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AnalogTV is #178 in Photo & Video Paid in United States and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperAlastair Bor
CategoryPhoto & Video
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (16)
Version3.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
📈Entered the top 100📈Charting in a new country✏️Description updated💰Price rise💰Price rise✏️Description updated📦Updated to version 3.0🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 2.9.4🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 31 events
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · JP
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryJapan
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · MX
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · MY
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryMalaysia
- ✏️AnalogTV: description updated· US, AU
- 💰AnalogTV: price rise4.99 USD → 9.99 USD · US
- 💰AnalogTV: price rise4.99 AUD → 14.99 AUD · AU
- 💰AnalogTV: price rise4.99 GBP → 9.99 GBP · GB
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · DE
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · CA
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryCanada
- ✏️AnalogTV: description updated· GB
- 📦AnalogTV updated to version 3.0The picture engine has been rebuilt against the published broadcast standards. Looks you have saved keep the picture you made them with. The controls you were last using move to the new engine on first launch, so your current picture may look different.
Sharper on every standard: the receiver now passes the full broadcast detail, and PAL no longer shows a fine dot pattern.
Tape that behaves like tape: each format reaches its own resolution, NTSC and PAL tape colours are now correct (they were shifted before), and pause, search and mistracking noise come from a modelled FM tape channel, with cue and review showing their own bars, even with no tape format chosen. Betacam SP now reaches its published bandwidth.
Everything on the signal: every transmission, tape and reception effect now acts on the signal itself, as in a real set (the PXL-2000 look is the one exception, for now). The IF switch now chooses a real or an ideal receiver IF, Reference Mode runs the same signal chain with every impairment off, and Snow is a set receiving nothing, black and white thanks to a colour killer that reads the colour burst.
SECAM rebuilt to the ITU standard: correct colour carrier frequencies and level, full-strength 100 percent colours, the standard's colour emphasis, a receiver that identifies the colour lines from the signal itself, and a real receiver's colour filter, so fine detail on the PM5544 test card no longer flickers with false colour. SECAM tapes keep their colour.
New: Tape Wear, in the Audio section, makes any sound come off a worn tape, with duller treble, more hiss, brief dropouts and a wobble. Fixed: setting it very low could silence the sound until the app was restarted. Also fixed: pausing, fast forwarding, seeking or going full screen no longer puts a video's sound out of step with the picture.
New: your looks one tap away, in a row right under the source picker. Loading a look now keeps your camera, video or test pattern playing, and leaves your sound settings alone; switch off Keep current input to let a look bring its own source.
Truer camera tubes: lag now holds the tube's own picture, so trails behind lights come out brighter and noise and burn-in no longer build up through it. Your saved looks keep their picture.
New controls: Flagging (the bend at the top of a tape picture), camera tube registration, Degauss at start for exports, and a Mains switch (50 or 60 Hz) for hum bars.
More accurate: CCD smear and blooming, the KVN-49 lens, the vectorscope layout, VHS dropouts, NTSC-J black level on a mismatched set, and exports now include vertical hold effects such as Copyguard, and the camcorder title, clock or stopwatch. Hum bars drift at the real mains rate, impulse interference is dark on most standards, fine tuning fades the colour instead of rolling it, PAL-M has its 7.5 IRE black level, and white is full white again (a new picture tube was being dimmed slightly).
The About page, control descriptions and help text have been checked against the standards and rewritten.
Also fixed: a video opened from Files or Photos keeps its own sound, and the picture rotate button now shows for the camera too.… more - 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · US
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · NL
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryNetherlands
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · GB
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈AnalogTV new best rank in the overall chart: #80Top Paid · All Apps · SA
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · SA · Top Paid · Photo & Video · SA
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈AnalogTV new best rank in the overall chart: #111Top Paid · All Apps · IN
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈AnalogTV entered the top 100Top Paid · Photo & Video · IN
- 📈AnalogTV charting in a new countryUnited States
- 🆕AnalogTV first spotted by AppInsider#83 in Top Paid · Photo & Video · Australia
- 📦AnalogTV version 2.9.4This version requires iOS 17 or later (previously iOS 16.6), because of a new SSH library dependency.
If your device can't update, you're on iOS 16 or earlier and this update won't appear for you.
New: play video from an SFTP or SMB server
Play Stream URL now accepts sftp:// and smb:// addresses alongside the existing http and rtsp support, so you can play a file straight off a NAS or server reachable over SSH.
New: Audio Effect toggle
A new switch turns the full analog audio processing (bandwidth limit, hum, buzz, tape wow and flutter) on or off independently of the picture, for clean program audio when you want it.
