About Lumen

What Lumen Darkroom is, what it costs, and what it runs on.

About Lumen Darkroom

Lumen Darkroom

A darkroom for your photographs on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPhone Duo, where every change can be undone and the original is never touched.

  • Reversible .lumen documents
  • Extended-range Display P3
  • Film looks and LUTs
  • Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPhone Duo
Start with the basics
Lumen with a film look applied to a red car

Lumen is a darkroom for the photographs you care about, on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPhone Duo. Adjust light and tone curves, apply film looks, lift subjects cleanly from backgrounds, and paint selective masks in reversible layers. Your original photograph stays untouched, and nothing ever leaves your device.

01

Tone on one curve

Black, shadows, midtones, highlights, and white sit as handles on a single ribbon, with Curves, Colour, and Detail one tab away.

The Lumen Curves ribbon
02

Film looks with a number key

Colour and black-and-white looks apply with the keys 1 to 9, and Clear takes them off again. Import your own LUTs beside them.

The Lumen Film ribbon
03

Layers, masks, and a tool wheel

Stack reversible layers, find the subject with a local Vision mask, and reach every tool from the wheel with a single key.

The Lumen tool wheel
04

Atelier, a colouring studio

Choose a page from the collections and colour it with the same calm tools, one sitting at a time.

A Lumen Atelier collection
Price
$19.99, paid once
Runs on
iOS, iPadOS, macOS, iPhone Duo
Requirements
macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and iPhone Duo. Edits stay on your device.
Latest release
1.1.929 September 2026

Bought once. Yours to keep.

No subscription and no account. Questions before or after you buy go to a person at the studio.