Salvage Cam
Roy Chien Photo & Video iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Salvage Cam is a free Photo & Video app for iPhone and iPad by Roy Chien. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 12, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 32 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 12
- 2026 · v1.1.0
Screenshots
About Salvage Cam
Pick up a broken camera. Shoot what it has left. Every broken camera fails in its own way. Collect, diagnose, shoot. It cannot shoot what you see. Dead sensors, GPU failure, broken lenses, memory ghosts, shutter failure. 13 cameras, each with its own recipe of faults. ■ Draw, shoot, salvage. Draw a broken camera at random. Press the shutter and it fails on its own. Then see how much survives. The lower the recovery, the rarer the shot. COMMON → UNCOMMON → RARE → FATAL. ■ Same seed, same faults. Every shot carries a seed. The same seed always draws the same camera, the same faults, the same amount of damage. It breaks without a pattern, but it breaks the same way twice. The barcode in the corner is that seed's fingerprint. ■ Two interfaces. SIGNAL: glass, gradients and neon. Shooting feels like debugging a machine that is still alive. STUDIO: paper, ink and a red stamp. Like sorting negatives in a darkroom, where every photo is a ticket stub. ■ Free, subscription, buyout. The free tier draws 3 of 8 cameras. Shooting and recovery are unlimited. Paying unlocks all 13 cameras — 5 of them can never be drawn — and lets you pin a camera, set how broken it gets, and keep the original colour. A subscription also covers cameras added later. The one-time buyout covers the 13 cameras there are today; Camera Packs released later are sold separately. This app doesn't upload your photos. No account needed. Terms of Use https://salvagecam.rollitinno.com/terms.html Privacy Policy https://salvagecam.rollitinno.com/privacy.html
What’s new
Version 1.1.0 · Updated September 12, 2026
- Settings now has an output size: native, 3024, 2048 or 1080. Faulty shots at native resolution are large, so detail or disk space is your call. - Shots are saved as JPEG (quality 92) by default. PNG files got huge on this kind of noise. On iOS devices that support HEIC you can switch to it in settings. - Shots keep the capture settings the source provided: ISO, aperture, shutter, exposure compensation, focal length. No location is written. - Once you grant access you can turn on album filing and shots go into a "Salvage Cam" album in your photo library. If filing doesn't work, the shot still goes to the library. - Sharing now sends the whole info card — model, salvage rate, seed and barcode — with your signature in a handwritten face if you've set one. A shot still says where it came from once it leaves the app. - Zoom, and 0.5× on phones with an ultra-wide lens. - Redeem a code, come back to the app, and it updates. No restart. - The roll now tells you it keeps the last 24 frames, and where your photos live. - Fixed the photo info screen being cut off on small screens like the iPhone SE.
App privacy
The developer, Roy Chien, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data, Crash Data
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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