Ancient Light
Ancient Light is #133 in Photo & Video Paid in United States and charting in 1 of 24 countries we track.
Updated 28 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperGreg Anderson
CategoryPhoto & Video
Price0.99 USD
Released
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Version1.9.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
28 Sep 2026
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Best rank now
#133
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Ancient Light on the App Store
App details
App ID
6760305033
Publisher
Greg Anderson
On the store since
Mar 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 16.0+
iPhone 8 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Size
7 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
Where Ancient Light's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Photo & VideoPaid | #133 |
Apps near Ancient Light on the chart
Photo & Video Paid, around #133.
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App Store, worldwide.
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About Ancient Light
Ancient Light transforms your iPhone into a camera of the nineteenth century.
Twelve authentic historic photographic processes - each faithfully simulated through the physics of tone, silver chemistry, grain, paper, emulsion, and light. Not filters. Processes.
-- THE TWELVE PROCESSES --
Daguerreotype (1839) - The first successful photograph. A mirror-like silver surface with luminous shadow detail and seven scanned frame choices, plus No Frame.
Tintype (1853) - The photograph of the working class. Robust, immediate, metallic, with regular or square format options and optional worn plate borders.
Albumen (1850s) - Warm egg-white paper prints mounted as cabinet cards, with soft sepia-brown toning, aged cream stock, rounded corners, and a ruled inner border.
Sepia - The warm brown tone of silver sulphide that preserved Victorian portraits through a century and a half.
Cyanotype (1842) - Sir John Herschel's iron-based process. Deep Prussian blue. The print that gave photography the word "blueprint."
Anthotype (1839) - Made from crushed plant pigments. Delicate, fugitive, botanical. The most poetic photographic process ever devised.
Platinum (1873) - The process of fine art portraiture. Cool, shadow-rich, with a tonal range silver could never match.
Autochrome (1907) - The Lumiere brothers' starch-grain colour process. Dreamy, pointillist, the first practical colour photography.
Emulsion - A damaged instant-emulsion look with faded color, warm highlights, scorched edges, amber leaks, scratches, and oxidized surface wear.
Bromoil (1907) - Oil-based ink on bleached gelatin. Painterly and stippled, with inky shadows and pale milky highlights.
Lippmann (1891) - Gabriel Lippmann's Nobel Prize-winning interferential process. Warm amber ageing, long-exposure softness, and glass plate scratches from a century of handling.
Infrared (1930s) - Light beyond the visible spectrum. Luminous white foliage, darkened skies, ethereal skin tones. The spectral world captured on heat-sensitive emulsion.
-- WHAT ANCIENT LIGHT CAN DO --
* All four optical lenses - ultrawide (0.5x), wide (1x), 2x, and telephoto (5x) - selectable from the viewfinder
* Shoot once, save many - save multiple historic versions from a single capture
* On iPhone Pro: saves both a filtered JPEG and the original 48MP ProRAW DNG as a paired asset
* Emulsion process with faded instant-film color, warmer highlights, lighter grain, and scanned edge damage
* Albumen cabinet-card output with warm paper tone, aged stock texture, rounded card corners, and ruled border
* Infrared process with glowing foliage, dark skies, and spectral black-and-white tonality
* Tintype options - choose regular or square format, with period borders or no borders
* Seven Daguerreotype frame styles plus No Frame, selectable directly from the viewfinder
* Higher-resolution Daguerreotype frame output, scaled to the photo instead of the source frame artwork
* Adjustments apply to the photograph while preserving Daguer
Twelve authentic historic photographic processes - each faithfully simulated through the physics of tone, silver chemistry, grain, paper, emulsion, and light. Not filters. Processes.
-- THE TWELVE PROCESSES --
Daguerreotype (1839) - The first successful photograph. A mirror-like silver surface with luminous shadow detail and seven scanned frame choices, plus No Frame.
Tintype (1853) - The photograph of the working class. Robust, immediate, metallic, with regular or square format options and optional worn plate borders.
Albumen (1850s) - Warm egg-white paper prints mounted as cabinet cards, with soft sepia-brown toning, aged cream stock, rounded corners, and a ruled inner border.
Sepia - The warm brown tone of silver sulphide that preserved Victorian portraits through a century and a half.
