Machi Photos
Make ID photos on your phone; print in Japan from ¥30
This is 1 of 55 launches in visa, passport, and identity tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
150 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1265109
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Machi Photos
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3382226056945643
- Tags
- Photo editing
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Machi Photos helps people in Japan prepare ID photos on their phones. Choose a size, upload a picture, adjust the crop and background, and apply natural retouching. Export an L-size print sheet or create a QR code for convenience-store printing. Editing is free; printing starts at ¥30. Check the receiving organization’s photo requirements before printing.
Enrichment
- Theme
- visa, passport, and identity tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- id photo maker and print service for residents in japan
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A web or mobile app using standard background removal APIs/libraries, canvas resizing to Japanese ID standards, and generating printable multi-photo sheets or convenience-store network print integration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 150 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
- Passport Photo Maker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SizeFoto · ph · 2026-10-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- IDPhotoTool · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- The Passport Photo Maker · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Free AI Passport Photo Maker · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- PhotoSpec Passport · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Pic2Emoji · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- HEICJPG.online · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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