BasePlate
A wedding-day timeline that knows what time it is.
An interactive wedding-day timeline for photographers and videographers. The NOW line moves with the day, the moments you're covering come to the front, and when the day runs late you shift everything at once.
- Platforms
- iOS · watchOS
- Built with
- SwiftUI · Swift · WidgetKit · ActivityKit
- Since
- 2026
Shooting a wedding means working from someone else’s timeline. It arrives as a PDF, the PDF is in an email, the email is three days old, and the ceremony just moved twenty minutes because hair and makeup ran long.
Paste that timeline into BasePlate, open the PDF, or photograph a printed one, and you get it back as something you can work. Every moment on it — prep, first look, ceremony, first dance — becomes a row you can assign to someone, pin shots to, and move. The app calls those beats. Check what it read, then keep it.
From there it runs the day with you. The timeline scrolls itself to whatever is happening. What you’re covering sits at the front and everyone else’s stays as context. When the morning slips twenty minutes, push it once and the rest of the day follows — alerts included.
Between shots it holds the things you’d otherwise be hunting for. A shot list that counts up, because briefs say “6–8 shots”. Reference frames marked good or avoid. Your camera settings for the ceremony, golden hour and the reception. Sunset times worked out from the venue’s own coordinates, offline, because the reception venue won’t have signal.
No sign-up screen. Open it and start. It backs itself up from the first launch, so a lost phone is an inconvenience instead of a disaster, and the whole day works with no bars.
Send the day to your second, the planner, whoever needs it. They get a working timeline rather than a printout — their own copy, with their own notes and shot list. Retime the morning and they’re asked whether to take the change.
Built by someone who shoots weddings, and taken onto real ones — which is where you find out that the ceremony moved and your hands are full. Coming to the App Store.
A look inside
BasePlate in use
Pick your light
Four ways it can look
The default, Match the Venue Lighting, follows your phone — Golden Hour when it's light, Reception Lighting when it's dark. Two of them run light and two run dark, so there is one for a bright lawn at noon and one for a dark barn at eleven.
Features
Everything it does
The NOW line
A glowing marker threaded through the day that scrolls itself to whatever is happening. Open the app and you are already looking at the right moment.
Start from the PDF you were sent
Paste the timeline, open the PDF, or photograph a printed one. BasePlate reads the times and moments out of it and shows you what it found before anything is saved. A sheet written as paragraphs rather than a list gets a closer read that handles it.
Yours, up front
Set your role — 1st shooter, 2nd shooter or everyone — and what you're covering rises to hero cards with a YOU badge. The rest stays as context.
Shift Times
Weddings run late. Push one moment by ten minutes and everything after it moves with it, alerts included.
Shot lists that tally
Briefs say "6–8 shots", not "one shot". Shots count up instead of ticking off, and each one pins to the moment it belongs to.
Reference frames
Attach examples to any shot, flagged good or avoid, so the look is settled before you're standing in it.
Camera and gear
Codec, frame rate and picture profile, a white-balance log, and a bag split into what the lead provides and what you pack.
Golden hour, offline
Sunset and golden hour computed from the venue's coordinates using the NOAA solar algorithm. No signal required at the barn.
Send the day
Share a link and they get their own copy to work from — editable, theirs. Retime yours and they're asked whether to take the change, so nobody's shot list breaks because you moved a beat.
A library that carries over
Reference frames, pose prompts and camera setups live above any one wedding, so the shot you nailed in June is two taps away in September.
On your wrist
A watch companion with a crown-scrollable day and haptics, plus a Live Activity and Dynamic Island on the phone.
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