Read the terms before your first roll.

Agree to these terms

When you use Backlit on Android or iPhone, or this website, you agree to these terms and to our privacy policy. If you disagree, stop using them.

Know what you get

You photograph film negatives and slides over a light with your phone, and you get positive photos with film base removal, auto exposure, film looks, Enhance, crop and rotate, keepers, contact sheet export and a light table mode. Everything runs on your phone.

• Free: you scan and edit as much as you like and keep up to 12 saved photos.
• Backlit Pro: you save every photo you develop. Pick $29.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, $3.99 a week, or $59.99 once. Your store shows the price in your currency before you confirm.

Pay and cancel through your store

• Google Play, or the App Store once Backlit reaches iPhone, charges your account when you confirm. Their terms cover the payment.
• Your subscription renews on its own until you cancel it. Cancel any time in Google Play under Payments and subscriptions, or in your Apple ID settings. You keep Pro until the end of the period you paid for.
• Start the free trial and you pay nothing for 7 days. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing at all.
• You pay once for the lifetime unlock, and it never renews.
• Ask Google or Apple for a refund; they handle every payment, so we cannot refund you directly.

Use Backlit fairly

You agree that you won't:

• reverse engineer, decompile or take apart any part of Backlit,
• use Backlit to copy film or photos you have no right to copy,
• try to break into our systems or get around the purchase check,
• scrape this website with automated tools, or resell what you get from it.

Expect a phone scan

Your results depend on your light, your phone's camera, how flat and clean your film lies and how it was developed. A film looks like Portra 400 gives your photo a print style; it never recreates the exact lab print. Keep your original negatives: a phone scan never replaces them.

Film stock names in Backlit describe the look you pick. Kodak, Fujifilm, Ilford, CineStill and Lomography own their names, and none of them makes, backs or works with Backlit.

Own your photos

Your negatives, scans and photos stay yours and stay on your phone. The software, designs, text and branding of Backlit and this website belong to Doved Studio.

Accept the limits

We provide Backlit and this website as they are, without warranties. To the full extent the law allows, Doved Studio is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages from your use of them, including photos you lose on your phone. Nothing here limits rights your local consumer law gives you.

Watch for changes

When we change these terms, we update this page and its date. If you keep using Backlit after a change, you accept the new terms. When a change matters to you, we tell you in Backlit first.

Write to us

Send questions about these terms to [email protected].