Universal Photo App Review: Monotone

Monotone from developer Sato is a new universal app for turning your colour iPhone photos in to mono ones.

Thankfully this app is universal, because at time of purchase it was listed as iOS 4 tested, and NOT listed as requiring iOS 4 to run.  This has now been amended in the AppStore description, but as I am not currently running iOS 4 on my iPhone, I am reviewing this app on my iPad.

The App

Monotone is a simple to use app, simply launch, and from the home screen select "Album" and load a photo.  Having loaded your photo simply decide if you want it to be positive or negative by selecting the "Mode" and then use the slider controls to adjust the Hue, Saturation, Brightness and Contrast.  The Saturation slider if slid all the way to the left will render your photo black and white, whilst bring it back to the right in conjunction with the Hue slider will add a colour tint to the photo.  Finally you can add a black or white vignette before selecting the output size from the settings menu and saving the up to full resolution photo back to the photo album.

What do I think of Monotone?

Overall this is a nicely designed, simple to use mono application for your iPhone or iPad, that produces some really good looking results, and with full-res support.

I can find nothing to fault this app, so if you do not already have a mono app for your iPhone or iPad, and want one, then Monotone is well worth the money and gets 5 stars from me.

AppStore Link: Monotone - Price: £1.19/$1.99

Comments

[pec]

Is this the new king in town for this type of photography, or Monophix?

[TrevorML]

what is the best of the monotone apps that are available... I have a few but would like to drop them down to only one if possible

[Len]

Best of the monotone apps?

My vote goes to Monotone.