Afterlight is designed by a small, independent team of creatives & photographers who are deeply committed to creating authentic Presets, Effects, and Overlays, made by people who really use them.
• Introducing Afterlight Camera
Our all-new camera mode brings Afterlight’s signature looks into the viewfinder, with live filters and a seamless transition from shooting to editing. Explore exclusive RAW presets inspired by classic digital cameras, 35mm film, and medium-format photography, with selectable color profiles to shape your look.
• 300+ Film Inspired Presets
Add character to your photos with a wide selection of one-tap Film Presets inspired by real film photography. Our presets were created to emulate genuine film like Kodak Gold, Portra, Agfa Vista, and Disposable cameras. Combine Effects and Tools to create your own custom look as a Fusion Filter.
• Natural Film Effects
Apply unique film emulation techniques like Double Exposure, add the warm glow of Halation, shift RBG channels with Color Shift, and create chromatic aberration with Chroma.
• 100+ Real Overlays
Add fun finishing touches to your photos with our large selection of overlay textures. Experiment with genuine Light Leaks made with real 35mm film, Natural Dust textures, Vintage Paper and VHS effects.
• 30+ Advanced Editing Tools
Take full control of the Brightness, Contrast, Vibrance and Sharpening in your photos and add more detail with Structure, Glow, Grain, Curves, Clarify, Vignette and many more to explore.
• Frames + Borders
Before exporting your final edit, add a color border or apply an Instant Film frame and your own background image.
• We care about true privacy
We do not collect, store or share any of your data in any way. Your photos are always your photos.
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Editing photos doesn’t have to require laborious tinkering; Afterlight transforms them in an instant. It delivers powerful tools for adjusting exposure, contrast, saturation, and sharpness—while also offering RAW image support and dozens of filters, dust effects, and light leaks.
Wide selection of tools
This is bull ****
I love the wide selection of of tools and filters that are made available. One of my favorites is the selective saturation. What I like about this app that others don’t do is that when you make a change. For example, slide the sharpen button up to 100 (the max) it will save the change as kind of a new image and put the slider back to zero but keep the changes. This lets you go beyond the limits of the slider by just putting it to the maximum multiple timesI only gave it 4 stars because it does not truly support RAW editing. I mean, sure you can upload a RAW file but it will just turn it into a JPEG and let you edit from there. I would like this app to be able to take advantage of all the data stored in the RAW files so that we can make adjustments without having as much noise or distortion. I know this takes lots of processing power but I believe newer phone like the iPhone 10 and 8 have what it takes. I understand that this would be difficult and most people probably won’t use this feature but I would happily pay another $20 for this feature if it was made as an add on (just please don’t make it a subscription). I would like to see a burning and dodging tool as well (darkening and brightening in specific areas). Also can you add a layers system (kind of like photoshop) that way when we want to get rid of a change we don’t have to get rid of all the changes that came after it?Thank you for your time. I hope you take these thoughts into consideration for the future.
The same longstanding problems
PhelineCat
I’ve had Afterlight forever, but it needs improvement. I use the filters less than other things but when I do, I'm reasonably satisfied. I use touch editing constantly because it's a relatively straightforward way to fix isolated too-dark or too-bright areas. I use the gradations in bursts. Dust, textures, and sometimes light leaks work well with images that look good with gradations. Now for the problems: The frames are great, but I don't understand why there isn't a color picker. Text and stickers have the same shortcomings but there’s a bigger problem - there have been NO new stickers since the app was released. Why? The UI is better than most and I’m a fan of the tasteful flowers, butterflies, and other nature-based images but I'd like to see some new ones. I’m glad you added background textures but the options are limited. I just noticed that there’s a double exposure feature now but I've only tried it once with simple photos. I wasn't crazy about not being able to adjust the second photo once I'd dropped it on the first. I used to use Afterlight to add text and annotations but have been using Markup instead. Sure, it's limited but it works well for basic fonts. When I wanted a bit more font choice I remembered the 2 areas that need improvement. One is the lack of color picker and the other is the strange way to adjust font size. It was manageable when I used it regularly but I was frustrated with it since I’ve been using Markup which is uncomplicated. I eventually gave up on the text placement after too much frustration.
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PamelaKing255
I just downloaded the app. I gave it a 4 because I haven’t used it enough for a 5. But so far it’s been very intuitive, easy, fast, and very effective! I’ve tried 3 photos so far and each time I go back into the app I discover more cool tools and filters. Love the overlays very cool. I’ve been working on a friend’s favorite photo of her and her husband. It’s an older one so it’s a picture of the photo. Those are tough! But I was able to pull some color out and add where it needed to go. Example; they had black pants and shirts but in editing before I got this app I couldn’t get the blue out. But afterlight pulled the blue right out easily! Then I just pulled the black back in quick and easy! Yeah! The other thing was they had been in the sun with sunglasses that day so they had tan faces but with the white raccoon eyes! I hadn’t been able to get their skin color to even out. With afterlight 2 it faded right away! Beautiful! So thank you to the Afterlight 2 developer and team! I don’t mind paying for an app when it works and especially thank you for not having to have a subscription! Or a monthly charge! Last but not least I’m very happy that you don’t have to pay more to unlock each filter pack to get the good ones! I love it and I a have used a lot of photo editing apps! Haven’t used the camera yet. But after I do and get some more time in to become more familiar with all the tools, effects,lighting, and filters I will write another review and I have high hope to give it a 5! Thanks for the cool app and attention to detail but keeping it simple! Pam King
Update 6.0.2:
• Camera Preset Recipes: View the Preset used, White Balance, Exposure and other settings recorded in the Camera Gallery and share a photo with its recipe included.
• Aperture controls: Adjust aperture directly from the viewfinder on the iPhone 18.
• Bug fixes: Fixed an issue that could prevent selecting blend modes and other improvements.
Afterlight 6.0 brings new ways to capture, edit, and create.
• Introducing Afterlight Camera - Our all-new camera mode brings Afterlight’s signature looks into the viewfinder, with live filters and a seamless transition from shooting to editing. Explore dedicated RAW presets inspired by classic digital cameras, 35mm film, and medium-format photography, with selectable color profiles to shape your look.
• Halation effect reworked to bring a more natural film-inspired glow to bright edge highlights, adding warmth and atmosphere to your photos.
• Improved Grain Textures bring richer film character to your edits while preserving their natural proportions across photo sizes.
• Added Camera Control support for quick access to capturing photos directly with the Camera Control button or the Lock Screen.
• Light Mode Improvements for a more consistent experience.
• Redesigned Home Gallery makes browsing your photos and albums easier, now with convenient access to Camera and Settings.
• A new Settings layout for easier access to update preferences, and backup or restore Fusions.
• Bug fixes and overall UX improvements.
Thank you for creating with Afterlight!
Version 6.0.2
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