Pool's new app turns your screenshots into something useful
Pool, a startup co-founded by Maxime Junique and Piet Terheyden, has launched a free iOS app that reads your phone's screenshot library and sorts the images into AI-organized collections it calls pools. The app traces the original source behind each screenshot, such as the retailer page for a product or the recipe behind a saved food post, and adds an AI assistant so you can search across saved content instead of scrolling your camera roll. Pool raised a pre-seed round of more than 2 million dollars from General Catalyst, Kima Ventures, and Source Ventures.
Key Takeaways
- Pool's new app automatically sorts screenshots into personalized collections, tracks down the original links behind saved content, and helps you rediscover products, recipes, travel ideas, and other things you meant to revisit.
For years, your phone's Camera Roll has served dual purposes.
- Startups like mymind , Fabric , and Raindrop help users organize links, images, or other saved content, but Pool focuses specifically on screenshots and then uses AI to help users rediscover and act on things they intended to revisit later, similar to apps like Captr or Sorti .
Once imported, Pool is able to track down the original link associated with a given screenshot.
- The friends agreed that they would often screenshot and forget things, too, like design ideas or other types of inspiration.
The app was actually the first product to emerge from Spinoff Studio , the founders' product and design studio, around three years ago.
- "We were like, it seems like a perfect time to go after this idea," Junique told TechCrunch.
"And it also seemed to us like it's a super untapped, unexplored dataset for AI.
- Next up, the founders plan to take this concept into a second, separate app that will operate as a personal assistant of sorts.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Pool raised a pre-seed round of more than 2 million dollars from General Catalyst, Kima Ventures, and Source Ventures.
Pool's new app automatically sorts screenshots into personalized collections, tracks down the original links behind saved content, and helps you rediscover products, recipes, travel ideas, and other things you meant to revisit. For years, your phone's Camera Roll has served dual purposes. In addition to helping you revisit special moments, it has also served as an archive for all sorts of things you find online, like recipes, fashion inspiration, travel ideas, interesting quotes, funny tweets, product recommendations, and more.
Today, a new app called Pool is arriving to help you finally make sense of this digital clutter. To get started with Pool , you simply give it permission to access your photos, which are moved into categories it calls "pools." The pools created in the app are entirely dependent on the products, places, or things that you've saved over time, making them specific to you.
The app is one of many reinventing bookmarking in the AI era. Startups like mymind , Fabric , and Raindrop help users organize links, images, or other saved content, but Pool focuses specifically on screenshots and then uses AI to help users rediscover and act on things they intended to revisit later, similar to apps like Captr or Sorti . Once imported, Pool is able to track down the original link associated with a given screenshot.
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