Instagram Planner vs ShuttR

Plan your Instagram feed before anything goes live. Swatch is a grid planner made by photographers. See the whole profile at once, arrange your posts, and design each one around the look of the feed instead of one photo at a time. No Instagram login, no subscription, no scheduling. PLAN ON THE BIG SCREEN Swatch Desktop puts your photo library beside a full-size phone in your browser, on the same grid as your iPhone, synced through your own iCloud. Drag a whole shoot in, try posts in place, build carousels and write captions on a real keyboard. In beta and included with Swatch Pro. Try it with sample photos at tryswatch.app/desktop. START WITH THE GRID • Lay posts out in Instagram's real 3:4 proportions, so what you plan is what your profile shows • Block out a feed in color before you've shot anything, with color placeholders • Flatten every photo to its dominant tone with the color map, and read the whole palette at a glance • Press, hold and drag to reorder; the grid reflows around it • Mark reels, carousels, captions and what's already posted COMPOSE THE POST • Single photos, plain carousels and borders for each photo • Photo layouts and framed sets that bake down to one clean tile • Seamless Panorama carousels: one wide photo across several slides, so it reads as one continuous image on the swipe • Preview the finished post in a real Instagram feed PLAN STORIES TOO • Design Stories on a 9:16 canvas with photos and text • Arrange them across slides and preview the sequence WRITE THE CAPTION • On supported iPhones, Apple Intelligence suggests a caption in your tone or polishes your own, entirely on your device • Copy it across when you hand the post to Instagram yourself FREE AND PRO Free plans one grid on one account with the full feed workflow: single photos, plain carousels, color placeholders, the color map, reordering, Stories, iCloud sync and export. Pro is a one-time unlock: more grids and accounts, Layouts and Borders, seamless Panorama carousels, on-device AI captions and Swatch Desktop. No subscription, ever. YOURS, AND PRIVATE Your grids live on your iPhone and sync through your own private iCloud across your Apple devices, free. There's no separate Swatch account. Swatch never posts for you: plan here, then post from Instagram when you're ready. See tryswatch.app/privacy for details about iCloud sync, desktop uploads and limited usage events.

**Is your vintage camera's shutter still accurate — or has it drifted after decades of use?** ShuttR Check measures the real shutter speeds of your analog camera using your iPhone's camera and a light source. No hardware testers, no sensors to buy — reliably from 8s down to 1/500. The app has been used by photographers around the world on more than 100 different camera models, from SLRs to Rangefinders, Medium Format and Large Format Cameras. **HOW IT WORKS** Open your camera's film back, remove the lens, and put a light source behind it. ShuttR Check uses your iPhone's high-speed camera together with advanced image analysis to measure exactly how long each shutter release lets light through, then tells you how far that is from the speed you dialled in — in fractions of a stop. The app walks you through every step. There is nothing to configure, nothing to interpret: set up, release the shutter, read the result. **RELIABLE FROM 8s TO 1/500** ShuttR Check measures dependably from 8 seconds down to 1/500 — the range where mechanical shutters drift the most and where a deviation actually shows in your negatives. Faster speeds are deliberately left out: we'd rather not offer them than hand you numbers that look precise but aren't. Timed speeds slower than 1s are there too, for the cameras that offer them. **WHAT YOU GET** - A guided, step-by-step measurement protocol - Automatic calibration (checks your room is dark enough and free of flickering light, and warns you when your light source is too bright or not steady) - Every speed compared against its nominal value, with the deviation in stops and a clear OK / deviation / defective verdict - A capping check: shows how evenly the shutter exposes across the frame and flags capping, when the curtains fall out of sync at fast speeds - A history per camera, so you can track a shutter's condition over time - A shareable "shutter checked" certificate (image or PDF) — perfect for camera sellers on eBay, Etsy, or classifieds, showing buyers exactly what they're getting **SHUTTER TYPES** Horizontal and vertical focal-plane shutters are tested and validated — these are the shutters in most classic SLRs and rangefinders. Same goes for Leaf (central) shutters which have been tested on Large Format and Medium Format cameras. **WHAT THIS APP IS NOT** ShuttR Check gives you dependable, repeatable information about how far your shutter speeds have drifted. It does not replace a calibrated measuring instrument. **PRIVATE BY DESIGN** No accounts. No data collection. No internet connection required. Everything — your cameras, your measurements — stays on your device. **WHO IT'S FOR** - Film photographers who want to know if their gear is actually accurate - Camera collectors curious about a new find - Sellers who want to offer buyers real proof of a working shutter