Add your gear and film
Add your cameras and lenses, then load a new roll. Rolls you’re shooting and developing are listed together, so you can see where each one stands at a glance.
FILM SHOOTING LOG & EXIF EDITOR
Film photos that keep
their shooting data
The film shooting log & Exif app, made in Japan
- Camera
- Nikon FM2
- Lens
- Ai Nikkor 50mm f/1.4S
- Film
- FUJIFILM FUJICOLOR 100
- Date
- 2026:05:05 18:16:39
- GPS
- 35.6586° N, 139.7454° E
- Shutter
- 1/125
- FNumber
- f/2.8
- Focal
- 50mm
- ISO
- 100
FOR FILM SHOOTERS
Where film meets digital
Know when, where and how you shot it
Scanned film photos carry no record of when or where they were taken, or of your camera settings. There’s no way to look back at what gear you used or how you shot.
BEFOREWithout CONTACT
Tuesday • May 12, 2026 • 11:42 AM
✕Scan date
SP-3000
JPEG✕Scanner name
No lens information
6 MP・3089 × 2048・4.1 MB
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AFTERWith CONTACT
Tuesday • May 5, 2026 • 6:16 PM
Nikon FM2
JPEGAi Nikkor 50mm f/1.4S
6 MP・3089 × 2048・4.1 MB
ISO 10050 mm0 evƒ2.81/125 s
FUJIFILM FUJICOLOR 100
With CONTACT, your photos line up in the order you shot them, and you’ll be able to search them by gear, date or place. Look back at the settings and gear behind a shot that worked, and bring them to your next shoot.
HOW TO USE
Three simple steps.
01 — ALL ON YOUR PHONE
From logging to writing,
all on your phone
Write your shooting log into scanned photos (JPEG/TIFF) using nothing but your phone.
It only adds your shooting data — image quality is never affected.
- iPhone / AndroidJPEG / TIFF
- MacDNG / JPEG / TIFF
02 — OPERATION
Effortless to operate
When you’re shooting, there’s no time for fiddly controls. CONTACT is built to log each shot quickly: camera settings, even lens changes, are all handled intuitively on a single screen.
ABOUT THE MAKERCONTACT is made by a UI/UX designer in Tokyo who still shoots film. Logging quickly without hesitation, never mis-tapping — every detail is crafted for the comfortable controls they wanted in the field.
03 — AUTO ASSIGN
Forgot to log a shot?
No problem
Sometimes you forget. Out of 36 frames, only 11 were logged — even so, CONTACT infers the missing details and fills in every photo.
04 — FINISH ON MAC
Fine-tune on Mac
With CONTACT LINK on your Mac, you can edit Exif data in more detail and with more flexibility. Shots you log on your phone arrive on your Mac as they are.
Along with JPEG and TIFF, it also supports DNG.
05 — DIGITAL × VINTAGE LENS
For digital cameras
with vintage lenses, too
Mount a vintage lens without electronic contacts, and your digital camera records neither the lens name nor the focal length.
CONTACT keeps everything your digital camera recorded, and adds only the missing lens information.
PUBLIC BETA
Free during
the public beta
Public beta All features are free until the end of February 2027
Films you log during the public beta stay free to write to your photos, even after the beta ends.
Give it a try, and let us know what features or improvements you’d like to see.
Try it free
Try it free on your phone
Scan the QR code with your phone’s camera to open CONTACT.
app.contactfilmlog.com
* Pricing from March 2027 will be announced later.
REQUIREMENTS
Before you start
iPhone / Android
Open it in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android, and add it to your Home Screen. You can log shots and write to photos with just your phone.
Mac (only when needed)
Use it when you want more flexible editing on a large screen. Please use Chrome or Edge. Windows is not supported.
ExifTool (free) is required only for writing to DNG files. CONTACT LINK will guide you through it.Photo file formats
iPhone / Android: JPEG / TIFF · Mac: DNG / JPEG / TIFF
Google account (only when needed)
You can start without signing in. You sign in with your Google account only to save your logs to the cloud or to subscribe to a paid plan.
Location
To add location to your Exif data, turn on location in the app’s Settings.
Language
Both the phone app and CONTACT LINK on Mac are available in English and Japanese. They follow your device’s language, and you can switch it in Settings.
FAQ
FAQ
- QHow much does it cost?
- All features are free until the end of February 2027, and films you log during the public beta stay free to write to your photos after that. Pricing from March 2027 will be announced later.
- QWhat can I record?
- Seventeen items: camera, lens, film stock, ISO, date & time, time zone, location, shutter speed, aperture, focal length, exposure mode, exposure compensation, frame number, notes, photographer, copyright and serial number.
- QDoes it affect image quality?
- Not at all. CONTACT only adds your shooting data (Exif) to the file; the image itself is left untouched.
- QWhat happens to my original photos?
- When you write on your phone, the result is saved as a new photo and your original stays as it is (on Android, it goes to your Downloads folder). When you write on Mac, the information is written directly to the original photo. Either way, the image itself (its quality) doesn’t change.
- QDo I need to install an app?
- No App Store or Google Play download is needed. Open it in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android, and add it to your Home Screen to use it as an app. On a Mac, nothing needs to be installed for JPEG/TIFF (ExifTool, which is free, is required only for writing to DNG files).
- QWhere is my data stored?
- By default, your logs are stored only on your phone, and nothing you log is ever sent to us. However, your logs may be lost if you change phones or lose your device.
If you choose “Save to cloud” in Settings, your logs are stored in Google’s cloud (Firebase) (this requires signing in with a Google account). Built on Google’s secure infrastructure, only you, when signed in, can read and write them. Your logs stay safe when you change phones, and working with your Mac becomes even smoother. - QDoes it work on Windows?
- Windows is not supported.
- QI use Lightroom and Negative Lab Pro. Can I use CONTACT with them?
- Yes. You can write Exif data directly into negatives imported into Lightroom Classic and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
- After writing, run “Read Metadata from Files” in Lightroom Classic to bring your shooting log into the Lightroom catalog.
Camera-specific raw files must be converted to DNG first. Detailed instructions will be provided separately.
WHY “CONTACT”
Named after the contact sheet
CONTACT is the contact sheet reimagined for the digital age — made to keep every memory behind each and every frame.