pinlight

Capture photos with a live light-metering HUD. See your photos and photowalks on a map — with sun position, camera direction, color palettes, and notes.

Pinlight turns your photo albums into scouting maps. Pick any album from your Photos library and see every geotagged photo pinned to its location — scoped to the album, not your entire library. Capture photos with a live metering HUD, then come back to a map that remembers not just where you were, but what the light was doing. Record photowalks to see your path as you scout a new location.

PHOTOWALKS

• Start a walk from the album list. Your route draws live on a map as you go • Walk HUD overlays Duration, Distance, Pace, Photos, Heading, Elevation, and a Golden Hour clock that warms from amber to deep red as the window closes • Take photos during a walk and they land in the walk's album with a pin on the map

LIGHT METERING — IN-APP CAMERA

• Live readings on the viewfinder: color temperature (CCT), exposure value, scene EV at ISO 100, lux, sun position, compass heading, and more • Visual compass strip and warm-to-cool Kelvin gradient strip for at-a-glance scene reading • Configurable HUD — choose which readings appear in the compact strip vs the expanded view, drag to reorder • Multi-lens zoom buttons + pinch • Tap-to-focus with a draggable sun for exposure adjustment • Every captured photo carries a Light Reading record — ambient CCT, tint, scene EV, sun position — visible later in the photo's detail view

PHOTO MAP — ALBUM-SCOPED LOCATION MEMORY

• Pick any album from your Photos library and see every geotagged shot pinned to its location • Direction arrows show which way the camera was pointing • A sundial diagram reveals the sun's position at capture time — golden hour, blue hour, harsh midday, or night • Cinema-style color palette strip on each photo • Filter by light condition, favorites, edited photos, or dominant color • Cluster pins for busy locations; browse in a gallery with swipe navigation

NOTES + EXIF

• Camera, lens, focal length, and altitude extracted automatically from EXIF • Add your own notes to any photo — parking directions, gear reminders, composition tips — with bullets, bold, and italic formatting

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT

Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no uploads, no tracking, no analytics. Pinlight reads your Photos library and processes everything on-device.

Built for photographers and cinematographers who want their light metering tied to their location memory.