Life Reel

A photo time-lapse of one person, built from the library already on your phone — entirely on-device.

Your photos already hold a time-lapse of someone you love. Life Reel finds it and plays it back.

Point it at the photo library already on your phone. It groups every photo by face, puts one person’s photos in order from their youngest to their oldest, aligns them on the eyes so the face holds still while the years move, and cross-dissolves them into a single clip. A childhood, a decade, a whole life, in a few seconds — exported as a video you can keep or send.

No account. No ads. No trackers. Photos, faces, and the face data derived from them never leave the device — turn on airplane mode and everything still works, which is the simplest way to check that rather than take it. How face data is created, used, and deleted is spelled out in the Privacy Policy.

Key Features

Life Reel: Every photo of one person, ordered youngest to oldest, eye-aligned so the face holds still while the years move, cross-dissolved into a single clip.
Library scan: One pass over the photos on your device groups the same face across years into a person, so the reels build themselves.
People you can correct: Face grouping is a guess, so it stays editable — rename anyone, merge two entries that turn out to be the same person, hide the ones you did not mean to keep, and set how many photos someone needs before they are worth featuring.
Reel controls: Order by age guess or by capture date, switch black & white on or off, and scrub the years by hand.
Export in the shape you need: Square, portrait, story (9:16) or landscape, rendered at 720p or 1080p, saved to Photos or sent straight through the share sheet.
A sample reel before you scan: A bundled ten-frame reel, infancy to mid-thirties, plays on the Home tab before you grant Photos access — clearly labelled as sample art rather than your photos.
Private by design: No account, no uploads, no ad SDKs. Photos are read straight from your library and analysed in place, and the face measurements the app derives stay in its own on-device store — erasable in one tap from the You tab.

Also On This Device, Just For Fun

Three small extras built on the same on-device face reading, and clearly labelled as party pieces:

How Old?: Pick a photo — or take one — and get a playful guess at how old each face in it looks, laid out as a card that shares as-is, with every face marked.
Look-Alike: Two photos, one resemblance score out of 100, plus a breakdown of which features actually match.
Mom or Dad?: A child and two adults, and a split showing who the child takes after. A split too close to call refuses to name a winner rather than guessing.

A guess made from a face is never anyone’s real age, and the app says so where the number is read. It is not an identity or age check and must never be used as one.

Free & Pro

Scanning your library, building reels and all three extras are free and unmetered. The paid line is drawn at the export alone.

A free export is a real, sendable clip: 12 photos sampled evenly across the person’s whole span, rendered at 720p, carrying a small watermark, one a week. Life Reel Pro removes all four limits — every photo in the reel, 1080p, no watermark, export as often as you like, for everyone the scan found. Available as a weekly or yearly subscription (the yearly with a 3-day free trial for accounts that have not used one), or as a one-time lifetime unlock that never renews.

Why You’ll Love It

There is a version of someone’s childhood sitting in your camera roll that nobody has ever seen in order. Life Reel puts it in order, and does it without your family’s photos ever leaving your phone.

How to use Life Reel

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