Stativ, bei denen der Photograph unter einem schwarzen Tuch verschwindet.
DAS Teil…(googelt mal „PLAUBEL GROSSFORMAT“)… ist auch auf ‚nem iPhone sichtlich hoch-auflösend!!

Schlussendlich lässt Euch Marcus [der Entwickler] bei DEM Funktionsumfang NICHT im Regen stehen.
Es ist eine ganze Library an leicht verständlichen TUTORIALS dabei!

Alles in ALLEM;
- Preis-WERT
- präzise
- grosser Spassfaktor
- (mit etwas Zeitinvestition) PERFEKTE PHOTOGRAPHIEN!
Versprochen…
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Fantastica!

Per me veramente superlativa!

Tempo e piacere

Un altro modo di vivere la Fotografia. Se non avete fretta e volete godervi lo scatto.

굿.!!

흑백 어플 중 굿.!!

特别容易退出,不能保存

特别容易退出,不能保存到相册。

Terrible!!!!

The app would be awesome! Only if it worked. As of August 12 2019 the app has problems. The key functions DO NOT work at all. I can only see the test strips, cropping and sepia. The dodging and burning do not carry to the finished version. I spent the whole afternoon fighting with it, and now I am done and gone to another app. I will request the $2.99to see if I get it. Sorry - DO NOT Waste your time.
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Old skool

Simply the best app to make you slow down and rethink what your shooting. You have to learn to love it .

The best film camera and darkroom for iOS

“Analogue” is a unique software. No one of the other photo software provided an interface of a real large (or medium) film format camera, like “Analogue”. This is as well true about a precise emulation of the processing of real film negatives in a real photo darkroom.

My review is common for “Analogue” and “Darkr”, the other photo software of the same developer. The only difference there is the price model: “Analogue” is fully payable, while “Darkr” has a free core with in-app purchases which unlock some advanced features.

When opening “Analogue”, you are invited to choose one of the 4 options:
- a 4x5” format camera;
- a 6x6 twin-lens reflex camera;
- a 24x36 point-and-shot camera;
- a digital darkroom, which emulates the processes of film development and printing.

This software is accompanied with detailed tutorials, which are available in various languages. To access the tutorials, click on the small gear in the right corner on bottom, then choose Tutorials in Settings that open.

1. The 4x5” format camera.
- It has a focusing screen (with a grid), in which the image is vertically reflected as should be in the focusing glass screen of a real large format film camera;
- Focusing spot looks as a magnifying glass, and can be moved along all the screen. It has both manual and auto focus options;
- Shutter speed and ISO are set up manually, and the chosen parameters are always visible for better control;
- The following 3 features are available via 3 small pictograms in the upper right corner:
(a) Film presets to emulate the most popular B&W photo films. I note that correct film presets are a problem in digital photography. For example, “FilmBorn” - another camera and darkroom emulation software - provides film presets which do not meet the real photo films (in couple with its “digital interface”, this is why I do not recommend “FilmBorn” for use). The film presets accessed in “Analogue” match the tonal and contrast look of the real B&W films very precise. This is a great advantage of “Analogue” along with “I Love Film” (of the same developer);
(b) The second pictogram opens a tilt-and-shift correction tool. Scrolling the image border, you are able to tilt/shift the image as in a real large format camera;
(c) The third pictogram allows to pre-install a red/green/yellow filter. This option is very useful when shooting foliage, dynamic sky and other scenes;
- After you shot the chosen frame, you are able to continue the photo session or to go to the darkroom (by clicking on the pictogram of the shot image in the left corner on bottom).

2. The 6x6 twin-lens reflex camera.
- It has a horizontally reflected viewfinder as should be in a real TLR camera;
- All other features are the same there as in the 4x5” camera except of the tilt/shift tool just because it is not presented in a real TLR camera.

3. The 24x36 point-and-shot camera is very simple. I would suggest to transform it into a pro-grade “digital rangefinder” camera like Leica or Contax (in the further versions of “Analogue”).

4. The darkroom. It is fantastic, because repeats the real photo darkroom process in detail:
- The images you shot are stored as real photo negatives placed on desk of a real light box. I never seen such a realistic representation of digital negatives before. Just select a desired negative then choose how to develop it;
- You can then apply the same B&W film presets as those in the camera application (just click on the last right button on bottom);
- The preview is possible in the form either a film negative or a printed paper positive;
- The pictogram Enlarger opens image editing tools, thus meaning the “digital printing” of the chosen negative;
- At first you are invited to choose one of the printed paper strips pre-generated from the chosen digital negative. This looks exact as the sample strips printed with a real photo enlarger. Once you chosen the right exposure strip, click on Ready: the editing tools become accessed;
- The cropping tool allows to change the image aspect ratio;
- The next tools allow to lighten/darken or blur both the entire image or any its fragment if drawing a mask (I like the masking option very much; it is highly professional);
- You can also tint the final image (but I did not find Platinum and Palladium which are very popular in B&W printing);
- In the end, you can export the “final print” to your device or everywhere as you choose on the export manager.

While working with “Analogue”, I felt the same great pleasure as working with a real large format film camera or a real Rolleiflex TLR camera. The digital darkroom is perfect in all its parts: I felt myself as in a real photo darkroom, but without smelling chemicals :-)

Meanwhile, besides all the above compliments “Analogue” has one drawback: it does export work into JPEG format only. JPEG is a compressed file format where neighbouring pixels are averaged. As a result JPEG images take a very little of the disc space, but have a huge loss of image quality. Also, JPEG images have a 8-bit depth. So they contain only visible details. While a photographer needs invisible details hidden in the “higher bits” for further editing: the hidden details appear in the image when lifting shadows or lowering highlights therein. This is why RAW negatives have 12 or 14-bit depth, while the edited work is usually exported into the 16-bit lossless TIF format (16-bit PNG is also allowed but it does not contain EXIF). Export into a 16-bit lossless format should be added.

“Analogue” is a unique software. With the aforementioned improvements, it could be my main photo camera and darkroom application. Surely any professional or advanced amateur photographer would say the same.

P.S. I also found that the exported JPEGs became about 1.5 times larger in the size (and their quality increased) after the last update of “Analogue”.

Thank you!
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