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Ghost overlay camera · Free on Google Play
Every photo lands in the same place.
One selfie a day, anywhere. Face mode locks onto your face instead of the room, so six months of different kitchens, hotels and streets still play back as one steady shot.
- Works offline
- No account, no server
- Free
Day 1 → 180
SameShot is used for gym progress, weight loss, daily selfies, skin, beard and hair growth, pregnancy, braces, babies and pets, transition timelines, tattoo healing, renovation and DIY, plants and gardens, and art in progress.
A year, in six seconds
The room keeps changing. You stay put.
A bathroom, a car, a gym, a supermarket, a street at night, the sea, snow. Twenty ordinary days in twenty different places, and his eyes land on the same pixels in every single frame.
That is the whole point of face mode. You do not have to find the same wall again, or own a tripod, or remember where you stood. You just take the photo.
- Eye drift
- About 1%
- Tripods used
- None
- Editing after
- None
01 — Why most before and afters fail
You did the work. Then you stood somewhere else.
A step closer, a shoulder turned, the phone an inch lower, and twelve weeks of real change reads as two unrelated photos. The problem was never the camera. It was that nothing held the last shot in front of you while you took the next one.
- Framing drifts a little every session, and it compounds
- Light at 8am and light at 8pm tell opposite stories
- Cropping afterwards cannot put back an angle you did not shoot
02 — How it works
Four steps, and only one of them is new.
You already know how to take a photo. SameShot adds the one thing a camera has never had: a memory of the last one.
Take the first photo
Mark where you stand and where the phone sits. This frame becomes the guide.
Match the ghost
The old shot appears faded over the live camera. Line up, then shoot.
Export the change
Drag the slider, or turn the whole run into a vertical time-lapse reel.
03 — The one bold move
Visible enough to guide. Faint enough to shoot.
The overlay opens at 40% and you drag it from there. Bright room, dark subject, a wall the same colour as your shirt: every awkward case is one slider away from workable.
- Auto capture fires the shutter the moment you are lined up, so you never reach for the button
- Face mode locks to your face rather than the room, so a selfie lands the same in a kitchen or a hotel
- Self timer for the shots where the phone has to sit on a shelf
04 — Not just gym
Every rival does one subject. Pick yours.
Real footage, locked frame, nothing moved but the subject. Tap through and watch what happens when the camera stops drifting.
Fitness · bulking · cutting · recomp
Twelve weeks of work, in one frame.
Bulk, cut and recomp shots that line up week after week. Bodies change slowly and daily photos mostly capture water, food volume and lighting. Weekly is frequent enough to see the trend and slow enough that each photo shows something new.
- Cadence
- Once a week
- Projects
- 4 to set up
Glow-up · face time-lapse · daily selfie
One selfie a day, and none of them jump.
A year of selfies that plays as one smooth movement. Faces are the opposite of bodies. Skin, hair and beard change on a daily scale, and a daily photo is short enough to stay a habit. Miss a day and the reel barely notices.
- Cadence
- Every day
- Projects
- 4 to set up
Plants · seedlings · garden beds · grow journal
A seedling to a harvest, without moving the camera.
A season of growth that plays as one movement. Seedlings visibly change day to day and produce the most satisfying reels. Established plants and garden beds move on a weekly scale.
- Cadence
- Every day for seedlings, weekly for beds
- Projects
- 4 to set up
Renovation · remodel · DIY · trades
One doorway. Six months. One before and after.
The before and after that sells the job. Rooms change in visible steps rather than gradually, so shooting per session captures each step. The photos also double as a record of what was behind the wall before it was closed up.
- Cadence
- Every working session
- Projects
- 4 to set up
05 — What you get out
Aligned photos are raw material. These are the deliverables.
Swipe-reveal before and after
Drag between the first shot and the latest one. Because the frames match, the wipe reads as change rather than as a cut between two photos.
Vertical time-lapse reels
9:16 out of the box, sized for Reels, Shorts and TikTok.
Side by side exports
First shot against latest shot as one image, ready to send.
The full aligned set
Every frame, in order, at full resolution. Yours, on your device.
06 — Where the photos go
Nowhere. There is no server to send them to.
Progress photos are personal, and plenty of them get taken in a bathroom mirror. So SameShot was built without a backend at all. Not "encrypted in transit" — there is no transit.
No accountNothing to sign up for, nothing to log into.
No serverThe app makes no network calls. It works in airplane mode.
On deviceFace and pose detection run on the phone. No photo is uploaded.