Fixed: MAC, D2-MAC, MUSE and HD-MAC video exported through Convert Video was squeezed into a 4 by 3 frame instead of its real 16 by 9 shape. Now correct.
Fixed a bug where the Apollo Field-Sequential Colour and SIT camera modes lost their colour when exported through Convert Video.
Fixed: Teletext weather pages now show Fahrenheit and miles per hour for US viewers, instead of always using Celsius and km/h.
Plus a more accurate Image Orthicon camera halo effect and other small fixes.… more - 🆕AnalogTV released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
5.0 ★
16 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#178
Photo & Video PaidMeasured
AnalogTV on the App Store
App details
App ID
6760956212
Publisher
Ambor
On the store since
Mar 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
35 MB
Also listed in
Education
AnalogTV downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where AnalogTV's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Photo & VideoPaid | #178 |
Apps near AnalogTV on the chart
Photo & Video Paid, around #178.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
16 ratings
Measured
Ratings
16
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.9★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
44/100
faster than 40% of Photo & Video apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About AnalogTV
AnalogTV recreates the complete analogue television chain - broadcast camera tube, composite signal encoding, RF transmission, and CRT phosphor display - simulated from physical first principles. Not a vintage filter. Not a post-process effect. A working simulation of every stage of broadcast television, from the camera neck to the phosphor screen.
THE COMPLETE BROADCAST CHAIN. Not AI, Not a Filter, the Real Thing.
Every frame passes through the same stages as a real television signal. A camera tube mode: Image Orthicon, Plumbicon, Vidicon, or CCD, captures the scene with its characteristic lag, halation, and MTF response. The signal is composite-encoded to NTSC, PAL, or SECAM standards, then decoded through the same mathematics a real television receiver performs. A Metal GPU fragment shader renders each frame onto a simulated CRT phosphor display at 60 fps.
ANALOG CAM
AnalogCam is a second way to use the app: a point and shoot camera with the console hidden and nine stompbox effect pedals along the bottom. Tap a pedal to latch it, hold it for a momentary hit. They are live while you record, so what you play is what is captured.
EIGHT PHOSPHOR TYPES
P22 colour television. P31 oscilloscope green. P45 white sub-millisecond. P4 B&W television. P3 amber radar. P7 dual-persistence radar - white flash fading to yellow-green afterglow. P11 deep blue photographic. P24 cyan-green flying-spot. Each calibrated from manufacturer datasheets and IEEE literature. Each shifts the IIR decay constants, rendered colour, and shutdown spot tint independently.
SERVICE MENU
Access the hidden service menu to make adjustments a television engineer would use: RGB drive and cutoff, convergence, focus voltage, G2 screen voltage, purity, HV regulation, and degauss. Every control operates at the physics level, changing focus changes the modelled electron beam diameter, not a software blur.
TUBE AGEING AND SHUTDOWN
Cathode emission falls with use. The screen accumulates burn-in at sustained high-brightness areas. Shut the set down and watch the EHT bleed, beam defocus, and phosphor decay to darkness with optional HV arc sounds.
14 TEST PATTERNS
SMPTE and EIA colour bars, pluge, crosshatch, multiburst, zone plate, flat fields, and more. Every pattern is generated mathematically in real time.
THE COMPLETE BROADCAST CHAIN. Not AI, Not a Filter, the Real Thing.
Every frame passes through the same stages as a real television signal. A camera tube mode: Image Orthicon, Plumbicon, Vidicon, or CCD, captures the scene with its characteristic lag, halation, and MTF response. The signal is composite-encoded to NTSC, PAL, or SECAM standards, then decoded through the same mathematics a real television receiver performs. A Metal GPU fragment shader renders each frame onto a simulated CRT phosphor display at 60 fps.
ANALOG CAM
AnalogCam is a second way to use the app: a point and shoot camera with the console hidden and nine stompbox effect pedals along the bottom. Tap a pedal to latch it, hold it for a momentary hit. They are live while you record, so what you play is what is captured.
EIGHT PHOSPHOR TYPES
P22 colour television. P31 oscilloscope green. P45 white sub-millisecond. P4 B&W television. P3 amber radar. P7 dual-persistence radar - white flash fading to yellow-green afterglow. P11 deep blue photographic. P24 cyan-green flying-spot. Each calibrated from manufacturer datasheets and IEEE literature. Each shifts the IIR decay constants, rendered colour, and shutdown spot tint independently.
