Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo

Companies have been increasingly using AI’s image generation chops to teach people photography skills. Google last year released a feature called Camera Coach on Pixel phones to guide users about framing and composition, and in July, Adobe released a new feature in its experimental camera app to use AI to critique photos and suggest changes for capture.

On the same slant, two former TikTok employees, Melody Chu and Jing Liu, are launching a new iOS app called Superpose that uses an AI guide to teach people how to pose for pictures.

Superpose essentially is a camera app. Users can take a selfie or photo of a friend, and the app will generate four potential poses using AI. Some of the poses are extravagant, and, at times, the generation seems uncanny.

Users can save generated poses, or use the match-pose feature to try to place themselves in the frame based on its suggestions.

Prior to founding Superpose, Chu worked in various product roles in companies like Meta, Nextdoor, Roblox, TikTok, and Slack. Meanwhile, Liu was a founding engineer at a 3D face-scanning startup, and later worked on image and video models at TikTok.

Chu said that the idea for the app stemmed from a personal problem: her husband wasn’t able to take good photos of her.