A screenshot manager built on your own iCloud
CloudShots has no account system and no screenshot server of its own. Your screenshot history, with its images, recognized text and tags, lives in the iCloud account already signed in on your devices, and CloudShots is the iCloud screenshot manager that organizes, searches and cleans it up.
What actually lives in your iCloud
- Every screenshot's image, its history record, and its recognized text, tags, names and summaries, synced through CloudKit, the same private container across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
- No CloudShots account and no CloudShots server. Signing in to iCloud on each device is the entire setup.
- iCloud storage itself is billed by Apple, at Apple's own prices, not by CloudShots.
How you manage the synced history
- One library limit setting, 200 screenshots to Unlimited, controls how much history stays open on Free. Out of the box it deletes nothing, on either plan.
- Raising the limit, including to Unlimited, deletes nothing and asks nothing. Only lowering it below your current history is destructive, and it always asks first, naming the exact count.
- Pro's cleanup removes a source original only once it is confirmed uploaded, and always into a recoverable bin: Recently Deleted on iPhone, Trash on Mac.
- Filter the shared history by source device (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or CarPlay) to see where each screenshot came from.
- Pro's Optimize iCloud Storage keeps a smaller copy of each screenshot in iCloud and removes the full-resolution original; it cannot be undone. A bar in Settings > iCloud shows the space CloudShots itself takes there, not a share of your iCloud plan.
Private by default
- Screenshot pixels, recognized text, tags and annotations never leave your iCloud for any third party.
- Marking a screenshot Private, and managing the Private list, is a Pro feature; storage and sync stay identical to Free either way.
- The only outside traffic is diagnostics, and it never carries screenshot content.
For the full feature tour, see How to automatically sync screenshots between Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Your iCloud, organized.
No. It's a separate, searchable history of just your screenshots, stored in the same private iCloud account, with recognition and editing iCloud Photos doesn't do.
In your own private iCloud, through CloudKit. CloudShots has no server of its own and no account system.
No. Raising it, including to Unlimited, deletes nothing. Only lowering it below your current library size deletes anything, and only after an explainer and a confirmation naming the exact count.
Marking a screenshot Private and managing the Private list are Pro. iCloud sync and cross-device history stay free on both plans.
iCloud storage is billed by Apple at Apple's own prices; CloudShots doesn't charge separately for storage.
More guides
- How to automatically sync screenshots between Mac, iPhone and iPadOne private screenshot history that syncs both ways through iCloud: Mac to iPhone and iPad, and back.
- 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.
- One screenshot history for your Mac, iPhone and iPadOne searchable history of every screenshot from your Mac, iPhone and iPad, synced through your own iCloud. Find any shot and free up storage.
- How to pin a screenshot on screen on MacKeep a screenshot floating above your other windows on Mac with ⌘P. Pin up to 6, move and resize them, close with Esc.
- How to redact or blur text and faces in a screenshot on MacBlur, pixelate or cover text, faces and objects in a screenshot on Mac. Redaction in CloudShots is non-destructive: your original stays untouched.
- How to add a background, padding and shadow to a screenshot on MacExport a Mac screenshot with a background, padding, rounded corners and a shadow using Export with Frame in CloudShots. Copy, save or share the result.
- All guides
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