diff --git a/App.tsx b/App.tsx
index 34e34e8..fa09541 100644
--- a/App.tsx
+++ b/App.tsx
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import { LITE_FAVORITE_LIMIT, LITE_MARK, LITE_RECIPE_LIMIT, proLookInUse } from
 import { initProUnlock, useProUnlock } from './src/utils/proUnlock';
 import UltraWide from './modules/recipescam-ultrawide';
 import RecipescamExport from './modules/recipescam-export';
+import VolumeShutter from './modules/recipescam-volume';
 
 // @ts-ignore
 import './global.css';
@@ -1532,6 +1533,24 @@ export default function App() {
     }
   };
 
+  // Volume keys as a shutter release. `handleCapture` is rebuilt every render,
+  // so the listener is bound once and reaches the current one through a ref.
+  const captureFromKeyRef = useRef(handleCapture);
+  captureFromKeyRef.current = handleCapture;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const sub = VolumeShutter.addListener('onShutter', () => {
+      void captureFromKeyRef.current();
+    });
+    return () => sub.remove();
+  }, []);
+  // Only the camera screen claims the keys; everywhere else (the library)
+  // they stay volume keys.
+  // ponytail: keyed off the mode alone, so a press behind a modal still
+  // takes a frame - add the overlay flags here if that ever bites.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    VolumeShutter.setEnabled(mode === 'camera');
+  }, [mode]);
+
   // Held-shutter burst: press and hold the shutter, frames keep coming until
   // the finger lifts. Every frame is a normal capture (GPS resolve, RAW rules,
   // background render enqueue), so a burst photo is indistinguishable from a
diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/MainActivity.kt b/android/app/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/MainActivity.kt
index a715ff7..336507d 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/MainActivity.kt
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ package com.locphamtran.recipescamera
 import android.content.Intent
 import android.os.Build
 import android.os.Bundle
+import android.view.KeyEvent
 
 import com.facebook.react.ReactActivity
 import com.facebook.react.ReactActivityDelegate
 import com.facebook.react.defaults.DefaultNewArchitectureEntryPoint.fabricEnabled
 import com.facebook.react.defaults.DefaultReactActivityDelegate
 
+import com.locphamtran.recipescamera.volume.VolumeShutterModule
+
 import expo.modules.ReactActivityDelegateWrapper
 
 class MainActivity : ReactActivity() {
@@ -31,6 +34,17 @@ class MainActivity : ReactActivity() {
     super.onNewIntent(intent)
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Volume keys double as a shutter release while the camera screen is up.
+   * This is the only place that runs before the window turns them into a
+   * stream-volume change, so the module gets first refusal and the keys it
+   * does not claim (everything, outside the camera) fall through to the
+   * default handling unchanged.
+   */
+  override fun dispatchKeyEvent(event: KeyEvent): Boolean {
+    return VolumeShutterModule.onKeyEvent(event) || super.dispatchKeyEvent(event)
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns the name of the main component registered from JavaScript. This is used to schedule
    * rendering of the component.
diff --git a/modules/recipescam-volume/android/build.gradle b/modules/recipescam-volume/android/build.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..82a611a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/recipescam-volume/android/build.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+plugins {
+  id 'com.android.library'
+  id 'expo-module-gradle-plugin'
+}
+
+group = 'com.locphamtran.recipescamera'
+version = '0.1.0'
+
+android {
+  namespace "com.locphamtran.recipescamera.volume"
+  defaultConfig {
+    versionCode 1
+    versionName "0.1.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/recipescam-volume/android/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/volume/VolumeShutterModule.kt b/modules/recipescam-volume/android/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/volume/VolumeShutterModule.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ed9ea6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/recipescam-volume/android/src/main/java/com/locphamtran/recipescamera/volume/VolumeShutterModule.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package com.locphamtran.recipescamera.volume
+
+import android.view.KeyEvent
+import expo.modules.kotlin.modules.Module
+import expo.modules.kotlin.modules.ModuleDefinition
+
+/**
+ * Volume keys as a shutter release.
+ *
+ * Android exposes no key stream to JS, and the volume keys never reach a view -
+ * the window (PhoneWindow.OnKeyListener) turns them into a stream-volume change
+ * before any view sees them. The one place that runs first is the activity's
+ * dispatchKeyEvent, so MainActivity hands every key here and only passes on
+ * what comes back false.
+ *
+ * Enabled from JS only while the camera screen is up: with the flag off the keys
+ * go straight back to the window, so volume still works in the library.
+ */
+class VolumeShutterModule : Module() {
+  override fun definition() = ModuleDefinition {
+    Name("RecipesCamVolumeShutter")
+
+    Events("onShutter")
+
+    // The activity is the one dispatching, but it does not own the module -
+    // publish the single live instance so it can be reached from there.
+    OnCreate { instance = this@VolumeShutterModule }
+    OnDestroy { if (instance === this@VolumeShutterModule) instance = null }
+
+    Function("setEnabled") { enabled: Boolean -> VolumeShutterModule.enabled = enabled }
+  }
+
+  companion object {
+    @Volatile private var instance: VolumeShutterModule? = null
+
+    @Volatile private var enabled = false
+
+    /**
+     * Every key event of the activity goes through here first. Returns true when
+     * the key is ours and has been consumed - that consumption is what keeps the
+     * press from also changing the media volume, the way a stock camera app
+     * behaves.
+     *
+     * Only ACTION_DOWN with repeatCount 0 fires: the UP and the auto-repeat of a
+     * held button are still swallowed (so holding it does not leak a volume
+     * change on release) but produce no second frame.
+     */
+    fun onKeyEvent(event: KeyEvent): Boolean {
+      if (!enabled) return false
+      if (event.keyCode != KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP && event.keyCode != KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN) {
+        return false
+      }
+      if (event.action == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN && event.repeatCount == 0) {
+        instance?.sendEvent("onShutter")
+      }
+      return true
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/recipescam-volume/expo-module.config.json b/modules/recipescam-volume/expo-module.config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4f3132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/recipescam-volume/expo-module.config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "platforms": ["android"],
+  "android": {
+    "modules": [
+      "com.locphamtran.recipescamera.volume.VolumeShutterModule"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/recipescam-volume/index.ts b/modules/recipescam-volume/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81e77cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/recipescam-volume/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { requireNativeModule } from 'expo-modules-core';
+
+export interface VolumeShutterModule {
+  /**
+   * Claims the volume keys while true; while false every key is handed back to
+   * the window, so they stay volume keys everywhere but the camera screen.
+   */
+  setEnabled(enabled: boolean): void;
+  /** Fired once per press (a held key does not auto-repeat). */
+  addListener(event: 'onShutter', listener: () => void): { remove(): void };
+}
+
+export default requireNativeModule<VolumeShutterModule>('RecipesCamVolumeShutter');
diff --git a/modules/recipescam-volume/package.json b/modules/recipescam-volume/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b65a4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/recipescam-volume/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "name": "recipescam-volume",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "Volume keys as a shutter release for Recipescam.",
+  "main": "index.ts",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "private": true
+}