Settle down with your child
Find a comfy spot, pull them onto your lap, and pick a deck of words that fit right now.
About Tiny Takes.
Tiny Takes is a family of local-first iPhone apps built on one idea: the phone can be a tiny stage and a camera at the same time. A parent drives something delightful on screen — a word card, a creature playing peek-a-boo — while the front camera quietly records the child's reaction. Two apps carry the name: Tiny Takes: First Words, out now, and Tiny Takes: Peek-a-Boo, in development.
How it works.
One guided session, from picking words to a finished keepsake.
Record the take
The prompt stays simple while their real voice carries the charm.
Share the keepsake
Tiny Takes turns the session into a polished captioned video.
Everything in the app
- Eye-level prompts — picture cards sit next to the lens, keeping eyes naturally forward
- Custom decks from family photos: Dada, Grandma, the dog
- Deterministic captions — no speech recognition, ever
- Automatic typography, timing, and a gentle music backer
- Quick-trim review — keep only the takes you love
- 720p exports, with free HD 1080p
- Full Access: every deck, custom decks, unlimited watermark-free exports — $9.99 once
Fact sheet.
Copy-ready — every row is safe to quote.
- App
- Tiny Takes — App Store title “Tiny Takes: First Words”
- Tagline
- Capture their little voice before it changes.
- Developer
- Offsite Productions LLC — designed and built solo by Alex
- Released
- July 2026
- Price
- Free download · $9.99 one-time Full Access unlock · no subscription, no ads
- Free tier
- 3 starter decks (First Words, Counting, Animals) + 3 watermarked exports
- Platform
- iPhone · iOS 16.0 or later
- Privacy
- No account, no cloud, no analytics — videos never leave the device unless a parent shares them
- Website
- tinytakes.app
- Press contact
- support@tinytakes.app
- Usage
- Assets and copy on this page may be used for editorial coverage of Tiny Takes. Please don't alter the icon or wordmark, and don't use them to imply endorsement. Sample videos are shared with the family's consent.
The story.
Paste-ready, in three sizes.
One-liner
Tiny Takes turns toddler word practice into captioned keepsake videos — the caption shows the word, the audio keeps the “pasketty.”
Short blurb
Every parent knows the game: hold up a banana, ask “what's this?”, and try to reach the camera before the moment's gone. Tiny Takes turns that game into a calm capture ritual — pick a deck of picture prompts, record the take, and get a polished, captioned keepsake clip ready for the family chat. Everything stays on the iPhone.
The family & the thesis
Every Tiny Takes app is a variation on a single thesis: the most precious footage of a baby or toddler is their reaction — and the surest way to capture a reaction is to create the thing they're reacting to. So each app puts a parent-driven visual ritual on the screen of the phone that is already holding the camera. The child watches the stimulus, which means they're looking toward the lens, and the take records a genuine, unposed response instead of a performance for a camera.
Tiny Takes: First Words (released July 2026) is the flagship: bright word cards prompt an early talker, and the export pairs the correctly spelled caption with exactly how the child said it. Tiny Takes: Peek-a-Boo (in development) reaches younger — a parent pops a character out of a hole on screen while the front camera records the giggle on their lap. Same spine underneath both: parent-driven stimulus, authentic reaction, a polished keepsake — and everything stays on the phone.
Boilerplate
Tiny Takes is a family of keepsake apps for parents of babies and toddlers. The flagship, Tiny Takes: First Words, is built around one design choice: the on-screen caption shows the correct word while the audio keeps exactly how the child says it today. There is no speech recognition, no account, and no cloud — recording, captioning, and export all happen on the iPhone, and videos never leave it unless a parent shares them. Tiny Takes is free to try with three starter decks and three exports; a single $9.99 purchase unlocks everything, forever. It was built by Alex, a solo parent-founder, and released in July 2026. A second app, Tiny Takes: Peek-a-Boo — recording pre-talkers' reactions to an on-screen peek-a-boo game — is in development. tinytakes.app
Full description — the App Store listing text
Every parent knows the game: you hold up a banana, ask “what's this?”, your toddler beams and says “bababa” — and by the time you've fumbled your camera roll open, the moment is gone.
Their first words change almost overnight. One day it's “pasketty,” the next it's perfect, and you can't quite remember how that tiny voice used to sound.
Tiny Takes turns that fleeting, improvised scene into a beautiful, repeatable ritual. The magic is a single deliberate design choice: the on-screen caption shows the correct word, but the audio captures exactly how your child actually says it. Seeing “Spaghetti” beautifully typeset on screen while a tiny voice proudly says “pasketty” freezes the real, un-synthetic texture of early childhood — the lisps, the swapped letters, and the charm that matures away too fast.
The output is a keepsake, not a test score. Word practice is simply the mechanism; a polished, captioned video to share with family is the product.
