EmulLab
Made for the life of a roll

Film scanning,
conversion & editing.
All in one place.

From the first camera scan to the finished roll. A standalone Mac app for film photographers, with your files right where they belong.

Download the Public BetaSee what it does

FreemacOS 14+ on Apple siliconVersion 1.0: November 17, 2026

The Edit screen with a Before/After split: the orange color negative on the left, the converted photograph of a beach with closed umbrellas and empty loungers on the right, with the conversion and tone controls in the right panel
Edit · Before / AfterA Kodak Ektar 100 negative, camera-scanned and converted. Screenshot from a pre-release build.
Free desktop app Processed on your Mac No plugin required No subscription, no account
One roll. One workflow.

Less moving files.
More making photographs.

Capture, convert, edit, organize and export without passing your negatives from one application to the next.

  1. 01 / Capture

    Bring in your frames.

    Trigger a camera over USB, watch a folder, or open a folder of scans.

  2. 02 / Convert

    Find the positive.

    Color and B&W negatives, slides and lab scans, with roll analysis for consistency.

  3. 03 / Edit

    Make it your own.

    Crop and straighten, tone and color, Lab Looks, and dust healing.

  4. 04 / Organize

    Keep the roll together.

    Ratings, labels, tags, Projects, Smart Folders and search.

  5. 05 / Export

    Take it from here.

    TIFF, JPEG, PNG or a contact sheet. Your originals stay untouched.

Explore the features
Built around the negative

A new look at
an old memory.

Start with a camera-scanned negative. The film base is read from the border, and a whole roll can be analyzed together so its frames match.

The scan file is never changed. Every adjustment lives in the local catalog.

How a negative is converted
The Edit screen with a Before/After split of a black and white negative of a round tower block above a river
B&W · Before / AfterAn Ilford HP5 Plus negative.
An analog workflow, thoughtfully digital

Everything a good
roll deserves.

Think in rolls.

Analyze related frames together and sync settings across the roll. Find any frame again with Projects, Smart Folders and search.

Keep the character.

Curves, HSL, color grading, grain and Lab Looks named after film stocks give you a starting point and room to make the image your own.

Clean up dust.

Heal a speck with a click or a hair with a stroke. Find Likely Dust marks specks for you to check before anything is healed.

The Edit screen showing a slide of a yellow building with a round window, with the Color panel and Lab Looks thumbnails open
Slides · Lab LooksA Kodak Ektachrome E100 slide with the Color panel and Lab Looks.
The Library showing a roll of nine frames as a grid: black and white city buildings, a color beach scene, slides of Caribbean buildings and a night street, with frame details on the right
LibraryA roll of black and white, color and slide frames.
The way it should be

Your photos.
Your files.
Your computer.

Your photographs don’t need a cloud account. Conversion and editing happen on your Mac, and your original files stay untouched.

The desktop app is free. No trial countdown. No subscription. No account required.

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A little less software. A lot more film.

Your next roll
starts here.

Public Beta on October 9, 2026. Version 1.0 on November 17, 2026. Free to use, from the first frame to the final export. Once installed, new versions arrive inside the app.

Download the beta