Signal Loss2.2.1 - App Store

Signal Loss

Turn any photo into a living, moving 3D scene.

Signal Loss transforms a single image into a dense point cloud that you can move through, animate, distort, and record. Create cinematic camera moves, surreal particle effects, and impossible perspectives from photos that were never captured in 3D.

Use a portrait, landscape, room, sculpture, illustration, or archive photo. Signal Loss reconstructs depth directly on your iPhone with no cloud processing and no special hardware required.

For iPhone Pro users, LiDAR capture allows you to walk around an object and build glitchy and unaligned point clouds from the real world.

// FROM PHOTO TO MOTION
Every pixel becomes a 3D point colored from the original image. The result is not a filter applied to a photograph. It's a navigable scene made of particles.

Move through the image. Orbit around it. Push into impossible viewpoints. Record camera paths and export finished videos directly from your phone.

Render scenes with up to 1 million points in real time.

// 32 REAL-TIME EFFECTS
All effects run live on the GPU with instant feedback.

RAW . FOG . SLICE . CONTOUR . ECHO . BLOOM . FALSE COLOR . WIRE . DUST . WAVE . LINES . SWARM . VEIL . PRISM . RIFT . BORE . DRIFT

Transform images into atmospheric fog banks, swarming particle fields, prismatic distortions, structural wireframes, abstract landscapes, and glitch artifacts.

//SIGNAL LOSS
Every photograph contains missing information. Areas the camera never saw.

Signal Loss reconstructs those spaces using procedural particles, atmospheric noise, and generated structure. Choose subtle reconstruction or push scenes into abstraction through multiple artifact modes designed around absence, depth, and collapse.

// DRIFT
Animate entire point clouds with procedural motion.

Create flowing currents, depth-reactive movement, spiraling fields, and organic motion that turns static images into living environments.

// CAMERA MOVES & VIDEO EXPORT

Signal Loss was built for motion.

Create cinematic animations using built-in camera paths including Orbit, Pull In, Pull Out, Sway, Crane, and other movement systems designed specifically for point clouds.

Export:

. 4K and 8K stills
. High-resolution video loops (H.264)
. Transparent PNGs with alpha
. Point clouds (PLY) for Blender, MeshLab, and CloudCompare
. Spatial stereoscopic scenes for Apple Vision Pro

// CONTROLS

Touch-driven navigation with precise creative control.

Adjust density, scale, depth, color, atmosphere, and filter parameters in real time. Customize backgrounds, camera behavior, and scene rendering to create anything from subtle depth photography to fully abstract particle environments.

// PRIVACY

Everything happens on your device.

Photos are processed locally and never uploaded to a server.

Signal Loss is experimental creative software. Unexpected results are part of the process.

Version History QUICK FIX
Spatial exporter needed a normalizer for speed over different lengths.
Import Default - guardrails if user changes import default to lidar (longpress + button) 2.2.1 Aug 14 SPATIAL fix. Side-by-side spatial video now follows your selected motion and framing (it was stuck on sway). All twenty-one moves work in stereo.
SPEED motion adjustment fix. 2.2 Aug 12 SIGNAL LOSS 2.1
A fluidity update for the camera, and X-ray vision for presets.

// CAMERA - motion previews now remember your framing. Swap between moves and every one launches from the shot you composed; when a move finishes, the camera glides home instead of snapping. SPIRAL and SEARCH arrive at rest, and SEARCH now loops seamlessly.

// PRESETS - Tap any preset to see exactly what's inside: filter, loss, lens, motion, mesh settings, background. Presets also now save and restore which camera move you chose (previously only its speed) — re-save any preset whose motion matters to you.

// NEW MOTIONS
THREAD pushes the camera through the point cloud on a weaving path, made for MACRO and close-up work.
HOVER is a levitating still that loops seamlessly. Twenty-one moves in all.

ALSO... ORB no longer drifts offscreen at low wrap. 2.1 Jul 20 SIGNAL LOSS 2.0

ISOLATE - carve your point cloud. Paint-select with a brush or slice by depth, then delete what doesn't belong. Deletions survive mesh changes, and undo has your back. Mark a SUBJECT and the new filters know exactly what your image is about.

SIX NEW FILTERS - SHARD shatters your photo into floating crystalline fragments. ORB wraps it onto a planet, depth as terrain. BECOME dissolves the world and rebuilds your subject from its own matter. SPIRIT lifts your subject's soul out of its body on threads of light. UNRAVEL unknits the photograph — and heals it in its own wake. SILK sets the image drifting on elastic spider-threads. Thirty-six filters in all.

PRESETS - save your look. Every slider across mesh, filter, loss, camera, and motion in one tap. Export and import as JSON.

PROJECTS - save whole scenes: photo, depth, settings, carving, camera. Organize with folders.

ALSO - redesigned dialogs throughout, tighter layouts on smaller iPhones, and hardened project-file loading. 2.0 Jul 4 Small fixes: Color input hex value fix.
Stage Lens line thickness slider added. 1.7 Jun 27 New UI tweaks.
New GRAPHIC mode to experiment and pull depth from flat design: type, posters, screenshots, etc.
New EDGES slider helps remove artifact points around the edges.

// MORE VIDEO
Record up to 4K. - 24 · 30 · 60 · 120 fps. Square, vertical, or wide.
See it as it renders. Live preview while your clip captures.

// MOTION PRESETS
17 camera moves: Orbit, dolly, crane, fly-by - or go experimental.
Signature, Helix, Reveal. Moves that make a point cloud feel alive.

// CONTROL
Tune the move. Speed, direction, loop, ping-pong, drift, ease.

//LENSES (camera-adjacent flex)
Ten spatial lenses. - Sphere, Slice, Black Hole, Kaleidoscope, Time. 1.6 Jun 23 New UI!
// MORE VIDEO
Record up to 4K. - 24 · 30 · 60 · 120 fps. Square, vertical, or wide.
See it as it renders. Live preview while your clip captures.

// MOTION PRESETS

17 camera moves: Orbit, dolly, crane, fly-by - or go experimental.
Signature, Helix, Reveal. Moves that make a point cloud feel alive.

// CONTROL
Tune the move. Speed, direction, loop, ping-pong, drift, ease.

//LENSES (camera-adjacent flex)
Ten spatial lenses. - Sphere, Slice, Black Hole, Kaleidoscope, Time. 1.5 Jun 20 // Five New Filters
Flock
Collective motion inspired by birds and fish. The cloud moves as a coordinated organism.

Root
Botanical growth patterns spread through depth seams and silhouettes.

Lattice
An invisible 3D grid reshapes the cloud into architectural structures and spatial patterns.

Shell
Separates the image into drifting layers of depth that can be explored from any angle.

Halo
Turns edges and silhouettes into luminous rings of light with a true volumetric glow.

// Filter Categories
Filters are now organized into Structure and Behavior for faster exploration.

// Contour Palettes
Contour now includes three color modes:
Rainbow
Thermal
Ocean

// Better Recording
Push-In and Pull-Out camera moves now have a much larger range for more dramatic recordings.

// Faster Performance
Point cloud generation and reconstruction controls are significantly more responsive, especially on larger images.

//Workflow Improvements
Active filters are easier to find when reopening the filter panel.
New images now start from RAW for a clean slate.
Improved introduction animation when loading a new image.
BORE now supports independent X and Y positioning. 1.2 Jun 7 New Signal Loss mode adds particles to fill in negative space.
Ability to pull depth from Lidar if you have an iPhone Pro phone (works best for larger subjects) 1.1 Jun 4 1.0 Jun 3