Free tools
A growing set of free effects for images and video. Drop a file in, tune the look, and export. No signup. Every one of them is in the Modulate editor too, where you can use them all together for free.
Every tool here, in one editor
Use every effect on this page together, over video, text, 3D, and shapes. Free, no signup, nothing to install.
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VHS filter for video and images
Real tape damage, not a static overlay. Wobble, tracking, chroma bleed, and dropouts, tuned live on your own footage.
CRT filter for video and images
A real phosphor mask, not a stripe overlay. Trinitron or shadow-mask patterns, RGB fringing, and vignette, generated live on your media.
NTSC filter for video and images
A real broadcast signal, not a noise overlay. Dot crawl, ringing, and chroma bleed decoded live on your own footage.
Halftone generator
Print-style halftone dots on any image or video: CMYK separations, real screen angles, eleven dot shapes, ink and paper control.
Dither tool
Ordered dithering with Bayer, line, mesh, and noise patterns, palette control, and animation modes that move the pattern over video.
Datamosh video online
The decoder’s own failure, simulated live: motion in your footage drags stale pixels along it, with smear, melt, and heal under your control.
Gradient map tool
Map your media onto a four-color gradient by brightness: duotones, cinematic grades, and contour bands, live on images and video.
Invert image colors
Four inversion modes, not just the negative: full RGB, brightness-only, single channels, and threshold solarization, on images and video.
Blob tracker for video
Real motion detection that locks bounding boxes, crosshair markers, and coordinate labels onto whatever moves in your footage.
Film grain generator
Real grain synthesized fresh every frame, with film-stock presets from 35mm to Super 8, not a static overlay clip. It rides the midtones and leaves the blacks clean, the way grain behaves on actual film.
Add a vignette to any photo or video
A vignette that fits your frame, not a stamped circle: ellipse to rounded rectangle, any color, live on images and video.
Posterize an image or video
Real tonal banding on images and video: band each color channel or brightness alone, and push the bands toward shadows or highlights.
Chromatic aberration for video and images
A real spectral sweep, not three shifted copies: lens fringing that grows toward the corners, or a hard RGB split, live on your footage.
Risograph effect generator
A real ink separation, not a pink filter: stock riso ink sets, subtractive overprint, stipple dither, and mottle, live on images and video.
Pixel art converter
The whole conversion chain, not a mosaic filter: true downsampling, hardware palettes, dithering, and outlines, live on images and video.
Pixel sorter for images and video
A true sort, not a directional blur: your own pixels reordered into streaks by brightness, hue, or saturation, on images and video.