# Umber - Film video camera — Cinematic Grain, LUTs & Analog

> Cinematic Grain, LUTs & Analog (iPhone/iPad app by Alin Banuta.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/umber-film-video-camera/id6815116333 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Alin Banuta](https://appshunter.io/developer/6779703254)
- Category: Photo & Video, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-25
- Data updated: 2026-10-26

## What is Umber?

Umber is a film camera for iPhone.

The film look happens in the viewfinder, not in post. Point the camera. Pick a look from the film-box shelf. Record.
The grain, the color grade, the halation, and the vignette are all applied live at up to 4K 30fps, using the same class of GPU-based color science professionals use in post-production. What you see is what you record.

EVERY FILM LOOK IS FREE
Every hand-tuned look in Umber - warm color negative, saturated slide film, high-contrast black-and-white, moody tungsten cinema - comes with the free download. Full app. All resolutions up to 4K. Both cameras. Photo and video.
The only thing that separates the free tier from Pro is a small "UMBER" mark on your exports.

Most film-look apps gate their best presets behind a paywall. Umber gates the watermark, not the looks.

NOT A FILTER. A LIVE CAMERA.
Filter apps apply their look after you shoot - you record blind and hope the export looks right. Umber runs a full GPU-based film-simulation pipeline live during capture. The look you see is the look you record.

SHOOTS LIKE A CAMERA
- Steady handheld video. Recordings are stabilized, while the viewfinder stays instant.
- Tap to focus and expose. Drag up or down to set brightness, long-press to lock focus and exposure.
- Volume buttons as a shutter. Press either one to take a photo or start and stop a recording.
- More room to frame. Collapse the film-box shelf to a single line for a bigger viewfinder.
- Quiet by design. Music pauses when you hit record, and the mic is only on while you're recording.

REAL FILM CHARACTER, NOT JUST A COLOR GRADE
The look isn't a color LUT stapled onto your video. Umber recreates the physical character of film:
- Physics-inspired grain. Three-octave fractional noise, chromatic, luma-modulated. Silver-halide grain peaks in mid-tones, the way it does on real film.
- Halation. The reddish glow around bright edges that reads instantly as "shot on film" - threshold-driven and screen-blended into the frame.
- Face-aware grain. On-device face detection quietly dials grain back in facial regions so people don't get sandpaper skin. No user action required.

Each look has its own tuning. Color negative grain is finer and warmer than slide-film grain. Black-and-white looks push halation less. Cinema looks lean into tungsten blues and warm highlights. Craft-work, not templates.

ONE-TIME PAYMENT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. NO ADS. EVER.
Umber Pro is a single one-time in-app purchase. Buy once, own it forever. No monthly fee. No annual renewal. No ads at any tier. No cloud sync of your video. Nothing you shoot ever leaves your phone.

Pro unlocks:
- Watermark-free exports.
- Nine fine-tune sliders for per-look customization: grain intensity, grain size, grain response, grain chroma, halation strength, halation threshold, vignette, chromatic aberration, LUT blend.
- Custom .cube LUT import. Bring any look you've built in DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom, VSCO, or wherever, and it sits on the shelf alongside the built-in looks.

FROM ONE INDIE DEVELOPER
Umber is built by one person. Buying Pro is a kind way to say thanks and keep Umber in active development.

TECHNICAL
- iPhone only, iOS 15 and later
- iPhone 8 or newer (A11 chip or later)
- Records H.265/HEVC video, saves to an "Umber" album in Photos
- Cinematic video stabilization on top of your phone's optical stabilization (iOS 16 and later)
- Volume-button shutter on iOS 17.2 and later
- All processing runs on-device. Your footage never leaves your phone.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Umber Pro | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Umber safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Umber.

## Is Umber legit?

Umber - Film video camera has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Umber is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-10-20

Steadier video and more control behind the lens.

- Smoother handheld video - recordings are now stabilized, while the viewfinder stays instant
- Tap to focus - tap anywhere to focus and expose, drag up or down to brighten or darken, long-press to lock focus and exposure
- Volume buttons take the shot - press either one to snap a photo or start and stop a recording
- Bigger viewfinder - collapse the film shelf to one line when you want more room to frame
- Music pauses when you hit record, so it won't end up in your clip, and the mic only turns on while recording
- Easier to tap grain, halation and vignette toggles
- Faster, cooler camera with smoother previews, and no more frozen viewfinder after switching apps
- Cleaner clip starts and a haptic when you stop recording

### 1.2.2 — 2026-10-10

Smoother recording - fixed small freezes that could show up in the preview and in saved clips.

Sharper photos - photo mode now always shoots at the highest resolution your camera supports, regardless of your video quality setting.

Shutter blink - the viewfinder flashes black when you take a photo, so you know it's done.

Clips survive interruptions - if a call or alarm cuts in mid-recording, what you've filmed so far is saved.

Clearer restores - Restore Purchases now tells you what it found.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-30

Fixed bugs related to the haptic behaviour.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-29

Small polish across the app:
- Stronger haptic feedback on every button
- Shutter now shows a small icon for photo or video mode
- Grain, halation, and vignette chips stay readable against bright scenes
- Gallery thumbnail no longer squishes photos
- We'll ask for a rating after a few good shots

### 1.1 — 2026-09-29

Latent is now Umber.

Same app, same one-time price. New name, new icon, warmer palette.

Your Pro upgrade, custom LUTs, and per-preset tuning all carry over. New saves land in an "Umber" album. Anything you saved before stays in the "Latent" album exactly where you left it.

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All apps by Alin Banuta: https://appshunter.io/developer/6779703254

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