# Filmtone: Film LUT Editor — Color Grade, Compare, Export

> Color Grade, Compare, Export (iPhone/iPad app by takumi chiba.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/filmtone-film-lut-editor/id6762564806 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [takumi chiba](https://appshunter.io/developer/1499891421)
- Category: Photo & Video, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 50 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-04-21
- Data updated: 2026-07-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/filmtone-film-lut-editor/id6762564806/reviews.md

## What is Filmtone?

Filmtone is an iPhone editor for choosing a film look, tuning color correction, shaping soft glow and grain, then exporting locally to save or share. Pick media, apply a Look, adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation with Quick controls, compare before/after, and finish without leaving your iPhone.

Use Filmtone when the built-in editor feels too plain, but opening a full timeline-based video editing app feels too heavy. It is made for deciding a look, checking the result, and exporting from iPhone without turning a simple finish into a large editing session.

The editor is a full-screen Liquid Glass workspace. Preview stays at the center, while the bottom rail gives you a Look-first flow: choose a Look, adjust how strongly it applies, and check the result right away. Presets, built-in Looks, and your saved Looks all live in the same direction, so the main decision is simple: what should this source look like when it is finished?

Filmtone Look:
- Includes Creative Pack 01: Stone / Urban
- Each built-in Look uses its own 3D .cube LUT
- Look data carries rgbShift, bloom, halation, diffusion, lens softness, grain, and vignette
- Adjust Look strength to fit the source
- Save your own Look and apply it again to another source

Stone and Urban are not just preset names. They are built-in Looks with bundled 3D LUTs and Filmtone-style optical treatment. A Look can carry color direction, small lens color separation, highlight glow, grain behavior, edge falloff, and softness together. After choosing one, you can reduce or raise its strength so the effect fits the actual source instead of forcing every clip into the same amount.

Quick controls are for broad color moves: brightness, contrast, and saturation. Start there when you only need a clean adjustment. When the source needs more work, advanced adjustments let you refine glow, bloom, halation, grain, lens softness, and the small optical details that shape the final look. Quick controls and advanced adjustments are separate states, so a light finish and a deeper grade can both happen in the same editor.

Saved Looks keep more than the visible color direction. They also preserve glow and optical details, so reapplying a Look to another source can reproduce the same tone more reliably. Use this when daily footage, travel footage, social posts, covers, thumbnails, or a small set of exports should share the same color direction without rebuilding the look each time.

For more control, Filmtone supports two .cube LUT slots: Source Profile and Film Look. Source Profile is for input-side handling such as Apple Log, Apple Log 2, S-Log3, V-Log, and Rec.709. Film Look is for the final color treatment. When you use camera-originated Log material or your own .cube LUT, you can keep the input transform and the finishing look separate.

Filmtone considers H.264, HEVC, ProRes, Log, and P3 / HDR sources while keeping the workflow local on iPhone. First pick media, prepare the source if needed, choose a Look, tune color and optics, compare before/after, then export. The finished output can be saved to Photos or shared from the device.

Use Filmtone for:
- Daily footage and travel footage that should share the same color direction
- Social posts, covers, and thumbnails that need a finished film look
- Fast LUT-based color correction and color grading on iPhone
- Apple Log, S-Log3, V-Log, HDR, ProRes, and .cube LUT workflows that still need to stay lightweight
- Adjustments that go beyond brightness and saturation into glow, grain, and lens softness

Filmtone is not a capture camera. It is a finishing editor for existing media. Use it when you want to decide the color direction before opening a larger project, when you need a quick export from iPhone, or when a small set of outputs should stay visually consistent.

No account or cloud sync is required for the main workflow. Pick media, build the look, export locally, save to Photos, or share from your iPhone.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.14 — 2026-07-13

The optical glow effect is now consistently named Deep Glow.

Choose Subtle, Balanced, or Strong, with the same setting applied to preview and export. Existing edits remain compatible.

### 1.13 — 2026-05-22

Photo exports now save as JPEG instead of a short MP4. Pick an image, apply a Look, and export it directly to Photos as a still image.

When editing video, you can also save the current frame as a Look-applied JPEG while keeping normal video export as MP4.

This update also refines Filmtone's Texture Engine for grain, density response, and highlight roll-off. Rec.709 and other display-referred sources now keep clearer separation between Stone and Urban, while sky-like bright flat areas hold back grain more carefully.

Camera Profile handling for D-Log / D-Log M and other log sources has also been tightened, reducing extra tone compression after input conversion so blacks stay easier to judge after applying a Look.

It also improves take picker legibility and adds an in-app update notice for future App Store releases.

### 1.12 — 2026-05-20

Photo exports now save as JPEG instead of a short MP4. Pick an image, apply a Look, and export it directly to Photos as a still image.

When editing video, you can also save the current frame as a Look-applied JPEG while keeping normal video export as MP4.

This update also refines Filmtone's Texture Engine for grain, density response, and highlight roll-off. Rec.709 and other display-referred sources now keep clearer separation between Stone and Urban, while sky-like bright flat areas hold back grain more carefully.

It also improves take picker legibility and adds an in-app update notice for future App Store releases.

### 1.11 — 2026-05-18

Built-in Stone, Urban, and Noir now apply with source-aware handling.

On Rec.709, SDR BT.709, Display P3 SDR, and unknown display-referred sources, Filmtone uses a safer Look policy that reins in Look strength and the strongest contrast / compression pushes. This helps reduce clipping, harsh saturation, and lifted-looking shadows on footage that is already display-rendered.

On camera-profile sources such as D-Log, the stronger creative Look behavior is preserved. Preview and export now resolve the same Built-in Look policy.

### 1.10 — 2026-05-17

Creative Look Pack previews now carry the selected Source Profile into the preview renderer. Stone and Urban on D-Log footage use the same input conversion in preview that export uses. Preview and export color handling were also aligned further, reducing cases where saved videos looked lifted or faded compared with the in-app preview.

Advanced controls now include Film Breath, Black Point, and Toe Contrast, so iPhone edits can tune motion variation, the black floor, and toe hardness.

24fps Slow Mode was added for supported videos, making slower 24fps exports easier to create from the iPhone workflow.

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