Your passcode isn’t a secret. Failshot photographs whoever unlocks your device while it’s on.
Early-bird price for life: £3.99 a month or £23.99 a year, VAT included, when you subscribe by 31 October.
Coming soon to iPhone and Android. Get early access:
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Every device has a passcode.
Passcodes like 123456 take a second to learn over a shoulder.
Failshot kicks in.
Whoever unlocks your device while Failshot is on is photographed with the front camera.
You know who.
Failshot keeps the photo for you. With email alerts on, it’s emailed to you with the time.
On Mac now. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
You unlock your device on the bus, at the table, at work.
Your device never tells you who else has been in it.
Failshot does.
On iPhone
Then lock your device while Failshot is open. Your Lock Screen can show that it’s on.
Whoever unlocks it lands in Failshot and is photographed with the front camera.
Switch Failshot off with Face ID or your Failshot PIN. Your own unlock is deleted. Anyone else’s is kept for you.
On Android
It keeps working in the background, even while your device is locked.
A wrong PIN, pattern or password at the lock screen is photographed with the front camera, and so is whoever unlocks it.
Switch Failshot off with your fingerprint, face or Failshot PIN. Never the device’s own PIN.
You’ve picked up a device with Failshot on, and you know its passcode. Try to switch Failshot off.
Failshot
Enter your Failshot PIN
Not the device’s passcode. A wrong PIN takes another photo.
Photos taken: 0
FailshotEmail alert
Someone unlocked your device.
They then got your Failshot PIN wrong 3 times.
That’s what the owner sees.
Get early accessA demo. It doesn’t use your camera, and nothing you type leaves this page.
Switching Failshot off takes Face ID or your own six-digit Failshot PIN. Never the device’s passcode.
In Lockdown, switching Failshot off takes three things: Face ID or your fingerprint, your Failshot PIN, and the answer to a question only you know.
Every wrong try is photographed.
If someone unlocks your device while Failshot is on and doesn’t prove it’s you, Failshot emails you their photo and the time.
Email alerts are optional, and off until you turn them on.
Turn on the web vault and Failshot keeps a copy of each alert’s photos online. If your device is lost or taken, sign in at failshot.app/vault from any browser and see who had it.
Photos are encrypted on your device before they leave it, so we can’t open them. They’re deleted after 30 days, or 7 or 90 if you choose.
Your device shows its own camera light whenever Failshot takes a photo. While Failshot is on, your Lock Screen can say so too, so anyone who picks up your device is told before they unlock it.
Failshot is for your own device. It’s never a way to watch someone else.
Widgets on your Home Screen, and on an iPhone’s Lock Screen, show whether Failshot is on, and any unconfirmed unlocks.
Failshot photographs a wrong PIN, pattern or password at the real lock screen.
Turn Failshot on from your iPhone or the web vault, wherever you are. Switching it off will still need you, on the device itself.
Unless you turn on email alerts or the web vault. Alerts pass through without being kept. Vault photos are encrypted on your device first, so we can’t open them.
Photos are stored on your device, and left out of cloud backups.
With email alerts on, photos pass through our service only to reach you. Our email provider keeps sent emails for up to 30 days.
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Use Failshot without an account. You only need one for email alerts or the web vault.
Where a photo can go, if you turn on email alerts
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Failshot Pro includes everything Failshot does, on every device you sign in to. Pay monthly or yearly.
Early-bird price for life on Mac. Subscribe in the Mac app by 31 October 2026 and keep this price for as long as you stay subscribed. Prices include VAT.
£3.99 £5.99
a month
£23.99 £35.99
a year
From 1 November 2026, new Mac subscriptions cost £5.99 a month or £35.99 a year. Paid by card in the Mac app; cancel any time in Failshot, Settings, Subscription.
On iPhone and Android, when they arrive: £4.99 a month or £29.99 a year in the App Store and Google Play, billed by Apple or Google.
Outside the UK, the local price is shown in the store.
On Mac now. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
No. Failshot is for your own device, and it never uses the camera in secret: your device shows its camera light whenever Failshot takes a photo. Never use it on someone else’s device, or to watch anyone.
Apple doesn’t let any app see the Lock Screen or use the camera in the background. So on iPhone, you turn Failshot on and lock the device, and whoever unlocks it lands in Failshot and is photographed. On Android, Failshot photographs a wrong PIN, pattern or password at the real lock screen.
No. Switching off needs Face ID or your own Failshot PIN, never the device’s passcode. On iPhone, if a new face is added to Face ID, Failshot asks for your PIN instead.
They stay on your device. If you turn on email alerts, they’re emailed to you through our service, which doesn’t keep them. Our email provider keeps sent emails for up to 30 days. If you turn on the web vault, they’re encrypted on your device and kept online for 30 days, or 7 or 90 if you choose. We can’t open them.
Yes, if you’ve turned on the web vault. Sign in at failshot.app/vault from any browser. The photos are encrypted on your device before they leave it, and only your vault key opens them in your browser.
On Mac, Failshot Pro is £3.99 a month or £23.99 a year, VAT included, if you subscribe by 31 October 2026, and you keep that price for as long as you stay subscribed. From 1 November, new Mac subscriptions cost £5.99 a month or £35.99 a year. You pay by card in the Mac app and can cancel any time in Failshot, Settings, Subscription. On iPhone and Android, when they arrive, it will be £4.99 a month or £29.99 a year through the App Store and Google Play. One subscription covers every device you sign in to with the same email.
No. When you switch Failshot off with Face ID or your PIN, the photo of your own unlock is deleted automatically. Anyone else’s is kept for you.
Failshot for Mac is out now: download it from failshot.app. iPhone and Android are coming soon to the App Store and Google Play; get early access and we’ll email you when they’re ready.
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