Simply B&W
James Moore Photo & Video iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Simply B&W is a paid Photo & Video app for iPhone and iPad by James Moore. Rated 3.8/5 from 28 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 23, 2026.
- Rating
- 3.8
- 28 ratings
- Price
- 3.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 23
- 2026 · v4.0
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About Simply B&W
Simply B&W is an easy, focused way to explore monochrome on iPhone. Start with tone, brightness and contrast, then go further with photographic filters, grain, optical effects and selective focus. FIND THE BLACK & WHITE WITHIN Black and white is about more than taking the color away. Simply B&W lets you change how the colors in your photograph translate into shades of grey. Red filters can turn a blue sky dark and dramatic. Yellow filters brings out clouds more gently. Green changes the balance of foliage and skin. Orange falls somewhere in between. They work like the familiar color filters used by black and white photographers, but applied to the photograph you’ve already made. There’s infrared too, for luminous foliage and dark skies, and a polariser effect for deeper skies and stronger definition. GIVE IT CHARACTER Not every photograph needs to be perfectly sharp. Toy adds the soft corners, swirl and gentle vignette of a plastic lens, with a sharp area you can position anywhere in the frame. Prism fractures and repeats your subject, inspired by the faceted filters of the seventies. Bokeh uses Portrait depth information to soften backgrounds and draw attention to your subject. Out-of-focus highlights can bloom into luminous, softly edged bubbles, creating the dreamy optical character of classic vintage lenses. THE FEEL OF FILM Add grain from the almost invisible texture of ISO 25 to the gritty character of ISO 3200. Shape the finished photograph with exposure, brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights and vignette. Everything is controlled from one set of dials, right under your thumb. Choose what you want to change on the outer ring, then turn the inner one to adjust it. The controls stay out of the way. Your photograph fills the screen. MADE FOR YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS Simply B&W works with JPEG, HEIC and RAW photographs from your library. With RAW files, it develops the original image data rather than using the embedded preview. Save your finished photograph as JPEG, HEIC or lossless TIFF, with EXIF, IPTC and location details preserved. Find a look you love and it stays with you, photograph after photograph. Everything happens on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded. No account. No subscription. Simply Photography. Simply B&W.
Ratings & reviews
3.8
28 ratings
What’s new
Version 4.0 · Updated October 23, 2026
Simply B&W has had a big update, with much of the app rebuilt from the ground up with a new experience dedicated to iPhone Duo. A new set of dials puts everything under your thumb while your photograph fills the screen. Pinch to zoom in and take a closer look at your work. Bokeh softens the background of Portrait photographs. Prism repeats and fractures the image across the frame. Toy adds soft corners, swirl and vignette, with a sharp spot you position yourself. Exposure joins the tone controls, and film grain now runs from the fine texture of ISO 25 to the grit of ISO 3200. Simply B&W now works directly with RAW image data rather than the embedded preview, preserving much more of the original photograph. Export your finished image as JPEG, HEIC or lossless TIFF, straight to your photo library, with EXIF and location information preserved.
App privacy
The developer, James Moore, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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