afterglow

A little attention. A lasting feeling.

Your life.
Cover worthy.

The light on the lake. A weekend away. An ordinary Tuesday. Turn the moments you love into covers worth keeping.

Download on the App Store

Free for iPhone · Optional Plus membership

Afterglow’s Today screen, with a lake photograph made into an editorial coverLIFE, WELL NOTICED.

The everyday issue

One photo.
A few words.
Entirely you.

01

Start with a feeling.

Choose a photo, give it a headline, and add a note. A small daily invitation helps you notice what’s already there.

02

Find your point of view.

Make an editorial cover for free. Preview the warm paper of Postcard and the cinematic frame of Film before choosing Plus.

03

Keep it. Send it. Remember.

Your covers live in a personal collection on your iPhone. Export an image to share through the apps you already use.

The Afterglow Studio screen showing Editorial and Postcard cover styles

A personal little archive

Good days,
kept close.

No feed to keep up with. No account to create. Just your photographs, your words, and a little room to make something beautiful.

Your selected photos stay in the app’s storage on your device. We don’t upload them to a server.

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New in version 1.1.0

The days became
a story.

Introducing Monthly Editions. Your saved covers come together in a personal issue of your life, one month at a time.

  • Revisit your photographs, headlines and notes in a chronological reader.
  • See the moods you chose throughout the month.
  • Share a keepsake poster featuring up to six of your latest covers.

Monthly Editions is available now. Download or update Afterglow to version 1.1.0 on the App Store to start your next chapter.

Explore Monthly Editions
A sample Monthly Edition in Afterglow 1.1.0, featuring three illustrated photo covers for September
Your month. Worth keeping.

Afterglow Plus

A little more
extraordinary.

Keep creating with all three signature styles and exports twice as wide. Your free collection is always yours.

Optional membership

$2.99 / month

Or $14.99 per year

  • Editorial, Postcard & Film styles
  • High-resolution 2160 px wide exports
  • Unlimited covers and sharing

US pricing. Local prices appear in the app. Subscription renews automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings.

Membership questions

Notice something ordinary.
Keep it.

Afterglow for iPhone. Start your collection today.

Download on the App Store