# dear vanity — Like a friend took your selfie > Like a friend took your selfie (iPhone/iPad app by Rytos.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dear-vanity/id6761415889 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Rytos](https://appshunter.io/developer/1748089627) - Category: Photo & Video - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 116 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish and 3 more - Released: 2026-10-27 - Data updated: 2026-11-05 ## What is dear vanity? Selfies that look like a friend took them. If your selfies look a little off, it isn't your face. It's the distance. At arm's length, whatever is closest to the lens comes out bigger. dear vanity eases just that distance, as if a friend took the photo, and leaves your eyes, nose and jaw as they are. True Face: straightens out selfie-distance distortion live, as you shoot. A distance chip on screen shows how close you're shooting. Light: move the direction of light with portrait lighting, or add a flash-like glow with AI Flash. Shape the light, not your face. Skin and color: even out skin while keeping its texture, and set the mood with 20 color filters. Save a combination you love as My Look and bring it back in one tap. New editor: apply True Face to photos already in your album. Skin Retouch keeps freckles and pores and clears only blotches, redness and shine. Remove a blemish with a single tap. Undo and redo included. Duo Link V2: prop one iPhone up and frame the shot from the other. Pair once and it reconnects automatically next time; tap the shutter on either phone and the shot is saved on both. Phones connect directly, no internet needed. (iOS 26.4 or later; dear vanity on both iPhones) 4CUTS: four shots on one strip, photobooth style. Choose the cell orientation and the interval, or shoot with two phones to open Booth mode. The whole take is saved as a clip, too. 13 languages: use dear vanity in English, 한국어, 日本語 and 10 more languages. What it doesn't do It doesn't change the size or shape of your eyes, nose or jaw. No full-screen ads or popups that interrupt the shot. Face detection and photo processing happen on your device, and your photos are never sent to a server. Founders Pack Fine Tone (color temperature, mood, skin tone), Fine Light (highlights, shadows, color temperature), premium film filters, and every theme and app icon. One purchase, yours for good. No subscription. Of course you do. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Premium Pass · 3 Months | $17.99 | one-time | | Founders Pack | $5.99 | one-time | ## Is dear vanity safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess dear vanity. ## Is dear vanity legit? dear vanity has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for dear vanity is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0.1 — 2026-11-02 dear vanity 2.0.1 • 4CUTS: share straight from the result screen. • Bug fixes and improvements. dear vanity 2.0 • New editor: True Face for photos in your album. Skin Retouch keeps texture and clears blotches and shine, one-tap blemish removal, plus undo and redo. • Duo Link V2: pair once, reconnect automatically. Tap the shutter on either iPhone and the shot is saved on both. Shoot PiP and side-by-side in landscape, too. (iOS 26.4 or later) • 4CUTS: choose cell orientation and interval, and shoot with two phones in Booth mode. • Camera: a True Face chip that shows your selfie distance, a lighter preview, and recordings where sound and picture stay in sync. Front camera landscape shots on iPhone 17 and later. • The front camera preview always looks like a mirror; choose how photos are saved with Mirror Front Camera in Settings. • iPhone Duo: made for folded and unfolded use. Folded, a 3:4 preview fills the screen, and camera, album, and editor controls line up along the right edge. • 9 new filters (20 in all), cleaner shadows in existing ones, a new app icon, and 13 languages. Selfies that look like a friend took them. ### 2.0 — 2026-10-27 dear vanity 2.0 • New editor: True Face for photos in your album. Skin Retouch keeps texture and clears blotches and shine, one-tap blemish removal, plus undo and redo. • Duo Link V2: pair once, reconnect automatically. Tap the shutter on either iPhone and the shot is saved on both. Shoot PiP and side-by-side in landscape, too. (iOS 26.4 or later) • 4CUTS: choose cell orientation and interval, and shoot with two phones in Booth mode. • Camera: a True Face chip that shows your selfie distance, a lighter preview, and recordings where sound and picture stay in sync. Front camera landscape shots on iPhone 17 and later. • The front camera preview always looks like a mirror; choose how photos are saved with Mirror Front Camera in Settings. • iPhone Duo: made for folded and unfolded use. Folded, a 3:4 preview fills the screen, and camera, album, and editor controls line up along the right edge. • 9 new filters (20 in all), cleaner shadows in existing ones, a new app icon, and 13 languages. Selfies that look like a friend took them. ### 1.2 — 2026-09-25 What's New in 1.2 - AI Flash — Add natural, camera-flash-style lighting to your photos in the Light tab (warm / neutral / cool) - New Help Center — FAQs, tips, and a friendlier first-run guide - Faster face tracking — Real-time effects now run on the Apple Neural Engine for quicker, more efficient processing - 2D Tone Pads in the editor — The editor's Filter & Light tabs now include the same 2D tone pads as the camera. Drag once on the pad to adjust two dimensions at once — warmth & mood in Fine Tone, color temperature & light shape in Fine Light - Plus: high-res pinch-to-zoom in the editor and many stability fixes ### 1.1 — 2026-09-02 • Refined Relighting: Lighting follows your facial contours, with softer highlights and steadier motion. • Cleaner Transitions: Switching cameras no longer leaves leftover face effects. • True Face™ Persistence: Your lens correction settings are saved and restored. • Stability improvements: smoother face-based effects and minor UI fixes. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-25 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-05.*