Face and pose detection run on the phone with on-device ML. There are no analytics SDKs and no ad SDKs, so the privacy label is simply Data Not Collected. Turn on App Lock and the app asks for a fingerprint, face or PIN before it opens.
07 — Against doing it by hand
You can do this without an app. It is just harder every single time.
| Aspect | Phone camera and discipline | Camera with a grid | SameShot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Framing the next shot | From memory, or by flicking back to the old photo | Thirds lines, which know nothing about your last shot | The actual previous photo, live in the viewfinder |
| Angle drift over months | Creeps in, obvious by photo ten | Reduced, still free to wander between the lines | Caught before the shutter fires |
| Hands free | Self timer and a guess | Self timer and a guess | Auto capture fires on alignment |
| Shooting in a different room | The background moves, so nothing matches | No help at all | Face mode anchors to you, not the room |
| Getting a time-lapse out | Export, sort, import to an editor, align by hand | Same | One export, already aligned and in order |
| Where the photos live | Camera roll, and whatever backs it up | Camera roll | On the device only. No account, no upload |
08 — Everything in the app
Ten things. No feature you will never find.
Ghost overlay camera
Your last photo sits faded over the live camera. Move until you match it, then shoot.
Auto capture
Turn it on and stop tapping. The shutter fires the moment the frame is lined up.
Face mode
Locks onto your face, not the room, so a daily selfie lands the same in a kitchen or a hotel.
Before and after slider
Drag with your thumb to wipe between the first shot and the latest one.
Time-lapse reels
Months of photos become a vertical 9:16 video, sized for Reels, Shorts and TikTok.
Separate projects
Front, side and back each get their own project and their own ghost.
Reminders and streaks
A daily nudge and a streak counter, because the habit is the hard part.
Self timer
Prop the phone, step back, and let the timer take the shot hands free.
App Lock
Fingerprint, face or PIN before the app opens. Optional, and entirely on device.
Import old photos
Pull photos you already took into a project and backdate the timeline.
09 — Honest limits
What SameShot is not.
Half the apps near this one promise to read your body from a photo. This one does not, and saying so plainly is more useful than a feature list.
- 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. There is no server, so there is nothing to breach and nothing to subscribe to for storage.
10 — Free, no signup
Use the tools even if you never install the app.
Before and after maker
Drop two photos in the browser, get a side by side or a swipe comparison. Nothing uploads.
Time-lapse calculator
How many photos, at what cadence, to get a smooth video of the length you want.
Photo cadence planner
Answer four questions, get the shooting routine for your subject and a setup checklist.
Questions
Before you start a project.
What is SameShot?
SameShot is a progress photo camera. It shows your previous photo as a faint ghost over the live viewfinder, so each new shot lands on the same angle, distance and framing as the last one. The aligned photos then become a before and after slider or a vertical time-lapse reel.
How is it different from a normal camera?
A normal camera captures one moment with no memory of the last one. SameShot works before the shutter fires: it holds your previous shot on screen so you can match it. That is the difference between two photos and a real comparison.
What can I track with it?
Anything that changes slowly and stays in one place. Gym progress, weight loss, daily selfies and glow-up timelines, skin and acne, beard growth, hair growth and transplant recovery, pregnancy bumps, braces and aligners, babies, toddlers and pets, transition timelines, tattoo healing and physical therapy, home renovation and DIY, and gardens or plants.
Do my photos get uploaded anywhere?
No. SameShot has no account system, no backend server and makes no network calls at all. Every photo stays in local storage on your device, and the face and pose detection that steadies the frame runs entirely on the phone. The app works with the phone in airplane mode.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Everything happens on the phone. You do not need a connection to shoot, compare or export.
Can it make a time-lapse?
Yes. Any run of aligned photos in a project exports as a vertical 9:16 time-lapse reel, sized for Reels, Shorts and TikTok, plus a side by side or swipe-reveal before and after.
Is SameShot free?
Yes. SameShot is free to download on Google Play, with no account and no subscription required to use the ghost overlay camera, the before and after slider or time-lapse export.
Is it on iPhone and Android?
Android yes, iPhone not yet. SameShot is live on Google Play for Android. The iOS version is in development and is not on the App Store, so anything claiming to be SameShot for iPhone today is not ours.
Free · Android · iOS in development
Take the first photo today. It is the one you cannot go back for.
Free, no account, and nothing to sign up for. Install it, start a project, and take the one photo you cannot go back for.
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, no account, nothing uploaded. Android 8.0 and above.