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  • iOS + iPad app
  • Photo albums
  • On the App Store · 2026

Snapling brings back the feeling of sitting down with a physical photo album. Pick the photos and a book style, and it lays them out in pages that you turn one at a time, on iPhone and on iPad. The screens below are the shelf, the reading view and the first-run flow, drawn around a single idea: the album is the object, not a grid of thumbnails.

Guiding principles

Three rules the whole app was held to.

  1. 01

    The album is the object

    Every screen starts from the book, with its own cover and its own pages. There is no feed and no photo grid to scroll.

  2. 02

    Reading stays calm

    Turning a page is the one gesture that matters, so nothing competes with it: a small hint and a page count, and the photographs.

  3. 03

    Native on each device

    iPhone feels like an album in a pocket and iPad like an album on a table, so each gets its own structure instead of one stretched layout.

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01The shelf is the home screen. Each album is a book with its own cover, set out like volumes on a table instead of a grid of thumbnails, so the first thing you see is something you could pick up.
02Reading is one gesture. The page lifts and turns the way a real one does, and the only furniture on screen is a quiet hint, “Swipe to turn the page”, and a page count at the bottom.
03Turn the phone on its side and the album opens as a spread. The curl follows the finger across the photograph, and nothing else on screen competes with the picture.
04Two ways to begin and nothing more. Import an album you already made in Photos, or start fresh from individual photos. Each choice is a large card with a few sample photos fanned out on it, so picking is visual rather than a settings page.
05iPad is not a stretched iPhone. The shelf becomes a table: albums spread across the width at their own sizes, which is what makes the device feel like the right place to sit with a family album.
06On iPad the album opens flat to a full spread. A page of heavy white stock curls over to reveal the next, and the photographs sit on it with generous margins, the way they would in a printed album.
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