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Darkslide
A film camera for iPhone. What you see is what you save.
What it is
Darkslide is a film camera for iPhone: 19 film looks rendered at the camera's full resolution, seven-segment date stamps, short clips with the same look, and a vault that keeps every negative so any shot can be reprinted with another film.
Why it needed to exist
Film-look apps tend to preview one image and save another, throw the original away, or pay for themselves with ads and tracking. Darkslide was built to do none of that.
What Idealink did
Idealink designed and built the app — the film looks, the negative vault and free reprints, date stamps and clips, Darkslide Pro — and submitted it to the App Store in September 2026.
- Status
- In App Store review
- Relationship
- Shipped by Idealink
- Industry
- Photography
- Period
- 2026
- Platform
- iOS
- Idealink role
- Concept, product design, iOS engineering, film rendering, App Store release
Thesis
A camera should keep its promises: the viewfinder shows exactly what gets saved, every original is kept, and nothing about the person holding it leaves the phone.
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The camera
- Films
- 19 looks — six free, thirteen Pro — rendered at the full resolution of the camera
- Negatives
- Every shot keeps its untouched original; reprint it with another film any time, offline and free
- Date stamps
- Real seven-segment stamps you set up yourself
- Clips
- Hold the shutter to film a short clip with the same look
- Privacy
- No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking; photos stay on the iPhone and in the owner's own iCloud
02
The store listing
The five App Store screens: the viewfinder, the vault, a date-stamped print, a film look and the privacy promise.
No ads. No tracking. No data collected.
Outcome
Where it stands
Submitted to the App Store in September 2026, with its product and support site already live.
Stack and capabilities
Only what mattered
- iOS
- Full-resolution film rendering
- StoreKit
- iCloud