Photoshoot start
Instant, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 seconds before the first photo: time to put the phone down, walk over and settle.
- SHOOTS
- Features
Features
Every feature,
on one contact sheet
SHOOTS is a hands-free self timer camera: you set a start delay, an interval and how many photos you want, then pose while it takes the whole photoshoot. Here's everything it does, checked against the app itself. Features marked SHOOTS+ are part of the optional upgrade.
Download on theApp Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera
The shoot
Delay. Interval. How many. Go.
Three settings decide every shoot. Set them once, tap the shutter, walk into frame.
Timer mode
High-quality intervals of 0.5 s, 1 s, 2 s, 3 s, 5 s, 10 s, 30 s, 1 min, 5 min or 1 h. Burst intervals of about 42, 100 and 200 ms for movement SHOOTS+
Photo limit
5, 10 or 25 photos per shoot. 50, 100, 200, 500, 1,000 or Forever, which keeps shooting until you tap stop SHOOTS+
While it shoots
- 01
Countdown you can hear
3, 2, 1 with countdown beeps, then a progress pill on screen (for example 13 / 25). Tap once to stop; a paused shoot can be resumed.
- 02
A voice that tells you
"Here we go — the photoshoot is starting." … "That's a wrap!" You never have to walk back to check.
- 03
Built for long shoots
Keeps the screen awake, warns about low battery and low storage out loud, and pauses if the iPhone gets too hot, then carries on once it cools down.
- 04
One album per shoot
Every photoshoot lands in the gallery as its own session, so the 25 shots of you don't drown in your camera roll.
Hands-free start
Start it from where you're standing
Every hands-free start counts down at least 3 seconds, even on an Instant plan, so there's time to lower your hand and pose. All of these are free.
- Raise your palm
- Hold an open hand up to the camera for a moment, until the ring fills. Works best within a few meters and in good light. Turn it on in Photoshoot start → Hands-free start.
- Say “Cheese”
- SHOOTS listens while the camera waits. “Cheese” is recognized in English, on the device; speech never leaves your iPhone. Needs microphone and speech recognition access.
- Volume buttons
- On the camera screen, a volume button (or Camera Control) starts, stops and resumes the shoot.
- Siri & Shortcuts
- “Start a photoshoot with SHOOTS”, in your device's language. Start Photoshoot and Stop Photoshoot actions in the Shortcuts app, with mode, front or back camera and timer.
- Widgets
- Home Screen: Start, Quick Starts (back or front camera) and Shutter. Lock Screen: circular, rectangular and inline. A Start Photoshoot control in Control Center. Black & Yellow, Black & White or White & Black.
- Remotes
- An Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad starts it from across the room. See below.
Apple Watch
The remote on your wrist
The SHOOTS Watch app talks straight to your iPhone over Apple's Watch connection. No Bluetooth clicker, no app account.
- Free
- Start, stop and resume a shoot · zoom with the Digital Crown (tap to jump lens stops) · flip cameras · change capture mode and flash · end the shoot · see countdown and progress
- SHOOTS+
- Live viewfinder: see what the iPhone sees, frame the shot from where you're standing
- Needs
- Apple Watch with watchOS 10.6 or later, paired with an iPhone running SHOOTS nearby. Apple Watch doesn't pair with iPad, so on iPad use another iPhone or iPad as the remote instead.
iPhone & iPad remote
A second screen for your shoot
A second iPhone or iPad running SHOOTS becomes the remote for the device you're shooting with.
- Free
- Start and stop shoots, switch lenses and modes from the other device
- SHOOTS+
- The live picture from the camera on the remote's screen (SHOOTS+ on the camera device), with the ghost overlay too
- Set up
- Camera: Menu → Remote → “Another iPhone or iPad as remote”. Remote: Menu → Remote → “Use this device as a remote”, then Allow once on the camera
- Connection
- Directly between the two devices over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth nearby; allow Local Network for SHOOTS on both. No server, no account
Camera
A real camera under the timer
- Lenses
- Every lens your iPhone has: 0.5×, 1×, 2×, 3× or 5× on the back where available; 0.8× wide and 1× on the front. Pinch to zoom up to 15×.
- Focus & exposure
- Tap to focus, touch and hold for AE/AF lock, drag up or down to brighten or darken.
- Flash
- Auto, On, Off or Always On, which keeps the light lit for the whole shoot.
- Formats
- HEIF or JPEG. Apple ProRAW (DNG) on supported iPhones SHOOTS+
- Resolution
- 48 MP ultra-high resolution on supported iPhones, including the ultra-wide and telephoto cameras on iPhone 17 Pro SHOOTS+
- 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.
- Framing
- Rule-of-thirds grid, a level guide that lights up when you're straight, mirror selfies for the front camera.
- Ghost overlay
- A see-through photo over the viewfinder (your last shot or one from your library, with adjustable opacity) to match a pose or framing. Free on the camera; on Apple Watch and remote viewfinders with SHOOTS+.
