Every feature, built for working photos.
Your Camera Roll was never built to hold a job site, a classroom, and a family vacation at once. PhotoPots is the photo organizer that gives each part of your life its own pot — plus fast ways to fill them, find things later, and share without the scroll. Here's everything it does, plainly.
Free · 25 sorts a week · iPhone, iPad & Mac
One pot for every project, client, or part of life
Name it, pick a color, done. A pot for each job site, each rental property, each class you teach — and one that's just yours.
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Work
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Receipts
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Home Reno
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Whiteboards
Pots aren't albums that leave a copy behind — a photo lives in its pot and nowhere else. Work photos stay out of your Memories, and family photos stop showing up when you scroll for that invoice shot. Read more about how to organize work photos this way.
Shoot straight into a pot, past the Camera Roll
Open the in-app camera, pick a pot, snap. The photo lands in that pot and never touches your Camera Roll — not in Recents, not in Memories, not in the photo picker other apps see.
It's the difference between cleaning up later and never making the mess. Contractors photograph the job site; agents shoot the listing; inspectors capture the defect — and none of it mixes with the birthday photos.
More about the camera that skips the Camera Roll →Pick a pot, press the shutter — it never lands in Recents.
Sort the photos you already have — really out
Already drowning? Sort your existing library in batches: swipe through, assign each photo to a pot, and PhotoPots moves the original out of your Camera Roll. Not hidden. Not flagged. Gone from the camera roll and filed where it belongs.
That's the promise the whole app is built on — when you sort a photo, it actually leaves. Your Camera Roll becomes personal again, and your work photos live where you'd think to look for them. See the full flow in how it works.
hidden in an album → moved out of the Camera Roll
Batch through screenshot clutter in minutes
Screenshots pile up fast — error messages, tracking numbers, things you meant to read. PhotoPots gathers them into triage sessions: keep what matters into a pot, toss the rest, one quick decision at a time.
Keep or toss — dozens of screenshots settled in one sitting.
Search the text inside your photos
PhotoPots reads the words in your photos, so you can search them like notes. Type an invoice number, a name on a whiteboard, a street on a sign — the photo comes up.
For anyone who photographs paperwork, serial plates, whiteboards, or business cards, this turns "I know I took a photo of that" into a ten-second find instead of a ten-minute scroll.
Proof of place, kept intact
When a photo is evidence — of a job done, a property's condition, a delivery — its data matters as much as its pixels.
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GPS metadata preserved
Location, date, and time stay attached from the moment you capture — and stay attached through sorting, cropping, and sharing. Pull up any photo and know exactly where and when it was taken.
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Crop & edit without losing data
Tighten a shot of a serial plate or straighten a whiteboard photo — the GPS and timestamp survive the edit. Most editors quietly strip that out. PhotoPots doesn't.
Your pots, on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Sort on your phone at the job site; pull the photo up on your Mac when you write the invoice. Pots sync through your own iCloud account — no new login, no extra subscription service, nothing leaving Apple's ecosystem.
Take the photo where the work happens. Use it where the paperwork happens.
Same pots, every device — synced through your iCloud.
PhotoPots, even outside the app
Sorting works best when it takes zero effort, so two shortcuts bring pots to wherever your photos already are.
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Home-screen widget
Your pots on your Home Screen. One tap jumps straight into the pot's camera — from "I should photograph this" to filed away in about two seconds.
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Share extension
Sent a photo in another app? Use the share sheet to file it directly into a pot without opening PhotoPots first. Incoming work photos get sorted at the door.
What PhotoPots is NOT
- Not a cloud backup service. Your photos sync through your own iCloud. PhotoPots doesn't run servers full of your pictures, and doesn't want to.
- Not a photo editor suite. Crop, straighten, done. If you need layers and filters, there are great apps for that — this one is for keeping work and life apart.
- Not another place your photos get uploaded to. Sorting moves photos between pots on your devices and your iCloud. Nothing is uploaded to us, because there's no "us" server to upload to.
Questions about limits or what's free? Check pricing or the FAQ.