Question

Why should I use Lo-Fi when I already have mobile phone apps that do similar effects?

Answer

Lo-Fi brings analog photography to avid hobbyist photographers in the following ways.

• Avid photographers store most of their pictures on their desktop computer, not their phone. Lo-Fi runs on the Mac and Windows desktop.
• Lo-Fi is great at batch processing which is great for photographers with large numbers of photos. You can drag entire folders onto it and apply effects to groups of photos easily. Lo-Fi can upload batches of photos to Facebook and Flickr with full control over set creation and tagging.
• Even for phone photographers, photos eventually move to the desktop. That is where they can use Lo-Fi for batch processing, which is easier than manipulating each photo by hand in a phone app. Lo-Fi is also much faster than phone apps because it has the power of a desktop CPU.
• Avid photographers take high quality photos. Lo-Fi can handle any size photos, much larger than what a phone can produce.
• Most desktop apps are strictly functional. We were inspired by the fun of phone apps and worked hard to achieve that in Lo-Fi. The user interface looks and feels like a physical camera. Lo-Fi is very easy to use, especially for people who are used to cameras like a point-and-shoot or a Canon Rebel.

If you use a point-and-shoot camera or a DSLR or you are active on Flickr then you are who Lo-Fi was made for.