ZPTH
A camera without light
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Now finds the depth cameras on the newest iPhones by capability, not by name — so the depth modes start normally on the latest models. 45 modes, all on-device.
ZPTH reads the depth in front of you and paints it in real time. Point it at a face, a room, or your hand and watch it become light, contour lines, plasma, chrome, cut paper, or a drifting cloud of dust. Capture a photo or record video straight to Photos — or stream the live preview to your computer over NDI.
Fifteen of the modes need no depth sensor at all: a Core ML model running on your device infers depth from a single camera, so they run on both the front and rear camera of any iPhone ZPTH installs on. The other thirty read the front TrueDepth camera, or the rear LiDAR scanner on Pro models.
FIFTEEN MODES, NO DEPTH SENSOR NEEDED
• Parallax — the camera orbits the scene from one still viewpoint.
• Anaglyph — real red/cyan 3D from one lens, plus a glasses-free wiggle.
• Aperture — a cinema lens: shaped bokeh, iris blades, a focus puller.
• Vertigo — Hitchcock's dolly zoom, live.
• Nebula — a cloud that wraps behind people rather than over them.
• Motes — dust, snow and embers drifting in the air in front of the scene.
• Godlight — sun shafts your hand casts a real shadow through.
• Aerial — true atmospheric perspective: haze, distance, a warm sun glow.
• Woodblock — an engraving whose hatch lines curve around every surface.
• Stipple — ink dots sized by curvature and spaced like a Seurat.
• Papercut — the scene as up to 20 torn paper plates, each shadowing the next.
• Riso — a risograph print in misregistered spot-colour plates.
• Lattice — a scan plane leaves a glowing wireframe mesh in its wake.
• Hologram — scanlines, chromatic fringing, a projection cone from below.
• Datamosh — codec smear, with depth deciding what tears and what holds.
THIRTY DEPTH-CAMERA MODES
Environment, Face, Raw, Plasma, Organic, Data, Contour, Hillshade, Chrome, Oil Slick, Pulsar, Sonar, Pin Screen, Voxel, Facets, Light Trails, Miniature, Iron Filings, Dither, Juicy, Aerochrome, Heat Ghost, Solarise, Cymatic, Aquarelle, Tessera, Chemigram, Ripplefield, Ferrofluid and Lichtenberg — from topographic isolines and liquid chrome to false-colour infrared, wet watercolour, Roman mosaic, a vibrating Chladni sand plate, and forking lightning. Pulsar and Cymatic can move to live sound.
CREATOR MODE (Pro)
Build your own mode. Start from an empty depth field and stack effect layers grouped by function — texture, lighting, lines, edge, colour, bloom. Each layer has its own controls, opacity and blend mode. Shape how they fall through near and far depth, import a photo as a depth-projected tileset, then save it as a named mode.
CAPTURE
• Tap the shutter for a photo; hold and swipe up to record video.
• Everything saves straight to your Photos library.
• Double-tap to toggle 3:4 and full-screen 9:16.
• Cut to the plain camera and back, even mid-recording.
NDI STREAMING (Pro)
Broadcast the live preview to OBS, TouchDesigner, vMix and other NDI receivers on your local network, turning your iPhone into a depth-camera source for your desktop. A second optional stream carries the raw camera alongside the effect. Off by default; Wired mode over USB-C lowers latency.
PRO
ZPTH Pro is a one-time $2 purchase — no subscription. It unlocks the fifteen monocular modes, every other mode's settings, the colour maps, all presets, Creator Mode and NDI streaming. The thirty depth-camera modes are free to explore on their first preset; the monocular modes need Pro.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no tracking. Camera frames are processed on the device and never leave it — unless you save a photo or video, or turn on NDI to reach your own computer on your own network. The microphone is used only by Pulsar and Cymatic, is off by default, and is never recorded or transmitted.
REQUIREMENTS
iPhone only. The monocular modes run on any supported iPhone. The rest need a front TrueDepth camera (iPhone X or later) or a rear LiDAR scanner (Pro models).
ZPTH 3.3.1 is a compatibility release for the newest iPhones.
THE LATEST iPHONE MODELS • ZPTH now identifies your iPhone's depth cameras by what they can actually deliver rather than by name. On a new iPhone whose front TrueDepth module or rear LiDAR scanner is presented differently from the models ZPTH was built against, the depth modes now find the sensor and start normally. If you saw a "no LiDAR camera" message on a new iPhone, that is what this release fixes. • ZPTH now re-checks for your depth cameras once you have granted camera access, instead of trusting a check that could run before the permission prompt was answered. • The camera flip button now appears only when both the front and rear camera can deliver depth in the mode you are in, so it can no longer flip you to a camera with nothing to show. In the monocular modes, which need no depth sensor, it stays available on every iPhone as before. • If no depth sensor is found at all, ZPTH now opens in the monocular modes — the fifteen that infer depth from a single camera on-device — rather than on a black preview. On such a device those modes are not locked behind Pro.
All 45 modes, the Creator editor, the Home Screen widgets and NDI streaming are unchanged.
Everything still runs on your device. No account, no internet, no tracking; the microphone (Pulsar, Cymatic) and local-network (NDI) features remain opt-in and off by default.
The developer, ari lintzeris, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- ari lintzeris
- Size
- 32.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- ZPTH Pro Lifetime $9.99
- Copyright
- © Aristides Labs
