Raise your palm
Hold an open hand up to the camera until the ring fills. A fist, a wave or a peace sign won't set it off.
SHOOTS: The hands-free self timer camera for iPhone & Apple Watch
Prop your iPhone up, step into frame and pose. SHOOTS takes the whole photoshoot for you: a countdown, then shot after shot on your timer, while a voice hypes you up.
Download on theApp Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera
- Free to download
- No account
- No ads · no tracking
- iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch
- 11 languages
- iOS 18.6+
Auto shoot
Be your own paparazzi
No friend to ask. No stranger holding your phone like a remote. No sprinting back after every click. SHOOTS turns a propped-up iPhone into a photographer that keeps shooting while you pose.
- 01
Hands-free capture
Custom delays and intervals do the work while you pose: from a burst for hair flips to one frame an hour.
- 02
Apple Watch remote
Start, stop, zoom and flip from your wrist. With SHOOTS+, see the live viewfinder on your Watch.
- 03
100% on-device
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your photos never leave your iPhone unless you share them.
How it works
Set it. Step in. Strike a pose.
Four taps before the shoot, zero after. Real screens from the app.
01Pick a delay
Up to 60 seconds to walk into place and settle.
02Pick a rhythm
A photo every half second, every few seconds, up to once an hour, or a rapid burst.
03Pick how many
5, 10 or 25 photos. With SHOOTS+, up to 1,000 or Forever.
04Tap and pose
3, 2, 1, and SHOOTS fires frame after frame. It tells you when it's a wrap.
0 / 5
That's
a wrap!5 photos · zero help
a wrap!5 photos · zero help
Try it here
Run a shoot in your browser
Pick the settings, hit the shutter and watch the rhythm of a real SHOOTS session: the countdown, the frames, a little hype. (In the app, the camera is real.)
Photoshoot start
Timer mode
Photo limit
Hands-free start
Start with a wave. Or a word.
Already in position? Don't walk back to the phone. Raise your palm or say “Cheese” and SHOOTS counts you in, always with at least 3 seconds to drop your hand and find your pose. Free, and recognized right on your iPhone.
Say “Cheese”
SHOOTS listens while the camera waits. Speech is recognized on your iPhone and never leaves it.
Siri & Shortcuts
“Start a photoshoot with SHOOTS.” Or build it into a Shortcut with your mode, camera and timer.
Widgets & Control Center
Home Screen, Lock Screen and a Control Center button. One tap opens the camera and starts the shoot. In black & yellow, black & white or white & black.
Volume buttons
On the camera screen, a volume button (or Camera Control) starts, stops and resumes the shoot.
Or your other device
An Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad can start it from across the room. See the remote ›
Timer mode
Any rhythm. Your pace.
From bursts for jumps and hair flips to one frame an hour for long sessions. Tap an interval to see what it's for.
Burst SHOOTS+
High quality
3 s · our favorite for a first shoot: time to shift pose, never long enough to freeze up.
Contact sheet
Ten frames of SHOOTS
Apple Watch
Your wrist is the remote
Leave the iPhone on the wall and run the shoot from your Watch. Nobody sees a phone in your hand, because there isn't one. (Apple Watch pairs with iPhone, so this one is iPhone-only.)
- 01
Start, stop, resume
Fire the shoot when you're in position, not ten seconds before.
- 02
Digital Crown zoom
Zoom between lenses with the crown, flip cameras, switch mode and flash in Options.
- 03
Live viewfinder SHOOTS+
See exactly what your iPhone sees, right on your wrist, and frame the shot before you start.
iPhone & iPad remote
Your other device, your viewfinder
Shooting with your iPhone? Hold your iPad, or a second iPhone, and run the whole shoot from it: start and stop, switch lenses and modes, and with SHOOTS+ see the live picture big enough to fix a stray hair before the shutter fires.
- 01
Turn it on once
On the camera: Menu → Remote → “Another iPhone or iPad as remote”.
- 02
Pick the camera
On the other device: Menu → Remote → “Use this device as a remote”, then tap Allow on the camera. It won't ask again for that device.
- 03
Direct, not cloud
The two connect straight to each other over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth nearby. Nothing passes through a server. Remote controls are free; the live picture is SHOOTS+
Voice & sound
A hype crew and a pose coach in your pocket
Posing alone is easier when someone's directing. SHOOTS announces when the shoot starts and when it's a wrap. With SHOOTS+, “Talk to me” turns on a photographer's voice: Pose Coach calls your next pose between shots, picked for whether you're in close-up or full body, and the compliments keep the energy up. Choose one, or both. Tap to listen.
Five shutter sounds
iPhone · the classic click. Quick · short and crisp, good for bursts. Soft · a gentle tock. Paparazzi · your click, plus photographers around you firing too. Beep · one beep per photo: 25 photos, 25 beeps. Sounds follow the Silent switch, and SHOOTS reminds you if Silent Mode is on.
Pro camera, hands-free
Every lens. Every shape.
A real camera under the timer, built on Apple's camera system: the same lenses, focus and exposure control you'd want if someone else were holding it.
Every lens
Ultra wide to telephoto on the iPhones that have them, front camera wide or standard, pinch to zoom up to 15×.
Focus & exposure
Tap to focus, touch and hold for AE/AF lock, drag to brighten or darken before you walk into frame.
Seven aspect ratios
3:4 full frame, 2:3, 9:16, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and Square. Turn the iPhone and they turn with it.
Grid, level & ghost
A rule-of-thirds grid, a horizon line that lights up when you're level, and a see-through ghost of an earlier photo to match a pose or framing.
Flash, on purpose
Auto, On, Off or Always On, which keeps the light lit for the whole shoot. Flash at night is the 2000s red-carpet look, no filter required.
