Phocus
Film recipes that live in your iPhone viewfinder
Phocus launched on June 11, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Phocus brings Fujifilm-style film recipes straight to your iPhone camera. Pick a look, see it live in the viewfinder, and shoot — the recipe is baked in before the shutter, no editing after. Curated recipes plus your own, no computer needed.
A recipe is a film stock plus the settings it was shot with. Phocus applies the whole of it live in the viewfinder, so the shot leaves the camera already graded.
That is a recipe. Phocus applies the whole of it live in the viewfinder — the colour, the grain, the tone trims, the white balance — so the shot leaves the camera already graded. Same idea as a Fuji recipe: the stock sets the base, the settings take it somewhere specific, and the sample shots tell you whether you want it before you open the camera. A colour lookup table — every input colour mapped to a graded one. Phocus reads them as square HALD images, so your own grades work exactly like the ones we publish. Grain, shadow and highlight trims, a colour trim, and a white balance shifted in red and blue. A recipe carries all of them, not just the colour. Photos actually taken with it.…from phocus.freethinkel.dev
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