Silverlog vs Safelight Darkroom Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silverlog
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Silverlog is a comprehensive film photography logbook for iOS. Track your film rolls, development processes, darkroom printing, and create professional contact sheets. FILM ROLL MANAGEMENT Log rolls across 35mm, medium format, large format, and special formats. Record frame-by-frame aperture, shutter speed, lens and notes, plus location and weather for each roll. Save your own frame templates to speed up logging. DEVELOPMENT LOGGING Track your development sessions with chemistry details, times, temperatures, agitation techniques, and results. DARKROOM PRINTING Document your printing sessions with paper type, exposure settings, chemistry, and detailed notes for reproducing your best prints. PRO FEATURES - Spot metering, calibration and reading history for the built-in light meter (centre-weighted metering using your device camera is free) - Film stock presets for negative colour inversion (basic inversion is free) - PDF export with professional formatting - Cost analytics and advanced statistics - B&W contrast presets and manual colour adjustment for inverted negatives DATA & EXPORT - Full JSON backup and restore - CSV export for spreadsheets - Professional contact sheet PDFs (Pro) - Cloud backups you can restore on any device (requires a Silverlog Cloud subscription) Built for film photographers who care about their craft. Whether you shoot 35mm, medium format, or large format, Silverlog keeps your entire analogue workflow organised in one place. SUBSCRIPTIONS Silverlog Cloud and Cloud Unlimited are optional auto-renewing subscriptions, billed monthly or annually. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://silverlog.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://silverlog.app/privacy
Safelight Darkroom Timer
This app assists analog darkroom printers with exposure calculations, timed print workflows, and saving successful print setups. It features a darkroom-friendly timer with customizable themes and sound, an F-Stop Calculator for exposure adjustments, and the ability to save and manage print sessions.
- Darkroom-friendly timer with large controls
- F-Stop Calculator for exposure changes
- Save and manage print sessions
- Timed print process steps
- Customizable display themes and sounds
- Dodge & Burn planning (Pro)
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Safelight Darkroom Timer helps analog darkroom printers calculate exposure changes, run timed print workflows, and save the setup that worked. Use the darkroom-friendly timer for Focus, Expose, and Process timing with large controls, red/amber/green display themes, optional haptic feedback, completion sound, and keep-screen-on behavior when enabled. Turn one base exposure time into a stop-based table with the F-Stop Calculator. Use free 1/4 and 1/3 stop steps, send a result to the timer, or run a test strip one exposure at a time. Save print sessions with base exposure, stop step, paper, filter grade, developer, and notes so you can repeat or adjust your best darkroom prints later. Search, edit, delete, repeat, and use saved sessions from the Sessions screen. Use the Print Process Timer for expose, develop print, stop bath, fix, and optional wash steps. Manage darkroom metadata presets for paper, developer, and filter grades. Safelight Pro unlocks unlimited saved sessions, advanced stop steps, Dodge & Burn planning, memory banks, run plans, and CSV/Text export and sharing. Important: Safelight is a darkroom-friendly display and timing utility. It is not a flashlight, photo editor, AI app, lab ordering service, hardware enlarger controller, or guarantee that a phone screen is safe for every photographic paper or film. Always test your own paper and darkroom conditions. Privacy Policy: https://hearthmesa.com/apps/safelight/privacy Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://hearthmesa.com/apps/safelight/support
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Verdict
Silverlog and Safelight Darkroom Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Silverlog sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Safelight Darkroom Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Silverlog | Safelight Darkroom Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Westgate | Nhu Nam Vo |
In-app purchases
Silverlog
- Cloud Monthly$2.991 Month
- Cloud Unlimited Monthly$9.991 Month
- Cloud Annual$24.991 Year
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- Cloud Unlimited$79.991 Year
- SilverLog Pro$24.99
Safelight Darkroom Timer
- Safelight Pro3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Safelight Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
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