Camera Control Wear OS: shutr

Your phone takes the photo. Your watch decides the moment.

shutr turns your Wear OS smartwatch into a full remote control for your phone camera, with a live preview streaming straight to your wrist. You see the real frame before you press the shutter, so you never shoot blind again.

Prop your phone on a tripod, a table, a fence post or a backpack, walk into the shot, and fire it from your watch. No sprinting back to the phone. No guessing whether everyone made it into frame.

WHAT YOU CONTROL FROM YOUR WRIST

* Live preview - a real viewfinder on your watch, updating as you move
* Remote shutter - one tap, captured at your phone's full resolution, never downscaled
* Self-timer - 3, 5 or 10 seconds, with the countdown on your wrist and one-tap cancel
* Front and back camera switching
* Zoom - smooth and precise with the rotating bezel or crown
* Flash - off, on or auto
* Exposure compensation - brighten or darken the shot and watch the preview react
* White balance - auto, daylight, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent or shade
* Aspect ratio - 4:3, 16:9, 1:1 or the full sensor with no crop
* Night mode and video stabilization on phones that support them
* Grid and a live level indicator so horizons stay straight
* Video recording with elapsed time and remaining storage on your wrist
* Instant review - see the shot you just took and keep it or delete it
* Haptic feedback - you feel the capture, so you can keep smiling at the lens

TILE AND WATCH FACE COMPLICATION

* Tile - swipe to the "shutr" Tile and tap "Shoot" to ready the camera without opening the app. It also shows the phone connection and your latest shot.
* Complication - add the "shutr shutter" complication to your watch face and open the camera with one tap.

MADE FOR THE SHOTS YOU CANNOT TAKE ALONE

Group photos where nobody has to sit out as the photographer. Solo travel and hiking shots. Family photos with kids and pets, triggered at the exact second it works. Tripod, gimbal and long exposure work where touching the phone ruins the frame. Product and food shots. Creators framing themselves before hitting record.

BUILT TO FEEL INSTANT

A camera remote is only worth having if it reacts. The preview streams continuously, the shutter fires the moment you tap, and if the link drops it reconnects on its own - no restarting the app, no re-pairing, no missed moment.

WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG, IT TELLS YOU WHY

Most watch camera remotes only say "not connected" and leave you stranded. shutr runs a real diagnostic and shows the actual cause - Bluetooth off, phone app not installed, camera permission missing, battery optimization blocking the phone, watch out of range - and gives you a one-tap fix for each one.

YOUR PHOTOS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE

Every photo and video is saved straight to your phone's gallery. You can pick the folder they land in. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. No cloud, no account, no sign-in, no tracking of your images.

SET UP IN THREE STEPS

1. Install shutr on your Android phone, open it once, allow camera access and link your watch
2. Install shutr on your Wear OS watch
3. Open shutr on your watch (or tap the Tile) and start shooting

Your phone and watch need to be paired in the Wear OS app first.

WORKS WITH

Wear OS 3.0 and newer - Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, 5, 6, 7 and Ultra, Google Pixel Watch 1, 2 and 3, TicWatch and other Wear OS smartwatches. Android 10 and newer phones. The watch connects to your phone over Bluetooth and needs no internet connection to shoot.

GOOD TO KNOW

shutr controls the camera on your phone. It does not use a camera built into the watch, and the shutr app must be installed on both your phone and your watch.

Everything above is free. An optional one-time Pro upgrade adds advanced tools such as manual controls, RAW, interval and burst shooting.

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