Rollbook follows a roll from the moment you load it to the moment it's scanned and filed away. This is that path, in order.
1. Load a roll
Press n, or the new-roll button, and fill in what you know: the film stock, the ISO you're rating it at, the format, and the camera. If you type a familiar stock — Tri-X, Portra, HP5 — it recognises the emulsion and fills in the type for you, and the thirteen built-in presets cover most loads in a tap. The roll gets an ID like RB-0002 and a status of unshot.
2. Shoot it
As you work through the roll, bump the frame counter up and down — it's built for one-handed use on a phone in the field. Add a moment whenever something's worth remembering: a location, a filter, a note to yourself for development. Those moments land on the roll's timeline alongside the automatic events.
3. Print a label
Before the roll leaves your hands, print one. There are four formats — a Frame 0 card to actually photograph as the first frame, a canister label, a sleeve strip, and an envelope label — each carrying a QR code. This is the bit that ties the digital record to the physical film.
Shoot the Frame 0 card as your first frame and the negative itself tells you which roll it is. No more mystery strips in a box.
4. Develop and scan
Record the development: push or pull, developer, lab, and lab status. Seven built-in recipes are there if you're doing it yourself. As you fill each stage in, the roll advances through its statuses — exposed, developed, scanned — and finally archived, with a note of where the negatives ended up. Later, the built-in camera scanner reads any label's QR and jumps you straight back to that roll.
5. Share it (or don't)
Every roll is private by default. If you want to show one off, switch it to unlisted or public and pick exactly which fields a visitor can see — you might share the stock and the camera but keep the location to yourself. Shared rolls get a clean public page at their own URL, and the label's QR points there instead of at your private record.
Getting your data in and out
You're never locked in. Import a back catalogue from CSV with a dry-run preview that flags problems before anything is written, export everything to CSV or a full JSON backup, and if you started out offline, migrate those local rolls up into an account in one step.
Questions or trouble: rollbook@bystanek.com.