GLITCH – Glitch Art Lab

GLITCH is a controlled image destruction lab — a modular image synthesizer that happens to make art. ORDER → DISTURBANCE → DEFORMATION → DECOMPOSITION Open a photo and push it from order into structured decay. Instead of one-tap filters, GLITCH chains real image-processing effects into a pipeline you can inspect, reorder and reproduce. FAST TO START • Seven presets, previewed on your own image: Architectural Decay, Signal Failure, Digital Memory, Concrete, Fracture, Ghost, Total Failure • DAMAGE and ORDER / CHAOS: two signature controls that scale the whole chain from untouched to dissolved • EXPLORE: Controlled randomize, Mutate and Randomize, plus eight variants of your current state DEEP WHEN YOU WANT IT • 38 effects in six categories: Geometric, Pixel, Color, Noise, Data and Signal — slices, block displacement, polar and kaleidoscope folds, pixel sorting, stretching and smearing, RGB split, posterization, color decay, structured and fractal noise, scanlines, interference, erosion, real byte-level data bending of JPEG/PNG/RAW streams, sine/FM/ring/AM modulation, delay and feedback loops • Every parameter is reachable: primary controls first, advanced parameters, mix, seed and modulation one level deeper • Masks from luminance, saturation, color channels, edges, contrast, entropy, noise, radial or linear gradients — with a live mask overlay • Precision sliders with a fine mode, snapping landmarks and numeric entry • Analysis: histograms, edge, entropy and contrast maps, complexity diagnostics REPRODUCIBLE • Seeded randomness: the same seed and pipeline always render the same image; moving a module never reshuffles its randomness • Snapshots to freeze moments, undo/redo, split comparison against the original or any snapshot • Processing recipes (glitch.recipe/1) export with your image and are compatible with the GLITCH desktop app CREATE AND SHARE • Full-resolution export as PNG, JPEG, TIFF or HEIC to Photos, Files or the share sheet • ITERATE turns a DAMAGE or CHAOS ramp into an evolving sequence: PNG frames, animated GIF and MP4 PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking.