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.
- The app never sends a photo anywhere. The optional sign-in, the ads and the usage statistics go online. A photo leaves only when you share it yourself.
- 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. SameShot has no photo server and no code that uploads a photo, so there is no copy of yours to protect, subpoena, sell or lose.
Concretely: shooting, aligning, comparing and exporting all happen on the phone and work in airplane mode, and face and pose detection run on the device. Some things do go online, and none of them carries a photo: usage statistics through Google Analytics for Firebase, which you can switch off in Settings; Google ads in the free version, never personalised, which the one-time Premium purchase removes; and an optional sign-in that nothing in the app requires. Premium adds App Lock, which asks for a fingerprint, face or PIN before the app opens. The privacy page lists everything the app sends and who receives it.
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. Your photos are never uploaded, so there is no photo library of yours to breach and no storage plan to pay for.
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, with ads and one project. Premium is a one-time purchase that removes every ad and adds unlimited projects, App Lock, saving every photo at once and 1440 px video. No subscription. |
| Accounts | Optional. Nothing in the app needs one, and a Premium purchase follows your Google Play account on its own. |
| 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 with ads, which a one-time Premium removes. No account needed, and your photos stay on your phone. Android 8.0 and above.