GlimtGuides to one-second-a-day films: which apps make them, what they cost, and how Glimt recognises your child.
One second a day: the apps, and how to keep it up
A one-second-a-day video is one second from every day, joined in date order. The iPhone apps that make one, what each costs, and how to keep it up.
Is 1 Second Everyday free?
1 Second Everyday is free, with one snippet a day. Pro costs $49.99 a year, or $249 once. What the free version leaves out, and what happens if you cancel.
How Glimt recognises your child, on the iPhone
A technical look at Glimt's on-device pipeline: Apple Vision, a 9.8 MB face-recognition model, 5-point alignment, cosine similarity, and 47 ms per video frame on an iPhone 15 Pro. Nothing leaves the phone.