# Snapshot Santa - Photo Editor!

> Proof Father Christmas is Real

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id948309220](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id948309220)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id948309220`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Simon Crack
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (1,705 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2019-06-26
- **First published:** 2014-12-17
- **Size:** 43 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-04
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapshot-santa-photo-editor/id948309220)
- **Website:** [http://www.deadcoolapps.com](http://www.deadcoolapps.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.appgremlin.com/privacy-policy.html](https://www.appgremlin.com/privacy-policy.html)

## Description

Snapshot Santa is a free photo editor that lets you place Father Christmas into any photo using 50+ festive filters, including Santa, reindeer, sleighs, and Christmas trees. Not sponsored by Snap Inc., it's perfect for holiday fun you can share with family and friends.

How it works: take a new photo or choose one from your gallery, position and resize the guide, apply a Santa filter, switch to another Santa, tweak as needed, and share your snaps on social media or email.

## Rankings

- #43,492 — Overall

## Review summary

Many reviews praise the idea and potential to wow kids with a Santa-in-home photo, but stability and quality issues dominate. Users report frequent crashes, black camera screens, and saved-to-camera-roll failures, plus pervasive ads and paid features. Santa overlays are often low-resolution and poorly aligned, with limited placement options. Overall, the concept is appealing, but the app is plagued by reliability, performance, and editing constraints.

### Pros

- When it works, the app delivers a magical, kid‑friendly Santa-in-the-house photo effect that can wow children.
- The concept is engaging and can create memorable holiday montages for families.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and launch failures across devices (including iPhone X and iOS 12) with reports of the app not opening.
- Camera access often shows a black screen or fails to initialize.
- Exporting/saving edited photos to the camera roll frequently fails or shows nothing saved.
- Ad‑heavy experience with paywalls: many features require payment and there are few free options.
- Poor image quality and editing limitations: low‑resolution/blurry Santa overlays, auto‑cropping, and limited placement options (portrait mode only, cannot place in corners).
- Compatibility and performance issues on older devices/OS versions.

## Similar extensions and apps

- [Catch Santa Claus - Take Photo](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1060430205) — 4.80 / 5
- [Add Santa To Pictures & Photos](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1526342982) — 2.00 / 5
- [Catch Santa AI](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6756243093) — 5.00 / 5
- [Santa Sighting](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6473429192) — 5.00 / 5
- [Caught on Camera: Santa](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6754164466) — 5.00 / 5
- [Santa is in my house](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1181309668) — 1.00 / 5
- [iCaughtSanta Lite](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1102594819) — 4.50 / 5
- [Catch Santa App ~ Happy & Fun](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6743702378) — 5.00 / 5
- [Catch Santa Claus in my House!](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6444197204) — 1.80 / 5
- [Make Santa Claus - Xmas Booth](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id948575650) — 4.60 / 5
- [iCaughtSanta](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id341400468) — 4.60 / 5
- [Photo Selfie With Santa Claus](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6471078690) — 4.70 / 5

---

Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id948309220)