Shotpin · changelog
A one-time purchase is worth little if the app stops getting updates. This page keeps going — including what slipped and what did not make it.
1.1.0
2026-09-13
Released
New
Widgets: your latest spot on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. Tap the photo to browse back through the timeline, tap Navigate to go straight there, or snap a new spot from the widget
New
Control Center (iOS 18): add Shotpin to Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button. One press opens the camera
New
Name your places: call it Civic Sports Center instead of the street address. Every photo there picks up the name, and search finds it
New
Save a place without a photo: long-press the map or search an address. Next time you are there, the photo you take joins that spot on its own
New
Merge places: the car park, the halfway rest stop and the summit are three places by distance, but one mountain to you. Select the pins on the map (or the places in your library) and merge them into one, choosing which pin the map and Navigate should use
New
Satellite map: one tap on the layers button
New
Parking hint: when a photo looks like a parking spot, Shotpin suggests tagging it Parking. Accept with one tap, or ignore it
New
Deleting the photos of a place now asks whether to keep the place: the photos go, while the name, tags and location stay as a saved spot
New
Restore after reinstalling: the iCloud backup is a visible folder in the Files app, and an empty library offers to bring it back
New
Settings › About now shows the ICP filing number, which distribution in mainland China requires. Shotpin is available on the mainland China App Store
Fixed
Fixes and polish: the free quota now counts photo spots and saved spots separately, the parking widget no longer says the same thing twice, and several issues in restoring backups and merging places are resolved
1.0
2026-09-11
Released
New
Snap to save: the app opens straight to the camera. One press of the shutter stores the photo together with its exact location — no form, no typing
New
Navigate back in one tap, with the map app you already use: Amap, Baidu Maps, Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze. Choose once and it stops asking
New
Find your car: snap the spot when you park. Latest takes you back in one tap, and a spot tagged Parking also shows how long it has been there and walking directions to it
New
Places, not a pile of photos: shots taken at the same spot fold into one stack that also shows how many times you have been there
New
Your photo library stays clean: these functional shots live inside the app and never land in Photos
New
No account, no analytics, no ads. With sync off nothing leaves the phone; optional sync goes to iCloud Drive or storage of your own (WebDAV, S3-compatible, or any folder in the Files app)
New
Shotpin Pro is a single one-time purchase, $4.99: unlimited spots and tags, sync, importing from the system photo library, saving a copy to Photos, and a Face ID lock. Family Sharing included