About
Every other retro camera app shows you the picture the moment you take it. Printroll makes you wait, and then hands the whole night back at once. You load a roll into one of four cameras, shoot its frames with a mechanical counter and no preview, and when the counter reaches E you drop the roll at the lab. It comes back as a kraft envelope you tear open: the prints with their white borders and frame numbers, and on top of them the index print, every frame of the roll as a numbered thumbnail on one sheet with the lab's orange edge printing. That sheet exports as a single image, so a whole night posts as one picture instead of twenty. The four cameras are four different pieces of physics, not four filters over the same one. CCD 04 is a pocket digital from 2004: a cool white balance, blooming highlights, the vertical smear a sensor gives when a bright light overflows its column, and the soft eight by eight blocks of a small file, with an optional date burned into the corner. Flash 27 is a cardboard camera with one flash and no choices: warm colour, lifted blacks, coarse grain, an orange halo around every bulb, and a light leak on the first and last frame of the roll, where the film met daylight. Half 72 puts two exposures side by side on one print with the film rebate between them and gives you seventy two frames. Booth 4 is the four cut strip: a countdown takes four frames in one go and prints them down a paper strip with a caption underneath. The lab is a fixed recipe, so a roll always develops into the same prints, and every envelope stays on the shelf to be reopened. Photographs you already have can be added to a roll, so a night shot on the phone's own camera comes back the same way. Bought once, with no in app purchases, no account, no server and no analytics: the app makes no network requests at all and every picture stays on the iPhone. The four cameras and the laboratory are invented; no real camera, film stock or brand is imitated.
Features
- Four invented cameras, each a different look: a 2004 digicam, a disposable, a half frame and a photobooth
- A roll with a fixed number of exposures, a mechanical counter and no preview until the lab is done
- The index print: every frame of the roll numbered on one sheet, exported as a single image
- An envelope you tear open, with the prints fanned out inside it
- Develop the roll now, or leave it until nine the next morning
- Export any print bordered, borderless or on a matte paper tone
- Add photographs you already have to a roll, through the system picker
- Bought once, works offline, no account, no advertising, nothing further to buy