Cinemin is a “live animation camera” — a real-time video filter that turns whatever it sees into a traditional 2D animation style with lines and flat shading. Cinemin is a modern successor to Olli (App Store Best of 2017)

Cinemin is launching in about a week — once we pick the date. R&D and style development took a long time, requiring the development of new color tools and optimized graphics algorithms. Cinemin is a considerable advance over my previous app, Olli. Note: Cinemin doesn't use generative AI. The technology is certainly impressive, but the App Store is saturated with generative AI photo and video apps, and I think there are ethical issues around how these systems gather their training data. By not using this technology, Cinemin can work in real-time and is a different user experience altogether. 1.0 will be optimized for iPhone screens only, but we're following up to release the iPad and Silicon Mac support ASAP.