Helio Black&White Film Camera
ROMAN GUSHEL Photo & Video iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Helio Black&White Film Camera is a free Photo & Video app for iPhone and iPad by ROMAN GUSHEL. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- May 1
- 2026 · v1.4
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About Helio Black&White Film Camera
Helio is a black & white camera app built for photographers who love the look and feel of real film. FIVE FILM-INSPIRED STYLES Choose from five distinct B&W looks — Pure for classic monochrome, Hard Contrast for punchy zone-adaptive tones, Reportage 400 for a documentary feel, Nocturne 3200 for high-speed pushed grain, and Chroma 400 for smooth chromogenic mono. Each style is driven by an on-device neural model trained to reproduce the tonal signature of its namesake. REAL FILM GRAIN, NOT FILTERS Helio uses on-device machine learning to generate authentic film grain — not overlaid textures or simple noise. Pick a grain preset (Fine, Medium, Heavy) or switch to Custom mode to fine-tune size, contrast, and per-zone tonal response (shadows, midtones, highlights) until the look is exactly yours. UNIFIED STYLE PICKER Style and grain controls live in a single sheet with visual previews of every option, so you can compare looks at a glance and dial in your shot in seconds — without leaving the viewfinder behind. WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Every style, grain texture, and adjustment is rendered live in the viewfinder. The photo you capture is exactly what you see on screen — no surprises, no post-processing tricks. HIGH-RESOLUTION CAPTURE Shoot at up to 48MP with optional Apple ProRAW support. Helio takes full advantage of your iPhone's camera hardware. PRIVACY FIRST No accounts. No cloud uploads. No analytics. All ML processing happens entirely on your device. Your photos stay yours. Requires iPhone 13 or later for optimal performance.
What’s new
Version 1.4 · Updated May 1, 2026
Helio's style engine now ships with five distinct B&W looks — Pure, Hard Contrast, Reportage 400, Nocturne 3200, and Chroma 400 — each driven by zone-adaptive ML models for richer tones and authentic grain. The camera also gets a redesigned Style picker that combines look selection and grain controls into one screen, with visual previews of each grain texture and an optional Custom mode for fine-tuned size, contrast, and tonal response.
App privacy
The developer, ROMAN GUSHEL, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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