SmartPhotos™ & SmartVideos™

Intelligent photos and videos. Protected by design.

Powered by the iPhone's latest on-device AI chips, Umbr makes photos and videos that resist screenshots, recordings, and capture by other phones — so what you share stays where you sent it.

Free. iPhone, iOS 26+. Requires a 120Hz ProMotion display for full protection.

Umbr app showing a SmartPhoto next to a damaged screenshot capture attempt

How Umbr is different

Most apps protect the file. Umbr protects the pixels themselves — so the protection travels with what you share.

Stops screenshots and screen recordings

SmartPhotos™ and SmartVideos™ alternate between two specially-crafted frames up to 120 times per second. Your eyes see one clean image. Any screenshot captures only damage.

Stops capture by another phone

Photograph an Umbr with another phone and the captured image comes out heavily damaged. Apple's Neural Engine weaves in patterns that confuse cameras but stay invisible to your eyes.

End-to-end encrypted

Every photo and video is encrypted on your iPhone with Apple's CryptoKit before it leaves. We can't see your content. Even our own servers can't decrypt it.

You stay in control

Set view limits. Choose link expiry from one hour to six months. Revoke any share at any time, even after sending. Report abuse with one tap.

Three taps to send something safer

No accounts. No phone number. No contacts uploaded. Just open and share.

01

Capture or pick

Take a photo or video in Umbr, or choose one from your library. Your iPhone's Neural Engine protects it on-device — nothing is uploaded yet.

02

Set the rules

Pick how long the link lives, how many times it can be opened, and add a label if you want. Defaults: one hour, one view.

03

Share the link

Send via iMessage, WhatsApp, email, anything. Recipients open in the Umbr app, or in any 120Hz browser. You'll know when it's been viewed.

A note on protection

No technology can make a photo 100% impossible to copy — and we won't pretend otherwise.

What Umbr does is make it dramatically harder, especially against the most common ways photos get taken without permission: screenshots, screen recordings, and someone pointing another phone at your screen. For everyone else, Umbr is the strongest protection ever built into a consumer sharing app.

Ready to share differently?

Free on the App Store. No account required. Works on iPhone running iOS 26 or later.