Nagori – Photos That Sound

You have the photo. You just cannot remember what that day felt like. What is missing is not resolution. It is the air. Nagori is a camera that keeps the sound from around the moment you pressed the shutter, together with a single still photo. ■ It is already listening Most apps have you pick a photo and then hit record. What you get is a voice explaining the picture. Nagori holds the last five seconds in your device's memory from the moment you open the camera. Press the shutter and the five seconds before and the five seconds after become one recording. So what you keep is the laughter before anyone posed, the middle of a sentence, waves, rain, a train, a street, a festival, a dog — the air of the place itself. All you press is the shutter. ■ A photo stays a photo Nothing becomes a video. Your library is a set of still photographs. The sound only rises when you touch one. ■ Nothing is kept unless you take the photo This is how it is built, not a promise we ask you to trust. The sound being held is never written to a file. Close the camera without shooting and it is gone. It never records in the background, and never outside the camera screen. When it is listening, it says so. No photo and no sound is sent to any server. There is no account. Everything stays on this device. ■ What it does • Automatically keeps five seconds before and after the shutter • Instant-photo style cards • Touch a photo to hear it • Grouped by month, with favourites • A short note per photo • Export as a short video with sound • Deleting a photo deletes its sound with it • Japanese and English • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, and VoiceOver ■ Free, and Pro The free app keeps 15 sound photos. Capturing, keeping, looking back, listening and sharing are all free, and sharing exports a square video. Pro is a one-time purchase. It — • removes the limit on how many you can keep • adds the vertical format and the slow push to shared videos • removes the small app name from the corner Reaching the limit never takes anything away. Everything you have already saved stays on your device and keeps playing, with or without Pro. The limit applies only to saving something new, and deleting a photo gives the slot back. ■ Please be considerate The sound of a place includes the voices of the people in it. Think of them before you capture, and before you share.