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Recollect looks through your Photo Library to find every trip you've been on, and lets you replay each activity on an interactive map. It finds the faces of everyone that was with you on a trip, and shows their pins moving around on the map so you can see where everyone went. Link it to Apple Music to see the Trip Soundtrack. Any songs you saved to your library during a trip will be included. Share a video from photos you took, with map transitions in between each activity.
I always had a hard time finding photos from trips in my Photos app. They're spread across my library and Shared Albums, and they get buried in a large library.
I built this app to solve that problem, and to reminisce about some previous vacations I've been on. It's already reminded me of some activity I had forgotten about. The replays have been really fun to watch, especially on iPad where you can see the fullscreen photos and the map at the same time.
Does it work fully on-device or does your app need to send my photo library to a server to figure out the trips and the faces?
The map transitions between photos are a really nice touch, makes old trips feel like a little movie. Surprised how well it picked up the faces from random group shots without me tagging anyone.
Does it run entirely on device or does my photo library get uploaded somewhere to do the trip detection and face clustering?
The map transitions stitched between activities in the share video are such a thoughtful touch. Makes a simple photo dump feel like a real recap.
The map replay feature is really clever, watching where everyone went during a trip brings back memories in a way scrolling through photos never did. Loved seeing the trip soundtrack idea too.
How does it decide what counts as a "trip" — like does it auto-detect based on gaps in your photo location data or do you have to mark the start and end yourself?
About Recollect on Product Hunt
“Rewatch your trips on an interactive map”
Recollect was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #122 on the daily leaderboard. Recollect looks through your Photo Library to find every trip you've been on, and lets you replay each activity on an interactive map. It finds the faces of everyone that was with you on a trip, and shows their pins moving around on the map so you can see where everyone went. Link it to Apple Music to see the Trip Soundtrack. Any songs you saved to your library during a trip will be included. Share a video from photos you took, with map transitions in between each activity.
Recollect was featured in iOS (110.5k followers), Travel (42.3k followers) and Maps (12.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 51.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Recollect?
Recollect was hunted by Carson Katri. 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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