Keep work and life photos apart.

PhotoPots puts your photos into separate pots — work in one, life in another. Sort what's already in your Camera Roll, or capture straight into a pot and skip the Camera Roll entirely.

Free · 25 sorts a week · iPhone, iPad & Mac

Try it. Drag each photo into its pot — or tap a photo, then tap a pot.

Camera Roll 6 photos

Six photos. Three pots. A few seconds.

The problem

Work photos don't belong in your Memories.

One Camera Roll holds everything — and it shows up at the worst times.

Your Memories slideshow, sponsored by receipts

Your phone builds a lovely montage of your year — and right between the birthday and the beach, there's a photo of a hardware-store receipt. Work photos follow you home, into every slideshow and suggestion.

The job photo that vanished into a chat thread

You know you took it. It might be in a message, an email, or somewhere in 8,000 Camera Roll photos. When work photos have no home of their own, finding one is archaeology.

How it works

Two ways to keep photos apart

Clean up what's already there, and stop the pile from growing.

Sort what's already there

Pick photos from your Camera Roll and drop them into a pot. Sorting moves the original — it's removed from your Camera Roll, not just hidden in an album. Twenty minutes on the couch and your roll is yours again.

Capture straight into a pot

Snap a photo with the in-app camera and choose a pot. It lands there directly and never touches your Camera Roll. Work shots start separated — there's nothing to clean up later.

See the full walkthrough →

Features

Small app. Serious separation.

Everything here exists to keep work photos findable and personal photos personal.

  • Custom pots

    Name them, color them, make as many as you need. "Job — Miller St", "Rentals", "Family". Your pots, your call.

  • GPS metadata preserved

    Sorting never strips location data. The photo of the site stays pinned to the site — useful when a client asks "where was this taken?"

  • OCR search

    Search the words inside your photos. Type "invoice" or a serial number and get the exact receipt or nameplate, not 400 maybes.

  • One-tap share

    Send a job photo to a client, a receipt to your accountant, a class photo to a parent — from the pot, in one tap, anywhere.

  • Crop without losing metadata

    Crop out the messy background, straighten the whiteboard. Every byte of metadata — GPS included — stays right where it was.

  • iCloud sync

    Sort on your phone at the job site, find it on your Mac at the desk. Pots sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your iCloud.

  • Batch screenshot triage

    Screenshots pile up fast. Review them in a batch: keep the useful ones in a pot, clear the rest. Done in minutes.

  • Widget & share extension

    A home-screen widget jumps you straight into a pot. The share extension sends photos from any app into one — no detours.

Explore every feature in detail →

Who it's for

Built for people who work with photos

If photos are how you communicate at work, your Camera Roll shouldn't be the filing cabinet.

  • Contractors

    Snap progress photos on site — they land in the job pot, GPS-stamped, ready to send the client. Not next to your kid's birthday.

  • Real estate agents

    One pot per listing. Walkthrough shots stay out of your family album and findable by address.

  • Inspectors

    Defect photos keep their location data and stay searchable, so the report practically writes its own captions.

  • Healthcare workers

    Reference photos for the shift live in a work pot — separate from everything personal, gone from your roll.

  • Teachers

    Whiteboard snapshots and field-trip photos go in the class pot, not between vacation pics.

  • Field technicians

    Serial numbers and meter reads, searchable by the text in the photo. "Unit 4472" finds the shot instantly.

Privacy

Your photos never leave your world

  • On your devices

    Photos and pots live on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Nothing is uploaded to us.

  • In your iCloud

    Sync runs through your own iCloud account. There are no PhotoPots servers — there isn't one to breach.

  • No accounts

    No sign-up, no email, no password. Download the app and start sorting in seconds.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when the pile demands it.

Free gets you 25 sorts a week. Pro removes the limit. That's it.

Free

$0 forever

  • 25 sorts per week
  • Capture straight into a pot
  • Custom pots with names & colors
  • iCloud sync across devices
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FAQ

Fair questions

Do sorted photos really leave my Camera Roll?

Yes. Sorting moves the original photo into the pot — it is removed from your Camera Roll, not just hidden in an album. Your Camera Roll stays personal, and your pots hold the rest.

Do photos taken with the in-app camera touch my Camera Roll?

No. When you capture straight into a pot, the photo is saved directly into that pot and never appears in your Camera Roll at all.

Will I lose GPS location or other metadata?

No. PhotoPots preserves your photo metadata, including GPS location, even when you crop or edit a photo inside a pot.

Can I share or move a photo out of a pot?

Yes. Any photo in a pot can be shared anywhere with one tap — messages, email, or back to your Camera Roll if you want it there.

How does PhotoPots sync across my devices?

PhotoPots syncs your pots through your iCloud account, so the same pots and photos appear on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. There are no PhotoPots servers and no accounts to create.

What is the difference between Free and Pro?

Free gives you 25 sorts a week. Pro removes the limit, so you can sort as many photos as you like. That is the only difference.

Read the full FAQ →

Your Camera Roll is not a filing system.

Put work photos in a work pot. It takes seconds — and the next photo you take never mixes in at all.