The Complete Guide to Retrica Filters: 380+ Presets, 250+ of Them Free

Retrica has more than 380 filters, and over 250 of them are free, with no subscription required to shoot with them or to save the photos and videos you take.

That's a lot of choice, which is its own problem: nobody wants to scroll through hundreds of thumbnails looking for the right look. This guide breaks the library down the way it's actually organized, by mood and scene, so you can start from the feeling you're going for and narrow from there.

What's free and what isn't

More than 250 of the 380+ presets in the library are free; the rest require Retrica Pro. The free set isn't a token sample: it spans most of the mood categories below, including the black-and-white, faded, warm-tone, and portrait sets.

With a free account you can browse and shoot with those filters and save the photos and videos you capture. Retrica Pro covers a separate set of features: saving your own custom presets, AI-powered enhancements, and the advanced editing tools.

How Retrica filters are built

Worth understanding before the list: these aren't single-layer overlays. Each filter is a small processing recipe, and different filters use different combinations.

The Cinema filter K-Max applies a vignette (amount −50, feathered) plus a color lookup table. The Tokyo filter Sakura pairs its LUT with a white balance shift (temperature +10, tint +20) for that bright, slightly warm daylight look. Others layer exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, and grain adjustments in sequence.

Practically: the filters adjust tonal range and color relationships the way a manual edit would, rather than just tinting the image.

The filter sets, by mood

Cinematic and film

Cinema: Nine filters built around a movie-still feeling: desaturated, grainy, high-contrast, often monochrome. K-Max, Spartan, T-LC, PRCS2, Vintage, Hacker, Horror, 2Strip, T-HC. Tagged across the set: vintage, retro, film, grainy, nostalgic, muted, moody, grungy. Reach for these when you want a frame that reads as a still from something.

Flat Color Series: Scanner, Scanned, GRDAY, Balzac, Silver, 925, Flos, SL0001, Downey, Noir, Esme. Flatter tonal curves and restrained color, closer to a scanned print than a photo.

Faded: Faded, Heze, Expired, MMTS, Toaster, AM, Inkwell, Kelvin, H5, Walden, Hudson. Washed-out, low-contrast looks with the character of expired film.

Black and white

Black&White: Nineteen monochrome filters covering a wide range of contrast and grain: SL0001, Esme, B&W, Talini, Sotla, INFRRD, Hootlin, Ortho, NYIK, Chiup, Kripya, Faded, Cold2, Gains, Iris, Inkwell, H5, Pluto, K-Max. From clean editorial monochrome to heavy, grainy, high-contrast frames.

Silver: A tighter monochrome selection with a colder, more metallic cast.

Warm and atmospheric

Cocoa Nights: Warm browns, ambers, and low indoor light. Aglow, Hygge, Vivien, Earl, Sparkle, Rosy, Caramel, FRPage plus a seasonal sub-set. Good for interiors, evening light, and cafés: anything you want to feel warm rather than bright.

That Winter Night: The cooler counterpart: Lagom, Uki, Julie, B&W, Navi, Hudson, 100Cold. Blue-leaning, quiet, wintry.

The Tree We Had at Home: Flush, Aflame, Pista, Rooibos, Écarté, Bop, Kelvin, Vintage. Nostalgic holiday warmth.

Antique: Rigel, Heze, Propus, Sarir, Polaris, Mizar, Navi, Zosma, Ain. Aged, slightly yellowed tones.

Deep: Deep G, Illume, Teal, Y-Green, Goldie, Golden, Purple, Grzld, Teal2, Slate. Saturated, darker color for moodier frames.

Bright and playful

Tokyo: Sakura, Umi, Momiji, Uki. Bright, high-saturation daylight with a warm white balance push: cherry blossom skies, clear blue, cozy urban daytime.

Arcade: Cherry, Bubble, Candy, Sugar, Jelly. Sweet, high-key, candy-colored.

Greenaholic: Pista, Lime, Mint, Avocado, Olive. Green-forward and fresh.

Be clear / Mist: Fresh, Lively / CRLN, TQISE, Jade. Clean, airy, lightly cool.

Marble: Siena, Marmo, Chiara, Antico, Rico. Soft stone-toned neutrals.

Portraits and everyday

Bestie: Natural, Fab, Cutie, Boo, Chill. Soft, natural-light looks with gentle skin rendering; several include a light beauty pass.

Allure: Sora, Suji, Naak, Azra, Ava.

Chic: Pola, Lightgr, Saturn, E.D., I., Eastern, Newtan, Rosy, Breeze, Stella. Understated and editorial.

Elegant: Caramel, Cold2, FRPage, Cool, A5, Deep G, Morning, Mintcr.

Utility sets

Easy Adjust Kit: Not moods but directions. Bright, LLight, Vivid, BrightV, Faded, WRFaded, CLFaded, Warm, Gold, CLGold, Cool, CLRose, Cold1, MutedBW. Use these when you know what you want to change (warmer, brighter, more faded) rather than which aesthetic you're after.

Blurr&Vignette: Five depth and edge treatments.

Retrica Classics: A curated cross-section pulled from across the library: Lagom, Hygge, Fika, Corsica, Chai, Rooibos, Earl, Relevé, Tendu, Natural, Fab, Suji, Azra, Ava, Shine, Sparkle, Pewpew, I., Eastern, Stella, B&W, INFRRD. A good starting point if you don't want to browse everything.

Themed and specialty

Brilliant: Ballet-named filters (Plié, Relevé, Tendu, Écarté, Coté, Jeté, Porteé, Piqué, Chassé) with crisp, luminous color.

The movie: Vivien, Julie, Gene, Audrey. Named for screen actors; classic and portrait-friendly.

Plexiglass: Planet-named (Pluto, Luna, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune) with strong, unusual color casts.

Wanderlust / Daydream / Nighttone / Retricaera / Island / Tea / Dig in / Phonetic / Superb / BBB / CMBYN / CONTRA / DRM - Dream / ATE: Additional sets covering travel, dreamlike softness, low light, food, and more.

Finding the right filter faster

1. Start from the mood, not the filter. Open the set that matches the feeling first (Cinema for film stills, Cocoa Nights for warm interiors, Tokyo for bright daylight), then pick within it.

2. Use Easy Adjust Kit when you know the fix. If the photo just needs to be warmer or less contrasty, skip the aesthetic sets entirely.

3. Start with Retrica Classics if you're new. It's a curated cross-section, faster than scrolling the full library.

Shooting with filters applied

Retrica applies filters live in the camera, so you see the final look while framing rather than after the fact. Several filters also carry their own camera configuration. Cinema's K-Max ships with an exposure bias of +0.5, for instance, so capture settings match the look the filter is going for.

Free filters work the same way as paid ones here: live preview, photo and video capture, and saving your shots are all available without a subscription.

Filter sets and counts change as the library is updated. This guide reflects the current lineup.