00 · Load

A Fonder film canister

The feeling of film, not just the look.

A film camera for iPhone that brings back limited frames, anticipation, and the joy of seeing a roll for the first time.

Load a roll

Why Fonder

Phone cameras became nearly perfect. Somewhere along the way, taking photos became less exciting.

Shoot. Check. Delete. Reshoot. Edit. Post.

Fonder slows that down. Pick a film, trust the frame, and keep living.

01 · Shoot

Pick a film. Then forget about it.

Load the look you want before the moment happens. Set it once. Then shoot.

Still mode opens on a recipe, with the white balance and exposure in the corners of the frame. Pick a recipe, or any of 42 films, then set it like a camera: white balance, dynamic range, grain, colour. Still and Roll.

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02 · Develop

See it when the roll is done.

Half the fun is not knowing.

Films fitted to real camera renders, not filters painted by eye. Halation, grain and the whole look are rendered on the iPhone, in the viewfinder and in the photo.

As shotDeveloped

Film Roll

Stop checking every photo.

Load 12, 24 or 36 exposures. Take the picture and move on. No deleting the bad ones. No taking twelve versions of the good ones. Finish your roll. Then see what you got.

03 · Prints

Two rolls, one afternoon.

Nothing important happened. That’s why you’ll be glad you photographed it.

Load a roll, shoot it blind, then develop it all at once — with a border and a date stamp if you like.

A developed roll, straight from Film Roll.

The recipes

What a recipe is

A film character plus the darkroom decisions around it. Every recipe Fonder ships, taken apart on one frame — and one scene developed through them all.

  • For nothing special.Ordinary Day 200
  • For days you'll miss in December.Summer Chrome
  • For staying out too late.Neon Night
Browse the recipes

The diary

Building Fonder in public

Notes from making the films, breaking things, fixing them, and trying to make an iPhone feel a little more like a camera again.

Read the development diary →

04 · Your roll is ready

No. 0001

There are photos you haven’t taken yet.

Fonder is coming to iPhone. Join the first group to load a roll.

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