About CarShots

CarShots is software for car dealerships that turns phone photos of their cars into studio-quality listing photos, about 20 seconds a photo, and 15-second 360° walkaround videos. Dealers shoot on any phone, in the browser or the CarShots iOS app, with no booth, lighting kit or photographer.

CarShots is made by Pickles Technologies, founded by Jason L. Baptiste. You can reach the team at [email protected].

$50 a month for 333 photos, about 15¢ a photo, month to month with no contract or setup fee. 67 more photos cost $10 anytime. Your first car is free, up to 10 photos with no card, and then a 7-day trial includes 20 photos and a 360° video.

No. "Car Photography - Carshots" is an overlay camera app from another developer. The CarShots iOS app is "CarShots: AI Photos & Rollers" from Pickles Technologies, and CarShots lives at carshots.ai.

No. CarShots makes a 15-second 360° walkaround with voiceover and music, from the car's photos, as an MP4. It doesn't make interactive 360 spins that shoppers drag to turn the car; platforms such as Impel, Glo3D and CarCutter build those.

Not directly. There is no API and no direct DMS or website-provider integration. Instead, CarShots gives you a CSV or XML inventory feed, or an SFTP upload, that your website provider or DMS can pick your photos and videos up from. You can also download each photo, or the whole car as a zip, and upload it the way you do today.

No. You hide a plate with a one-line edit, like "hide the license plate". If you want every plate handled automatically, Spyne masks them and Impel and Car Background AI blur them. CarShots also has a free license plate blur tool for photos you upload.

Yes. Car Pages gives every car you shoot its own page with studio photos, the walkaround video, the window sticker, recalls, a history report link and the price with your fees. It's included in the $50 plan with view counts and a daily summary email, and Car Pages Pro, $149 a month per rooftop, adds who's looking, live alerts and CRM leads. iPacket pulls original window stickers for more brands and loads repair orders from your DMS, which Car Pages doesn't.

CarShots Compliance is a self-serve compliance program for independent car dealers. Essentials is $99 per store a month (or $990 a year) for dealers with customer information on fewer than 5,000 consumers; Plus is $199 per store a month (or $1,990 a year). It writes the FTC Safeguards Rule security plan and the Red Flags program, runs OFAC checks, tracks Form 8300 cash, makes credit and privacy notices, trains staff, checks ads for fee problems and checks deal files with AI. No demo is needed, and a free watermarked draft comes before you pay.