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PRIVATE CAMERA, AUTO DELETE

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TempCam

Private Camera, Auto Delete

A camera that forgets on purpose.

Take the shot, look at it, decide. If you do nothing the photo deletes itself. Nothing reaches your gallery unless you tap Save, and the file carries no camera model, no timestamp and no coordinates when it leaves.

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Free to use. $4.99 one-time unlock.
Android.

  • Privacy & Utilities
  • Android
  • No account
  • 10 languages
The TempCam launch screen: a phone split between a colour photo and a fading black-and-white one, headed Shoot, then Disappear, with the line nothing saves to your camera roll unless you choose

THE DEFAULT IS DELETE

Every shot starts a timer.

A photo lands on the review screen with a countdown already running. Retake it, share it, or save it. Ignore it and the file goes, which means forgetting to tidy up is not a way to leak a photo. Sixty seconds is the default, and you can shorten it.

  • 5squick look
  • 30sa proper check
  • 60sdefault
  • Offpremium

The timer runs on the review screen, not in the background. Turning it off is the one choice the app puts behind the unlock, because it is the one that changes the promise.

WHAT THE FILE LOSES

A photo carries more than a picture.

A stock camera writes a block of metadata into every JPEG. TempCam re-encodes the image as it is written, so that block is not there to begin with.

  • Camera make and model Written into every file gone Re-encoded away before the file is ever handed to Share or Save.
  • Date and time of capture Written into every file gone The shot does not carry the minute you took it.
  • Exposure, lens and ISO Written into every file gone The whole EXIF block goes, not a selected part of it.
  • GPS coordinates Written when location is on never recorded TempCam does not request a location permission, so there is nothing to strip.
  • The photo itself Saved to your gallery automatically deleted on a countdown It reaches your gallery only if you tap Save before the timer runs out.

Five screens from the app

Drag the row, or focus it and use the arrow keys.

Scroll sideways, or use the arrow keys

The TempCam viewfinder showing a countryside path, with flash set to Auto, a 4 by 3 aspect chip, Photo and Video modes and a large shutter button
The viewfinder. Photo or video, and nothing else on screen
The TempCam review screen showing a night photo of a full moon with a 0:29 countdown and an EXIF/GPS: Off label at the top, and an Auto-delete timer sheet offering 5s, 30s, 60s selected, and Off
The review screen: 29 seconds left, and the timer picker open
The TempCam settings screen with a Privacy section containing Strip EXIF and GPS switched on, Block Screenshots switched on and Auto-delete After Share, plus photo quality, default timer, haptic shutter, shutter sound, theme and language rows
Every privacy control is a switch you can see, not a promise
A TempCam onboarding card headed Privacy First, reading GPS and EXIF data stripped by default, screenshots blocked on Android
What the app tells you on the way in
A TempCam onboarding card headed No-Trace Camera, reading photos are not saved unless you tap Save, your camera roll stays clean
The rule the whole app is built on

The rest of the app

Screenshots blocked

With the switch on, Android refuses a screenshot of TempCam and a screen recording comes out blank. This was broken in earlier builds and is fixed as of version 1.0.5, verified on device.

Saving is a decision

There is no silent write to the camera roll. The Save button is the only path into your gallery, and it is one tap you have to mean.

Share without keeping

Send the shot straight to a message or a chat without it landing in your gallery on the way. With the unlock, the file can delete itself the moment the share sheet closes.

Video, if you want it

Video recording is a separate add-on rather than something bundled in. The same rules apply to a clip as to a photo.

Ten languages

English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Chinese, switchable in Settings rather than tied to the phone.

Quiet, if you need it

Shutter sound off, haptic shutter on or off, photo quality set to your liking, and a theme that follows the system.

What TempCam does collect

An app about privacy should not be vague here, so plainly: it is not a zero-telemetry app, and it never claims to be.

STAYS ON YOUR PHONE

  • Every photo and video you take
  • Your settings and chosen timer
  • Anything you save to the gallery yourself

LEAVES THE PHONE

  • Crash reports, so a fatal bug gets found and fixed
  • Basic usage analytics — screens opened, not what is in them
  • Ad requests, on the free tier only

No permission for location is requested, and none of the above carries an image. Paid users see no ads at all.

PRICING

$4.99one-time unlock

The camera, the countdown, the EXIF stripping and the screenshot block are all in the free version, with ads. The unlock removes the ads, adds share-and-delete, and lets you switch the timer off.

  • $3.99Video recording add-on
  • $6.99Both together
  • No ads
  • Share without saving to the gallery
  • Delete straight after sharing
  • Turn the auto-delete timer off
  • Nothing renews
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Questions

What actually happens after I take a photo?

It opens on a review screen with a countdown running — 60 seconds by default, or 5 or 30 if you prefer. Retake, Share or Save before it reaches zero. If you do nothing, the file is deleted.

Does anything reach my camera roll?

Only if you tap Save. TempCam writes to its own working area, and the gallery stays untouched until you choose otherwise.

When is the location data removed?

There is none to remove. TempCam does not request a location permission at all. The rest of the EXIF block — camera model, timestamp, exposure — is stripped as the image is written, not at the moment you share.

Does the screenshot block really work?

Yes, as of version 1.0.5. An earlier release shipped with the flag disabled and the toggle did nothing. That is fixed and verified: with Block Screenshots on, Android refuses the capture and screen recordings come out blank.

Does TempCam collect anything about me?

It has crash reporting and basic usage analytics, and the free tier shows ads. None of that touches your photos, which never leave the phone unless you share them yourself.

What does the $4.99 unlock change?

It removes the ads, lets you share and delete straight after sharing, and adds the option to turn the auto-delete timer off entirely. Video recording is a separate $3.99 add-on, or $6.99 for both.

Take one and let it go

The camera and the countdown are free. Open it, take a photo, and watch nothing happen to your gallery.

Get it on Google Play