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YPImagePicker

📸 Instagram-like image picker & filters for iOS

From Yummypets·Updated June 15, 2026·View on GitHub·

YPImagePicker is an instagram-like photo/video picker for iOS written in pure Swift. It is feature-rich and highly customizable to match your App's requirements. The project is written primarily in Swift, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2017. It has gained significant community traction with 4,480 stars and 1,001 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: camera, filter, gallery, image-picker, imagepicker.

Latest release: 5.3.2Cocoapods support
September 21, 2025View Changelog →
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YPImagePicker

YPImagePicker is an instagram-like photo/video picker for iOS written in pure Swift. It is feature-rich and highly customizable to match your App's requirements.

Language: Swift 5
Version
Platform
SPM compatible
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License: MIT
GitHub tag

Installation - Configuration - Usage - Languages - UI Customization

Give it a quick try :
pod repo update then pod try YPImagePicker

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker/master/Images/library.PNG" width="200px" > <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker/master/Images/photo.PNG" width="200px" > <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker/master/Images/video.PNG" width="200px" > <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker/master/Images/filters.PNG" width="200px" >

Those features are available just with a few lines of code!

Notable Features

🌅 Library
📷 Photo
🎥 Video
✂️ Crop
⚡️ Flash
🖼 Filters
📁 Albums
🔢 Multiple Selection
📏 Video Trimming & Cover selection
📐 Output image size
And many more...

Installation

Using CocoaPods

First, be sure to run pod repo update to get the latest version available.

Add pod 'YPImagePicker' to your Podfile and run pod install. Also, add use_frameworks! to the Podfile.

target 'MyApp'
pod 'YPImagePicker'
use_frameworks!

Using Swift Package Manager

Open SPM dependency manager through File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency....

and insert repository URL:

https://github.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker.git

To add dependency in your own package, just specify a package in dependencies of your Package.swift:

swift
.package( name: "YPImagePicker", url: "https://github.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker.git", .upToNextMajor(from: "5.0.0") )

Note: This has a minimum target iOS version of 12.0.

Plist entries

In order for your app to access camera and photo libraries,
you'll need to add these plist entries :

  • Privacy - Camera Usage Description (photo/videos)
  • Privacy - Photo Library Usage Description (library)
  • Privacy - Microphone Usage Description (videos)
xml
<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key> <string>yourWording</string> <key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key> <string>yourWording</string> <key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key> <string>yourWording</string>

Configuration

All the configuration endpoints are in the YPImagePickerConfiguration struct.
Below are the default value for reference, feel free to play around :)

swift
var config = YPImagePickerConfiguration() // [Edit configuration here ...] // Build a picker with your configuration let picker = YPImagePicker(configuration: config)

General

Swift
config.isScrollToChangeModesEnabled = true config.onlySquareImagesFromCamera = true config.usesFrontCamera = false config.showsPhotoFilters = true config.showsVideoTrimmer = true config.shouldSaveNewPicturesToAlbum = true config.albumName = "DefaultYPImagePickerAlbumName" config.startOnScreen = YPPickerScreen.photo config.screens = [.library, .photo] config.showsCrop = .none config.targetImageSize = YPImageSize.original config.overlayView = UIView() config.hidesStatusBar = true config.hidesBottomBar = false config.hidesCancelButton = false config.silentMode = true config.preferredStatusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.default config.bottomMenuItemSelectedColour = UIColor(r: 38, g: 38, b: 38) config.bottomMenuItemUnSelectedColour = UIColor(r: 153, g: 153, b: 153) config.filters = [DefaultYPFilters...] config.maxCameraZoomFactor = 1.0 config.fonts..

Library

swift
config.library.options = nil config.library.onlySquare = false config.library.isSquareByDefault = true config.library.minWidthForItem = nil config.library.mediaType = YPlibraryMediaType.photo config.library.defaultMultipleSelection = false config.library.maxNumberOfItems = 1 config.library.minNumberOfItems = 1 config.library.numberOfItemsInRow = 4 config.library.spacingBetweenItems = 1.0 config.library.skipSelectionsGallery = false config.library.preselectedItems = nil config.library.preSelectItemOnMultipleSelection = true

Video

swift
config.video.compression = AVAssetExportPresetHighestQuality config.video.fileType = .mov config.video.recordingTimeLimit = 60.0 config.video.libraryTimeLimit = 60.0 config.video.minimumTimeLimit = 3.0 config.video.trimmerMaxDuration = 60.0 config.video.trimmerMinDuration = 3.0
swift
config.gallery.hidesRemoveButton = false

Default Configuration

swift
// Set the default configuration for all pickers YPImagePickerConfiguration.shared = config // And then use the default configuration like so: let picker = YPImagePicker()

When displaying picker on iPad, picker will support one size only you should set it before displaying it:

let preferredContentSize = CGSize(width: 500, height: 600);
YPImagePickerConfiguration.widthOniPad = preferredContentSize.width;

// Now you can Display the picker with preferred size in dialog, popup etc

Usage

First things first import YPImagePicker.

