Darkroom Clock vs Positive View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Darkroom Clock
This app provides a customizable timer for film and photo development, allowing users to create unique development recipes. It features a darkroom-safe mode, a clear display, and a full-screen start/stop button for ease of use. Receive notifications if a timer is running when you leave the app.
- Configurable development recipes
- Darkroom mode for B&W paper
- Clear information display
- Full screen start/stop button
- Running timer notifications
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Darkroom Clock is a flexible darkroom timer app suitable for both film and photo development. Build your own development recipes with separate timers for each stage of your development process. The app includes - fully configurable development recipes. - darkroom mode (safe to use with B&W photographic paper). - clear display with all the information you need. - the whole screen is the start/stop button for the timers - notifications if you leave the app while a timer is still running Also the app is free so there is no reason to not download it.
Positive View
Transform your phone into a live viewer for photographic negatives. Instantly see positive images from color or black-and-white film in real time. Ideal for quickly previewing, selecting, and referencing your film scans.
- Live negative viewing (color & B&W)
- Automatic color balancing
- Brightness, contrast, warmth controls
- Freeze, zoom, and pan frame
- Save positive image to Photos
- Calibration for illumination and lens
- Use second device as light panel
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Positive View turns your iPhone camera into a high quality live viewer for photographic negatives. Place a color or black-and-white film over an even light source, point the camera at it, and Positive View displays a positive image in real time. Use it to quickly see the images, select the best ones for scanning, or make a quick reference image. Features: • Live color and black-and-white negative viewing • Automatic color balancing, with a lock for consistent viewing • Brightness, contrast, and warmth controls • Freeze, zoom, and pan a frame for closer inspection • Save the current positive to Photos • Calibrate for even illumination and to counter lens falloff • Turn a second device into a plain white light panel Camera processing happens on your device. Positive View has no ads, accounts, analytics, or tracking. Images are saved only on your device and only when you tap Save. For best results, use an even, diffused light source with low flicker and keep the film flat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Positive View at weekly against Darkroom Clock's every 3 months. Positive View also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Darkroom Clock's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Positive View holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Darkroom Clock has 84 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Darkroom Clock ships an update every 3 months, Positive View weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Darkroom Clock | Positive View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Fowler | Mikhail Rybakov |
Customer experience
Darkroom Clock
Positive View
In-app purchases
Darkroom Clock
No in-app purchases
Positive View
No in-app purchases