SERVICE MENU
Access the hidden service menu to make adjustments a television engineer would use: RGB drive and cutoff, convergence, focus voltage, G2 screen voltage, purity, HV regulation, and degauss. Every control operates at the physics level, changing focus changes the modelled electron beam diameter, not a software blur.
TUBE AGEING AND SHUTDOWN
Cathode emission falls with use. The screen accumulates burn-in at sustained high-brightness areas. Shut the set down and watch the EHT bleed, beam defocus, and phosphor decay to darkness with optional HV arc sounds.
14 TEST PATTERNS
SMPTE and EIA colour bars, pluge, crosshatch, multiburst, zone plate, flat fields, and more. Every pattern is generated mathematically in real time.
Latest updates
3.0
The picture engine has been rebuilt against the published broadcast standards. Looks you have saved keep the picture you made them with. The controls you were last using move to the new engine on first launch, so your current picture may look different.
Sharper on every standard: the receiver now passes the full broadcast detail, and PAL no longer shows a fine dot pattern.
Tape that behaves like tape: each format reaches its own resolution, NTSC and PAL tape colours are now correct (they were shifted before), and pause, search and mistracking noise come from a modelled FM tape channel, with cue and review showing their own bars, even with no tape format chosen. Betacam SP now reaches its published bandwidth.
Everything on the signal: every transmission, tape and reception effect now acts on the signal itself, as in a real set (the PXL-2000 look is the one exception, for now). The IF switch now chooses a real or an ideal receiver IF, Reference Mode runs the same signal chain with every impairment off, and Snow is a set receiving nothing, black and white thanks to a colour killer that reads the colour burst.
SECAM rebuilt to the ITU standard: correct colour carrier frequencies and level, full-strength 100 percent colours, the standard's colour emphasis, a receiver that identifies the colour lines from the signal itself, and a real receiver's colour filter, so fine detail on the PM5544 test card no longer flickers with false colour. SECAM tapes keep their colour.
New: Tape Wear, in the Audio section, makes any sound come off a worn tape, with duller treble, more hiss, brief dropouts and a wobble. Fixed: setting it very low could silence the sound until the app was restarted. Also fixed: pausing, fast forwarding, seeking or going full screen no longer puts a video's sound out of step with the picture.
New: your looks one tap away, in a row right under the source picker. Loading a look now keeps your camera, video or test pattern playing, and leaves your sound settings alone; switch off Keep current input to let a look bring its own source.
Truer camera tubes: lag now holds the tube's own picture, so trails behind lights come out brighter and noise and burn-in no longer build up through it. Your saved looks keep their picture.
New controls: Flagging (the bend at the top of a tape picture), camera tube registration, Degauss at start for exports, and a Mains switch (50 or 60 Hz) for hum bars.
More accurate: CCD smear and blooming, the KVN-49 lens, the vectorscope layout, VHS dropouts, NTSC-J black level on a mismatched set, and exports now include vertical hold effects such as Copyguard, and the camcorder title, clock or stopwatch. Hum bars drift at the real mains rate, impulse interference is dark on most standards, fine tuning fades the colour instead of rolling it, PAL-M has its 7.5 IRE black level, and white is full white again (a new picture tube was being dimmed slightly).
The About page, control descriptions and help text have been checked against the standards and rewritten.
Also fixed: a video opened from Files or Photos keeps its own sound, and the picture rotate button now shows for the camera too.
2.9.4
This version requires iOS 17 or later (previously iOS 16.6), because of a new SSH library dependency.
If your device can't update, you're on iOS 16 or earlier and this update won't appear for you.
New: play video from an SFTP or SMB server
Play Stream URL now accepts sftp:// and smb:// addresses alongside the existing http and rtsp support, so you can play a file straight off a NAS or server reachable over SSH.
New: Audio Effect toggle
A new switch turns the full analog audio processing (bandwidth limit, hum, buzz, tape wow and flutter) on or off independently of the picture, for clean program audio when you want it.
Fixed: MAC, D2-MAC, MUSE and HD-MAC video exported through Convert Video was squeezed into a 4 by 3 frame instead of its real 16 by 9 shape. Now correct.
Fixed a bug where the Apollo Field-Sequential Colour and SIT camera modes lost their colour when exported through Convert Video.
Fixed: Teletext weather pages now show Fahrenheit and miles per hour for US viewers, instead of always using Celsius and km/h.
Plus a more accurate Image Orthicon camera halo effect and other small fixes.
Store changes
What AnalogTV changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Price rise
4.99 USD → 9.99 USD
Price rise
4.99 AUD → 14.99 AUD
