Key facts
- Sundrop processes photos locally using Apple's Vision framework and on-device Core ML models, the company says.
- The company says no generative AI is used to create Sundrop's scenes or highlights.
- Sundrop produces a weekly recap every Sunday, delivered as a Lock Screen notification.
- Two parents can link accounts so shared photos sync through Apple's iCloud, per the company.
- The app costs $39.99 per year and includes a week-long free trial.
Sundrop, a new iPhone app, turns parents' baby photos into weekly recaps, time-lapses and other scenes, processing the images locally on the device rather than on a cloud server. The app was developed over the past few months by Ben Springwater, Sky Lan and Rob Mackenzie, the team behind the read-it-later app Matter.
The company says Sundrop uses Apple's Vision framework and on-device Core ML models, and that no generative AI is used to create its scenes or highlights. It positions this against photo editing apps, including Google's, that it says increasingly use generative AI to create new versions of photos.
Sundrop scans photos in parents' Camera Rolls on their iPhones, skipping screenshots and duplicates, and produces what it calls "drops": a weekly recap delivered every Sunday as a Lock Screen notification, side-by-side comparisons of siblings at the same age, time-lapse series, and cut-out photos placed into layered templates. Parents can edit which photos the app uses or have it group similar shots into galleries.
Two parents can link accounts so shared photos sync through Apple's iCloud, which the company says means pictures are not sent to external servers it runs. The app costs $39.99 per year with a week-long free trial, and the annual plan includes Family Sharing, so only one parent needs to buy it.