It’s As If The iPhone 4 Was Created For DailyBooth; Their App Will Prove It
MG Siegler
Jul 29, 2010

Even if not everyone will admit it, everyone likes taking pictures of themselves. I suspect it’s the not-so-secret reason why users are addicted to DailyBooth — the service which asks you to take pictures of yourself (or something you care about) to document your life. With that in mind, it’s almost as if the iPhone 4, with its front-facing camera, was built for such a service. And now the two can consummate that match made in heaven.

DailyBooth’s first iPhone app has just been approved by Apple and is now in the App Store. It’s pretty basic — but that’s all it needs to be. You load it up and take a picture of yourself. And the app is smart enough to load the front-facing camera by default (assuming you have the iPhone 4 — but it can work with any iPhone running iOS 4). Yeah, this is going to be huge for DailyBooth.

As you might expect, the app also offers you a stream of the pictures from all the people you follow on the service. From here you can picture comment or text comment with one click. You can also see all your replies.

The one caveat about the app is that you have to already have a DailyBooth account to use it. That’s not a huge deal, but it’s something they hope to fix soon with a future release. For now, simply head to DailyBooth’s website to sign up for an account, then sign-in with the app.

And do it soon, because everyone you know with an iPhone is probably going to be using this app shortly, I imagine. As we noted when we first covered the company a year ago, the DailyBooth community is very impressive. The picture I just published just a few minutes ago already has about 20 comments — and most of these users don’t actually follow me. It’s fun — and I think it’s exactly the type of app Apple had in mind for the iPhone 4′s front-facing camera.

You can find the DailyBooth app, called appropriately, DailyBoothApp, here in the App Store. It’s a free download.

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  • genesis

    very cool feature – bit still just a feature. Why wouldn’t Facebook just add this to their iphone app and make this app and business obsolete???

  • Patty

    This is huugee … I love DailyBooth, but i can’t download this app into my iPod Touch :/

    I want an iPhone 4 or just an iPhone! :/

  • ArseneKarl

    MG, at this angle you kinda resembles Dave Matthews, the nerdy and neurotic aspects, you know

  • http://Www.octechnophile.com David Amodt

    Great app.

    @patty um.. iPod touch w/ no camera won’t work

  • Patty

    Yeahh , i know :/

  • ville

    Catrific is Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.miedzywodzie-sonata.pl międzywodzie

    wow. i v. like this brand new iphone4…

  • http://VideoFirstDATE.com Dan

    looks like a really cool service!! great use of the front-facing camera of the iPhone 4. this definitely has potential for building an app to upload photos and video clips to VideoFirstDATE.com in the future!!

  • http://www.stevenswigart.com TechNewb

    I imagine Dailybooth will only attract a certain type of person, just like four square does. Most people still don’t want to give up private information to the masses. Facebook is the exception by initially giving a sense of privacy that Myspace did not offer. The reason for Facebook’s success is now gone, and I expect another competitor to eventually usurp Facebook by offering better privacy.

  • Leave Comment

    So how long until this becomes DailyPenis?

  • http://www.appgiveaway.com Mikey

    Looks cool to me therefore I hop to see this app on http://www.appgiveaway.com :-)

  • http://stevenswigart.com TechNewb

    I imagine Dailybooth will only attract a certain type of person, just like Foursquare does. Most people still don’t want to give up private information to the masses. Facebook is the exception by initially giving a sense of privacy that Myspace did not offer. The reason for Facebook’s initial success is now gone, and I expect another competitor to eventually usurp Facebook by offering better privacy.

  • Nikesh

    As if we needed to continue feed the ever narcissistic and self obsessed nitwits in our culture.

  • Ohknow

    haha, I must be the only one on the planet that don’t like having my picture taken, mainly because I’m not photogenic. :D apart from when i was kid, I must have about two picture’s. It would be nice to have this app for other phones has well!! And not just for the iphone

  • Mr_ED_Of_Course

    How is this different from Facebook? Don’t talk about the front/back camera, that’s just a feature of the iPhone 4 itself.

    This is just one more thing to deal with. Screw that.

    In fact, until Facebook updates the iPhone App, why don’t these “hey like twitter with pics” idiots just create a Facebook pic uploader…oh, too late.

  • http://qwik-facts.com Qwiki

    Didn’t quite get the point of it.

    This actually does something ;-)
    http://pauloctopusapp.com/

  • James

    How is it the same?

  • Moe Glitz

    I think Dailybooth is funded by the CIA.

    ‘Smile please for our Facial Recognition Camera’.

  • http://mmoorejones.com Michael Moore-Jones

    I took a photo using this new app, and the next minute I had 15 new emails – each one from DailyBooth telling me someone had commented on my photo. Most of the comments were people saying they’d like to **** me.

    How is DailyBooth meant to turn into a successful service (unless they’re aiming for that market) if their early adopters are all using it for sexual reasons?

  • ProjectilVivo

    What’s with DailyBooth? Is is 2002 again (Fotolog)?

  • http://www.elijahnicolas.com Elijah Nicolas

    Shouldn’t just be called twitpic?

  • really

    Hmmm, Android fans like giving up their personal information to China. They should love this app.

  • http://marketmpb.blogspot.com Matt Blum

    dailypenis, HAHAHHAHH

    hilarious comment….

    for a marketing blog that does mention the penis, check out

    http://marketmpb.blogspot.com

    matt

  • Paul

    FAIL…maybe you should read up on this.

    This is the dumbest app ever and the fact that it requires an entire article about it proves the silliness that is the iFans.

  • http://www.eclipsemagazine.com Michelle

    What a dumb app for a bunch of Narcissists

  • Rurik Bradbury

    Paul Giamatti

  • http://media-publishing-industry.tumblr.com/ michelle robinson

    Its Nice one..

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