Await: Digital Ease, Analog Soul. Camera for what matters.

Await is a film-inspired digital camera that turns moments into meaningful prints via its Companion App. Inspired by retro tech toys and pop icons from the '90s, it reimagines the classic camera archetype to make photography playful and intentional again.

Gen Z is rediscovering film era rituals via vintage cameras, craving photography that feels more real. More people want to capture moments without a phone, avoiding scrolling and wasting time on screens.

Await blends retro toys and consumer devices aesthetic with a playful, pop-driven soul, reinterpreting 20th-century nostalgia for a Gen Z audience drawn to icons they never experienced firsthand.

To us, photography is an act of love towards real moments. The Await filter has been tested across thousands of pictures and dozens of light, shade, and low-light conditions, fine-tuned to enhance the content of every frame in any scenario.

The look is the result of an extensive study of vintage photographs and films, translating the honesty of analog imagery into a consistent digital signature.

The Await App ships on both iOS and Android, so every user can develop, manage, and print rolls from the device they already carry.

Await camera and its Companion App work as a single system.

The Camera holds up to 3 rolls of 24 frames (72 pictures total); once full, a sync develops every roll through our custom-designed, vintage-inspired filter, empties the camera, and frees it for the next session.

A photograph isn't fully finished until it lives outside the screen. We've partnered with Cloudprinter, a global print fulfillment network, so your favorite frames arrive at your door as high-quality prints on premium paper, handled with the same care you took capturing them.

Photography became a habit. Phone out, shutter down, swipe up, repeat. We called it documenting our lives, but we were just feeding a library nobody opens. Doom photography.

Await Camera is the correction. You decide before the shutter, then put it down and you're back in the moment.

A print finds a place in the world. A camera roll grows quietly in the cloud, full of near-identical shots no one remembers.

Photography should serve the moment, not become one.

Prices shown are for the US market.

Await: 150 × 100 mm (6 × 4 in) 35mm lab prints: 150 × 100 mm (6 × 4 in) Polaroid i-Type / 600: 79 × 79 mm image area (3.1 × 3.1 in) inside a white frame Instax Mini: 46 × 62 mm image area (1.8 × 2.4 in), credit-card sized Instax Wide: ~62 × 99 mm image area, roughly 2× Instax Mini Kodak Mini Shot: 53 × 86 mm standard (2.1 × 3.4 in)

1 – Shutter button: press once to shoot. Hold 3 sec to power on/off. 2 – Function button: single press toggles flash. Hold 1.5 sec to toggle timer. 3 – Optical viewfinder: window to frame your shot. 4 – OLED display: rear screen showing battery, timer, flash, rolls, and pictures left. 5 – Xenon flash: the diffuser window for the integrated xenon tube. 6 – Lens: fixed f/2.0 lens focusing light onto the 8MP Sony sensor. 7 – Buzzer: internal speaker for shutter, timer, and system audio feedback. 8 – Magnetic faceplate: swappable front plate held by magnets for colorway changes. 9 – Lanyard holes: side-mounted attachment points for wrist or neck lanyards. 10 – USB-C port: recharge the camera — and export your original photos straight to a computer, no app needed. 11 – Threaded mount: attach the camera to a tripod. 12 – Torx screws: openable design, expandable for future add-ons.

Battery level: current charge of the internal battery (4 bars max, each bar ≈ 25%). Timer 10 sec.: self-timer enabled. Press the shutter to start a 10-second countdown before the camera fires. Xenon flash: Await Camera uses a true xenon gas-discharge tube, the same technology found in classic film cameras and pro studio strobes. It produces a brief, intense, daylight-balanced burst that freezes motion and delivers the authentic analog flash look LED cannot replicate. Rolls left: digital rolls remaining before processing (3/3 = three full rolls available). Pics left: exposures left in the current roll (24/24 = fresh roll, no shots taken).

