Founder Camera

A front camera for iPhone

Talk to them.
Not to yourself.

Founder Camera records you with the front camera and never shows you your face while you talk. A faint outline keeps you centered, the screen lights you, and your script scrolls just under the lens.

Coming soon to the App Store

One price. No subscription. No account.

The outline

Your face stays off the screen.

Watching yourself talk is what makes a take stiff. In place of a live preview, Founder Camera draws a faint outline of you from the depth sensor: enough to center yourself and check your headroom, never enough to stare at.

A small live view helps you set up, then fades the moment you press record. Drag it to any edge, or turn it off.

The script

Eyes on the lens.
Words right under it.

Your script scrolls just beneath the front camera, so your eyes stay where your audience is. Tap to start and stop it; drag to find your place. Each script remembers the pace you found for it.

Scripts are plain Markdown

# The ask
A heading is a stage marker. It is never read aloud.
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A rule is a beat. Pause here.
- Retention held
List items are read one per line.
<!-- slow down -->
A comment is a note to yourself. It never reaches the screen.

The light

The screen is your light.

The whole screen becomes a soft lamp on your face: warm, daylight, cool, or rose, at the brightness you choose. Pick Black, or turn the light off, for a dark page with white type. Your usual screen brightness comes back when you leave.

Try it on this page: the Light control at the top of the screen is the same idea.

From your Mac

Write it anywhere. Read it here.

Scripts live in the Founder Camera folder in your iCloud Drive. Save a Markdown file there from your Mac and it is on your iPhone a moment later. Write one in the app, or paste one in from Notes.

It works with the tools you already write with. Tell Claude, or any assistant that can save files on your Mac:

Put the script in the Founder Camera folder in iCloud Drive.

The take

One take. Then it's in Photos.

A short countdown, then the take begins and the script starts moving. The microphone meter moves with your voice before you press record, so you know you are heard. When you stop, the take is in Photos, and you are told how long it runs and whether the sound is there.

Investor update · 0:47 · Saved to Photos

A wired or USB-C microphone is used as soon as it is plugged in. AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 record at full quality when selected in Control Center.

The App Store screens

What it looks like.

Talk to them. Not to yourself. Founder Camera on iPhone beside the person recording. Eyes on the lens. Words right under it. A script scrolling beneath the front camera. The screen is your light. The warm lamp lighting the page. One take. Then it's in Photos. The take saved, with its length. No account. No servers. No one in between. A Markdown script from the Mac in the app's script list.

No account. No servers.
No one in between.

Takes go to your Photos library. Scripts live in your own iCloud Drive. There is no sign-up, no analytics, and no server of ours for anything to go to. That is the whole system.

Read the privacy policy

Say it to the lens.

Coming soon to the App Store

One price. No subscription. No account.

Founder Camera runs on iOS 26. The outline needs an iPhone with Face ID; everything else works on any iPhone that runs iOS 26. It records in portrait and landscape.

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