Modes & video
Eight capture modes
Photo is free. Portrait, Live, Photo + Video, Portrait + Video, Live + Video, Video and Cinematic are part of SHOOTS+ and use the same hands-free timer. Modes your iPhone can't do are hidden.
- Record video too
- Photo, Portrait or Live can film the whole shoot while the photos are taken
- Clip length
- 5 s, 10 s, 15 s, 30 s, 1 min, 2 min or 5 min
- Clips
- 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10, each after its own countdown so you can get back into position
- Quality
- 4K or HD at 24, 30 or 60 fps, as your camera supports
- Shape
- Video clips are 9:16 and Live Photos 3:4 on an upright iPhone
- Sound
- Microphone access is asked only when you use a mode that records sound
Voice & sound
Sound like a red carpet
- Shutter sound
- iPhone (the classic click), Quick (short and crisp, good for bursts), Soft (a gentle tock), Paparazzi (your click plus photographers firing around you) or Beep (one beep per photo). In regions where iPhone always plays its own click, that click plays instead.
- Countdown beeps
- On or off.
- Announcements
- Spoken when a shoot starts and ends, and if battery, storage or heat need attention.
- Talk to me
- A photographer's voice during shoots. Coaching: Compliments, Pose coach or Both SHOOTS+
- Pose Coach
- Between shots it calls your next pose, picked for how you're framed: close-up (“Rest your chin on your hand”), full body (“Now walk toward me”, “Give me a spin!”), or “Step into the frame so I can see you.” Each pose holds for a couple of shots.
- Compliments
- Now and then while photos are taken: “Honestly? Iconic.”
- Voice volume
- Its own slider. The recorded voice is English; with the app in another language, iPhone's own voice speaks the lines in that language.
- Silent Mode
- Sounds follow the Silent switch; SHOOTS tells you when Silent Mode is on.
- Haptics
- Haptic feedback on or off.
Gallery & storage
Find the keepers fast
- Albums
- Every shoot is its own album, grouped by Today, Yesterday, This Week, This Month and Earlier, plus All Photos and Favorites.
- Selecting
- Drag across thumbnails to select many at once, or Select All. Comfortable or compact grid.
- Viewer
- Full screen with share, favorite and delete. Live Photos play. Ultra-high-res shots carry a 48MP badge; shots fired from the Watch say so.
- Save to
- App Only, Camera Roll, or Both. In Photos, each shoot gets its own album, like "SHOOTS - 22/10/26 14:05".
- Trash
- Deleted photos and videos wait 30 days: restore them, save them to Photos, or delete them for good.
- Backups
- App Only shots stay on the device and aren't included in iCloud or device backups. Save your keepers to Photos to back them up.
The first three seconds
Opening night, every launch
SHOOTS opens like a red-carpet arrival: the autofocus hunts and locks, the paparazzi open fire and every flash catches one letter, then the money shot prints the logo black on flash yellow. Tap to skip. With Reduce Motion or Dim Flashing Lights turned on in iOS, there's no strobing at all: it goes straight to the final frame.
Free vs SHOOTS+
What's free, what's SHOOTS+
SHOOTS is free to download and the core hands-free shoot is free. SHOOTS+ is an optional upgrade; you'll find the current details on the App Store.
| Feature | Free | SHOOTS+ |
|---|---|---|
| Start delay (Instant to 60 s) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intervals 0.5 s to 1 h | ✓ | ✓ |
| Burst intervals (≈42, 100, 200 ms) | — | ✓ |
| Photos per shoot | 5, 10 or 25 | Up to 1,000 or Forever |
| Every lens, zoom, focus & exposure, flash | ✓ | ✓ |
| HEIF / JPEG, all 7 aspect ratios, grid, level | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apple ProRAW (DNG) and 48 MP | — | ✓ |
| Portrait, Live, the + Video modes, Video, Cinematic | — | ✓ |
| Hands-free start: palm, “Cheese”, Siri, widgets, volume buttons | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remote controls from Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live viewfinder on Apple Watch, iPhone or iPad | — | ✓ |
| Ghost overlay on the camera | ✓ | ✓ |
| Countdown beeps, shutter sounds, announcements | ✓ | ✓ |
| Talk to me: Pose Coach and compliments | — | ✓ |
| Gallery, favorites, Save to Photos, 30-day Trash | ✓ | ✓ |
| No account, no ads, no tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
Requirements
The fine print
- iPhone & iPad
- iOS or iPadOS 18.6 or later
- Apple Watch
- watchOS 10.6 or later (optional, with iPhone)
- Account
- None. No sign-up, no login
- Ads & tracking
- None
- Languages
- 11: English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Turkish. Change it in Settings → Language
- Permissions
- Camera; microphone for video and Live, or to hear “Cheese”; speech recognition (on device) for “Cheese”; Local Network for the iPhone/iPad remote; Photos only when saving to the Camera Roll
- Developer
- Gül Eda Aydemir, independent
Strike a pose.
Download on theApp Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera