Appynox · SameShot
Progress is invisible from the inside.
You cannot see a change you live through daily. The mirror updates faster than you notice, so the only honest witness is a photograph taken the same way, over and over.
Why it exists
The app started as a complaint about a folder.
Everyone who tracks something slow ends up with the same folder: forty photos of the same subject, none of which line up. Different distance, different corner of the room, different time of day. The change is genuinely in there, buried under variables nobody controlled.
The fix turned out not to be smarter software after the fact. It was showing the last photo through the viewfinder while you take the next one. Once you have seen it, every camera without it feels like it is missing something obvious.
What guides the build
- Capture time beats edit time. A photo taken from the right place needs no correction, and a correction always costs something.
- The subject is not our business. We hold the frame steady. What is in the frame is yours to interpret.
- No server unless a feature genuinely needs one. So far, none has.
- Say the limits out loud. An honest boundary is more useful than a hopeful feature.
The architecture is the privacy policy
We did not promise to protect your photos. We built somewhere they cannot go.
Most privacy claims are policies: promises about what a company will choose to do with data it holds. This one is structural. There is no server, so there is no copy to protect, subpoena, sell or lose.
Concretely: no account system, no login, no backend, and no network calls of any kind. Face and pose detection run on the device with on-device ML. No analytics SDKs and no ad SDKs, so there is no tracking prompt because there is nothing to track. The store privacy label readsData Not Collected, and the app ships a privacy manifest declaring exactly that. Turn on App Lock and it asks for a fingerprint, face or PIN before opening. Full detail on the privacy page.
Honest limits
What SameShot is not.
Several apps beside this one will read a photo of your body and hand back a number. That is a different product with a different set of risks, and it is not this one.
- Not a body scanner. It does not estimate your body fat, rate your physique or score your muscles.
- Not a coach. It does not tell you what to eat or how to train.
- Not a photo editor. It never retouches, slims or smooths anything in your photos.
- Not a social network. There is no feed, no profile and no one else can see your projects.
- Not a cloud service. There is no server, so there is nothing to breach and nothing to subscribe to for storage.
Where things stand
Where it runs, stated plainly.
| Android | Live on Google Play as SameShot: Progress Photos. |
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| iOS | In development. Not on the App Store yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. |
| Price | Free. No subscription, no in-app purchase required to use the camera. |
| Accounts | None. There is nothing to sign up for. |
| Made by | Appynox, a small independent studio. |
| Contact | [email protected] |
Tell us what you are tracking.
The app is young, which means what you tell us still changes what gets built next. Install it, then tell us what you shoot and how often.
SameShot: Progress Photos
Appynox · Lifestyle
Before and after photos that line up. Ghost overlay camera, AI auto capture.
- Price
- Free
- Rated
- Everyone
- Account
- Not required
- iOS
- In development
Free, no account, nothing uploaded. Android 8.0 and above.