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- Better organization for your screenshots
- Easily purge screenshots or reduce their file size
- Some features no longer stand out thanks to iOS improvements
For some people, the iPhone’s screenshot function (press the power button and volume up button together) is nothing more than the annoying source of countless accidental lock screen captures.
For others, it’s a vital source of quickly capturing a piece of information that’s currently on screen before it gets lost in the everyday flow of life. Apple has been steadily adding ways to edit and manage these screenshots, but it’s not quite all the way there yet.
Import and organise your screenshots
Screenshot PRO is one of a number of alternative screenshot management apps (see also PicoJar) that delve a little deeper.
Its ability to search for text captured within screenshots is no longer so special, and indeed you can do this within the Screenshots folder of the Photos app. I appreciated the convenience of having the search function to hand in a dedicated app, but that’s the only real advantage. It wasn’t even able to recognise the word ‘guarantee’ in the screenshot pictured below, unlike Apple’s Photos system. As such, it’s a little puzzling that the feature is locked behind the paid Pro tier.
Text search is far from essential
More useful is how Screenshot PRO lets you organize your screenshots, and it’s largely built around a simple tag system. You can add searchable captions to a screenshot in Photos, but it’s no replacement for a proper tag system like this.
Tags feed into Screenshot Pro’s Smart Groups feature, which essentially lets you turn bespoke searches into folders based on tags, dates, and text entries. You can also add headings, notes and links to individual screenshots, as well as seeing a rundown of any text contained within. It essentially means you can start organizing your screenshots like you would your Notes app, in a dedicated space.
There’s a full tag system, unlike in Photos
Another feature that sets Screenshot PRO apart from Apple’s default provision is the ability to compress the size of screenshots by up to 60%. Combined with the ability to automatically delete imported screenshots from the Gallery, and you could conceivably save some real space here, depending on how enthusiastic a screenshotter you are.
The ability to lock the app behind Face ID isn’t such a draw anymore – Apple has such a feature built into iOS 18 – but the ability to choose a separate code instead could be a useful privacy feature for some.
Smart Groups let you set up granular search-based folders
All in all, Screenshot PRO doesn’t offer masses of features beyond Apple’s default Photos provision, and with a $3/£3 a month Pro tier, it doesn’t feel like great value. However, it does provide a clean and intuitive way to organize your reams of screen grabs – at least until Apple properly gets on top of things in a future version of iOS.