Repeat photography, stitched.
Pick a fixed subject. Photograph it again across hours, days, or seasons. Vantage stitches your captures into a single frame - wedges, grids, strips, crossfades, sliders, or a short time-lapse movie.
Coming soon to the App StoreThere's a particular kind of photograph I keep wanting to take and never quite manage. The same tree, four seasons. The same overlook, dawn through dusk. The same doorway, every time the light changes. Repeat photography - one place, many moments, side by side in a single frame.
Every app I tried for it wanted an account, shipped my photos to somebody's cloud, gated the good composite styles behind a subscription, or had no answer for the part that's actually hard: lining up the next shot three weeks after the first one. Just freehand it and hope your hand was steady? That doesn't work.
So I built Vantage - the app I wished had already existed. Built on Apple's Vision framework. No backend. No account. No subscription.
Line up the next shot in seconds
On every return capture, your first photo appears as a translucent ghost on top of the live camera. Frame the new shot to match the ghost before tapping the shutter - that's how you stay aligned across visits.
An anchor crosshair shows where the wedge composite will pivot. Toggle the ghost on or off if it gets in the way; the alignment runs in the background regardless.
Ghost overlay
One subject, six ways to tell the story
Wedge - radial slices around an anchor point. The signature look. Grid - 2×2 quadrants for direct side-by-side comparison. Strips - vertical bands, like a thin time-lapse. Crossfade - smooth painterly blend.
Slider with a draggable divider, then export. Time-lapse renders a short MP4 of your spot evolving - crossfade or wedge sweep, 6 to 10 seconds. Subject masking keeps your foreground locked while the world around it changes.
Wedge composite
Vision corrects what your hand can't
Apple's Vision framework runs translational and homographic registration against your reference photo on every return capture, then warps the image in the composite renderer to correct small handheld drift. All on-device, no cloud round-trip.
Each capture shows a confidence badge - STRONG, FAIR, WEAK, OFF - so you know exactly what landed before you compose. If a shot drifted too far, Vantage prompts you to retake before leaving the camera.
Alignment badges
Know when the light is worth it
Drop a spot at a real place and Vantage shows the day's sunrise and sunset under the title. The return-capture banner flips to a gold countdown when you're inside a golden-hour window: ~14 min left.
Pure on-device math - the standard NOAA solar algorithm, accurate to the minute for any latitude. No weather API, no network. Sun position only; the sky itself is up to you.
Golden timeline
Spot map
Save it. Share it. Anywhere.
Save composites to Photos at 1080×1080. Tap the portrait icon for a 9:16 Instagram-story export with the spot name in serif and a Vantage watermark. Time-lapses save as MP4 at 24fps.
Everything runs on-device. The composite never touches a server. The story export never asks for an account. The time-lapse never waits in a queue.
Result screen
What Vantage does not do
Who it's for
People who keep returning to a place - a tree, a doorway, a horizon, a single corner of a single building - and have always wished they could see all those visits in a single frame. The trip you take every year. The construction project across the street. The window that catches different light every morning.
Coming soon to the App StoreBuilt by J - Swift 6, SwiftUI, SwiftData, Vision, AVFoundation. Zero third-party dependencies.