Hipstamatic went on sale on 9 December 2009. Most of what was on your phone that year has been replaced since. Hipstamatic is still here, still independent, and still the camera where you choose the lens and the film before you shoot.
Here before Instagram
2009HipstamaticOn sale 9 December
2010The iPadApril
2010The iPhone’s front cameraJune, with iPhone 4
2010InstagramOctober
2009
Dec 9Hipstamatic goes on sale The app now called Hipstamatic Classic. Swipe to change the lens and the film, press the button, then wait while it develops. The first four paks came with it.Hipstamatic Classic ↘
Dec 9The first paks Williamsburg, Portland, the StarterPak and the Legacy RetroPak.Williamsburg ↘
2010
2010Apple’s iPhone App of the Year
NovThe front page of The New York Times Damon Winter’s photographs of soldiers in Afghanistan, shot with Hipstamatic. “A Grunt’s Life” took third place for feature story at Pictures of the Year International.
2011
Jan 8The blog begins Behind the Scenes of HipstaLand: 668 posts over seven years, kept as we posted them.The old blog ↘
2011A pack for the Dalí Museum Made for the museum’s 2011 opening, with proceeds to the museum.Salvador 84 ↘
2012
JunSnap, issue 1 Make Beautiful. The first of 24 issues of our magazine.Snap No. 1 ↘
2012TIME’s Hurricane Sandy cover Ben Lowy shot it with Hipstamatic, and has his own lens.Lowy ↘
2014
Oct 22TinType A wet-plate portrait camera. Sit still, the shutter fires, and you shake the plate while it develops.TinType ↘
2017
FebSnap becomes Scene Three issues of Scene, through 2018. Every page of both is here.Scene No. 1 ↘
2019
Oct 1A new Hipstamatic Built from scratch, the camera we make now. Classic kept going.Hipstamatic ↘
2020
2020Apple Editors’ Choice
2024
Sep 10Party! Everybody’s camera, for one night.Party! ↘
2026
Sep 30Classic, version 377 Still on the App Store. Still updated. 2010, still loaded.Hipstamatic Classic ↘
OctHipstamatic Camera ClubWinter 26/27 Five handmade cameras, October through January. Members get each one first.Winter 26/27 ↘
