# PhotoShade: Search by Color — user reviews > 23 indexed App Store user reviews of PhotoShade by William Taylor, rated 4.50/5 from 47 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photoshade-search-by-color/id1608865970/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photoshade-search-by-color/id1608865970.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 37 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (3 of 23) ### 5/5 — great idea *2024-02-25, version 2.0.4* very nice approach to interface ### 5/5 — Awesome *2024-02-24, version 2.0.4* Really cool conCelt and great execution! ### 5/5 — Must-have and highly intuitive colour search! *2022-02-18, version 1.0.0* One of the most intuitive apps I have come across in a long time! Outstanding app design to make a very simple user interface that needs no explanation. I found the app super useful for finding the right photos for social media that suit my desired colour palate. Was very enjoyable to use, cannot recommend this highly enough! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t show any of my photos *2024-02-29, version 2.0.5* I gave full access to my pics and still doesn’t. Work ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work for me *2024-02-12, version 2.0.4* I gave the app full access to my photos, but it doesn’t show me anything. It says no photos. I force quit the app and restarted my Vision Pro. No change ### 3/5 — Andrew’s *2026-05-31, version 2.0.1* Andrew ### 3/5 — It’s okay *2025-05-29, version 1.0.5* It’s okay, there’s really not *much* to it at all. It’d be much better if you could actually search by lightness and darkness of a color instead of the perfect neon shade of the color on the slide. Also it would be cool if you could pick a picture and color luck straight from it, and it would show pictures with similar colors. ### 3/5 — It may work, but... *2025-02-23, version 1.0.5* I have way too many photos to index--upwards of 200K, I believe. It would take forever, so I will forgo use of this app. Probably works well for those with smaller photo caches. Plus, Apple Photos does the exact same thing. ### 3/5 — So where is white & black *2024-08-27* I like the idea of this app, just somehow missed white and black as part of the range. ### 4/5 — good, but wish i could open folders *2024-07-09, version 2.3.0* local and network files would be great addition ### 4/5 — It’s a nice idea to view photos *2024-02-27, version 2.0.5* But the performance need to be improved ### 4/5 — Great app, one suggestion *2023-07-25* Amazing app, will use loads of time to find pics for Insta. But, it would be cool if there’s a grayscale option along with the colours, so I can find white, gray or black photos too. All in all, great app. ### 4/5 — Fun Program *2022-02-21, version 1.0.3* I have on the order of 120,000 photos in my collection. This app is amazingly fun for finding new ways to look through them and relive memories. When I first downloaded it, it crashed during setup. Creator response was immediate and impressive. Within a week he had two testflight betas out and fully resolved my issues. One feature I'd love to see is an eye dropper to select a specific color in an image as a more granular way of drilling in. It would also be nice if he pulled the metadata from the picture of where it was taken, or offered a link to the image in photos. These are minor future things to think about, though. If you have a large collection and want some fun, give this app a try. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — ||CloudPhoto *2025-11-17, version 2.0.1* ||Appstore ### 5/5 — Very Fun! *2025-08-03, version 2.0.1* This app is fun to use. I can slide my finger along the color spectrum horizontal bar and instantly see amazing photos appear in beautiful full color. I also enjoyed how it was able to scan my entire Apple iCloud Photos Library of 80,000+ in just over one minute. Very clever! Can’t wait to see what the developer cooks up next. ### 5/5 — best app!! *2025-07-27, version 2.0.1* This is such a good app, so user friendly! ### 5/5 — best app!! *2025-06-02, version 1.0.5* This is such a good app, so user friendly! ### 5/5 — Add white and black please *2025-01-22* It’s perfect I just need them to add white & black :( ### 5/5 — Very Fun! *2024-11-19* This app is fun to use. I can slide my finger along the color spectrum horizontal bar and instantly see amazing photos appear in beautiful full color. I also enjoyed how it was able to scan my entire Apple iCloud Photos Library of 80,000+ in just over one minute. Very clever! Can’t wait to see what the developer cooks up next. ### 5/5 — An enjoyable way to experience your photos. *2024-09-20, version 2.3.0* I love browsing through my photos and PhotoShade gives me a novel way to do that. ### 5/5 — Perfect! *2024-07-20, version 1.0.5* Love love this app!! Works exactly as described, and it saved me so much time that I would’ve spent scrolling through looking for green for my wall art, lol. Wholeheartedly recommend!!! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-03-06, version 2.0.5* A unique way to relive your past photos ### 5/5 — Beautiful, but needs improvement in reliability *2024-02-26, version 2.0.4* The app is beautifully designed and serves its purpose. Only issue right now is reliability as in the full panorama immersive mode. It has crashed a few times for me. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-08.*