Personal transformation
Forty weeks. Same chair. Different shape.
Weekly bump photos that turn into the timelapse you actually share, without husband-photographer drift.
Start your timelineCapture loop landing soon
Real-device capture of this use case ships once test users finish their first runs.
The pain
My husband is a terrible photographer, so every picture he took of me looks sort of awkward.
How Lign solves it
The features that line up for this exact use case.
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Pick the anchor that fits the journey
Pupils for full-face progress, Mouth Corners for smiles, Shoulders for body-recomp shots, or Manual mode if you want to tap a doorframe or mirror edge yourself. The Quick picker holds the essentials; the Advanced picker covers the full set of about twenty-eight landmarks.
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Three alignment modes, Smart by default
Smart finds the rotation angle that minimizes movement across every photo. Clean Edges adds an inscribed content rectangle so the rotated frames have no empty corners. Level snaps each photo to a horizontal anchor for the look most progress posts default to.
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Export to the aspect ratio you actually post in
9:16 for Reels and Stories, 1:1 for the grid, 4:5 for the in-feed portrait crop, 16:9 for landscape, or Original to keep your source framing. Per-photo duration, loop count, and a Hold-last-photo option for the reveal frame all live in the video export settings.
The bump-photo workflow has been the same since 1995. Same chair. Same wall. Same doorframe. Stand in front of it once a week. Take the photo. Try to post the same direction, the same crop, the same time of day.
It rarely works. The photographer (often a husband) takes the photo from a slightly different distance every week, which is exactly why “my husband is a terrible photographer” is one of the most-quoted pregnancy-photo complaints on the internet. The phone sits a different way in the bowl. The chair moves an inch. By week 30, the timelapse looks like the room is wobbling around the bump instead of the bump growing in a still room.
Lign solves it on the post-production side. Tap two anchor points (chair edge, doorframe, window mullion) on each photo and Lign locks every frame to those points. The bump is then the only thing that grows. Export the 40-week timelapse for the family group chat, save it for the memory, post it on the announcement.
The photos you take during these months are the ones you’ll show your son or daughter one day. They should look like a person growing inside a still room, not a wobbly slideshow.
Landmarks used
- Manual landmark (chair edges, window corner, doorframe)
- Shoulders + body pose
- Mouth corners (for the face shot)
See it line up
Two ways to see what alignment buys you.
Drag the slider for the still comparison; scrub the flipbook for the motion. The frames here are stand-ins drawn from the in-app pet morph; the use-case capture lands with Phase 8.5.
About that one thing
I don't have a tripod.
Right, no one does. Lign was built for the phone on the bathroom shelf, the timer, the slightly different angle every week. The alignment is the part Lign handles, so the framing drift you cannot avoid stops mattering. Tap two anchor points (a doorframe edge, the mirror corner, your shoulders) and every photo locks to them. The bump grows. The shoulders broaden. The room stays put.
Questions, answered.
- I take my bump pics in the bathroom mirror with a timer. Will it work?
- Yes. Manual landmark mode lets you tap two points on each photo, typically the corners of a doorframe, the edge of the mirror, or a fixed object that doesn't move week-to-week. Lign anchors every photo to those points. The bump grows, the room stays still.
- Can I make a 40-week timelapse?
- That's the canonical use case. Forty weekly photos, all anchored to the same chair, wall, or mirror, exported as a 5-second 9:16 timelapse. Each photo gets its own duration slice; you set the length. The Hold-last-photo Pro feature lets the final 39-week or 40-week bump linger before the cut.
- Privacy: these are intimate photos. Does anything upload?
- No. Lign processes everything on-device using Apple's Vision framework. There is no Lign server, no upload step, and no model that ingests your photos. Pregnancy photos are a textbook case for the on-device-only approach.
Coming soon