48MP & ProRAW SHOOTS+
Apple ProRAW (DNG) and 48MP on supported iPhones, on the ultra-wide and telephoto too on iPhone 17 Pro. HEIF or JPEG on every iPhone.
Photo, video & cinematic
Photo is always free. With SHOOTS+, the same hands-free timer takes Portrait and Live Photos, can record a video of the whole shoot while the photos are taken (Photo, Portrait or Live + Video), and runs Video and Cinematic as timed clips: 5 seconds to 5 minutes, up to 10 clips, each after its own countdown, in 4K or HD at 24, 30 or 60 fps.
Gallery
Every shoot, sorted
Twenty-five photos of you are only fun if you can find the good ones. Each shoot lands in the built-in gallery as its own album.
- 01
Drag to select
Swipe across thumbnails to pick a dozen at once. Favorite the keepers with a heart.
- 02
Save where you want
Keep shots in the app, in your Camera Roll, or both. In Photos, each shoot gets its own album.
- 03
Trash with a safety net
Deleted photos wait in Trash for 30 days. Restore them, save them, or let them go.
Private by design
Your photos stay yours
SHOOTS has no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no servers. Your photos are captured and stored on your device and only leave it if you share them. Palm and pose detection and the “Cheese” voice start run on the device, and your Watch, iPhone or iPad remote talks straight to the camera.
- No account
- No ads
- No tracking
- No analytics
- On-device
The photo trio
Shoot it. Dump it. Swipe the rest.
SHOOTS takes the photos. Two sister apps from the same developer handle what comes after: posting the best ones and clearing out the rest.
Step 1 · Shoot
SHOOTS
DUMP
Solo.Swipe
SHOOTSProp it up, step in, pose. 25 frames, zero help.
How to shoot yourself › Step 2 · PostDUMPTurn the keepers into a share-ready photo dump, carousel or collage in under a minute.
Meet DUMP › Step 3 · CleanSolo.SwipeSwipe through your camera roll: left to delete, right to keep, up to file into an album.
Meet Solo.Swipe ›Guides & journal
From the SHOOTS Journal
Journal · The flash look
Be your own paparazzi: why the 2000s flash photo is back, and how to shoot it alone
Hard flash, a background gone black, a glint off your sunglasses. The red-carpet photo never needed a red carpet. It just needed someone to fire the flash, and that someone can be your iPhone.
SHOOTS Journal · 7 min read
Guide · Solo photos
How to take good photos of yourself when no one's around
No tripod, no friend, no stranger you have to trust with your phone. Just a ledge, a timer and a plan.
Gül Eda Aydemir · 6 min read
Journal · Pose Coach
Never run out of poses
Every photographer has a running script: chin down, turn, walk to me, laugh. Now your propped-up iPhone has one too.
SHOOTS Journal · 5 min read
Guide · Self-timer
How to take more than one photo on an iPhone timer (and space them out)
Apple’s timer counts down and shoots one moment. Here’s how to squeeze more out of it, and when to switch to an interval camera.
Gül Eda Aydemir · 7 min read
Journal · Camera roll routine
Shoot it, DUMP it, swipe the rest: my 3-app camera roll routine
Twenty-five photos in, one carousel out, and a camera roll that doesn't make me sigh. The whole routine, from shutter to post.
Gül Eda, xoxo · 5 min read
Guide · Hands-free start
How to start a photoshoot without touching your phone
The worst part of a timer shot is the sprint from the phone to your spot. Here are all the ways to skip it, with Apple’s Camera and with SHOOTS.
Gül Eda Aydemir · 7 min readFAQ
Quick answers
What is SHOOTS?
SHOOTS is a hands-free self timer camera for iPhone with an Apple Watch app. You prop your iPhone up, pick a start delay, an interval and how many photos you want, tap the shutter and pose. SHOOTS counts you in and keeps taking photos on your timer until the shoot is done, so you can be your own photographer.
How is it different from the iPhone Camera timer?
The built-in Camera timer counts down and fires once. SHOOTS keeps going: a start delay of up to 60 seconds, then one photo every 0.5 seconds up to once an hour, for 5 to 25 photos on the free version (up to 1,000 or Forever with SHOOTS+). You change pose between frames instead of running back to the phone.
Can I use my Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad as the remote?
Yes. The SHOOTS Watch app starts, stops and resumes a shoot, zooms with the Digital Crown, flips cameras and changes mode and flash (Apple Watch pairs with iPhone only). A second iPhone or iPad running SHOOTS can be the remote too: allow it once on the camera. The controls are free; the live picture on the Watch or the other device is part of SHOOTS+.
Can I start a shoot without touching the phone?
Yes. Raise your open palm to the camera or say “Cheese”, and SHOOTS starts with at least a 3-second countdown so you can lower your hand and pose. You can also say “Start a photoshoot with SHOOTS” to Siri, tap a widget or the Control Center control, or press a volume button. All of these are free.
Is SHOOTS free?
SHOOTS is free to download, and hands-free photo shoots of up to 25 photos are free, with every interval from half a second to an hour, every aspect ratio, the grid, level and ghost overlay, voice announcements, the palm and “Cheese” hands-free start, and remote control from an Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad. SHOOTS+ is an optional upgrade for bigger and faster shoots, ProRAW, 48MP, video modes, the live viewfinder on your remote, and the photographer’s voice with Pose Coach and compliments. See the App Store for details.
Does SHOOTS upload my photos?
No. There is no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and SHOOTS has no servers. Your photos are captured and stored on your device and only leave it if you share them. Palm and pose detection and the “Cheese” voice start run on the device, and a remote iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch connects directly to it.
SHOOTS · Self timer camera
Your solo
photographer.
Download on theApp Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera