Pick a photo, pick a texture. Pushed film grain, darkroom toning, newsprint halftone, pencil sketch. Monoqulo does one thing: it turns a single photo monochrome and exports it.
Plenty of apps turn photos black and white, but most of them stop at film-like tone conversion. Monoqulo crosses four families — film, toning, graphic and sketch — through one set of controls.
Switch families with a tab and pick from the thumbnails. Each thumbnail is your own photo actually put through that style, so you see the result before you commit to it.
Colour filters change how the sky falls; push the film and blacks lift while grain coarsens.
The darkroom step of toning a print. One colour can sit in the shadows and another in the highlights.
Newsprint dots, the error diffusion of the first Macintosh, the ordered dither of early games.
Two mechanisms: pulling out contours, and dodging the image to white.
Intensity, Exposure, Contrast and Grain are always visible; Highlights, Shadows and Vignette live under Details.
Nothing is downscaled, there is no ceiling, and there is no watermark.
Dots and grain come out the size you saw them on screen.
No history, no library, no batch processing. Pick one, make it, export it.
The app has no networking code at all. No account, no analytics, no ads.
The app performs no network communication whatsoever. There is no analytics SDK and no ad SDK. Everything works in airplane mode.
Picking a photo is left to the system picker, so the app never asks to read your library. Only the one photo you chose is handed to it.
Adding the photo you exported to your own library. Nothing else is ever requested.
There is no sign-up and no sign-in. No server is operated by the developer.
Processing happens entirely on your device and is discarded when you close the app. There is no mechanism for storing your photos.
Location is carried over by default, but switching it off in Settings strips the GPS data before the file is written.
See the privacy policy for the full text.