Lightmeter: Pocket Film Camera

A real light meter when you carry film. A film camera when you don't. And now, a disposable.

The looks are built out of true RAW capture — grain, halation, and color that behave the way film behaves, rather than a filter sitting on top of a flat phone photo. Every look prints through the same engine, from a neutral negative, the way a lab prints a scan. The difference shows.

The LM-35 AF
A disposable camera, as a third mode beside the meter and the film camera. A roll of 12, 24, or 36 frames goes in, and it shoots blind: no preview, no thumbnails, a fixed 35mm lens, and a frame counter under a red index. A finished roll goes to the lab, and an hour later the prints land in Photos, each with its own accidents — an exposure wobble, flash falloff, soft corners, the odd light leak, and the orange date stamp if you want it. The body comes in black or yellow. A Lock Screen countdown, a lab widget, and a notification say when a roll is back.

A shelf of stocks
Color negative, slide, and black and white, each tuned to its own tonality, contrast, and grain. A few are ours alone. Stocks swap from the viewfinder in a tap, favorites stay marked, and the shelf filters down to color or mono.

Focal lengths that mean something
24, 35, and 48mm on any iPhone. 85mm and your phone's true telephoto on Pro. The row clicks as it slides.

In the hand
The shutter fires from the volume buttons or Camera Control, and a tap made while a frame is still exposing is taken, not dropped. RAW works at every focal length and on the front camera.

A darkroom, not a filter stack
Frames save to Photos with film, aperture, shutter, ISO, and focal length attached. Any frame reopens later onto a different stock, or gets cropped, straightened, inspected, or deleted — from the Lightmeter gallery or from Photos itself. Edits land in place, no duplicates, and the original is always one tap back. Several frames can be handled at once. Developed rolls sit in the gallery as a stack that spreads out.

On your Home Screen
Widgets carry the loaded film to the Home and Lock Screen. With Plus, one shows your latest frame, another opens the camera in a single tap, and one counts down the roll at the lab.

The meter
In meter mode Lightmeter reads reflected light for the camera already around your neck — ISO, spot readings, and clean shutter and aperture pairs.

Lightmeter Plus
The camera and the meter are free. Plus adds the LM-35 AF, the full film-look library, RAW capture where the device supports it with a 24 MP option on supported iPhones, darkroom borders, the camera, shutter, and lab widgets, and alternate app icons. Monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Eligible new subscribers get seven days free; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled.

Nothing you shoot leaves the phone
No account, no cloud, no upload, no ads, no tracking. Your photos, camera feed, and location stay on your iPhone. Apple and RevenueCat process limited purchase information only to run Lightmeter Plus.

New stocks and new features land often.

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