Keep the gist.
Lose the screenshot.
Gistshot turns your iPhone screenshots into lines in your lists and deletes the image, with your OK. Every movie, book, place or idea lands in the right list.
One email when it launches. That’s it.
Screenshot deleted. The gist, saved.
How it works
One screenshot, one line in the right list.
Your screenshots are reminders you never read: a movie, a book, a song, something to buy, a restaurant, a recipe, an idea. You don’t need the image. You need the reminder.
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It reads it when you want
Tap Read and pick how many: 10, 100 or all. They’re read on your iPhone: the title, the link, what it’s about. If you prefer, it reads when you open the app or with the Shortcuts “Screenshot” automation.
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It files it
Each item goes to its own list, with its own color: in Reminders or only in Gistshot. If it isn’t sure, it goes to Review and tells you why. No guessing.
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You decide what to delete
Images wait in an album in Photos. Whenever you want, review them together: only the ones you confirmed one by one come ticked, and only the ones you tick are deleted.
The promise
Nothing gets deleted until you say so.
A screenshot cleaner that keeps what mattered. Cleaners just delete. Gistshot saves the gist first, and only then offers to delete the image.
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See everything before deletingThe thumbnails that go and the line that stays, on the same screen. You can enlarge each one before ticking it.
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30 days to change your mindDeleted screenshots stay in Photos’ Recently Deleted, as always on iOS.
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When in doubt, it asksAnything it doesn’t get goes to Review. Made-up data is worse than an unprocessed screenshot.
Your lists
Your lists, your way.
It starts with ten lists, Other and Review. Change each one’s name, icon, color and the description the model reads; turn off the ones you don’t use and create your own.
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In its own Reminders list“Gistshot · Movies & shows”, “Gistshot · Books”… The app creates them, each with its color. See them on your iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch, and check them off as usual.
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In a list of yoursA Reminders list you already use. Gistshot doesn’t change its name or color.
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Only in GistshotNo Reminders: the lines stay in the app, under Your lists, and you can share them as text. If you delete the app, they’re gone.
You decide
When to read, how much, and what to do with each screenshot.
Opening the app to review doesn’t start a reading. And none of these options deletes anything.
Read when you want
By hand with Read, when opening the app, or only with Shortcuts. When you tap Read you pick the batch: 10, 100 or all.
Only from today
So you don’t drag your whole camera roll along: older screenshots are hidden and don’t count as pending. Turn it off and they come back.
Not now
The screenshot is set aside and comes back on its own the next day.
Ignore for good
It won’t show up again, and the image stays in Photos. Changed your mind? Bring it back from Ignored.
Save and keep the image
For a receipt or a boarding pass: the gist goes to its list and the screenshot stays in Photos, out of the delete flow.
“Get gists” in Shortcuts
Returns the lines of a list, with title and link, so you can send them to Notes, Notion or anywhere. With “Only new ones”, just what it hasn’t returned before.
Privacy
Private by default.
A screenshot can hold anything. Gistshot is built so nothing leaves your phone unless it has to.
Read on your iPhone
By default, with Apple Intelligence, on the phone itself.
Codes stay put
Numbers that look like cards or bank accounts, verification codes, passwords and API keys stay on your phone. Always.
Cloud only if you want
If you pick the cloud engine, a screenshot travels only for that one reading and is not stored.
FAQ
Questions.
Does Gistshot delete my screenshots on its own?
No. Screenshots it has read move to an album in Photos (“Catalogued”), and deleting is a separate step: you see the thumbnails and what stays in your lists before you confirm, and only the ones you tick are deleted. iOS also keeps them for 30 days in Recently Deleted.
Are my screenshots uploaded to a server?
By default they are read on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence. If you choose the cloud engine, a screenshot travels only for that one reading and is not stored on our server. Numbers that look like cards or bank accounts, verification codes, passwords and API keys never leave your phone.
What if it doesn’t understand a screenshot?
It goes to the Review list and tells you why. Gistshot doesn’t guess: we’d rather ask you than save made-up data.
Where do the lists live?
Wherever you choose, list by list: in its own automatic Reminders list (“Gistshot · Movies & shows”), in a Reminders list of yours, or “Only in Gistshot”, inside the app. It starts with ten (Movies & shows, Books, Videos, Music & podcasts, To buy, Places, Recipes, Repos, Skills, Ideas & notes) plus Other, and you can edit them, turn them off or create new ones.
What if I want to keep the image?
Tap “Save and keep the image”: the gist goes to its list and the screenshot stays in Photos, out of the delete flow. Handy for receipts, tickets or boarding passes.
When does it launch and how much is it?
It comes to iPhone first. Price and free trial will be clear before you pay, and canceling is easy. Join the waitlist to hear first.
Get early access.
Hundreds of screenshots, not one you actually need. We’ll tell you when Gistshot is on the App Store.