# ARK Infrared — Infrared film simulation

> Infrared film simulation (iPhone/iPad app by Andrei Nikiforov.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-infrared/id6789680025 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Andrei Nikiforov](https://appshunter.io/developer/6788518953)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ark-infrared/id6789680025/reviews.md

## What is ARK Infrared?

ARK Infrared turns ordinary photos into infrared photographs — the way they would look shot on IR film through a real filter.

It is not a color preset. The engine reads every pixel for the physical evidence infrared responds to — chlorophyll, sky light, tungsten heat — and rebuilds the image the way film would record it. Foliage glows. Skies go black. Nothing is painted on.

FOUR FILMS

BW — black & white infrared, 590–850 nm. The look of Kodak HIE: glowing foliage, dark skies, halation bleeding around highlights. The dial sets the filter wavelength.

AERO — Kodak Aerochrome false color. Vegetation turns red, everything else keeps its neutral tone. The dial moves through the Wratten filter series (#12 to #25), exactly the axis practitioners used on the real film.

NIGHT — infrared at night. Tungsten lights blaze, foliage burns red against a black sky. The dial sets how deep into red the film goes. The engine adapts to each photo's white balance automatically.

MOON — day for night. Shoot in daylight, get a moonlit night — the way the eye actually sees in the dark: reds sink first, color drains, the day sky goes deep. Not a blue wash. The dial sets how far into the night you go.

FILM BACK FOR VIDEO

Load a clip. The deck tunes on a poster frame, live; one key renders the whole clip in the same film — every frame through the full engine.

INSTRUMENT, NOT APP

One aluminum deck. A tuning ruler, an exposure dial, one red key. Live rendering while you drag. Tap the nameplate to read what infrared light actually is — with Herschel's 1800 experiment you can run with your finger.

Exports in 10-bit HEIF at full resolution. No account. No network. Your photos never leave the device.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-07-27

MOON — a fourth film. Day for night: shoot in daylight, get a moonlit night. Reds sink first, the day sky goes dark. Not a blue wash.

THE MANUAL — tap the nameplate: the article now opens on the active film's chapter. Kodak HIE, Aerochrome and the camouflage hunt, the night film that never existed, and Hollywood's nuit americaine.

Also: video export now survives switching apps mid-render, a proper mechanical loader instead of the system spinner, and RAW loading no longer freezes the deck.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-07-23

VIDEO. The film back now takes clips: load a video, tune the instrument on its poster frame, SAVE renders the whole clip — full resolution, original sound.

Cleaner tone: exports at higher encoder quality, per-channel dithering for color gradients, RAW decode without system sharpening. Halation retuned to the reference emulsion — the glow now hugs the highlights.

Save progress is visible: a strip for photos, a full-screen develop for clips.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-07-21

No release notes.

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