Photos save straight to the album you chose. No more sorting them out later.
iOS 17.0 or later. Free.
Pick an album, then shoot. That's all there is to it.
Tap a chip at the bottom to choose where photos go. It remembers your last pick, so you don't have to choose every time.
After a shot you'll see “Saved to Flowers.” Got it wrong? Change it on the spot within 3 seconds.
Open the Photos app and they're already sorted into albums. They sync to iCloud as usual.
Set a destination per tile, so you can keep a dedicated “Receipts” shutter right on your Home Screen.
Pick an album and record. Videos save to the album you chose, the same way photos do.
Switch lenses with one tap — handy for a whole receipt or an indoor scene when you need to back up. Works on iPhone 11 and later.
Photos save into your iPhone's own Photos app albums; there's no separate library. Delete folderCamera and your photos and albums stay put.
No analytics or ad SDKs. No location added to your photos. Nothing about your photos ever leaves your device.
Every shot from the iPhone's built-in camera lands in your camera roll. The only way into an album is to move it by hand afterward.
| Built-in camera | folderCamera | |
|---|---|---|
| Where shots end up | All mixed into the camera roll | Straight into the album you chose |
| Sorting into albums | Pick and add later in Photos | Done with one tap before you shoot |
| Time spent organizing | Grows as photos pile up | None |
The more often you shoot for the same purpose, the more it pays off.
Pick “Work” or “Personal” as you shoot, and you won't be hunting around at month-end or tax time.
First child, second child, the whole family. Every shot adds to its own album.
Keep product photos in albums by category, so you're not searching for shots when it's time to list.
It's a camera app where you pick the destination album (collection) with one tap before you shoot, and the photos and videos you take save automatically into that album in your iPhone's Photos app. It solves the “I'll organize it later” pile-up that turns your camera roll into a mess — right at the moment you shoot.
Straight into albums inside your iPhone's standard Photos app (your library). They also sync with iCloud Photos automatically, so you can see them right away on other devices and on your Mac. folderCamera keeps no library of its own.
No. Because photos are saved directly into your iPhone's Photos app (your library), all of your photos, videos and albums stay even if you uninstall folderCamera.
Barely. It uses a custom approach that prepares the camera session in parallel with app launch, and on physical iPhones cold start measures under 0.3 seconds (target: under 1 second).
A 3-second undo toast appears right after you shoot. Just tap it to move the shot to a different album on the spot. It keeps the risk of an unnoticed mis-save to a minimum.
Yes. Just pick a collection and press record, the same way you do with photos, and the video saves automatically into the album you chose. Photos and videos use the exact same flow.
It's especially good for sole proprietors who want to keep receipts split between work and personal, families who want to sort kids' photos by child, and marketplace sellers who want product photos organized by category. It works for any kind of repeated, purpose-driven shooting.
The current version focuses on auto-sorting the photos you're about to take. Re-sorting existing photos is planned for a future update.
It's off by default. Only when you explicitly turn it on in Settings does the shooting location get included in your photos as EXIF data. The design puts privacy first.
No. Photos taken with the built-in camera all save to your camera roll (Recents), and to put one in an album you have to open the Photos app and add it by hand afterward. folderCamera uses a “pick the destination before you shoot” approach that removes that after-the-fact work.
In folderCamera, tap a chip at the bottom of the screen to pick the destination album before you shoot. The photos and videos you take save straight into that album in the Photos app, so there's no need to clean up your camera roll and move them later.
All the core features are free. There's no monthly subscription.
iOS 17.0 or later. Free to start (one-time Pro available, no subscription).