Two former TikTok employees, Melody Chu and Jing Liu, have launched Superpose, an iOS camera app that uses an AI guide to teach people how to pose for photos. Users take a selfie or a photo of a friend, and the app generates four potential poses. Poses can be saved, or users can follow the match-pose feature to position themselves in the frame. The app joins a growing set of AI-assisted photography tools, including Google’s Camera Coach on Pixel phones and Adobe’s experimental camera feature.

Chu previously worked in product roles at Meta, Nextdoor, Roblox, TikTok, and Slack, while Liu was a founding engineer at a 3D face-scanning startup before working on image and video models at TikTok. Chu said the idea came from a personal problem: her husband took terrible photos of her, and she wanted to use computer vision and generative AI to fix that.

Superpose launched in July and has been downloaded more than 22,000 times, with users generating more than 190,000 poses. The app gives five free generations daily; additional packs cost $2.99 for five generations or $9.99 for 20. Chu says the startup wants to focus on being the best camera for portrait photography by following AI directions, and it deliberately avoids AI-generated backgrounds so the product stays about capturing lived moments rather than fantastical settings.

She acknowledged that some pose suggestions can look uncanny, and said the company is working to improve generation styles, personalization, and coaching directly from the viewfinder. Superpose has raised $2.2 million from Khosla Ventures, Meitu, and OVTR VC.