Passport Photo

Don't time the shutter. Let the camera wait.

Coming to the App Store

• Point the camera and stop counting down. The app watches the live scene and takes the photo itself, the moment everything comes together — which is the only way this works when the person in front of the lens is two years old.
• One instruction at a time, and only when it's worth saying. Move back a little. Face the camera. Hold there. Never a checklist of eleven things you're doing wrong.
• Six applications, each in its own rules: United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia. Every requirement is quoted from the authority that published it, with the date we last read the page.
• Nothing is edited. No background replacement, no skin smoothing, no AI. Those are the things the authorities specifically forbid, and they are why photos get refused.

$7.99 once, forever. No subscription.

Why it refuses to edit anything

The popular passport-photo apps sell exactly what the rules forbid. The U.S. Department of State writes: "Do not change your photo using computer software, phone apps or filters, or artificial intelligence." The Home Office asks for a photo "unaltered by computer software". An app that replaces your background is not saving you a trip — it is the reason you make one. So this app has no editing in it at all: the only thing it does to the picture is cut out the part the application asked for.

Where the rules come from

Every requirement carries the sentence the authority actually published and the date we last read their page, and you can see both inside the app. Two countries disagree about whether a baby's eyes must be open; one publishes millimetres and another publishes pixels. The app holds each of them to their own words instead of applying American rules with a flag on top. Whether a photo is accepted is decided by the issuing authority, never by this app — and nothing here will ever tell you otherwise.

Canada is missing on purpose

Canada requires the photo to be taken by a commercial photographer who stamps their studio name, address and the date on the back of the print. No phone can produce that stamp, so a technically perfect Canadian photo out of any app is still a rejected application. Adding the country would sell you the exact failure this app exists to prevent, so it isn't there and won't be.

Privacy, in one breath

Every frame is analysed on your iPhone and none of them leave it. There is no account, no cloud, no upload and no face database — the app makes no network calls at all, so it works the same in airplane mode. The photo goes to your library and wherever you send it, and nowhere else. The full policy is short because there's nothing to confess.

Help

Write to support+passportphoto@smthng.fun and a human — the only human, actually — will answer. The support page covers restoring a purchase, refunds and why there is no account.

The people in these screenshots are generated, not customers. The app itself never alters a photograph, which is the whole point of it.