iOS · Built with Flutter
Three pictures.
One word.
Snapshots is a word puzzle on a sixty-second timer. Three AI-generated images hint at the answer. Tap letters. Beat the clock. Stack a streak and watch the multiplier rise.
Free to play · No ads · One-time unlock removes the daily limit.
The pitch
Most word games punish you for not paying. Snapshots respects your minute.
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No ads. Anywhere.
Not after a wrong answer. Not after a game over. Not as a forced reward video. The game is the game.
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No energy meter.
Play one round or twenty. There is no heart system, no cooldown, no nag to come back tomorrow.
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No grind for words.
GPT-4o writes new English nouns and translations every hour. DALL-E 3 paints the three hint images. You always get a fresh puzzle.
How it plays
READY. GO. Sixty seconds on the clock.
Each round is one minute. Every correct answer adds ten seconds. Memorise the three images during the show phase, then assemble the word from twelve letter tiles. Streaks multiply your score up to six times.
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See three hints
Three photorealistic images hint at one English (or German, Spanish, French, …) noun. The show phase lasts seven seconds — tap Express Play to skip and bank the leftover as a time bonus.
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Tap twelve letters
Twelve tiles drop. The solution is hidden among them. Tap to build the word, tap a slot to send a letter back. Hint: spend 50 points to fill the next slot for you.
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Stack the streak
Three in a row = 1.5×. Five = 2×. A hundred = 6×. Wrong answer breaks the streak. Clutch saves under three seconds get their own sound.
Built for the minute
Small details, repeated thousands of times.
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Streak multiplier ladder
A ten-tier ladder from 1.0× to 6.0×. The jump from 75 to 100 is the longest in the game — and the loudest celebration when you hit it.
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Express Play time bonus
Confident you saw enough? Tap Express Play after one second of the show phase. The remaining memorise time gets credited as a time bonus.
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Clutch save under three seconds
A correct answer at the buzzer triggers a separate sound, a separate particle burst, and a separate score line. Designed to make the timer feel like a partner, not a punisher.
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Global leaderboard
One name per player, globally unique. Submit a score after every round; pending uploads sync automatically once you are back online.
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Sunday reminder
One personal nudge between 13:00 and 17:00 on Sundays. Opt-in only after you have played three rounds. One toggle in the app settings turns it off forever.
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Offline-first by design
Puzzles, scores and your name live in a local SQLite database. The next ten puzzles are always preloaded with their images. Bad signal? Keep playing.
Scoring, in plain English
Time on the clock, multiplied by your streak. That is your score.
Streak multiplier
- 1×
- 1.0×
- 3×
- 1.5×
- 5×
- 2.0×
- 10×
- 2.5×
- 15×
- 3.0×
- 20×
- 3.5×
- 25×
- 4.0×
- 50×
- 4.5×
- 75×
- 5.0×
- 100×
- 6.0×
- 01 Base score for a correct word = remaining seconds on the timer.
- 02 Multiplier × base score = the points credited for that round.
- 03 Correct answer adds 10 seconds to the clock.
- 04 Random bonus from streak 2 upward: 30 % chance of +5 points.
- 05 Milestones at 50 / 150 / 300 / 500 score: fanfare, particles, no points.
- 06 Hint costs 50 points and fills the next slot. Use sparingly.
- 07 Wrong answer breaks the streak and shakes the row.
Ten languages
Play in your language. Compete on the same board.
Puzzles are generated in English first, then translated and validated for each target language. If a translation is too long or not a real noun, that puzzle is skipped for that language — only the languages that pass quality checks ship.
- 01 English
- 02 Deutsch
- 03 Español
- 04 Français
- 05 Italiano
- 06 Nederlands
- 07 Polski
- 08 Português
- 09 日本語
- 10 한국어
Japanese and Korean play the English word set — the letter-tile mechanic doesn't translate to non-Latin scripts. The rest of the app interface is fully localized.
Pricing
Free to play. One unlock when you want unlimited.
Free
€0
forever
- ● A generous slice of free puzzles to get you hooked
- ● Global leaderboard and personal best
- ● All ten languages
- ● No ads, ever
Lifetime
one-time
no subscription
- ● Unlimited puzzles after the free quota
- ● Restore on any device with the same Apple ID
- ● All future puzzles included
- ● Support a small two-person studio
Unlocks via in-app purchase
No tracking
No third-party analytics inside the app. The website uses Google Analytics 4 with Consent Mode v2 — denied until you accept.
Your name, your data
We store your player name and your scores. That's it. No email, no profile, no friends graph.
Two-person studio
Built by Berger & Rosenstock GbR in Bad Nauheim, Germany. The app, the backend, the website — same hand.
Built in the open
Flutter app, Quarkus backend, PostgreSQL, GraalVM native images. The stack is documented in our public engineering wiki.
FAQ
Common questions
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Do I need an account to play?
You pick a player name on first launch. That name is globally unique so it shows up on the leaderboard, but there's no email, no password, no social login.
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What does "AI-generated" mean here?
GPT-4o picks the English word and translates it. DALL-E 3 paints the three hint images. Each puzzle is verified for correctness before it's served to players. The puzzles you see were generated, not hand-curated.
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Can I play offline?
Yes. The next ten puzzles plus all their images are preloaded on launch. The app keeps filling the pool to one hundred in the background. If you run out and have no connection, the game ends with a clear offline message instead of a stuck spinner.
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How is the score calculated?
Remaining seconds on the timer when you submit the word, multiplied by your current streak multiplier. A correct answer also adds 10 seconds to the clock. The first 5 puzzles in a session use a 7-second show phase; after that it tightens to 6 seconds.
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Is there an Android version?
Snapshots ships on iOS first. The codebase is Flutter, so Android is on the roadmap — not a promise of when.
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What data do you collect?
The app sends your player name, your scores, and the puzzle IDs you've solved to our backend. No location, no contacts, no advertising identifiers. Read the privacy policy for the full list.
Sixty seconds. Three pictures. One word.
Download Snapshots and find out how high you can take the streak.