Pick your camera
Slide through glossy digicams and film cameras in the camera bag — each with its own memory card or film canister.
The Y2K digicam
in your iPhone.
Shoot through study-based looks of early-2000s CCD point-and-shoots and popular film stocks — flash, soft highlights, grain and the orange date stamp. Then make it yours in Studio with 450+ glossy stickers, fonts and frames.
Free to shoot, film and edit · No account · Photos stay on your iPhone
7digicam looks
8film stocks
450+Y2K stickers
50+fonts
0accounts
HOW IT WORKS
Pick a camera. Shoot. Make it cute.
No settings to learn. Every camera brings its own colour, flash, softness and quirks — you just point and press.
Shoot like it's 2005
Flash on, date stamp on. Digicams show the shot on their LCD right away; film cameras count down the roll like the real thing. Video works too.
Decorate in Studio
Add stickers, text, frames and effects, build a collage or a whole Instagram photo dump — then save and share in full quality.
FEATURES
Real Y2K vibes, not just a filter.
Each look is built from studies of how early CCD sensors and consumer film render skin, sky, highlights and grain.
Retro CCD digicams
Cool CCD colour, bright compact flash, slight softness and that crunchy early-JPEG feel — the point-and-shoots everyone had in their pocket around 2005.
- SILVER 500
- CHROME W7
- SUNNY C3
- SUPER F30
- ZOOM L6
- TIDE 720
- SLIM Z7
Popular film stocks
Warm consumer colour, soft portrait tones, disposable flash, tungsten night film and gritty black & white.
- MUSE 200Warm consumer 200
PORTRAIT 400Soft pro colour, kind to skin- SNAP 400Disposable · 27 exposures · flash
- MAX 400Punchy everyday colour
- VIVID 400Cool, vivid greens and blues
- DAY 200Fine-grain budget daylight
TUNGSTEN 800Night cine stock with halation- MONO 400Black & white, gritty grain
450+ original Y2K stickers
Chrome, bling, glitter, goth, witchy, tribal, cyber sigil, scene, pixel and camera UI — all drawn for Glosscam, plus 50+ fonts from script and bubble to gothic and pixel.
Studio for your own photos
Import any photo from your camera roll or the in-app memory card and turn it into something you actually want to post.
- LOOKSEvery camera lookGive old photos a digicam or film look.
- COLLAGELayouts & bordersGrids, strips and borders for multi-photo posts.
- CROPCrop, stretch or fitAny ratio, for feed, story or square.
- TYPE50+ fontsScript, bubble, gothic and pixel.
- FRAMESFramesPrint, viewfinder, film strip and chrome.
- EFFECTSEffectsColour & gradient map, light, dreamy blur, lo-fi MMS JPEG, glitch.
- DUMPInstagram photo dumpsLine up a carousel that looks like one roll.
- VIDEODigicam videoFilm clips with the same retro looks.
One photo, a whole camera bag
The same shot through different looks — every camera renders colour, contrast and grain its own way.
PLANS
Shoot for free. Go Pro to keep it.
Every camera and every Studio tool is free to use. Glosscam Pro saves and shares your shots in full quality.
FREE
Glosscam
Everything you need to play.
- All digicam and film cameras
- Photo and video shooting
- Studio editing: looks, collages, stickers, fonts, frames, effects
- In-app memory card on your iPhone
PRO
Glosscam Pro
Weekly or yearly subscription through Apple.
- Save to Photos in full quality
- Share photos, videos and photo dumps
- Cancel anytime in your Apple account settings
- Price shown in the app before you buy
Your photos stay on your iPhone.
No account, no sign-in, no uploads. Usage analytics are off until you allow them, and you can turn crash reports off any time.
Your camera roll, but it's 2005.
Glosscam is free to download. Shoot, film and edit as much as you like.
FAQ
Questions? Answers.
Is Glosscam free?
Shooting photos, filming video and editing in Studio are free. Saving and sharing in full quality needs Glosscam Pro, a weekly or yearly subscription through Apple. The price is shown in the app before you buy, and you can cancel anytime in your Apple account settings.
Which cameras and films are in Glosscam?
Early-2000s CCD point-and-shoots — SILVER 500, CHROME W7, SUNNY C3, SUPER F30, ZOOM L6, TIDE 720 and SLIM Z7 — and film stocks: MUSE 200, PORTRAIT 400, SNAP 400, MAX 400, VIVID 400, DAY 200, TUNGSTEN 800 and MONO 400. The names are our own; the looks are built from studies of how those kinds of cameras and films render colour, highlights and grain. New looks arrive with updates.
Is it a real digicam look or just a filter?
Each camera is its own processing recipe: sensor colour, flash falloff, softness, highlight roll-off, noise or film grain and JPEG character. Glosscam also captures without the iPhone's heavy computational processing, so the base image is closer to what an old compact would have seen.
Can I edit photos from my camera roll?
Yes. Import any photo into Studio and add a look, crop (crop, stretch or fit), collage layouts and borders, stickers, text, frames and effects — or build a whole Instagram photo dump.
Does Glosscam do video?
Yes — film short clips through digicam and camcorder looks, with sound.
Do I need an account? Are my photos uploaded?
No account, no sign-in. Photos and videos are processed on your iPhone and stay there until you save or share them yourself. Stickers and fonts are downloaded from our server when you open them. Details are in the privacy policy.
How do I restore or cancel Pro?
Restore with Settings › Restore Purchases in the app using the same Apple ID. Cancel in your Apple subscription settings — deleting the app does not cancel it. More help on the support page.
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Grab the camera everyone had in 2005.
Glosscam for iPhone — Y2K digicam, film camera and photo studio in one.