The picker only has one callback didFinishPicking enabling you to handle all the cases. Let's see some typical use cases 🤓

Single Photo

swift
let picker = YPImagePicker() picker.didFinishPicking { [unowned picker] items, _ in if let photo = items.singlePhoto { print(photo.fromCamera) // Image source (camera or library) print(photo.image) // Final image selected by the user print(photo.originalImage) // original image selected by the user, unfiltered print(photo.modifiedImage) // Transformed image, can be nil print(photo.exifMeta) // Print exif meta data of original image. } picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) } present(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)

Single video

swift
// Here we configure the picker to only show videos, no photos. var config = YPImagePickerConfiguration() config.screens = [.library, .video] config.library.mediaType = .video let picker = YPImagePicker(configuration: config) picker.didFinishPicking { [unowned picker] items, _ in if let video = items.singleVideo { print(video.fromCamera) print(video.thumbnail) print(video.url) } picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) } present(picker, animated: true, completion: nil)

As you can see singlePhoto and singleVideo helpers are here to help you handle single media which are very common, while using the same callback for all your use-cases \o/

Multiple selection

To enable multiple selection make sure to set library.maxNumberOfItems in the configuration like so:

swift
var config = YPImagePickerConfiguration() config.library.maxNumberOfItems = 3 let picker = YPImagePicker(configuration: config)

Then you can handle multiple selection in the same callback you know and love :

swift
picker.didFinishPicking { [unowned picker] items, cancelled in for item in items { switch item { case .photo(let photo): print(photo) case .video(let video): print(video) } } picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) }

Handle Cancel event (if needed)

swift
picker.didFinishPicking { [unowned picker] items, cancelled in if cancelled { print("Picker was canceled") } picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) }

That's it !

Languages

🇺🇸 English, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷 French 🇷🇺 Russian, 🇵🇱 Polish, 🇳🇱 Dutch, 🇧🇷 Brazilian, 🇹🇷 Turkish, 🇸🇾 Arabic, 🇩🇪 German, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇨🇳 Chinese, 🇮🇩 Indonesian, 🇰🇷 Korean, 🇹🇼 Traditional Chinese(Taiwan), 🇻🇳 Vietnamese, 🇹🇭 Thai, 🇨🇿 Czech, 🇮🇷 Farsi.

If your language is not supported, you can still customize the wordings via the configuration.wordings api:

swift
config.wordings.libraryTitle = "Gallery" config.wordings.cameraTitle = "Camera" config.wordings.next = "OK"

Better yet you can submit an issue or pull request with your Localizable.strings file to add a new language !

UI Customization

We tried to keep things as native as possible, so this is done mostly through native Apis.

swift
let coloredImage = UIImage(color: .red) UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(coloredImage, for: UIBarMetrics.default) // UIImage+color helper https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26542035/create-uiimage-with-solid-color-in-swift
swift
let attributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.font : UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 30, weight: .bold) ] UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = attributes // Title fonts UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .normal) // Bar Button fonts
swift
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.yellow ] // Title color UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .red // Left. bar buttons config.colors.tintColor = .green // Right bar buttons (actions)

Original Project & Author

This project has been first inspired by Fusuma
Considering the big code, design changes, and all the additional features added along the way, this moved from a fork to a standalone separate repo, also for discoverability purposes.
Original Fusuma author is ytakz

Core Team

<a href="https://github.com/S4cha"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker/master/Images/coreTeam1.png" width="70px"> </a> <a href="https://github.com/NikKovIos"> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yummypets/YPImagePicker/master/Images/coreTeam2.png" width="70px"> </a>

Contributors 🙏

ezisazis,
hanikeddah,
tahaburak,
ajkolean,
Anarchoschnitzel,
Emil,
Rafael Damasceno,
cenkingunlugu
heitara
portellaa
Romixery
shotat
shalamowww

Special thanks to ihtiht for the cool looking logo!

They helped us one way or another 👏

userdar,
Evgeniy,
MehdiMahdloo,
om-ha,
userdar,
ChintanWeapp,
eddieespinal,
viktorgardart,
gdelarosa,
cwestMobile,
Tinyik,
Vivekthakur647,
tomasbykowski,
artemsmikh,
theolof,
dongdong3344,
MHX792,
CIronfounderson,
Guerrix,
Zedd0202,
mohammadZ74,
SalmanGhumsani,
wegweiser6,
BilalAkram,
KazimAhmad,
JustinBeBoy,
SashaMeyer,
GShushanik,
Cez95,
Palando,
sebastienboulogne,
JigneshParekh7165,
Deepakepaisa,
AndreiBoariu,
nathankonrad1,
wawilliams003,
pngo-hypewell,
PawanManjani,
devender54321,
Didar1994,
relaxsus
restoflash

Dependency

YPImagePicker relies on prynt/PryntTrimmerView for provide video trimming and cover features. Big thanks to @HHK1 for making this open source :)

Obj-C support

Objective-C is not supported and this is not on our roadmap.
Swift is the future and dropping Obj-C is the price to pay to keep our velocity on this library :)

License

YPImagePicker is released under the MIT license.
See LICENSE for details.

Swift Version

  • Swift 3 -> version 1.2.0
  • Swift 4.1 -> version 3.4.1
  • Swift 4.2 -> version 3.5.2
    releases/tag/3.4.0)
  • Swift 5.0 -> version 4.0.0
  • Swift 5.1 -> version 4.1.2
  • Swift 5.3 -> version 4.5.0

Contributors

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