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PhotoSpots at a glance.
A native, privacy-focused iPhone app for saving, organizing, and planning photography spots.
What is PhotoSpots?
Never lose a great spot. PhotoSpots is a native, privacy-focused iPhone app that helps photographers discover, save, organize, and plan photography spots. Built from the ground up with SwiftUI, it offers a fluid experience with haptic feedback, interactive widgets, and full offline functionality with Apple Maps offline support. Pin spots in seconds, track progress with scouted and photographed status, organize into color-coded lists, and plan shoots around sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, interactive sun-path visualization, an AR sun preview, and real-time weather. Preview real-world framing with the Framelines camera, meter the light, log every shot, and sync everything privately across devices.
Short Description
Never lose a great spot. PhotoSpots allows you to save spots, attach notes and photos, organize shoot lists, plan around the best light, preview shots with the Framelines camera, and log every shot.
Key Features
- Native SwiftUI performance and fluid animations
- Interactive map with color-coded, clustered pins
- Track progress: scouted, photographed, visit logs, archive
- Organize into color- and emoji-coded lists with tags and priorities
- Solar data: sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, sun-path visualization
- AR sun preview: full solar arc overlaid on the live camera feed
- Real-time weather: temperature, wind, UV, and low/mid/high cloud layers
- Framelines camera for framing preview with focal length & sensor simulation
- Built-in light meter with EV readings and aperture/shutter pairs
- Photo log with projects, film rolls, and exposure tracking
- Full widget suite: save spot, solar times, spot lists, nearby spots, stats
- Siri & Shortcuts support, plus spot sharing and turn-by-turn navigation
- Apple Maps offline maps support for full offline functionality
- Automatic iCloud sync across devices
- CSV and GPX import and export
- Premium: App icon themes and custom backgrounds
Who is PhotoSpots for?
- Photographers scouting spots
- Travel photographers planning shoots
- Landscape and nature photographers
- Urban and architecture photographers
- Filmmakers and content creators
- Hikers and outdoor enthusiasts discovering scenic spots
- Anyone, including non-photographers, who wants to never lose a great spot