Film Developer Pro

Darkroom Solutions

About this app

This is the ultimate app for your film developments.

This darkroom timer contains the world's largest database of B&W film development times recommended by the manufacturers.

★ A comprehensive database of film processing times is backing this app. It consists of the authentic development times from the product sheet tables of the respective producers.
★ The film processing time calculator estimates missing entries of the database with respect to push/pull, dilution, temperature and agitation.
★ A timer is included in the app. In addition to the developer timer you can define timers for presoak, stop bath and/or fixing.

★★★ The features are ★★★

- 48234 database entries.
- 327 films, 300 developers supported.
- Calculator for film processing times of missing entries.
- Support for two-bath developer
- Online community database.
- Forum for user interaction
- All times are manually adjustable.
- Agitation reminder.
- Customizable timers with sound notification
- Dilution calculator
- Automatic filing of developed films with date and time.
- Darkroom themes.
- Storing and recalling of your favorite development settings.


Darkroom Timer / Film Developing Timer

Ratings and reviews

Good app, overall. The flexibility to create a fully customized chain of steps is fantastic. One request would be to have it pop up a message that it can't find a valid time for a given combination of developer + film. As it is, the app sits there, showing you a blank timer, and refusing to allow you to save as a favorite, with no explanation. Worse, if you rearrange the process to add a pre-soak step before the main timer (which is great that you can!), then the developer timer crashes out leaving you staring at a useless screen while trying to remember how many seconds it's been, and trying desperately to sync up to a digital clock nearby while you switch over to a stopwatch app and try to get it sync'd to the nearest 30 seconds. So a validation check on each step of the process would be helpful. :)

Still getting used to the UI. Some navigation is clunky, and I'd like an easier way to set up a process chain from scratch. That said, it worked well enough for the films I processed so far. Update: after using it for a while, I still don't like the UI, but the processes work well. After using it for a while, it's growing on me. I like it now. Compared to other offerings, this is the one to get.

Takes a bit of getting used to the interface which isn't very intuitive but overall a fantastic app and a great companion for home development

What’s new

- Added monobath developer Flic FX-6
- Added color developer ADOX C-TEC 41
- Added 798 database entries for these developers