Capch
Original-quality photos for friends and groups.
An iPhone app for sharing photos and videos privately with friends and groups, at their original quality. No feeds, no followers, no compression.
- Role
- Co-founder and CEO
- Status
- Retired in 2026. The transfer engine lives on in Graith CTS and FullDrop.
- Built with
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- Supabase
- Cloudflare R2
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
Why it exists
Shared photos get compressed and scattered across a dozen chats. Capch gave every friend and group one timeline of originals that saved straight to Apple Photos.
What it does
- Groups, one-to-many “Drops” for events, Live Activities, a share extension and a widget.
- In our benchmark a 4K original arrived in 8.48s. WhatsApp took 31s to deliver a 720p re-encode.