Sundrop turns your endless baby photos into recaps, time-lapses and more — without AI
Sundrop is a new iPhone app that uses Apple's on-device AI to help parents rediscover their favorite photos and create keepsakes without uploading images to the cloud.
New parents often take countless photos of their infants, but these images frequently end up forgotten in photo galleries after initial sharing. A new app called Sundrop seeks to give renewed purpose to these photographs by transforming them into weekly recaps, highlights, time-lapses of the child's growth, and other charming scenes.
While Google Photos and Apple Photos excel at organizing and managing photos, Sundrop focuses on a specific demographic: new parents, particularly first-time parents, who take excessive amounts of photos and desire to do more with them. The app was developed over several months by the same team behind the read-it-later app, Matter: Ben Springwater, Sky Lan, and Rob Mackenzie, who are all fathers themselves.
Notably, Sundrop emphasizes privacy, processing all photos locally on the user's device rather than transmitting them to a remote server. Both parents can utilize Sundrop simultaneously by linking their accounts, allowing the app to synchronize shared photos through Apple's iCloud service. Notably, the company asserts that no generative AI is employed in the app's creations, setting it apart from many other photo editing applications that increasingly rely on generative AI, such as Google Photos.
Sundrop analyzes pictures in the parents' respective Camera Rolls on their iPhones, disregarding elements like screenshots or duplicates. It then generates highlights or amusing scenes, referred to as "drops." One such feature is a weekly recap of the child's activities, which is announced as a Lock Screen notification on Sundays.
Other options include placing two siblings side-by-side at the same age, generating a time-lapse series of photos or a video showcasing the child's growth, or placing the child's photo inside a layered template. Parents also have the option to manually edit photos used by Sundrop to create its compositions, or use the app to automatically arrange the best photos into galleries alongside similar images.
The app comes at a cost of $39.99 per year, offering a week-long free trial, and includes Family Sharing for $39.99, allowing only one parent to purchase the annual plan.
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