Moodshot: Photo to Music
Snap a photo, hear the mood
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your surroundings often reflect how you feel. Snap what is in front of you and let the light, scene, and hour spin a matching record. Everything stays on device.
How you feel right now often lives in what is right in front of you.
A half-empty cup of coffee, notes spread across the desk, twilight moving past a car window, or a warm lamp late at night. Your surroundings, the light, and the hour often know your mood before you do.
Take out your phone and point the camera at whatever is around you. Moodshot reads the scene, the tone, and the time of day, letting your environment pick a record for you.
Every photo becomes an album sleeve. The vinyl slides out from behind it and starts spinning, the mood surfaces letter by letter, and a matching Apple Music playlist begins to play. Under the mood name, one line shows exactly what the app saw, so the choice never feels arbitrary.
Key Features:
• Turn your surroundings into a record
Point the camera at whatever is around you. Scene recognition, overall tone (warmth, brightness, saturation), and the time of day rank eighteen moods to match the atmosphere of your space. The photo never leaves your device.
• Shows its reasoning
A line under the mood name lists what it saw: the recognized scene, the hour, and the cast of light.
• Plays inside the app
An Apple Music playlist starts on its own. Full tracks with an Apple Music subscription; 30-second previews without one.
• Not convinced? Try another pressing
The two runner-up moods sit under OTHER PRESSINGS. Tap one and the sleeve swaps out, the label changes colour, and a different playlist loads.
• Keep the ones worth keeping
Save a moment, and the photo, mood, and playlist go onto a shelf of record sleeves. Open one to hear it again. The free version holds twelve records and exports three record cards; a one-time Deluxe unlock lifts both limits and adds four alternate app icons. It does not include music.
• On your home screen
Two widgets: Moments, the shelf of records you saved, and What to Play, the one that fits right now. Tap either to go straight in.
• Can't take a photo? Take one off the shelf
Six moods are always on the shelf: commuting, studying, coffee, a slow afternoon, a workout, and late night. Pick one and the record plays, no photo needed.
• A record, not a list
Three tracks on the front, like an A-side. Pull up the inner sleeve for the full tracklist, split into SIDE A and SIDE B. Swipe the sleeve to change tracks.
iPhone and iPad, with a layout of its own on the larger screen. No account, no analytics, nothing uploaded. Recognition runs entirely on device and works with the network off; only fetching the playlist needs a connection.
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Information
- Seller
- 迪 黎
- Size
- 18.7 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Moodshot Deluxe $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 DI LI