Patina is a premium retro film studio for iPhone — 52 hand-graded looks with real chemistry, film rolls you shoot blind and develop in batch, and rituals worth slowing down for.
Every look is built like a film stock — an ASC-CDL grade, an S-curve, split-toning, then grain, halation, light leaks and vignette tuned per stock. From clean editorial to blown-out VHS, nothing screams "filter."
Distinct, committed grades — the kind you keep coming back to.
What you see is what you shoot — full pipeline on the viewfinder.
Intensity, grain, halation, vignette — dial each one in.
Soft-light film grain that breathes, not a noise overlay slapped on top.
Highlight bloom and warm leaks baked into the look, on by default where it belongs.
One stock, a fixed number of exposures, no preview and no retakes. Your prints stay latent until you use the last frame — or leave them overnight in the darkroom. Then the whole roll develops at once, in a ceremony worth watching.
A real advancing film strip — frames fill as you shoot.
The anticipation is the point. No chimping.
Prints spill onto the table and develop before your eyes.
VHS colour and CRT scanlines — shown live on the viewfinder, and baked into the recording.
Shake-to-develop a polaroid; it even prints in your Dynamic Island.
Patina isn't a camera roll — it's a keepsake. Seal a moment in a capsule, bind your shots into a book, and find them again on a map of where they happened.
Wax-stamped shut and locked on-device. Patina reminds you when it's ready to open.
A page-flipping scrapbook of your favourite frames.
Your polaroids pinned to the places they were taken.
Even deletion is a ritual — photos catch, char, and rise away.
Type "faded summer, soft halation" and Patina builds an editable film recipe — then auto-fixes, refines, or matches the grade of any photo you love. It writes the captions for your Memory Book and seals your capsules, too.
Prompt → an editable, reusable look.
One tap to balance, then nudge it your way.
Steal the grade from any reference shot.
From warm bone to OLED midnight — and a Pantone-yellow signage mode that turns the app into a different camera entirely.
