Poses you can direct
Guide lines and plain cues show where the weight sits and what to say to the person posing.
Poses4You
Our own iPhone posing app had to take photographers and the people they photograph from finding a pose to getting it right on set.
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Key details
We designed and built Poses4You, an iPhone app with a catalogue of photo poses, most drawn with guide lines and two numbered cues. It adds smart search, a camera view that checks the pose live, and AI tools that start from a photo of you.
- Client
- Poses4You (our own app)
- Industry
- Photography
- Location
- Dubai, UAE
- Year
- 2026
Poses4You
Posing app for iPhone, in beta
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Scene 01 / Pose page
A pose opens with its guide lines and two numbered cues on the photo, then where the weight sits and how to frame the shot.
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Scene 02 / On set
On set fills the screen with the pose for the person being photographed, with the guide lines one tap away.
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Scene 03 / Smart search
Smart search reads a search as parts and shows close matches, each saying which part it lacks.
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Scene 04 / Categories
Every category opens as a grid of poses, those with guide lines first.
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Scene 05 / See Yourself
See Yourself starts from the chosen pose: add up to three photos of your face, with examples of good and poor photos.
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Scene 06 / Pose Finder
Pose Finder reads the framing, light and setting of a photo of you, then suggests poses that suit it.
Overview
We are developing Poses4You ourselves: a posing app for iPhone, for photographers and the people in front of the camera. It holds a catalogue of photo poses, most drawn with guide lines and cues. Around them sit smart search, boards for each shoot and AI tools that work from a photo of you. The app is in beta on TestFlight and not yet on the App Store.
This page covers what we set out to build, how we designed and built it, and what the beta does today.
The challenge
A photo shows a pose but not how to hold it, so the app had to explain poses and carry them to the shoot.
Poses that explain themselves
A pose photo does not say where the weight sits or what to tell the person posing. Each pose needed lines on the photo and cues in plain words.
Searches with more than one part
The first search matched words, then filled the screen with the nearest photos, related or not. A search for two things needed poses with both, or a clear note when none had both.
Live checks, nothing kept
Checking a pose live means reading a person's body through the camera. This had to happen on the phone, one frame at a time, with nothing about the person stored.
AI portraits from a chosen pose
See Yourself had to put a person's own face into the pose they picked. The first image model behind it was withdrawn by its provider, so we tested others with the same face and the same requests.
What we did
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Three designs, tested in the hand
We built three full-flow iPhone prototypes of a redesign and rebuilt the app in the one picked. After testing it on the phone, we kept the earlier flow and moved over the new pose page, guide lines and Studio.
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React Native, Expo and Supabase
The app is written in TypeScript with React Native and Expo. Supabase holds the accounts, the catalogue, search and private storage, and JavaScript fixes reach phones over the air at their next launch.
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Smart search
Smart search splits a search into parts. Poses with every part come first, and similar poses follow, each saying which part it lacks.
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Poses, explained
Guide lines and two numbered cues sit on the photo. Below them, the pose page lists the weight, the shoulders and hips, the framing, the camera angle and the level.
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See Yourself, with a guide
See Yourself turns one to three photos of your face into a portrait of you in the chosen pose. Before you add them, it shows which photos work and which to avoid.
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One look on every screen
Search, categories, the pose page, On set, See Yourself and Pose Finder share one design: true black, gold guide lines and editorial type.
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Live Guide runs on the phone
Point the camera at the person and the pose sits over the live view. Each limb lights up as it matches, and nothing about the person is stored.
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Private by design
Photos leave the phone only for the AI tools and go to private storage. Access rules sit in the database, so one account cannot read another's data.
Built with
- React Native The iPhone app
- Expo Builds, TestFlight and over-the-air updates
- Supabase Accounts, catalogue, search and private storage
- VisionCamera Live Guide's camera
- Pose detection module Our own native module Apple Vision body points, on the phone
- fal.ai Google's Nano Banana 2 See Yourself portraits
- Claude Anthropic Pose Finder's photo reading
- Railway API hosting
Services
- Mobile app development
- Web design and development
Related categories
Screen map
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Select a page to open its screen.
What Poses4You has now
- A catalogue of photo poses, most with guide lines, two numbered cues and readings for the weight, shoulders and hips.
- Smart search, which reads a search as parts, with every category one tap from Home.
- Boards and On set for the shoot itself, and Live Guide, which checks the pose through the camera on the phone.
- See Yourself and Pose Finder in Studio, with the photos kept in private storage.
- A beta on TestFlight, updated over the air between builds.
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Why it worked
It works because the app is built around the moment of the shoot
Each screen answers a question a shoot raises: which pose, how to hold it, and whether the person has it.
Search without noise
Results hold every part of the request or say which part they lack, so unrelated photos stay off the screen.
Private by design
Live Guide works on the phone and keeps nothing. Photos for the AI tools go to private storage, and you delete them from Settings.
Fixes between builds
JavaScript fixes reach testers' phones at their next launch, without waiting for a new build.
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About this project
Questions about this engagement
What clients ask us after reading this case study.
React Native and Expo, written in TypeScript, with Supabase for accounts, the catalogue, search and private storage. Live Guide uses Apple Vision on the phone, See Yourself uses Google's Nano Banana 2 through fal.ai, and Pose Finder uses Anthropic's Claude.
Not yet. It is in beta on TestFlight, and the App Store version is being prepared.
No. Body detection runs on the phone one frame at a time, and nothing about the person is saved. Only a photo the photographer takes is kept.
Yes. Poses4You is our own iPhone app, built with React Native and Expo. See our mobile app development service.
Yes. Poses4You makes AI portraits and reads photos to suggest poses, with the photos kept in private storage. See our AI services.
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