Mellow Film vs second.lux
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mellow Film
This app offers a collection of vintage film effects and tools to enhance your photos. Create custom looks with detailed adjustments, add classic date stamps, and experience analog camera controls. Analyze your editing style with an intelligent gallery.
- Exceptional film stock LUTs
- Custom film preset creation
- Classic date stamp overlay
- Intuitive analog camera controls
- Intelligent gallery with metadata
- Precision manual editing tools
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Make life look like film. Mellow Film brings cinematic color and film texture to everyday photos and videos. Choose a look, make it yours, and keep the moments that matter. 16 ORIGINAL LOOKS Explore Film, DigiCam, Cinema and Mono. Preview each look on your camera image and find your favorite mood. YOUR COLOR. YOUR WAY. Fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, tint, grain, fade and vignette. Save your adjustments as film presets to return to your favorite look. FILM COLOR IN MOTION Record videos with your selected look and color adjustments. Grain and vignette carry through to saved videos. Switch between photo and video while keeping your shooting settings. FROM A PHOTO TO A KEEPSAKE Edit photos in your gallery and finish them with print, instant-photo or stamp frames. Adjust the paper color, margins and postmark details to suit the moment. A VINTAGE FINISH Add an orange date stamp to your photos and adjust its size and position. Use the zoom dial, exposure controls and shutter feedback as you shoot. KEEP YOUR MOMENTS CLOSE Browse photos and videos together. Zoom into photos, revisit your filter settings, and play, seek or share videos from the gallery. See photos made with Mellow Film on Instagram @mellowfilmcamera.
second.lux
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second.lux is a camera and photo development app for iPhone. Shape the color and tone of your photos using a process modeled on film and photographic printing. Adjust lens filters, halation, and grain to change the look and feel of your photos. Shoot DNG RAW photos using the Fast RAW Finder. On devices that support Apple Log, you can also choose Live Development Preview to preview the developed image as you shoot. You can also import photos and RAW images from your photo library for development. Save and share your finished photos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mellow Film at every 5 days against second.lux's every 2 weeks. Mellow Film also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Mellow Film ships an update every 5 days, second.lux every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Mellow Film | second.lux |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JONGHYUN KIM | Kotaro Iwata |
In-app purchases
Mellow Film
No in-app purchases
second.lux
No in-app purchases
