Today is a big day for Obscura. As part of a promotion in the Apple Store retail app, we’re making Obscura free to new customers for a limited time. Here’s what that means: Obscura is not a free app. Obscura is still a paid up front app, and we have no plans to change that. The…

Rethought, redesigned and rebuilt. Obscura 2 is here, and it’s everything you’ve been waiting for. Get Obscura 2 on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1290342794?at=1001l5GB&ct=wb Work on O2 began in earnest last summer, but the result is the culmination of 4 years of experience building a camera app, and the many more…

It’s been a while since the last big update to Obscura, but the wait is over. 5.0 is an update full of refinement and polish. It revamps the interface for filters, and makes the whole app feel tighter and more cohesive. Why the delay? Since the start of the year, I’ve moved to…

What it takes to be an overnight success — I wanted to shed some light on how my camera app, Obscura, has been doing recently. I don’t write regularly but I’ve wanted to share my thought process in the hopes that it might help others facing similar challenges. …

Back in June I launched my first major app into the App Store. I had been working on Obscura for close to a year and it was wonderful to finally share it with the world. I spent whatever time I could working on it, in between college work and a…

Publishing an app is a strange thing. Although not an unfamiliar experience to many of you, the act of putting your work in front of people, thousands of people, always creates tension. Many of us naturally shy away from putting ourselves into a position to be criticised. And it only…