TakeALook
TakeALook
For iPhone and iPad
Pick an album, a date range, or just a few photos. Pass the device across the table. They swipe through exactly what you chose — and nothing else.
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See how it works
Free to use. One‑time upgrade for every album. No subscription.
The problem
You hand over your phone to show one photo. They swipe. Then they swipe again. Everyone has had this moment.
How it works
1
An album, a date range, or a handful of specific photos.
2
See exactly what they’ll see, and leave anything out.
3
The selection locks. Ending it takes some effort — as much or as little as you choose.
Watch
Genuine screen recordings from an iPhone — no mockups, no device frames drawn around a screen grab.
The guest’s side of it: swiping, pinch to zoom, the date and place, and a map that never leaves the app.
23 seconds
Where a session starts — an album, a date range, or a handful of photos — and what you check before handing the device over.
17 seconds
Narrowing a whole album down to one stretch of it: seventeen items become eight, and nothing outside them is reachable.
26 seconds
In their hands
Everything they need to enjoy the photos. Nothing that reaches past them.
Ending a handoff
Handing your phone to your mother is not the same as handing it to someone you just met. The same handoff can end in a second and a half, or not at all until you unlock it — and you can change your mind between one and the next.
Default — nothing to set up
A second and a half on a button ends the handoff. Long enough that a stray tap never does.
One minute to set up
A code only you know replaces the press and hold. There is no holding your way past it.
Apple’s own lock
iOS confines the device to TakeALook. The swipe‑away is gone until you unlock it.
Set it once, forget it
A Shortcut starts that lock the moment TakeALook opens, so you cannot forget to.
iPad
Not a stretched phone layout. TakeALook lays out deliberately on iPad in both orientations — the natural device to hand across a table.
Privacy
Your photos and videos never leave your device.
There is no sign‑in, no server of ours, and not one line of third‑party code in the app — no analytics, no crash reporter, no advertising framework.
TakeALook never edits or deletes anything in your Photos library.
Place names and maps come from Apple Maps, and only when you open them — you can switch that off entirely.
Pricing
Every protection is in the free version. Paying changes which photos you can pick from — never how safe the handoff is.
Questions