ID photos that pass.
Measured, never edited.

Ovalid guides you to a compliant passport or visa photo with live, metric feedback — then scores it against the same ISO standard used at EU borders. It measures and crops. It never touches a pixel.

No AI retouching. No background replacement. Every pixel stays yours.
100% on your phone — no cloud, no account, no tracking.
Coming soon to the App Store iPhone · everything on device
26on-device checks
13+countries & documents
0photos uploaded, ever
Freefirst photo, start to finish
Ovalid capture screen: live camera view with a green head-placement oval and a 'Snap!' prompt
Live checks — snap when everything is green. Cropped to your document’s exact geometry. Ready to submit — measured, never edited.
New 2026 rules

The U.S. State Department now rejects digitally altered photos — and AI-edited pictures have become a leading cause of passport photo rejection. Most photo apps “fix” your picture with AI backgrounds and skin smoothing. Ovalid never edits. It helps you take a photo that is genuinely right, then proves it with measurements.

In the app

From “hold still” to a file that passes

The whole journey, exactly as it looks on your iPhone — including what happens when a photo is not good enough. Honest verdicts are the point.

Ovalid capture screen: live camera view with a green head-placement oval and a 'Hold still' prompt
Live coachingThe oval turns green when everything checks out
Ovalid verdict screen showing a compliant US passport photo with a green 'Good to go' banner
Good to goScored against the real standard — 26 checks
Ovalid verdict screen flagging a background shadow, with the problem area circled and advice to retake
…or exactly what to fixThe problem is circled — no fake passes
Ovalid export screen with a DS-160-ready 2 by 2 inch digital photo ready to save or share
Export, ready to submitDigital files and 300 DPI print sheets
Ovalid print export: a 2 by 2 inch passport photo at 300 DPI, ready to print at home or at a kiosk
Print at home2×2 in at 300 DPI — skip the drugstore counter
Ovalid document format picker listing US passport, DS-160, Schengen visa and many more countries
Every country's rulesUS, Schengen, China, India, Japan and more
Ovalid home screen with the US passport requirements card and recent photos
Requirements, in plain wordsIncluding the rules nobody tells you about
Ovalid Pro screen: passport photos for the whole family, $9.99 once, no subscription
One price, the whole family$9.99 once — no subscription, ever
How it works

Guided by numbers, not vibes

1

Live metric guidance

While you frame the shot, Ovalid measures head position, pose, lighting balance and background — and tells you exactly what to fix: “move closer”, “face the light source”, “find a plain background”. The oval turns green when everything checks out.

2

Scored against the real standard

On capture, your photo is assessed by OFIQ — the reference implementation of ISO/IEC 29794-5, the face image quality standard developed for EU border systems. You see actual scores per measure, not a thumbs-up.

3

Cropped to your document

Pick your country and document, and Ovalid crops to its exact geometry — head size, eye line, background rule — and exports print-ready and upload-ready files. Cropping is geometry, not alteration.

Why “never edited” matters

Most photo apps disqualify your photo

Popular ID-photo apps “fix” your picture with AI background replacement and skin smoothing. That’s exactly what passport authorities prohibit — since 2026 the US State Department rejects digitally altered photos, and edited pictures are now a leading cause of rejection. The photo they want is the original, untouched one.

Ovalid’s entire design is the opposite: help you take a photo that’s genuinely right, so nothing needs fixing. Measurement and cropping only. No retouching, no relighting, no beauty filter — and vendor camera “enhancement” is switched off at capture.
Documents

Your country’s rules, built in

🇺🇸 US passport 🇺🇸 US visa (DS-160) 🇪🇺 Schengen visa 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 🇮🇹 Italy 🇪🇸 Spain 🇨🇦 Canada 🇦🇺 Australia 🇮🇳 India 🇨🇳 China 🇯🇵 Japan

Including the rules nobody tells you about — like France rejecting white backgrounds, or China requiring both ears visible. Where a country requires a certified channel (like France’s ANTS e-photo), Ovalid tells you honestly instead of selling you a photo that won’t work. More countries on the way.

Privacy first

Your face never leaves your phone.

An ID photo is the most identifying picture you will ever take. Ovalid is built so it cannot leak: there is no server to leak from.

All analysis on deviceThe full ISO scoring engine is embedded in the app. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
No account, no trackingNo sign-up, no analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs phoning home.
You hold the photosPictures stay in the app until you export them yourself — and deleting is one tap.

Privacy policy: Ovalid collects no data. No photos, no analytics, no identifiers, no third-party SDKs — everything is processed and stored on your device only. App Privacy label: Data Not Collected. Questions: support@ovalid.app.

Pricing

Free for your photo. One price for everyone else’s.

Free

$0
  • Your first photo, start to finish
  • Live coaching and the full 26-check verdict
  • Print + digital export — no signup, no watermark
  • Keep up to 2 photos
One purchase, yours forever

Pro

$9.99 once — no subscription
  • Unlimited photo history — the whole family
  • Re-export any photo to any country’s format
  • Every future country and feature included

Drugstores charge ~$18 per person for passport photos. A family of four pays $70+ at the counter — or $9.99 once, for everyone, forever.