Is There an App to Remind You to Take a Daily Photo?
Yes, daily photo reminder apps exist — but most give you a generic streak counter and a stock set of prompts that don’t quite match why you wanted to do this in the first place. If you’d rather have something built around your actual life, you can make your own daily photo journal app in Auto in about the time it takes to browse the app store.
Why build your own instead of downloading one
A daily selfie app or “picture a day” app usually assumes one use case: streaks for streaks’ sake. But maybe you want prompts around your kid’s first year, a fitness transformation, a creative project, or just a daily habit that feels personal instead of gamified. When you build the Frame yourself, you decide:
- What the daily prompt actually asks for (a mood, an object, a selfie, a scene)
- How your entries are organized — calendar view, feed, whatever makes sense to you
- The look and feel, so it feels like your journal, not a template
- Whether you want streaks and stats at all, or just a quiet place to collect photos
That’s the real pitch of building in Auto: you describe what you want, snap a reference photo if it helps, and Auto assembles a working app around it — no code, no generic download.
How someone built theirs
One Auto user started simple: a frame for daily creative photo prompts. Their first request was just that — a frame focused on creativity, with playful doodle shapes and bright colors. They tried a bright neon look with bold outlines, decided it felt too busy, then pivoted toward something calmer: a clean calendar view where each day is a photo you can tap to expand.
From there they refined the details piece by piece. They swapped in a warm gradient background with a bit of grain, moved photos into circles on the calendar, and put the day’s prompt in large serif text over the gradient. They removed features that didn’t earn their place — a streak counter, extra cards, a bottom tab bar — and added ones that did, like a “recents” section grouped by day and a set of three random inspiration words in a pill-shaped tag for a little daily spark.
They kept iterating on small things most people would never bother fixing: the swipe animation between calendar months, a back button that didn’t look quite right, an outline around the selected date that got cut off. When the build threw an actual error, they pasted it in and had it fixed on the spot. Near the end, they focused on feel — instant loading when a new photo is added, a fade-in animation on open, even the gradient animating in slowly. The result, which they named Daily Lens, is a fully custom daily photo journal that looks and behaves nothing like a template.
FAQ
Is there an app that reminds you to take a photo every day? Plenty of daily photo reminder apps exist, but they’re built for a general audience. Building your own in Auto lets you set the exact prompt style, reminder feel, and layout you want.
Do I need design or coding skills? No. You describe changes in plain language — colors, layout, what a button should do — and Auto builds it.
Can I change it later? Yes. The example above went through dozens of revisions over time, from color scheme to animations, all through simple follow-up requests.
What if I just want a simple selfie-a-day app? That’s a fine starting point — you can always add prompts, calendar views, or comments later as your needs change.