Pool Launches Free iOS App to Organize Screenshots With $2 Million in Pre-Seed Backing
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Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 11
Pool Launches Free iOS App to Organize Screenshots With $2 Million in Pre-Seed Backing
3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Jun 11
Summary
Pool released a free iOS app that scans a user’s photo library, sorts screenshots into personalized “pools,” and lets people search or query an AI assistant to find saved items again.
AI is the key enabler: the app can identify what a screenshot contains and often recover the original source link, such as a retailer page for a product or a recipe post’s ingredients and instructions.
The startup says screenshots are a neglected personal dataset; its software also weighs time sensitivity, surfacing useful items like event flyers while letting expired ones such as ticket barcodes fade away.
Pool was first built about 3 years ago, then shelved while its founders focused on B2B software; they revived it after AI tools matured enough to handle messy personal archives.
Backed by just over $2 million in pre-seed funding from General Catalyst, Kima Ventures and others, the company plans a second app built around a broader personal-assistant concept.