Massive Dev Chart Timer

Freestyle Photo & Imaging

About this app

The #1 app for B&W film developing. The Massive Dev Chart Timer combines an advanced multi-step darkroom timer with an offline copy of the world's largest database of B&W film development times; maintained online since 1995 and currently including over 18,000 unique tried and tested entries unavailable elsewhere. If you are looking for a film developer timer, then there is no rival thanks to its advanced darkroom pro feature set, full customizability and superior performance.

Take your black and white photography to another level and get consistent results with any film or developer. Audio agitation reminders will help you never make a processing mistake again! Modify time and temperature, automatically calculate volumes, share and store your own data for ease-of-use. The Massive Dev Chart Timer is used by thousands of photo enthusiasts, students and professionals worldwide.

This app is managed directly by Digitaltruth Photo Ltd and we offer full lifetime support and guaranteed updates.

Darkroom Timer / Film Developing Timer


★★★ Features ★★★

• Offline copy of The Massive Dev Chart in your pocket
• Multi Step Timer with sound notifications
• Customizable agitation scheme
• Darkroom themes
• Dilution Mixer
• Support for two-step development and two-step fixing
• Support for optional hypoclear and photo flo steps
• Automated development time/temperature compensation

Ratings and reviews

I love the idea, and have been using this for years. However if you use a lot of developers and films, this will quickly become useless. The 'my times' pane shows each film/dev in its own row. If you routinely use 5 films and 5 developers, and perhaps want to keep times for 3 different temperature levels, you're left with scrolling through a massive list of 75 rows to go and find your desired dev plan. It would be good instead to be able to collapse all this data in nested lists, e.g. by film.

Generally a really useful app with only a couple of inconsistencies (too small to call bugs). If you're thinking of buying it be aware that it's database has not been updated since 2022. It doesn't contain details of any new films that have been released or incorporate any corrections to errors in, for example, development times.

The first impression is very good.. But after using it for a while now I miss a few things: - Default setting for the film type (I would like to default to 120) - A way to calculate quantities for mixing fixed and stopbath without having to make a dummy recipe and misuse the developer - An option to copy a recipe to the clipboard or paste it into the app - and a little more involved, but a time for the ilford way of washing the film after development (fill water, agitate 3x, wait a minute, refill water, agitate 6x, wait a minute etc. till 24x) It saves a lot of water but I don't see it possible with the current editor.

What’s new

- Search feature to quickly find films and developers.
- Database update.