Last month we launched Spectre, our first foray into computational photography.

We’re incredibly humbled by the response and amazed by your images. Here are a few favorites we found tagged with #SpectreShot on Twitter and Instagram.

Now that that things have settled, we’d like to recap how things went, what we’ve been up to, and highlight the big updates in Spectre 1.1.

The Launch

To say our launch was a success would be an understatement. On day 1, Spectre instantly rose to the first place in the App Store. We had features on The Verge, The Daily Mail, Lonely Planet, Macstories, CNet, Macrumors, 9to5Mac, Uncrate and more.

It was a bit too much success: We rose up the charts so fast that one of Apple’s fraud detection systems kicked in. For a half a day, we were missing from the charts. Yikes! We were panicking and got in touch with Apple.

Fortunately, after Apple’s fine people verified we weren’t gaming the system, we were back at #1, where we stuck it out for almost a whole week.

Record scratch. Freeze frame. “Yup, that’s me.

In our first day, we went from less than a hundred beta testers to tens of thousands of paying customers. Overall, things went great. But the reviews were polarizing.

Note: We’re focusing on US and UK ratings, since we’re still localizing the app. We look at “Average of new ratings,” since the average visible in the App Store won’t immediately reflect changes.

The day of our launch, we averaged 3.55, which is no good. After a few bug fixes, new ratings increased to 4.04. With the obvious issues out of the way, we dug deeper into negative reviews and support requests. We found many were disappointed by the lack of stabilization support for their iPhone model.

With Spectre 1.0, we only supported stabilization on iPhone 8 and later. Stabilization pushes your phone to its limit, and if it can’t keep up, it creates a noticeable drop in quality. We hoped to someday bring it to older devices, but wanted to under-promise and over-deliver.

Well, based on you feedback, we worked around the clock to solve this problem.

Spectre 1.1

Spectre is two weeks old as of today. We weren’t kidding when we said Spectre was only the beginning — here’s what’s new in our two-week anniversary update:

Stabilization is now available on iPhone 7, 6S and SE.

AI Stabilization will still be slightly better on iPhone 8 and later, but it’s amazing on older devices. Compare this three second exposure, shot handheld after my fourth cup of coffee: