Terms of Use

The short version

• Use Fotufilm on devices you own or control, for anything you like, personal or commercial.
• Everything it renders is yours. So is any film pack you fit yourself.
• Follow the separate licences for the engine code and film profiles.
• Film stock names identify what a simulation models. We are not affiliated with any film manufacturer.
• Your images stay on your device. The direct Mac build contacts the licensing service — see the privacy policy.

The rest of this page is the same thing said carefully. Where the two differ, the careful version governs.

Which licence covers your copy

Fotufilm reaches you one of two ways, and each carries its own end-user licence for the software itself.

• From a platform's store. A build you install from the App Store is licensed under that store's standard end-user licence — for Apple, the Licensed Application End User License Agreement.
• Downloaded directly from us. A build you download from MUAStudio Inc. uses Apache-2.0 for the engine, Mac app, and plugins. Film profiles have separate terms on the Fotufilm software and film pack licences.

This page sits alongside whichever of those applies to your copy. It governs your use of this website, and it states the positions — on your images, on the film packs, on trademarks — that hold across every build. Where a store's licence and this page conflict about the software, the store's licence wins for that copy.

What you may do

• Install and use the app on devices you own or control, for any purpose, personal or commercial.
• Use everything it renders — publish it, sell it, license it on. No attribution to us is required and none is expected.
• Author your own film packs with the custom-film tools, keep them, and use them however you want.

Restrictions for store builds and film profiles

The restrictions below do not limit rights granted by Apache-2.0 or the Starter profiles’ CC BY-ND 4.0 licence. Those separate licences control the files they cover.

• Redistribute, sell, rent, sublicense or host the app or any part of it.
• Extract, convert or redistribute the film packs that ship with the app, or the calibration data inside them. They are licensed for use within the app and nowhere else.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except so far as applicable law permits it despite this term.
• Remove or alter copyright, trademark or other notices.
• Use the app to develop images you have no right to use, or for anything unlawful.

The first two are the ones that matter to us. The calibrated film packs are the part of Fotufilm that took the longest to make.

Your photographs and video

They stay yours. Fotufilm claims no rights in anything you open, develop or save, and it acquires no licence to your work — which follows from how it is built as much as from what we promise: image processing is local and nothing you develop is sent to the licensing service. The privacy policy covers that in full.

The other side of it is yours too: you are responsible for having the right to the images you put through the app, and for what you do with the results.

Film packs

The app reads film stocks as packs rather than compiled-in constants, and two quite different kinds of pack end up in the same list.

Packs you author

A pack you fit yourself is your work and your property. Nothing here claims any interest in it, and nothing restricts what you do with numbers you derived — keep them, share them, sell them.

Packs that ship with the app

The calibrated packs bundled with Fotufilm are ours, and your licence is to use them inside the app. They are not licensed as data: extracting the packs, or the calibration in them, is not permitted unless a separate pack licence allows it.

Starter pack

The released Gold 200, Tri-X 400, and Provia 100F Starter profiles use CC BY-ND 4.0. Their Starter notice and licence govern those files. Application restrictions and termination do not limit rights granted by that separate licence. Using these profiles does not require attribution on rendered photographs or videos. The Mac app and plugins need no activation.

Included film catalogue

You may use the film profiles for personal and commercial photo and video work under the stock licence.

The $5 monthly plan renews automatically. Cancel anytime through Manage subscription in your pack account. Updates end with the paid period; downloaded packs keep working offline. The $50 one-time purchase keeps access to the version bought. Earlier buyers keep their original access.

Digital pack sales are final and non-refundable, except where required by law. Earlier purchases retain the terms supplied at purchase. Refunding a pack ends its download access and permission to use its Advanced profiles. Apache-2.0 code and Starter profile rights continue. See the refund FAQ.

Fotufilm Pro for iPhone and iPad

Fotufilm is free to download and works as a film camera without paying anything: still development on three built-in films — Gold 200, Tri-X 400 and Astia 100F, one colour negative, one black-and-white and one reversal.