Cyanotype (1842) - Sir John Herschel's iron-based process. Deep Prussian blue. The print that gave photography the word "blueprint."
Anthotype (1839) - Made from crushed plant pigments. Delicate, fugitive, botanical. The most poetic photographic process ever devised.
Platinum (1873) - The process of fine art portraiture. Cool, shadow-rich, with a tonal range silver could never match.
Autochrome (1907) - The Lumiere brothers' starch-grain colour process. Dreamy, pointillist, the first practical colour photography.
Emulsion - A damaged instant-emulsion look with faded color, warm highlights, scorched edges, amber leaks, scratches, and oxidized surface wear.
Bromoil (1907) - Oil-based ink on bleached gelatin. Painterly and stippled, with inky shadows and pale milky highlights.
Lippmann (1891) - Gabriel Lippmann's Nobel Prize-winning interferential process. Warm amber ageing, long-exposure softness, and glass plate scratches from a century of handling.
Infrared (1930s) - Light beyond the visible spectrum. Luminous white foliage, darkened skies, ethereal skin tones. The spectral world captured on heat-sensitive emulsion.
-- WHAT ANCIENT LIGHT CAN DO --
* All four optical lenses - ultrawide (0.5x), wide (1x), 2x, and telephoto (5x) - selectable from the viewfinder
* Shoot once, save many - save multiple historic versions from a single capture
* On iPhone Pro: saves both a filtered JPEG and the original 48MP ProRAW DNG as a paired asset
* Emulsion process with faded instant-film color, warmer highlights, lighter grain, and scanned edge damage
* Albumen cabinet-card output with warm paper tone, aged stock texture, rounded card corners, and ruled border
* Infrared process with glowing foliage, dark skies, and spectral black-and-white tonality
* Tintype options - choose regular or square format, with period borders or no borders
* Seven Daguerreotype frame styles plus No Frame, selectable directly from the viewfinder
* Higher-resolution Daguerreotype frame output, scaled to the photo instead of the source frame artwork
* Adjustments apply to the photograph while preserving Daguer
Latest updates
1.9.2
Ancient Light 1.9.2 refines the new Emulsion process and carries forward the recent Albumen, Infrared, Tintype, and Daguerreotype presentation updates.
INSTANT-STYLE EMULSION
Emulsion has been reworked from a dark, mostly black-and-white damaged plate into a faded instant-film style. The process now keeps more color, adds warm highlights, lifts the shadows, softens the contrast, and uses the scanned damage layer with a lighter touch.
SCANNED DAMAGE, MORE PHOTO
The scorched borders, amber leaks, scratches, and oxidized marks remain, but the photograph underneath now comes through more clearly. The result feels closer to a weathered Polaroid-like object than a purely monochrome plate.
ALBUMEN PROCESS
Albumen joins Ancient Light as a warm cabinet-card print, with sepia-brown toning, aged cream stock, rounded card corners, subtle paper texture, and a ruled inner border.
INFRARED PROCESS
Infrared remains part of the full process set: luminous pale foliage, darkened skies, ethereal skin tones, and spectral monochrome contrast inspired by early infrared-sensitive emulsions.
TINTYPE FORMAT OPTIONS
Tintype supports both regular and square output. Choose Regular for the original camera crop, or Square for a centered plate-style composition.
TINTYPE WITH OR WITHOUT BORDERS
Tintype photos can include worn period plate borders, or use No Borders for a cleaner plate without the sampled edge overlay.
SEVEN DAGUERREOTYPE FRAMES
Daguerreotype includes seven scanned period-style frame choices, plus No Frame: Gaslight Octagon, Parlor Cartouche, Cameo Round, Velvet Reliquary, Aurelian Cameo, Midnight Locket, and Salon Window.
LARGER FRAMED OUTPUT
Daguerreotype frame output scales to the photo instead of being limited by the original frame artwork size, producing larger finished images.
PHOTO-ONLY ADJUSTMENTS
Exposure, contrast, warmth, vignette, and other review adjustments apply to the photograph beneath the Daguerreotype frame. The frame artwork itself stays intact.
This update gives Ancient Light a stronger instant-emulsion voice alongside its metal plates, paper prints, blueprints, oil prints, color plates, and spectral infrared renderings.
