Snappy - Interactive Camera

Auto capture by sound & motion

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Shoots by itself: sound, movement, brightness, distance, heading, what's in frame, or a gesture. A peace sign or raised arms takes the group photo from across the room. A camera that shoots without you pressing the shutter. Sound, movement, brightness, heading, what's in frame — Snappy watches the sensors and releases the shutter the moment the condition you set is met. Use it with the phone on a tripod or a table, from a distance, when your hands are busy, or when you want to be in the picture yourself. The shutter button still works, of course. It's an ordinary camera too. ■ Eight trigger conditions • Shake — shoots when you shake the phone • Sound — shoots when it hears a loud noise • Motion — shoots when something moves in frame • Brightness — shoots when it gets brighter • Distance — shoots when something comes closer than the distance you set, using LiDAR or TrueDepth • Compass — shoots when the phone faces a heading you choose • Object — shoots when something you picked appears in frame, from 77 kinds including people, cats, dogs, birds, animals and cars • Gesture — shoots on a peace sign held up to the camera, or on both arms raised, which reads from right across a room Most conditions can be flipped to shoot when the value *falls* instead. When it goes quiet, when it gets dark, when the movement stops — the reverse works too. ■ Set the threshold with your finger The indicator just above the preview shows what the sensor is feeling right now. Drag the white line and the threshold moves with it, while you watch the frame. No need to open Settings. ■ Two trigger modes • Continuous — keeps shooting for as long as the condition stays met • Standby — shoots once, then waits until the condition is no longer met before it will shoot again Choose Standby when the situation holds steady — someone standing still, a room that stays bright — so you don't end up with a hundred of the same photo. ■ Features • Shot count (unlimited, or 1–100) • Interval Time between shots, from 0.0 to 99.9 seconds • Delay Time before the shot, from 0.0 to 99.9 seconds, with a countdown ring around the shutter button • A sound when the condition is met, so you know it noticed even from behind the camera • Automatic capture lock — the sensors keep watching, but nothing is taken • Grid (thirds / center) • Inclinometer showing side-to-side and front-to-back tilt at once • Aspect ratio (default / square) • Saved size (full / 1:2 / 1:4) • Add location • Capture review • Disable Auto-Lock, so a long session isn't cut short by the screen turning off • Front and back camera Photos are saved to the iOS Photos library, with what triggered the shot written into the file's EXIF. ■ Some ways to use it • Leave it by the door or in the garden and catch whoever — or whatever — turns up • Clap your hands to take the shot from across the room • Raise both arms from across the room and be in the photo yourself • Catch fireworks and lightning on brightness • Put it beside a path and shoot whatever comes within a metre • Shake the phone to shoot • Shoot when the phone faces a particular direction Open the Quick Guide from Description in Settings. It includes recipes like these. This app shows ads. An in-app purchase removes them.

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■ Fixed A photo taken in portrait could be saved rotated 90°, when Aspect Ratio was Square or Size was anything but Full. Landscape shots were unaffected. ■ Fixed Automatic capture could not be stopped. With Trigger Mode set to Continuous and a condition that stayed met, the lock button did nothing at all when Interval Time was zero, and took a photo instead of locking when it wasn't. It now locks whenever you tap it, and nothing is shot while it is locked. ■ Interval Time and Delay Time Both are now set and shown in tenths of a second — 0.0 to 99.9 s — instead of milliseconds. That is the granularity anyone actually sets a gap or a delay at, and it is one wheel's worth of spinning rather than a thousand positions. ■ Also Settings reopen where you left them. The guide can be shared or copied. Sound mode measures the level without ever writing audio to disk. Compass headings are now recorded in photos as magnetic, which is what they are. If the camera is taken by a call or another app, the preview says so instead of going quietly black.

The developer, Masayuki Akamatsu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Used to Track You

    The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

    • Identifiers
  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More

Seller
  • 正行 Akamatsu
Size
  • 5.3 MB
Category
  • Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
Languages
  • English and Japanese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © Masayuki Akamatsu