A camera that paints with words

Every picture,
made of letters.

Type anything — a name, a lyric, a love letter — and LetterCam turns your camera into a live mosaic of your own text. Not a filter on top of pixels. The letters are the picture.

 Coming soon to the App Store See how it works iPhone · iOS 17+ · renders live at 60 fps on the GPU

Live demo — this mosaic is being drawn right now, in letters.

How it works

Type. Point. Shoot.

No editing timeline, no layers, no learning curve. You watch the final image the whole time — the viewfinder is the artwork.

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Write your words

Your text flows across the image, letter by letter, wrapping line after line. A built-in meter tells you when your words fill the frame exactly once.

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Watch it live

The whole mosaic re-renders on the GPU every frame — pinch to change letter size, swap fonts and palettes, and see it instantly. Front and back camera.

03

Shoot & print big

Stills re-render at up to 8K with a razor-sharp glyph atlas. Posters, prints, wallpapers — every letter stays crisp.

Styles

One camera, many voices.

Every tile below is rendered live from the same picture — only the settings change. That's the whole app: same image, endlessly different stories.

Features

Small app. Deep toolbox.

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Metal-fast

A custom GPU pipeline renders thousands of glyphs per frame at 60 fps — even at the finest letter sizes.

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Your text, literally

The mosaic spells out your words in order. Zoom in on a print and read the story back.

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16 typefaces, live weight

From typewriter to Zapfino, with a continuous weight slider and italics.

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Brightness does the drawing

Letters can grow, thicken, or swap glyphs with the light beneath them — dark fades to dots, highlights go bold.

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Letter, cell & canvas color

Tint the type, drop color blocks behind each letter, and set the canvas — dark, light, or any color.

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Camera or library

Shoot live with either camera and every lens, or letterize any photo you already have — RAW included.

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8K export

Stills re-render offscreen with a high-resolution atlas, sized for real printing.

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Presets

Save a look you love and come back to it with one tap.

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Private by design

Everything renders on your device. No accounts, no uploads, no tracking.

Get LetterCam

Your words are the picture.

LetterCam is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone. Want in early or have a question? Say hello.

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