GrainLab Film Grain Editor

🇺🇸 United States
Marvin Krueger  | 
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4.9
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655
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App Age
1 year 1m
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Last Update
Oct 31, 2025
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iAP
$3.99 - 49.99

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4.85
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
655
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$24
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GrainLab Film Grain Editor
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Realistic Analog Filmgrain App
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For the first time on mobile you can now bring the authentic look and feel of analog film grain to your digital photos. GrainLab gives you nuanced, adjustable film grain controls that blows any image editor out of the water. In GrainLab you will craft authentic film grain with precise controls, from scratch or by starting with grain textures from scanned film plates by renowned film brands. Why film grain matters: Film grain can change the tone of your imagery. It can add a sense of nostalgia and history to your work. And in a time where the most used digital camera lenses produce photos that easily tend to look clinically clean, GrainLab is also the perfect solution for that. GrainLab in a nutshell: GrainLab simulates the organic size variations of silver halide crystals reacting to light, just like in traditional film development. But with powerful adjustment controls over the grain so you can produce beautifully natural results, within seconds. Core Features: GrainLab contains several grain texture presets from generative grains to famous film plate scans and multiple overlay modes. GrainLab really stands out by its unmatched control over the look and feel of your grain. You can even create halide crystal grain clusters, which is inherent to the process of analog photo development, making every develops photo completely unique. And last, but definitely not least, GrainLab Premium features a luminosity based curve editor to control exactly how your grain blends from Highlight to Shadow. Available for iPhone and iPad, it’s time to bring your images to life with the art of film grain. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/}
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Rating
4.9
655 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Shots By Scott
14 Sep, 2025
5
Love the app but now its saying I have to pay monthly when I was subscribed already. How can this get resolved?
正太已成怪蜀黍
21 Jul, 2025
5
An amazing app with great effects. It would be even more exciting if batch applying custom presets were possible.
Coolguy1981
12 Jun, 2025
5
Well, I haven’t used yet but i will input more reviews after using
MashaT22
11 Jun, 2025
5
This app has great potential to help people with black dogs, which are notoriously tough to capture without decent natural lighting. Even after trying to edit photos with black dogs with the stock iPhone editing tools or other 3rd party apps, they end up looking washed out, grainy, and/or unnatural. I have a black Labrador Retriever with dark brown to almost black looking eyes (most have light brown eyes that contrast their face a little) who has been my medically task trained service dog since 2017. I’m not a professional photographer by any means, but I’ve been an amateur photographer since film was still a thing and was early to the mobile photography scene having one of the first phones in the US to have a digital camera. Even with that experience, and having my boy for the last 8.5 years (and with now a little grey on his muzzle chin now being 10.5), it is still a matter of getting just the right conditions to capture beautiful images — and it’s not always possible to grab him with just the right lighting since he goes everywhere with me at all times of the day/night, both indoors and outdoors. I am hoping this app will turn out to be the solution to a very widespread issue. I’m not the only black dog owner with this issue. Go ask any owner of a black dog who likes to capture/edit their photos, and they’ll tell you the same thing. That said, I’d love to see a special dedicated guide within this app (or available on your website with a link in your app) for people with black dogs to learn how to effectively use the editing tools. I have to experiment a bit more with this app on my own, but some general guidance about how to edit these photos in a variety of lighting conditions and situations (ie: indoor/outdoor, portraits, action shots, pictures of the dog with other people, etc.) would be immensely appreciated and useful for someone like me, let alone people with even less photography experience than me. People love their dogs — if you can solve a problem and advertise it in forums for dog photography and dogs or with targeted ads, it might help generate more interest in this app. Hope this idea/feedback helps! I will continue to experiment with this app. (P.S. Thanks so much for the AppAdvice offer too!)
Diaappointed
11 Jun, 2025
4
The more I play with it the more fun I get- - nostalgic
CarlosBeltran
03 Jan, 2025
5
If you want *realistic* film grain, your search has ended! I’m a professional sports photographer (digital, of course), but I like to go back to my roots and shoot analog when time permits…which is becoming increasingly rare. So to get my film photography “fix,” I have more apps than I care to admit. I find that “RNI Films” does a great job of simulating different emulsions (especially Portra and Tri-X), but I’ve never found an app that did a convincing job with film grain…until now! I *love* the fact that it has highly accurate presets for different emulsions, but what makes it even better is the endless tweakability to take that starting point and customize it to your heart’s content. Kudos to the developer! I consider GrainLab a “must have” for film buffs.
theRuphio
03 Jan, 2025
5
I was honestly not expecting much as I use a lot of different film emulations and editing tools. However, the variety of grain adjustments and how detailed I can make the grain look is awesome. The app really surprised me and am happy to own it. I edit photos initially in my normal photo editor then take the selects into GrainLab to add grain. There’s quite a bit of film emulations to choose from as well as different ways to apply the layers. It took me some time to dial in a recipe that I liked but well worth the time spent to do so. Hope this review was helpful!
nistaani
26 Dec, 2024
5
Have been looking for an app to cover this process I go through regularly on desktop systems for re-graining. Fantastic app.
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26 Dec, 2024
5
I’ll come back with my review once I’ve used it more.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.85
Voted: 655
App Store Link:
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Categories: Graphics & Design, Photo & Video
Size: 587MB
iAP: 3.99 - 49.99 $
App Age: 1 year 1 month
Release Date: Nov 06, 2024
Last Update: Oct 31, 2025
Version: 2.4.0
Version history
2.4.0
Oct 31, 2025
- Added Leica Analog Grain - Other bugfixes Thanks a lot for using GrainLab! If you have problems or feedback, just drop us an email using info@mkgames.org. - best Marvin & David
2.3.1
Oct 10, 2025
- Fixed Share Sheet - Other bugfixes Thanks a lot for using GrainLab! If you have problems or feedback, just drop us an email using info@mkgames.org. - best Marvin & David
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