Glass — Photography Community 12+
Share Photos and Discover
Glass Labs Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Fall in Love with Photography Again
Discover a new home for your photography with Glass — the subscription-based, community-driven platform designed by photographers, for photographers. Unlike cluttered social media apps, the Glass experience is simple, clean and focused.
Why Glass?
No Ads, No Algorithms — Enjoy a clean, uninterrupted experience focused solely on incredible photography. We don't rely on ads or engagement-driven algorithms.
Chronological Feed — You control your feed. See photos as they are posted, with no confusing algorithms determining what you see. Easily pick up where you left off.
Everywhere — Glass works on iPhone, iPad, and the Web.
Designed for Photographers — With full EXIF data, categories, camera and lens feeds, and more, Glass has the features photographers want.
Community, Not Comparison — Focus on the photography, not your numbers. Build genuine connections with other passionate photographers through meaningful interactions, without public like counts and follower metrics.
Showcase Your Work — Create an optional public profile to share your photography portfolio with the world.
High Quality Images — We display your photos beautifully with minimal compression and support for P3 wide color on the latest devices.
Glass is your home for photography that apps like Instagram and Flickr used to be. With a focus on quality, community and craft, Glass is the place to showcase your best photography work and discover incredible talent from around the world.
Your subscription directly supports our mission to build a sustainable, photographer-focused platform. We're 100% funded by the community - no outside investors, no shareholders, no ads.
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Terms of Use: https://glass.photo/terms
Privacy Policy: https://glass.photo/privacy
What’s New
Version 3.7.2
Here’s the thing about Release Notes — most folks don’t read them and most apps don’t write them. So why are we writing them right now, in hopes that one day you may tap through the right series of taps to land in a spot where you can read them? Great question, thanks for asking.
It’s about care. So much of our lives these days is optimized and flattened and compressed to fit into a small space. Algorithms make the majority of our content decisions, showing us what to watch, what to wear, what to buy, who to be, how to be, where to go, how to act. It’s an endless loop of training data that just hones in on addiction and dopamine mining. And, for the most part, they’re kind of amazing?
It’s not that algorithms are evil in and of themselves, it’s just that it’s so easy to lose ourselves to them. And they’re not going away. So what’s it look like to build something in response to that? It looks like care. It looks like writing little notes, just on the off chance you find them while tapping around your phone and feel a little less alone. It looks like spending dozens of hours tweaking new App Store Screenshots just in case a perfect gradient or line or pixel pushes someone over into signing up for a place that’ll become their favorite spot on the internet. It’s spending months and months of stressful nights to get a feature right instead of shipping something broken in weeks.
The care we invest in Glass and its members is always paid back double by the community. And once you get hooked on caring? There’s no going back. Not that you’d want to.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Choice
We love that Glass elevates your photos with full-screen layouts and minimal compression. In the absence of likes and follower counts, there’s no need to focus on engagement—just share your favorite shots. With an engaged community of amateur and professional shutterbugs alike, the app makes it easy to share your love of photography.
The photo app I’ve been looking for!
I know I’m not alone in feeling like Instagram just isn’t doing it for me anymore - the ads, the influencers, the reels. Need I say more? It’s just not a place for photos anymore, and that makes me so sad. I’ve been looking for a replacement for a while and recently found Glass. At first, I thought there’s no way I’m paying to use it. But after reading about the team and their mission, I figured it was something worth supporting. It’s still in it’s early days, but the more photographers who use it and support it, the better it will be. I actually feel excited to use it - something I haven’t felt about a social media app in a long time. There’s beautiful content and folks are excited to share their thoughts. It’s the start of a great community, and I’m excited to be a part of it!
Solid First Effort
I think this is a solid first step. The issue is I’m not sure the founders have established an identity for Glass outside of it not being Instagram. That’s reflected in the incredibly small feature set and some of the design decisions that feel a little aimless. The discovery tab is awful, full stop. Avatar icons are too big, photos are too small, sideways scrolling on all these tiny photos with no way to preview isn’t fun. Zooming into landscape images by default is also strange. Launching this app without a way to view a user’s full collection of images at a glance feels like a mistake. How did it launch without a way to edit captions? The app was in private beta for a minute and it makes me curious what it was like then.
There’s a lot of workshopping happening in their support pages and I worry they’re going to design this by committee and turn it into a hodgepodge of conflicting ideas. The work I’m referring to that needs to be done isn’t expensive. It doesn’t cost you anything to establish a set of concrete desires for your product. Does Glass want to foster a photography community and get people conversing with one another or does it want to be a portfolio site with some engagement functionality?
I’ve already subscribed for the year, I’m rooting for you all to turn this into something. Figure out what you want to be and pls god get more women on your platform.
Events
App Privacy
The developer, Glass Labs Inc., 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Glass Labs Inc.
- Size
- 77.7 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Copyright
- © 2024 Glass Labs Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Subscription $6.99
- Yearly Subscription $39.99
- Patron Subscription $129.99