A Screenshot Manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad
Screenshots pile up in Photos and on the Desktop with no order and no way to find one again. CloudShots gives them a single history instead — synced privately through your own iCloud, searchable by what is actually in the picture, on Mac, iPhone and iPad.
What it does
- Captures the full screen, a region, or a single window on Mac, and imports what iOS or iPadOS already captured to the Screenshots album.
- Keeps one timeline across every device, filterable by source — Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or CarPlay.
- Searches the text and objects inside a screenshot, not just its filename, and understands relative dates like "last week".
- Annotates, crops, and redacts — text, faces, or a chosen object — non-destructively: only the owner can restore the original, on the device that made the edit, while online.
- Picks out verification codes, passwords, links, emails, and addresses to copy directly from a screenshot.
- Reads QR codes and barcodes.
Private by design
- Everything syncs through your own iCloud. There is no CloudShots account and no CloudShots server.
- Text recognition, tags, and the names and summaries it writes run on the device — nothing is uploaded to understand a screenshot.
- A screenshot marked Private only ever shows when unlocked, on every surface capable of it.
Free vs Pro
- iCloud sync, capture, import, search, editing, and redaction are free on both plans.
- Free opens your newest 30 screenshots; older ones keep syncing and stay stored, shown locked.
- Pro opens your entire history and adds cleanup that clears confirmed originals from Photos or your Mac, recoverably.
One history, not a folder.
No. iCloud Photos syncs every photo; CloudShots keeps a separate, searchable history of just your screenshots, with recognition and editing iCloud Photos does not do.
No. CloudShots has no account system — it syncs through the iCloud account already signed in on your device.
Yes. Capture, import, search, and editing all work locally with no other device involved.
No. Sync is free on both plans. Pro changes how much of your synced history you can open and adds cleanup, not whether it syncs.
In your own private iCloud, recognized text and tags included. CloudShots has no server, and recognition runs on the device.
More guides
- How to Automatically Sync Screenshots Between iPhone and MacSet up one private screenshot history that syncs through iCloud.
- How to find a screenshot by the text inside itSearch by the words you remember seeing, on any of your devices.
- How to free up the space your screenshots takeClear synced originals from Photos and your Mac without losing your history.
- How to sync iPhone screenshots to your Mac — and Mac screenshots to your iPhoneBoth directions, automatic, through your own iCloud — no AirDrop, no export.
- The iCloud screenshot manager for Mac, iPhone and iPadWhat lives in your own iCloud, how the library limit works, and what stays private.
- All guides
TestFlight automatically unlocks Pro for beta testing — no purchase is required or charged.