Photos Your Camera Roll Has Been Hiding | Encore
Frequently asked questions
- Do I have to build an album or edit a timeline first?
- No. There is no album to build and no timeline to choose. By the time you open Encore the recap is already made — the memory is yours, the work is not.
- Why did Encore pick these particular photos?
- Every piece states what it is made of: the only visit that year, the densest day of that month, eight picks from three days, forty shots in nine seconds. Facts you can check against your own library.
- Does Encore claim these were my best photos?
- No — only that it picked them, and on what grounds.
- Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
- No. Everything is scored and cut on device. No upload, no account, no ads.
The short answer
The best days you have had are already on this iPhone. Nobody ever opens them again.
Encore turns them back into something you can watch. It reads the photos you already have, finds the stretches worth coming back to, and has them cut and playing before you decide anything.
You don't make anything
No album to build, no timeline, nothing to choose. By the time you open the app the recap is already made.
That sentence is the product: the memory is yours; the work is not. The alternative — spending an evening curating a slideshow of a trip you already lived through — is a second job nobody signed up for.
It tells you why it picked
This is the part worth knowing about, because an app that assembles your own memories is asking for trust it has not earned yet.
Every piece states what it is made of:
- the only visit that year
- the densest day of that month
- eight picks from three days
- forty shots in nine seconds
Facts you can check against your own library. And Encore never claims these were your best — only that it picked them, and on what grounds.
What it looks for
A trip. A single day. A year ago today. A place you keep going back to. The same thing photographed across years. One colour running through your years. The few seconds of a burst. A whole year, in review.
Pinch to change the span, from a few seconds to everything you own.
Private by construction
Everything is scored and cut on device. No upload, no account, no ads.