Ambientrace

What if you could remember a moment without a single photo? Ambientrace is a camera app that captures — then erases — your photos. Instead of keeping the image, it extracts the ambient data hidden within that moment: the colors of the scene, the weather, the sounds around you, and the atmosphere you were in. That's all that remains. A trace. **How it works:** 1. Take a photo — of anything, anywhere 2. Watch it dissolve — the image breaks apart into colors and data 3. Keep the trace — what remains is a color palette, atmospheric labels, weather, location, and sound level The photo is gone. But something more interesting stays. Later, when you look back at your traces, you'll find that a handful of colors and the words "Quiet Afternoon, Warm Sunlight, 18°C" bring back the scene more vividly than any photo could. Your imagination fills in the rest — and that's the point. **What Ambientrace records:** - Color palette — the dominant colors extracted from your photo - Atmospheric labels — AI-detected context like "Rainy Commute" or "Sunday Morning Coffee" - Weather & temperature — conditions at that exact moment - Location — where you were - Ambient sound level — how loud or quiet it was around you - Atmospheric Time — not "14:32" but "Afternoon" — because that's how you actually remember it **What Ambientrace doesn't keep:** - Your photos — deleted immediately after processing, never stored, never uploaded **Features:** - Dissolve animation — watch your photo transform into ambient data in real time - AI atmosphere detection — supports Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude (bring your own API key) - AI prompt presets — choose the voice your traces are generated in: Minimal, Poetic, Documentary, or Exhibition - Trace Cards — shareable cards designed for social media - Folders — group your traces by mood, project, or trip - Bulk capture — convert your existing photo library into traces in one go - Data portability — export everything as JSON, CSV, or print-ready A4/A3 ZIP archives - ML Kit fallback — works without an API key using on-device image analysis - Atmospheric Time — times of day expressed as Dawn, Morning, Dusk, Late Night - Bilingual — full Japanese and English support - Privacy-first — all data stored locally on your device, with API keys protected by the iOS Keychain **Perfect for:** - People who take too many photos but rarely look back at them - Anyone who wants to record life without the pressure of "the perfect shot" - Minimalists, journalers, and anyone curious about a different way to remember Ambientrace is made by f∞ studio — an experimental collective exploring the boundaries of photography. We build tools that ask: what happens when you remove the image from the experience? What's left? Ambientrace is our first answer. Capture the atmosphere. Imagine the rest.