Four Cuts Photo Booth

What it is

Four Cuts is a photobooth app for iPhone and iPad. You take four photos with a 3-2-1 countdown, or pick four from your gallery. Then you choose a layout (strip, grid or polaroid), one of five styles from "Classic Booth" to "Scrapbook", and one of ten filters, and save the finished strip. Everything stays on your phone.

Where it came from

In March 2026 I made a photobooth that ran in the browser. It worked, but a photobooth belongs on your phone, with a real camera. In August I rebuilt it as a proper app and renamed it after the Korean photobooths called "life's four cuts".

How I made it

AI coding tools wrote most of the code. I tested every version on my own iPhone, took screenshots of anything that felt wrong, and sent back exactly what I wanted changed. Some things I asked for:

the camera preview was squashed, so faces looked wide;
after saving a strip there was no way back;
the filters were hidden in a row I didn't know I could scroll;
the "black" strip colour wasn't really black.

Choosing the icon

The app icon took six rounds. I didn't want a photo strip, and I didn't want anything too girlish or over the top. I wanted something sleek, with calm colours. The final icon is a camera lens in deep plum, cream and red.

The shipped app icon.

What I cut

I removed stickers and a "Share to Story" button. The button only opened the normal share menu, so it promised something it didn't do.

The hardest bug

Photos taken with the phone held sideways landed on the strip turned the wrong way. Fixing it took several rounds of testing on the phone. The lesson was to predict what should happen for every way you can hold the phone, and check that, before asking anyone to test.

Big text has to fit too

When I set my phone to its largest text size, the app's title broke into pieces. I sent a screenshot and it was fixed, so the title now wraps cleanly.

Before: the app's landing screen at the largest text size, where the giant title is cut across several lines and runs off the bottom. — The landing screen at the largest text size, before and after the fix. These are early development screenshots, from when the app was still called Aesthetic Photobooth.

After: the same landing screen at the largest text size, with the title 'Photobooth' fitting on one line above the tagline. — The landing screen at the largest text size, before and after the fix. These are early development screenshots, from when the app was still called Aesthetic Photobooth.

Where it is now

Four Cuts is in TestFlight testing and has its App Store listing ready. It works offline and collects no data. The App Store link will go here once Apple has approved the app.

Four Cuts has its own page for support and privacy: Four Cuts support and privacy.