Tiny Takes is made for a grown-up to hold and guide. Bright picture cards appear right next to the iPhone camera lens, keeping the child's eyes naturally forward; the parent taps through prompts while their little one stars. Custom decks go beyond standard vocabulary — photos of Dada, Grandma, or the family pet prompt personalized, heartwarming responses.
The app handles timing, clean typography, and a gentle music backer automatically; a quick trim pass keeps only the takes you love. Processing happens entirely on-device: no speech data is harvested, captioning is fully deterministic, and beautifully formatted keepsakes are ready to text to grandparents instantly.
Three themed decks and three video exports are free. A single $9.99 purchase unlocks every deck, custom decks, and unlimited watermark-free exports — no subscriptions, ever.
Story angles.
Four framings we can support with quotes, assets, and interviews.
The voice that disappears
The cute way they talk goes away. Tiny Takes saves it.
The way a two-year-old says “spaghetti” has a shelf life of weeks. Tiny Takes exists to freeze the exact texture of that voice — the lisps, the swapped letters — before it matures away.
“One day it's ‘pasketty,’ the next it's perfect — and you can't quite remember how the tiny version sounded.”
Captured, not generated
No AI anywhere. Just your actual kid, recorded.
In a year when every app added AI, Tiny Takes deliberately has none. Captions are deterministic — the prompt card the parent chose — and the charm is the gap between the neat caption and the real audio underneath.
“The caption shows the word they're aiming for; their real little voice does the rest. No AI could fake that, so we didn't try.”
It makes the moment, then records it
A new kind of app: the prompt causes the reaction it captures.
Kids-reacting clips are the internet's favorite genre — and nearly every one was caught by a parent scrambling for the camera after the moment had already started. Tiny Takes inverts that: the app itself is the prompt, so the camera is rolling before the reaction happens. A new category — reaction keepsakes — with its safety rules built in from day one: no feed, no cloud, parent-owned.
“Reaction videos are the most-loved format online. We built the private, parent-owned way to make them.”
Nothing to harvest
No account, no cloud — videos never leave the phone.
A camera app pointed at toddlers, with a near-empty App Store privacy label: no account, no analytics, no cloud upload. Not a policy promise — an architecture. There is no server for family videos to reach.
“Your child's identity belongs to you. Recording, captioning, and export all happen on the phone.”
The child never touches the phone
Not another app you hand to your kid. You hold it; they star.
Parents are rightly wary of apps built to be handed over. Every Tiny Takes app is the opposite shape: it is designed for the grown-up's hands. The parent holds the phone and drives the ritual — flipping word cards, popping the peek-a-boo character — while the child looks up from their lap and reacts. No tapping, no swiping, no algorithmic feed, nothing to pry out of small hands afterward. Two minutes of together-time with a camera already rolling, and the phone leaves the game the moment the take ends.
“Your child never holds it, taps it, or gets left alone with it. The phone stays in your hands — it's two minutes of puppet theater, not screen-babysitting.”
One parent, one price
Built by one parent. $9.99 once, done.
Built by a solo parent-founder for their own toddler, and priced like a tool from another era: free to try, $9.99 once, no subscription, no ads.
Private by architecture.
Not a policy promise — an architecture. There is no server for family videos to reach.
Videos never leave the iPhone.
Recording, captioning, and export all happen on the device. A video goes anywhere only when a parent shares it through the standard iOS share sheet.
No account. No sign-in.
There is nothing to register — no identity attached to a child's videos, and no infrastructure for them to leak from.
No analytics, no tracking.
Zero third-party SDKs in the app. That's why the App Store privacy label is nearly empty — and why every claim here is literally true rather than aspirational.
No speech recognition.
Captions come from the prompt card the parent chose. Nothing is transcribed and nothing is generated — the whole point is that the video is real.
The full policy: tinytakes.app/privacy
FAQ.
The questions we get — with answers safe to print.
Is Tiny Takes an education app?
No — it's a keepsake app. Word practice is the mechanism, not the promise: Tiny Takes makes no developmental claims. The product is the artifact — a captioned clip of a real little voice at a real age.
Why not just use the camera app?
Because the moment is gone by the time the camera opens — and a camera-roll clip still needs trimming, captioning, and music. Tiny Takes guides the moment while it happens and hands back a finished keepsake.
Where do the videos go?
Nowhere, by default. Recording, captioning, and export all happen on the iPhone. There's no account and no cloud; a video only leaves the device when a parent shares it through the standard iOS share sheet.
What does it cost?
The download is free and includes three starter decks (First Words, Counting, Animals) and three watermarked exports. A single $9.99 purchase unlocks every deck, custom decks, and unlimited watermark-free exports. No subscription, no ads.
Does it use AI?
No. Captions come from the prompt card the parent chose, not from transcription. Nothing is generated — the whole point is that the video is real.
Who's behind it?
Alex, a solo parent-founder, under Offsite Productions LLC. Tiny Takes was designed, built, and shipped by one person.
Talk to a human.
We answer press email within one business day, and Alex is available for interviews.
support@tinytakes.app