Sundrop turns your endless baby photos into recaps, time-lapses and more — without AI

Sundrop, a new iPhone app, uses Apple's on-device AI to create photo recaps, time-lapses, and other scenes for parents, without uploading images to the cloud. The app, developed by a team of three dads, is designed to be private, processing photos locally on the device. It scans the Camera Roll, skipping screenshots and duplicates, to create highlights and fun scenes called 'drops'. The app also allows parents to link their accounts, syncing their shared photos via iCloud without sending them to external servers. No generative AI is used in the creation of its scenes or highlights, differentiating it from other photo editing apps.