Sensor: 8MP Sony IMX179 CMOS sensor (1/3.2", 3264 × 2448) with a fixed f/2.0 lens at 2.8 mm (≈26 mm equiv.), ~65–72° diagonal field of view. Bluetooth: 5.2 LE, 2402–2480 MHz, 0.99 dBm EIRP Wi-Fi: 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n, 2412–2472 MHz, 16.09 dBm EIRP Battery: Lithium polymer CLY803040, 3.7 V nominal, 4.2 V charge, 1000 mAh Charging: USB-C, CC/CV SAR: 0.872 W/kg (1g, FCC) · 0.179 W/kg (10g, CE/UKCA) Ongoing certifications: FCC, CE, UKCA

Await covers a footprint just ~44% larger than a credit card.

Size: 98 × 68 × 15 mm (3.86 × 2.68 × 0.59 in) Weight: 92.7 g (3.27 oz)

Magnetic, swappable skins enable customization, while a transparent, high-tech language exposes PCBs and the internals as a core aesthetic value.

The body stays the same for everyone; the front skin is where customization happens. You pick your color closer to the shipping date — we contact every backer before we ship — and extra skins swap magnetically in a snap.

Every await ships with the short wrist strap for one-handed shooting. The longer crossbody lanyard — worn as a neck strap or across the body — comes with the Full Kit. Both tie into the integrated loops, keeping the camera always within reach.

1 — Separate the parts. The lanyard ships in two pieces: the strap with quick-release clip, and a small cord buckle that anchors to the camera body. 2 — Thread the cord. Pass the thin cord loop through the lanyard hole on the side of the camera. 3 — Lock the buckle. Pull the plastic clip end back through the cord loop to secure the connector. 4 — Clip the strap. Snap the lanyard strap onto the connector. Ready to wear.

We are bringing intentionality back to photography. Await is designed for exactly this, which is why we shot hundreds and hundreds of frames ourselves. We got more quality time out of every moment, and we experienced the difference firsthand.

The Await app is free. Download your photos, manage your rolls, no fees, no subscription. We ask for a card at onboarding so checkout is one tap when you decide to print a roll. If you don't, nothing gets charged.

And your photos are never locked in: you can always export your originals over USB-C, straight to your computer.

The moment you finish a roll is the moment you've already decided. We don't want that decision to die at a checkout screen. So we ask for your card once, during onboarding, and from then on printing is one tap.

Nothing is ever charged until you choose to print. Manually, you confirm each roll. In Automatic mode, completed rolls queue for 24 hours before printing, leaving you a window to cancel before anything leaves your account.

Every synced roll is queued for print and shipped 24h later, with free shipping included in the $9.99 per roll* price. Within that window, users can skip any roll they want to keep digital; after that, the prints are on their way.

Synced rolls stay digital by default; nothing prints unless the user sends it to print. The mode trades the seamless convenience of Automatic for control, adding a $4.99 delivery fee* to the $9.99 per roll* price.

*Prices shown are for the US. Per-roll price and shipping may vary by country.

We're Rolling Square, a Swiss team solving real-life problems through functional, disruptive design. Our Lifehackers community shares the same drive: smart innovation for better everyday life.

Await is our next chapter. A generation is rediscovering film-era rituals and craving photography that feels real, away from phones.

We unveiled it at CES in January 2026, gathered valuable feedback, and developed it through to launch: a film-inspired digital camera that turns moments into meaningful prints, bringing intention, slowness, and physicality back to image-making.

Rolling Square is known worldwide for innovative products and bold design, backed by a strong crowdfunding track record and a community of lifehackers and reviewers who love what we build.

Await is where we dared more, taking the same tech-driven, problem-solving DNA of every Rolling Square product and applying it to references we had never touched. Vintage cameras gave us the discipline of a finite roll and the ritual of waiting.

'90s and '00s pop icons like the Poké Ball and the original Instagram logo brought the playful, collectible feel of an era when photography still meant something. Retro toys like the transparent Game Boy Color taught us that a circuit board can be a design statement. All rebuilt through our functional, disruptive lens.