Category: Reenact
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Reenact is back on iOS, baby!
Five years ago, I wrote an iOS/Android/Firefox OS app called Reenact that helped you reenact photos. Four years ago, I abandoned the apps in favor of a web app that only worked in Chrome and Firefox. Today (zero years ago), I’m happy to announce that the web-based version of Reenact works in all major browsers…
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Reenact is dead. Long live Reenact.
Last November, I wrote an iPhone app called Reenact that helps you reenact photos. It worked great on iOS 9, but when iOS 10 came out in July, Reenact would crash as soon as you tried to select a photo. It turns out that in iOS 10, if you don’t describe exactly why your app…
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Reenact for iOS
Reenact, the world’s most popular app for reenacting photos,* is now available for iOS. It is free and ad-free. Reenact for iOS was written in Swift in about three days. It’s compatible with any iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad running iOS 8 or newer. It’s open-source, just like the Android version. Take a few minutes…
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Reenact Now Available for Android
I’ve increased the audience for Reenact (an app for reenacting photos) by 100,000% by porting it from Firefox OS to Android. It took me about ten evenings to go from “I don’t even know what language Android apps are written in” to submitting the .apk to the Google PlayTM store. I’d like to thank Stack…
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A visual refresh for Reenact
After I released Reenact (an app for reenacting photos) last week, Joen Asmussen graciously offered to provide some professional design guidance. I could never say no to design help, and in almost no time at all, Joen put together a new look for Reenact. I love it, and it has given me extra motivation to…
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Introducing Reenact: an app for reenacting photos
Here’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for a long time: a camera app for your phone that helps you reenact old photos, like those seen in Ze Frank’s “Young Me Now Me” project. For example, this picture that my wife took with her brother, sister, and childhood friend: Reenacting photographs from your youth,…