Fotufilm Pro is a single one-time purchase that opens the rest: the full film catalogue, video development, the Lab controls, custom film authoring, the lens filter deck, RAW capture, and developing raw files from other cameras. It is a non-consumable purchase. There is no subscription, nothing renews, and no part of the app is rented to you.

• Price. Shown by the App Store at the time of purchase, in your own currency. That listing is the price; this page does not restate it.
• Restoring. The unlock follows your Apple Account, so it restores on your other devices and on a reinstall. The app has a Restore Purchases control for when it needs asking for directly.
• Family Sharing. The purchase is enabled for Family Sharing, on Apple's terms for it.
• Refunds. Apple sells the unlock and handles refunds under its own policy. Write to us anyway if something is wrong — we would rather fix it.

What the purchase opens can grow: films are added to the catalogue as they are calibrated, and they arrive in the unlock you already own. We may change what a future release offers, but we will not move a feature out of the unlock you paid for and back behind a second purchase.

Trademarks and film stock names

"Fotufilm" and "MUA Studio" are marks of MUAStudio Inc. They, their logos and the branding on this site identify official builds, and nothing here grants a licence to use them.

Film stock and manufacturer names in the app and on this site are trademarks of their respective owners, used to identify the material a simulation models and for no other reason. Fotufilm is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any film manufacturer. No manufacturer logos or trade dress are used, and no manufacturer's own publications are redistributed.

Apple, the Apple logo and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions.

Third-party components

The app builds on third-party image-processing and numerical libraries under their own permissive licences. They are listed with those licences in the third-party notices and in the app's acknowledgements screen. Nothing on this page changes their terms.

This website

fotufilm.com runs no analytics. The account and license portal uses the browser storage required for account access — see the privacy policy for details.

Its text, images and sample renders are Copyright © 2026 MUAStudio Inc., and are published for reading, linking and quoting with attribution. Republishing the pages wholesale, or reusing the sample images as your own work, is not covered. Link to us freely; the pages are meant to be linked to.

Apple's part in this

For a build installed from the App Store, these terms are between you and MUAStudio Inc. Apple is not a party to them, is not responsible for the app, and has no obligation to provide support for it — support@fotufilm.com is where support comes from.

Changes

The app changes as it is developed: features are added, and occasionally one is reworked or retired. If we change these terms we will move the date at the top of this page, so that date always tells you which version you are reading. Continuing to use Fotufilm after a change means you accept the revised terms; if you do not, stop using the app.

Warranty

Fotufilm is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. It models photographic film as accurately as we can make it, and we say a good deal on this site about how accurately that is — but none of that is a warranty that any particular result will match any particular real film, or that the app will run without fault on every device.

Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MUAStudio Inc. is not liable for any claim or damages arising from the app or its use, including lost work or lost images. Keep your originals: the app develops a copy and leaves the source alone, which is the habit that makes this clause academic.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, and where they don't, they apply to the fullest extent they can. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and none of it affects consumer rights you have under the law of the place you live.

Termination

Your licence ends automatically if you breach it. On termination, stop using the app and delete it. The terms that by their nature survive — the film pack restrictions, the trademark position, the warranty disclaimer, the liability limits and the governing law — survive.

Governing law

MUAStudio Inc. is incorporated in Canada and operates from Waterloo, Ontario. These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and a dispute about them is heard in the courts of Ontario sitting in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo.

That is where we are, not a way of putting a dispute out of your reach. Nothing in this section takes away a mandatory consumer protection right, or the right to bring a claim in the courts of the place you live, where the law of that place gives you one. For a build installed from the App Store, the store's own licence governs the software and says where its disputes are heard; this section covers these terms and this website.

The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply. The parties have asked that these terms be drawn up in English — les parties ont demandé que ce texte soit rédigé en anglais.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or about anything on this page, go to support@fotufilm.com and a person will answer them.