1. 01
   Share a video, get its frames

   A reel, a TikTok, a YouTube video or anything in Photos. A frame every few seconds, or one each time the picture settles on something new.
2. 02
   Screen tours

   Start a tour, use your phone as normal, and Cut keeps a still each time the screen changes. The Dynamic Island counts down to the next frame.
3. 03
   Keep or drop

   Every frame is kept to start with. Tap one to look closer, pinch to zoom, and drop the ones you don't need.
4. 04
   Send to Claude

   One button shares the kept frames, in batches of 16 so each message fits.
5. 05
   Named for you

   Each cut gets a short title from what's on screen, written on device from the caption and the text in the frames.
6. 06
   Change your mind

   Slide from a frame every 0.25 s to one every 10 s, or switch to one per scene. The video is cut again when you let go.

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  A screen tour cut into frames
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  A frame up close, in dark mode
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  Settings
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  Adding a link

Square off a lowercase c and it's an open bracket. Set it facing a mirrored copy and you get [ ], the corners you'd drag around the part of a picture you want. One diagonal cut goes through the whole thing, and the top half slips to the right: the Sliced mark. The cut is in the logo, and it's what happens to a frame you drop.

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  1Letters that become the symbol
  Still, Look and Lift came first: a pause sign, a pair of eyes, crop corners. Each worked as a trick; none was as clean as Jot's j.
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  2The bracket
  Cut won because its c only needs squaring off to become [. True brackets won: a tight corner and short arms, like the [ ] on a keyboard.
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  3Spacing
  Each bracket style got its own u and t from the same stroke. Jot's equal-gap rule, opened up a little for straight sides.
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  4Sliced, in record red
  One diagonal cut through the word and the icon. Record red is the red of a record button and an editor's razor tool.

• Picking frames
  Either a fixed interval or scene changes. A scene change has to differ from the last kept frame and have stopped moving, so a scroll or a transition is never caught half-way. The check runs on 32×32 thumbnails, four times a second.
• Screen tours
  A ReplayKit broadcast extension watches the screen in about 50 MB of memory. It updates the Dynamic Island itself with pushes that carry exact future times, so the Island counts down on its own.
• A title
  Vision reads the text off a spread of frames. If one large line stays on screen across most of them, that's the title, word for word; otherwise Apple's Foundation Models writes one on the phone.

• One accent: record red, only for things you act on and for what's selected. Everything else is ink and grey.
• Schibsted Grotesk for all the text, JetBrains Mono for times and counts only.
• No containers: rows under hairlines, Liquid Glass only on the controls.
• Thinking orbs instead of spinners while it fetches and cuts.