36 Frames is a film camera for your iPhone. One roll, thirty-six frames, no preview and no retakes. You can’t see a single shot until the roll is developed.
When the roll is full, you send it to the lab and wait. One day the envelope comes back. You flip through the contact sheet and keep the good ones.
Lab order · one roll
FORM 36-AParticulars
What’s in the box
Your roll · at the lab
RECEIVEDA few days later · developed
READY
Questions & support
FORM 36-QThat’s the whole idea. Nothing you shoot can be viewed until the roll is developed. Not previewed, not reviewed, not recovered. No screen to chimp at, no deleting the bad ones on the spot. You shoot, you trust it, you wait.
Two speeds. Express comes back in about an hour. Standard takes anywhere from two to five working days, and never comes back on a weekend. You pick the speed when you send the roll.
No. The look is identical no matter which speed you choose. The only thing you ever trade is time, never quality.
Your first two rolls are free (on two different films, so you get a feel for it). After that it’s a single one-time unlock for unlimited rolls. One payment, yours forever.
Any time after the first frame. The lab develops only the frames you actually shot. A short roll is completely fine.
There’s a Rush option that develops the roll on the spot. It’s free and there’s no limit, but rushing every roll rather defeats the point, and the app will gently say so.
Privately on your iPhone until they’re developed, never in your photo library before then. Once a roll is developed you can save the keepers to Photos or share them.
Not yet. An undeveloped roll lives only on your iPhone, so deleting the app takes the roll with it. Send it to the lab and let it develop first. Updating the app through TestFlight keeps your rolls.
Something broken, or a question that isn’t here? Email hjalle@36frames.app. Include your iPhone model and iOS version if it’s a bug.