For iPhone and iPhone Duo

An instant camera in your pocket.

Snapshots turns your iPhone into an instant camera. Press the shutter, watch your photo print and develop, then write on it and keep it.

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Snapshots on an iPhone: the camera.
Snapshots on an iPhone Duo open in Landscape: viewfinder on one screen, camera controls on the other.
Shoot. Print. Caption. Share.

The waiting is the best part.

Instant cameras made you wait for the picture. Snapshots brings that back, right down to the sound of the printer.

PRINTINGCOMPLETED

Frame it

The viewfinder is the shape of the print, so what you see is what you get.

Press the shutter

The printer whirs and your photo feeds out of its slot.

Watch it develop

The picture fades up like instant film. Shake your phone and it comes up at once.

Make it yours

Write a caption across it, then save it to your gallery or throw it away.

Start to finish

Everything a camera needs. Nothing it doesn't.

One screen to shoot, one moment to wait, and a print to keep forever. Then add a few words to remember the story behind it.

The Snapshots camera on an iPhone: viewfinder, shutter, film dial and film counter.
The camera

A real camera body

A big shutter, a film dial, and a counter for your pack of ten.

A print feeding out of the printer at the top of the screen.
The printer

A printer built in

It sits across the top of the screen and feeds out every photo you take.

A print part-way through developing, its colors still faint.
The print

Watch it develop

Watch the colors appear, then add a handwritten-style caption.

The Snapshots gallery: a grid of kept prints.
The gallery

A shoebox of prints

Everything you keep, ready to share or save to Photos.

Sideways

Turn it on its side

The camera steps aside and your prints are laid out like photographs on a table. Flick through them, and tap one to pick it up.

Snapshots on an iPhone turned sideways: prints laid out in an overlapping row.
On the nightstand

A clock while it charges

Turn your iPhone on its side while it's charging and Snapshots becomes a bedside clock, with your prints shuffling past beside the time.

Snapshots on an iPhone on its side: a clock on the left and a small pile of prints on the right.
Designed like hardware

Controls you can almost feel.

Snapshots has a camera body, with parts that move the way real ones do.

  • A film dial that clicks round through five styles, always clockwise.
  • A zoom step for every lens your iPhone has. Slide along them for anything in between.
  • Flash, self-timer and the front camera, each one tap away.
  • Two themes, light and dark, or let it match your phone.
The Snapshots camera in its light theme.
The Snapshots camera in its dark theme.
Designed for iPhone Duo

Unfold a bigger camera.

On iPhone Duo, Snapshots is built around the fold. Shoot with it in the Seated pose, then unfold it flat and watch your photo print.

Fold it half open

The upper screen is your viewfinder. The lower one becomes a camera body, with a shutter worth pressing.

Take the shot

The printer whirs and your photo waits in its slot, just peeking out.

Unfold

Open the phone flat and the print feeds out onto a table to display in full view.

Watch it develop

The picture fades up like instant film. Shake to hurry it along, then write a caption on the bottom.

Snapshots on an iPhone Duo open in Landscape, in the Night Sky theme: a finished print captioned Golden hour on the left screen, the camera controls on the right.
Snap it. Keep it. Display it.

Your moments, in every position.

Snapshots rearranges itself around the fold, so the controls are always under your thumbs and the viewfinder is always where you're looking.

Snapshots on the front display of a closed iPhone Duo.
Closed

A pocketable instant camera

Everything you need on the front display: shutter, film dial, zoom and your last print.

Snapshots on an iPhone Duo in the Seated pose: the viewfinder on the upper half of the screen, the camera controls on the lower half.
Seated

A camera that stands by itself

Viewfinder up top, flash, zoom and shutter below. Set it down, start the self-timer and step into the picture.

Snapshots on an iPhone Duo open in Landscape: viewfinder on the left screen, controls on the right.
Landscape

Two screens, two jobs

A clear viewfinder on one side and the whole camera on the other. Flip a rocker to swap them for your left or right hand.

Snapshots on an iPhone Duo open in Portrait: a printer across the top of the display with a finished print below it.
Portrait

A bigger camera, a bigger print

Open it flat for a large viewfinder above the controls. Press the shutter and the whole display becomes the printer's table, with your print enlarged to fill it.

Landscape

All your snapshots in one place

Open the gallery on the big display and your prints are spread out in front of you, with share, save and delete down the side where your thumb is.

The Snapshots gallery on an iPhone Duo open in Landscape: three rows of prints across both screens.
Closed, on its side

Prints on the table

Fold it shut and turn it sideways, and the front display lays your prints out like photographs on a table. Flick through them, and tap one to pick it up.

Snapshots on the front display of a closed iPhone Duo turned on its side: prints laid out in an overlapping row.
Standing

A clock that shows your snapshots

Stand your iPhone Duo up like a tent and the front display becomes a clock, with your prints shuffling past beside the time. Star White by day, Night Sky by night.

Snapshots on the front display of an iPhone Duo: a clock on the left and a small pile of prints on the right.
Designed for the hardware

Controls you can almost feel.

Snapshots has a camera body, with parts that move the way real ones do.

  • A film dial that clicks round through five styles, always clockwise.
  • Rockers and switches for the flash, the cameras and which screen holds the controls.
  • A ring dial for the self-timer and a stepper for however many lenses your phone has.
  • Two themes, named for the finishes iPhone Duo comes in: Star White and Night Sky.
The Snapshots camera body in Star White.
The Snapshots camera body in Night Sky.
Five film styles

Pick a look before you shoot.

Turn the dial and the viewfinder changes live, so what you see is what prints.

A beach at sunset in the Classic film style.
CLASSIC
The same photo in the Gold film style, warmer and richer.golden hour
GOLD
The same photo in the Coast film style, cooler.
COAST
The same photo in the Sepia film style, brown-toned.
SEPIA
The same photo in the Mono film style, black and white.
MONO
The small things

Simple on purpose.

Shake to develop

Too excited to wait? Give the phone a shake and your snapshot develops immediately.

Handwritten captions

Add a caption along the bottom of your photo to remember the story behind it.

Selfies too

Flip to the front camera, with a wider view for when you need to fit everyone in.

Self-timer

Three or ten seconds. Prop your phone up and step into the picture.

Focus and exposure

Tap to focus, press and hold to lock, then slide to brighten or darken.

Private by design

No accounts, no ads. Your photos stay on your phone.

Ryan Fredericks, who made Snapshots, sitting on a stool and smiling, a camera lens in his hand.Hey there! 👋🏻
Meet the maker

Hi, I'm Ryan.

I've always been a huge fan of Apple products. I waited in line for the original iPhone, and I still remember the feeling of holding it for the first time: new, exciting and fun, like nothing I'd held before. It felt like the future!

Ever since that day I've wanted to build an app of my own. I just never found a reason big enough to start. iPhone Duo is that reason.

It brings that same feeling back, and inspired me to create something for it straight away. Snapshots is my first app, and the first thing I've ever felt compelled to make and share with the world.

I hope Snapshots gives you a little of that feeling too, and a shoebox full of memories worth keeping.

Ryan Fredericks