The camera you hand over

Hand over your phone. Your photo is saved.

Open Don’t Crop Me before handing over your phone. The screen shows a little less than what the camera records: if they cut off your feet or your head, or tilt the horizon, the app rescues the photo within the margin.

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The waiter cut Grandma in half? She was in the margin: we bring her back.
The Don’t Crop Me shooting screen, just like the iPhone camera: someone jumping on the beach.

How it works

They frame it.
You keep the margin.

  1. Open the app, hand over your phone.

    It looks like the iPhone camera: whoever frames the shot sees nothing different.

  2. The screen shows a little less than the shot.

    The camera records wider than the preview. You keep a margin all around.

  3. The app rescues the photo.

    It reframes within the margin and saves the photo to Photos, with the original underneath.

What the app rescues

The classics, rescued.

The friend who tilts everything

Sea at 10°? Levelled.

Horizon levelled

The tourist who cuts off heads

A bit too low? Moved up.

Head cleared

The aunt who cuts off feet

As usual. Put back.

Feet back in

The app only fixes obvious misses, never a deliberate framing.

After the shot

You stay in control. Adjust in the margin.

You see the full capture and the frame the app chose. Every change goes straight to Photos.

  • Drag the frame where it belongs.
  • Pinch to make it bigger or smaller, up to the full capture.
  • Turn the dial to level the horizon.
  • Share the photo in full resolution.
The photos screen in Don’t Crop Me: the full capture of a restaurant table, the yellow frame of the kept photo, and the horizon dial.

Nothing is lost

The original stays in Photos.

The rescued photo lands in Photos with the original underneath: “Revert to Original” brings back the full capture, just in case.

An elderly couple dancing on a pontoon by a lake, head to toe. In Photos Revert to Original

Lend it without worry

With iOS Guided Access, the person you lend your phone to can’t leave the app: not your photos, not your messages.

Nothing leaves your phone

Reframing is decided on the iPhone, offline. No account, no server, no analytics.

Free, no ads

If it saved one of your photos, you can buy the developer a coffee, from the app. It unlocks nothing: it’s a thank-you.

Support

A question?

A problem, an idea? Write to me: I answer myself, usually within a few days.

contact@yoanncroizer.fr

Send an email
Where do my photos go?

To the Photos app on your iPhone, and nowhere else. The rescued photo lands there with the original underneath: “Revert to Original” brings back the full capture.

Why does the app ask for access to Photos?

To save your photos there: add-only access is enough. To change the version of a photo already saved, or to share it in full resolution, it needs to read it back. “Limit Access” is enough then: it only sees its own photos.

I don’t like the reframing.

Open the photo in the app: drag the frame, make it bigger, level the horizon or keep the full capture. Every change replaces the version saved in Photos. You can also turn off “Rescue automatically” in the app’s Settings.

How do I stop people from leaving the app?

With iOS Guided Access. Turn it on once in Settings › Accessibility › Guided Access. In Don’t Crop Me, triple-press the side button before lending your phone; triple-press again to take back control.

Which phones does it run on?

iPhone, with iOS 18 or later. Not on Android yet.