Film Recipes

Film Recipes: Color Cards · Android

Colour settings on a card you can pass around.

A recipe is a short list of camera-style colour settings: base tone, grain, white balance, dynamic range, highlight and shadow. Film Recipes keeps them as cards. Try one on your own photo, put it on a whole batch at full resolution, and share it as a QR card, a link or a few lines of text.

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  • 16 recipes, 8 free
  • No ads
  • No watermark
  • No account
  • Photos stay on your phone

Recipe card · free

Saigon Noon

Base tone
Amber
Grain
Weak, Small
Tone depth
Strong
Blue depth
Weak
WB
Daylight, R+2 B-3
DR
400
Highlight
-1
Shadow
+1
Color
+2
Sharpness
-1
Clarity
0
Exposure
+1/3
Film Recipesfilmode-recipes.web.app

How it works

Everything happens on your phone. There's nothing to sign up for, and your photos are never uploaded.

01

Pick a card

Every recipe renders on the same preview photo, so you can compare them side by side. Use one of the sample photos or one of your own, and hold the preview to see the original.

02

Make it yours

Change any setting the way you would in a camera menu, then save it as your own recipe. The free version keeps five of your own; Pro keeps as many as you like.

03

Apply to photos

Choose up to 5 photos at a time (100 with Pro). Each one is made at full resolution and saved as a new picture in Pictures / Film Recipes, keeping its capture date. Your originals are never changed.

04

Share a card

Every recipe becomes a card with a QR code, a link, or a few lines of plain text for a chat or a blog post. No watermark on anything you make.

05

Add a friend's recipe

Scan a card's QR code with Google's own scanner (the app never asks for your camera), open a recipe link, or paste recipe text copied from anywhere.

06

Bring your own LUT

Import a .cube file and build recipes on it. With Pro, export any recipe as a .cube for video and desktop editors.

Sixteen cards in the box

Eight are free for good. Pro adds the other eight. You can preview every Pro recipe and read all of its settings before you decide.

  • Saigon Noon
  • Hanoi Winter
  • Harbor Blue Hour
  • Paper Lantern
  • Monsoon Street
  • Ink & Rain
  • Morning Market
  • Pastel Balcony
  • Dalat Pine Fog
  • Night Ferry
  • Tea House
  • Coastal Road
  • Old Quarter
  • Silver Afternoon
  • Rooftop Summer
  • Rainy Tram

Twelve base tones sit under the recipes: Clear, Vivid, Soft, Harbor, Amber, Street, Push, Pastel, Bleach, Lagoon, and two in black and white, Ink and Tea.

A recipe is just text

Share a recipe as text and it reads like this. Paste text like it into Film Recipes and the app reads it back, including the way recipe blogs and forums usually write their settings.

Monsoon Street
Base tone: Street
Grain: Strong, Small
Tone depth: Strong
Blue depth: Weak
WB: Cloudy, R0 B-1
DR: 400
Highlight: 0
Shadow: +2
Color: -1
Sharpness: +1
Clarity: +2
Exposure: -1/3
Vignette: Weak
https://filmode-recipes.web.app/r#1.BjIKNwkIAgQIAwUHBfY&n=Monsoon%20Street

The link at the end carries the whole recipe after the #. Open it on a phone with the app and the recipe opens there; open it anywhere else and this website shows the card, read in your browser. The part after the # is never sent to our server.

Free, and Pro

The free version has no time limit, no ads and no watermark. Pro is for people who make a lot of photos or a lot of recipes.

Free

Always

  • 8 recipes
  • 5 recipes of your own
  • 5 photos per batch, full resolution
  • Share and add recipes by QR code, link or text
  • .cube import

Film Recipes Pro

Monthly, yearly, or once for good

  • All 16 recipes
  • Unlimited recipes of your own
  • 100 photos per batch
  • Export any recipe as .cube

Prices are shown in the app, in your currency, straight from Google Play. Subscriptions renew until you cancel in Google Play; the lifetime option is a single payment. A free trial may be offered on the yearly plan.

Private by design

Photos stay on the phone

Previews and full-resolution photos are made on your phone. No photo is ever uploaded, and the app has no permission to browse your gallery: you pick photos with Android's photo picker.

No account, no ads

No sign-in, no ad SDK and no advertising ID. Purchases go through Google Play.

Reports you can switch off

Anonymous usage counts and crash reports help fix problems. They never include your photos or your recipes, and one switch in Settings turns them off.

The details, every permission and every event, are in the privacy policy.