json-camera

A photograph, stored as a text file, that you can still look at.

Your phone fills up. This shrinks photos to a fraction of their size and keeps them somewhere private that you can still browse from anywhere. At the same file size it holds more detail than JPEG.

Three taps to send. Pull any photo back out as a normal file whenever you want it.

Who it is for

Your phone is always full

You delete photos to install an app. This gets a library down to a fraction of its size, and you keep every one of them.

You would rather not pay monthly, forever

Cloud storage is rent. This is a fixed place to put photos that does not bill you again next month.

You do not want your photos in a big companys cloud

No account, no email, no name attached. Nothing here is scanned to sell you anything or used to train anything.

You have old photos worth keeping properly

Scans, family albums, a wedding, a parent. Capture dates and places come across, so the archive stays in order.

Private use, one person at a time. No feed, no sharing, no algorithm deciding what you see. Your photos are yours and nobody is being sold anything.

The parts

Underneath it

What it costs you

Read this before you move anything you care about.

It is slow, and it should not pretend otherwise
A few seconds per photo. A handful is a minute, four hundred is an afternoon.
Your key is the only way in
No account, no email, no reset. The server keeps only a hash of it, so a lost key cannot be sent back. Print it.
This is compression, not encryption
The files look unreadable but hold no secret. Anyone with your key can read them.
Treat it as a second copy
Nothing deletes anything from your phone. Keep your originals until you have pulled a few back out and are happy with them.
Large photographs get scaled down first
The server caps the long edge. For full resolution, convert on your own computer.
Where it was taken travels with it, unless you say not to
Date, camera and location come across so the library can sort itself. The setup guides show how to drop the location.

Built by Mubaraq Lawal.