afterglow

Your pocket photobooth · Made for iPhone

Good moments.
Keep them.

A little grain. A warm glow. Turn the photos you love into strips you’d tuck into a book.

Meet your film collection

Coming to the App Store. iPhone · iOS 18 or later.

Afterglow’s iPhone Studio showing nostalgic photo strips

Less perfect. More personal.

Little strips.
Big feelings.

Keep the ordinary bits: a weekend with friends, the last light of a good day, the blurry photo you wouldn’t change.

Sample photography is AI-generated. Your photos are developed with local film effects, with no AI uploads or face alterations.

01

Choose your moments.

Pick photos from your camera roll, take a photo, or try the samples first.

02

Find your feeling.

Choose a film, dial in the grain, add a caption and a date. Classic cream paper is always free.

03

Make it a keeper.

Save a full-resolution strip to Photos, share it, or keep a copy in your private Memories collection.

The film collection

A look for
every little life.

From Honey’s warm gold to Cove’s cool coast and Mono’s soft monochrome. Every film has its own color and tone, with intensity you can adjust.

9FREE FILMS
3PLUS FILMS

Honey · Rose · Dune · Olive · Cove · Amber · Peach · Mist · Mono
Plus: Faded · Silver · Noir

All twelve Afterglow film looks applied to the same sample photo; Faded, Silver and Noir are marked Plus

Made on your iPhone

Yours to keep.
Yours to share.

Photo editing works offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, and no photo uploads to us. Apple handles purchases when you choose to upgrade.

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Memories are stored locally. Your device backup settings apply.

A little extra, once.

Afterglow Plus

One optional purchase. No subscription.

  • Faded, Silver and Noir premium films
  • Ink paper for a darker mood
  • Two- and four-frame layouts
  • Warm light leaks

Nine free films, three-frame cream strips, captions, dates, grain and unlimited saving and sharing stay free. See your local Plus price in the app.

How Plus and restore work →