SimuLook: a Fujifilm recipe community for iOS and macOS
An in-house product for discovering, sharing and backing up film-simulation recipes, with controlled transfer to the Fujifilm X100VI.
Challenge
Film-simulation recipes are often scattered across notes, photos and social feeds. Moving them onto a camera creates a second problem: values vary by camera generation, and a bad write can overwrite stored settings. The app therefore had to combine community features, camera compatibility and hardware access without putting browsing behind an account wall.
Solution
SimuLook is one SwiftUI app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Guests can browse curated and community-published recipes; an account is needed only to publish, like or comment. Supabase provides authentication, storage and community data separated by RLS. CameraKit reads X100VI recipes over PTP and backs up slots C1 through C7. Premium writes are limited to X100VI firmware 1.32 and verified properties: the app checks the camera, slot and current value before writing, performs at most one write, and confirms it with an independent readback.
Technologies
Results
One SwiftUI codebase for iPhone, iPad and Mac, localized in nine languages
Browse recipes without an account; sign in only to publish, like or comment
Free: read recipes from photos and read or back up X100VI slots C1–C7
Premium writes limited to verified X100VI properties, with preconditions and independent readback