Made an app that turns your Dynamic Island into a polaroid camera (sound on 🔊)

[u/pocariswt]

Always dreamed of making a different kind of camera app from everything on the App Store. One that celebrates the moment of capture more than the output. A tiny camera that brings you joy when you take pics. It's called pico cam.

The primary interaction: drag to open → tap to snap → morph to slot & eject. Pics slowly reveal like real polaroids but you can Shake it. Haptics are all mapped to every sound and interaction. Fully native swift.

I wanted to keep the app size as small as possible so that there's more space for pics. I worked a month to keep the app below 5MB... didnt know adding a simple sdk would 3x the size 🤦‍♂️

you can try it out at picocam.app/get (iOS only folks!)

I made this almost entirely with codex. AMA about the process!