Personal transformation
Tray one to braces-off. Ten seconds, one year.
Smile-journey timelapses that anchor on the mouth corners and let the teeth do the moving.
Start your timelineCapture loop landing soon
Real-device capture of this use case ships once test users finish their first runs.
The pain
It's not easy to align yourself each time without a tripod.
How Lign solves it
The features that line up for this exact use case.
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Pick the anchor that fits the journey
Pupils for full-face progress, Mouth Corners for smiles, Shoulders for body-recomp shots, or Manual mode if you want to tap a doorframe or mirror edge yourself. The Quick picker holds the essentials; the Advanced picker covers the full set of about twenty-eight landmarks.
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Three alignment modes, Smart by default
Smart finds the rotation angle that minimizes movement across every photo. Clean Edges adds an inscribed content rectangle so the rotated frames have no empty corners. Level snaps each photo to a horizontal anchor for the look most progress posts default to.
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Export to the aspect ratio you actually post in
9:16 for Reels and Stories, 1:1 for the grid, 4:5 for the in-feed portrait crop, 16:9 for landscape, or Original to keep your source framing. Per-photo duration, loop count, and a Hold-last-photo option for the reveal frame all live in the video export settings.
The Invisalign social-media format is a ten-second timelapse that compresses twelve to eighteen months of trays into a single smile reveal. It looks great when the photos line up. It looks like a slideshow when they don’t, which is why selfie-tracker users keep writing reviews like “it’s not easy to align yourself each time without a tripod.”
The lining-up problem is small, on the order of millimeters, but unavoidable. Every selfie has a slightly different mouth position, head tilt, and camera distance. The cumulative drift across thirty-plus trays makes the teeth look like they are floating around a face that is also moving.
Lign anchors the mouth corners to the same pixel across every photo. The teeth move underneath. The smile reveals itself the way it is supposed to.
The braces-off photo gets a long hold at the end (the Pro Hold-last-photo feature) so the reveal lands. Drop in a sound, post to Reels.
Same alignment principle works for at-home teeth whitening, post-veneers, and any other smile journey that takes long enough to need consistency.
Landmarks used
- Mouth corners (primary anchor)
- Manual landmark (cheek retractor edges, lip line)
- Pupils (for full-face shots)
See it line up
Two ways to see what alignment buys you.
Drag the slider for the still comparison; scrub the flipbook for the motion. The frames here are stand-ins drawn from the in-app pet morph; the use-case capture lands with Phase 8.5.
About that one thing
I don't have a tripod.
Right, no one does. Lign was built for the phone on the bathroom shelf, the timer, the slightly different angle every week. The alignment is the part Lign handles, so the framing drift you cannot avoid stops mattering. Tap two anchor points (a doorframe edge, the mirror corner, your shoulders) and every photo locks to them. The bump grows. The shoulders broaden. The room stays put.
Questions, answered.
- How often do I need to take a photo?
- Every tray for Invisalign (one to two weeks). Every adjustment for braces. The exact frequency matters less than the consistency; Lign aligns whatever you have. Most patients shoot a thirty to eighty-photo timelapse for a typical course of treatment.
- Cheek retractors look ridiculous in selfies. Can I do this without them?
- Yes. Mouth-corner alignment works on a normal smile. Retractors only help if you want to track every individual tooth, which is more for the orthodontist's portfolio than the patient's reel. For the social-media smile transformation, the open-smile approach is fine.
- What about the braces-off reveal?
- Hold-last-photo (Pro) is built for exactly this. A long final hold on the braces-off photo so the reveal lingers for two or three seconds before the cut. Combined with a beat drop on the audio, it's the canonical wedding-or-graduation-day post.
Coming soon