Collect your favorite things in real life. Point your camera and tap the shutter — Loot recognizes it, cuts it out, and sorts it into the right collection. Then share with friends.
I noticed a lot of my friends were collecting photos of the most random things, from exotic cars to traffic cones. Whenever they would see one, they would share it in a chat group or with their friends or partner.
So I decided to build an app for them. Loot lets you take a photo of anything in world around you and collect. Like Pokédex for anything.
It's just a fun project with no specific goals or business model at this point. I just thought it would be a fun project to build because it gets people to see the world around them in a new way. And share that with friends.
How well does the recognition hold up with cluttered backgrounds or weird angles, or does it really need a clean shot to nail the cutout?
the fact that Loot cuts out objects right in the camera view instead of dumping you into an editing app afterwards is such a thoughtful touch. feels like the team actually used it themselves.
The instant cutout and auto-sorting feels so smooth, like the camera and the sorting logic are working in perfect sync instead of fighting each other.
Played around with it for a few minutes and the cutout actually worked on my cluttered bookshelf without much fuss. Sorting into collections on the fly is a neat touch, wish it grouped similar items automatically though.
how well does the object recognition actually work for tricky stuff like overlapping items or weird shapes in messy backgrounds?
Does it work offline or do you need a connection for the recognition step? Also wondering how well it handles cluttered backgrounds when scanning something small like a vinyl record cover.
Pointed it at my coffee mug and it actually cut it out clean on the first try, which surprised me. Sorting it into a collection felt pretty smooth too.
the instant cutout feels really polished, like the recognition model actually understands what matters in the frame instead of just tracing edges. nice touch that it sorts into collections automatically so theres no extra step.
The instant cutout and auto-sorting feels really polished. Wish more camera apps made the collection step this seamless.
When you say Loot recognizes the object and sorts it automatically, how well does it handle similar-looking items from the same category, like two different mugs or near-identical sneakers?
cutting out objects with just one tap actually worked pretty well, way less fiddly than i expected. the auto-sorting into collections saved me from my usual mess of camera roll screenshots.
how well does the recognition actually work on cluttered backgrounds or weird angles, or is it really only ideal for clean product shots?
Does the recognition actually work well on cluttered backgrounds, or do I need a pretty plain backdrop for it to cut things out cleanly?
Tried it on a stack of vinyls and it actually pulled each album out cleanly, even the weirdo shaped ones. Wish the collection folders were a bit easier to rename but overall a fun little toy.
the auto cutout works way better than I expected, even on cluttered backgrounds. Wish I had this when I was scrapbooking as a kid
Does the recognition work on messy backgrounds or do I need a clean shot for it to actually cut things out properly?
The cutout quality is genuinely impressive, way cleaner than I expected from a phone snap. Sorting it into the right collection automatically felt like magic the first few times.
Tried it with my coffee mug and a weird figurine on my desk — both got snipped out cleanly without me fiddling with the edges. The auto-sorting into collections is the kind of thing I didn't know I wanted.
the cut-out on first capture looks surprisingly clean, and i love that it already drops into the right collection without a second tap. nice execution.
About Loot on Product Hunt
“Collect your favorite things in real life”
Loot launched on Product Hunt on July 1st, 2026 and earned 122 upvotes and 33 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. Collect your favorite things in real life. Point your camera and tap the shutter — Loot recognizes it, cuts it out, and sorts it into the right collection. Then share with friends.
Loot was featured in iOS (110.5k followers), Design Tools (261.2k followers) and Photography (143k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 89k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Loot?
Loot was hunted by Marc Köhlbrugge. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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