Privacy
Your screenshots never leave your device.
Screenshots are the most sensitive folder on a phone — bank balances, medical results, DMs, addresses, passwords people meant to delete. That's why ScreenSort's default mode uploads nothing. This page states the line precisely, with no marketing hedging.
Stays on your device
- Every screenshot, at full quality
- The previews you see in the grid
- Your folder structure and folder names
- Everything that makes search work
- Selections, review state, and delete lists
- The connection to your chosen folder
Leaves your device (text only)
- Words read out of your screenshots — the text only, never the picture
- A meaningless code used only to match the answer back to the right screenshot
- The folder names you already have, so you get more of them instead of near-duplicates
No pictures, no previews, no filenames, no location or camera information.
Why it matters
Local isn't a setting we added — it's the whole point
Nothing to upload, nothing to breach
Your screenshots are never sent anywhere, so there's no copy of your bank balance sitting on someone else's computer waiting to leak. The safest data is the data we never hold.
Faster, and free of a queue
Because the work happens where your files already are, there's no upload bar, no waiting on your connection, and no monthly fee for storing pictures you already own.
We couldn't look even if we wanted to
Sorting works from words alone. We have no path to your images, because we never receive them — that's a guarantee built into how it works, not a policy you have to trust.
Opt-in
Syncing exists, and it's off unless you turn it on
Some people want their library on a phone and a laptop at once. For them there's a Synced mode, where your screenshots are stored privately to your account, kept encrypted, and readable by nobody else.
Turning it on asks first and offers a one-time copy. Turning it off keeps the version on your device. Nothing moves silently, in either direction.
Limits we won't paper over
What a website genuinely cannot do
- No website can reach into your hard drive and delete files. Screenshots you added to ScreenSort are deleted for real; ones read from your own folder are gathered into a single _ScreenSort_Delete folder for you to empty in one go.
- Phones don't let any website read your whole camera roll — that's a privacy boundary we think is right — so on mobile you pick the screenshots yourself.
- Some browsers can remember your folder so future visits are one click; the rest need you to add screenshots directly. Both stay entirely on your device.
- Space on your device isn't unlimited. ScreenSort shows what's left and warns you before a large import rather than failing halfway through.