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04iOS App2026 – Present

SavedFor

An iOS app I designed and built. It figures out why you took a screenshot and brings it back when it matters.

How It Works

The screenshots you take to remember something turn into reminders and next steps.

Why I Built It

I take screenshots for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes it's something I want to do, like a show or a restaurant someone posted. Sometimes it's just an interesting idea that seems worth capturing. Either way, I'd forget about them almost as soon as I took them. That's where Saved For came from.

The apps I found were about managing a photo library, and I didn't want another app to keep up with. I wanted something that works in the background and brings things back on its own.

Feed, Map, Calendar, Groups

Everything lands in one feed. The first version was a photo grid, but a screenshot holds more than its image, so the feed became cards. Anything with a place shows up on the map, anything with a date on the calendar, and similar saves gather into groups on their own.

Feed
Map
Calendar
Groups

Six Themes

I think software should be playful, so I made Saved For customizable. Pick one of six themes in Settings and every screen changes with it, in light and dark mode.

Saved For's feed in the Paper theme

Interactions

The interactions were some of my favorite parts to design. I wanted the app to feel good under your fingers: gestures that follow you as you move, and a small haptic tick when something locks in.

Swipe to pin or clearSwipe left to pin a card to the top, right to clear it.
Pinch to resizeCards stretch from text only to full images as your fingers move.
Scrub through timeDrag the rail in grid view to jump between months.
Pinch the daySpread the calendar's day view to give each hour more room.

The Onboarding

I had a lot of fun with onboarding. Each step plays its own short claymation video, and the two permission steps show a clay version of the prompt iOS is about to put in front of you.

The idea
Photo access
Notifications
The first read

Under the Hood

  1. Phone
    PhotoKitFinds new screenshots, even from the background.
  2. Phone
    Vision OCRReads the text and labels the image. The image never leaves.
  3. Cloud
    Kimi K2.6Gets only the words. Works out what it is and what to do.
  4. Phone
    SwiftDataKeeps every reading on the phone, no server of my own.
  5. Phone
    SwiftUIThe feed, map, calendar and all six themes.
Supporting
  • UserNotificationsReminders
  • EventKitAdd to calendar
  • MapKitThe map and directions
  • CloudKitIn-app feedback
  • PostHogUsage analytics

Feedback and Analytics

I use it every week, and friends and family test it through TestFlight. When it reads something wrong, here's how I find out.

Flag it in the appTap “Something’s off” on any card and the report comes straight to me.
Mistakes become test casesEvery wrong reading is added to a set of test cases I run before changing the prompt, so a fixed bug can’t quietly come back.
Tracking usage in PostHogHow many screenshots get read, how long each one takes and where it fails.
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