SELF-TIMER CAMERA WITH A BLINK CHECK
GroupCam
Self Timer Camera
Prop your phone on a tripod, a shelf or a coffee mug and get in the frame. GroupCam counts the whole group down out loud, takes the photo, checks it for closed eyes, and shoots again if someone blinked.
$4.99 once. No subscription.
Android.
WHAT A SELF-TIMER CANNOT TELL YOU
Every self-timer can count to ten. None of them can tell you the photo is no good. GroupCam analyses each shot on your phone the moment it is taken, counts the faces it can actually judge, and looks at how open each pair of eyes is. If somebody blinked it says so out loud and takes one more — while everyone is still standing there.
ONE SHOT, THE TWO WAYS IT CAN GO
Everyone looking
Kept
Badged “No blinks · 6 faces”.
Someone blinked
One more
Said out loud, then reshot once.
Both photos are kept and both are labelled, so nothing is quietly thrown away and nothing claims to be perfect. A face too far back to read is left alone rather than triggering a pointless retake.
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A countdown nobody can hear is just a flashing light. GroupCam speaks the cues and lets you set the session volume, and on a phone with no speech engine it falls back to a chime and an on-screen count rather than going silent.
02
Chasing a flawless frame would leave a group standing to attention indefinitely. One retake catches the ordinary blink; after that GroupCam moves on and lets you decide.
03
The fixed ten seconds every phone camera offers is the reason half these photos fail. You set the get-in-position delay yourself, so the count starts once you are actually in the frame.
Six things, recorded properly. No account to make, nothing uploads.
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A countdown the room can hear
It calls out the places, the numbers and the hold, loud enough that nobody is caught mid-turn. If a phone has no speech engine it falls back to a chime and an on-screen count.
02
The blink check
Every photo is analysed on your phone the moment it is taken. If somebody blinked, GroupCam says so out loud and shoots again.
03
One retake, not a loop
It reshoots once. A session can never get stuck chasing a perfect frame while everyone stands there waiting.
04
Badges that admit what they know
Each photo is labelled with how many faces were checked and whether blinks were found. It says no blinks detected, never perfect.
05
A delay you set yourself
Ten seconds is rarely enough to walk round a table. You choose how long you need before the countdown starts.
06
Straight to your camera roll
Photos land in a GroupCam album in your gallery on their own. Nothing is held hostage inside the app.
Eight screens from the shipped build. The photos shown in them are a sample session, not customer pictures.
Scroll sideways, or use the arrow keys
No trial and no subscription. The standard tier is fully usable with an ad; one purchase removes it and lifts the session cap.
Standard
$0
Unlocked
$4.99 once
One purchase. No subscription.
No. The countdown and the blink check both run on your phone. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account.
No. GroupCam asks for the camera only. It saves its own shots to your gallery in a GroupCam album and never reads your photo library.
The photo is checked right after it is taken. If a blink is found, GroupCam says so and takes one more shot. It retakes once, not repeatedly, so a session cannot get stuck.
It looks at each face in the full-resolution photo and reads how open each eye is. Faces too small to judge are left alone rather than triggering a retake, so someone at the back of a group will not cause an unnecessary reshoot.
No, and the app does not claim it is. Each photo is labelled with how many faces were checked and whether blinks were found, so you can see what it actually looked at.
Loud enough for a room. You set the session volume in Settings, and if your phone has no speech engine it falls back to a chime with an on-screen countdown.
No. It is $4.99 once.
One purchase, no account, nothing uploaded. Android.