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Coming to the App Store in November

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ByteBox Camera · by Void Research

A box full of cameras.

Instant film, square or wide. Live ASCII. 8-bit and 16-bit pixels, plus a Handheld mode in full color. Storybook illustrations. Pixel avatars. All in one iPhone camera, and all of it editable.

One email when it hits the App Store. Nothing else.

Download on theApp Store
iPhoneFree to shoot$4.99 one-time unlockNo subscription
8-bit lens in Handheld mode: full-color viewfinder, 128×112
ASCII lens viewfinder: colored characters on dark, 150 columns
Cel lens viewfinder: a house in fall colors as a live storybook illustration
Classic square instant print of a smiling couple on a Miami beach, captioned Miami 2026
Classic square
Wide instant print of a couple at a rocky beach, captioned OFF season beach time
Wide

Lens 01 · Instant

Caption it by hand.

Shoot a white-border instant print in classic square or wide format and write on it. The caption is part of the photo, just like on a real print.

ASCII lens: a retro desk with a lamp and a keyboard, drawn in colored characters
ASCII lens: a backlit person in silhouette, drawn in colored characters

Lens 02 · ASCII

Photos made of text.

The viewfinder renders live in characters. Share an image, or share real text you can paste into a message, a note or code, and edit like any text.

8-bit lens photo: a person walking up a driveway in fall

8-bit · Handheld mode · 128×112

Handheld mode, Original (green) palette: bottles and tubes in a thick green frame
Original
Handheld mode, grayscale photo
Grayscale
Handheld mode, full-color photo in a film-strip frame
Color
Handheld mode, full-color photo in a smiley and flower border, one of 11 frames
11 frames

Lens 03 · 8-bit / 16-bit

Two pixel looks.

8-bit is bold and chunky. 16-bit keeps more detail and color. Both open in the pixel editor, with a full palette, fill, select and text tools.

Plus Handheld mode: 128×112 in Original (green), grayscale, or full color the old handheld never could do, with 11 fun frames to choose from.

Cel lens photo: two people in a kitchen drawn as a storybook illustration
Cel lens photo: picking apples among green apple trees, drawn as a storybook illustration

Lens 04 · Cel

Your life, as a storybook.

Turn your photos into storybook illustrations: hand-drawn color and inked outlines, like a page from a mid-century children's book. A cel-shaded look, straight from the camera.

Icon lens selfie turned into a pixel avatar

Lens 05 · Icon

Your selfie, as a pixel avatar.

Turn your selfie into a pixel avatar, any size from 16 to 1024. Stylized pixel profile photos for Discord, X, Slack and your gaming tag, or an app icon.

16 · 32 · 64 · 128 · 256 · 512 · 1024

Import: crop and size a fireworks photo
The same fireworks photo edited as 16-bit pixel art

Import + pixel editor

Any image becomes pixel art.

Import from your library, crop it, then zoom in and tap pixels to clean up, recolor or add your own details.

Pixel editor: a desk scene with an empty monitor
Before
Pixel editor: the same desk scene with a pixel-art face pasted onto the monitor
After · pasted

Pixel editor · Remix

Remix your photos.

Paste pixel art into any shot. Drop a pixel-art cutout into another picture, place it, then touch it up pixel by pixel. Put your face on the monitor, your dog in the painting, or yourself inside your own photo.

Share two ways

Modern or Native.

Modern and Native share modes
ModeWhat you getBest for
ModernHi-res export, smooth scalingInstagram, TikTok, Facebook feeds
NativeTrue-to-pixel image or real ASCII textPixel purists, Messages, pasting text

Send to Messages, save to Photos or Files, or hand off to any app in the share sheet.

Free

Shoot everything

Every lens, the pixel editor and import. Try it all before you pay.

Full unlock

$4.99 once

Sharing and export in Modern and Native. Tied to your Apple ID, so Restore Purchases brings it back after a reinstall. No subscription.

Is it a subscription?

No. One $4.99 purchase.

Which devices?

iPhone, also runs on iPad, iOS 16.4 or later.

Load up the box.

One email when it hits the App Store. Nothing else.