Comparison

Spoolscroll vs Long Screenshot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Spoolscroll

Features
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Spoolscroll takes one long screenshot of anything you can scroll. Instead of tapping the shutter over and over and hoping the pieces line up, it records your screen while you scroll, then stitches every frame into a single tall image on your iPhone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap the capture button and confirm in the iOS sheet. 2. Switch to whatever you want to keep: a feed, a chat, a receipt, a long article. 3. Scroll at your own pace, as far as you like. The red clock means it is recording. 4. Tap the clock to stop. The image is stitched in seconds and lands in your Library. ANY APP YOU CAN SCROLL It captures the screen, not a web page, so it is not limited to the browser. Feeds, chats, receipts, settings, long articles: if it scrolls, it stitches. CONTINUOUS, NOT CLICK-CLICK-CLICK One recording, one image. Nothing to line up by hand, no missing rows where two screenshots did not quite overlap, and no losing your place halfway down a long thread. HONEST OUTPUT Every frame is aligned and checked for tears and duplicates before it reaches the image. Torn and repeated frames are dropped rather than blended. Where two frames cannot be joined with confidence you get a small grey bar that says so. Never a silent gap, never invented pixels. YOUR LIBRARY Finished captures land in your Library, labelled with the app they came from. Rename them, copy them, share them, save them to Photos, or delete them whenever you like. Captures that did not finish are shown plainly rather than quietly disappearing. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE A screen recording is about as personal as data gets, so Spoolscroll is built with no way of seeing it. - No servers. The app makes no network requests of its own. - No account, no ads and no analytics. - Frames are deleted once the stitch is done. - Results stay in the app and are excluded from backups. - Photos is only touched when you tap Save, with add-only permission. FREE TO USE, ONE PAYMENT FOR MORE Spoolscroll is free, with shorter captures. If you need the really long scrolls, a single one-time purchase unlocks longer recordings. No subscription, no account, nothing to cancel. REQUIREMENTS Any iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Apps that deliberately block screen recording, such as banking apps and DRM-protected video, show black frames that no app can recover. Made by todoLabs, a one-person software lab in Perth, Western Australia. Questions, bugs and ideas are answered by the person who wrote the code.

About

Long Screenshot

Features
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Anything longer than one screen, saved as one clean image. CAPTURE ANY APP BY RECORDING Start a screen recording, scroll through whatever you want to keep, then stop. Long Shot rebuilds the whole thing into a single tall image — chats, feeds, documents, settings, any app at all. STITCH SCREENSHOTS YOU ALREADY HAVE Long Shot scans your photo library, groups consecutive screenshots on its own, finds where they overlap, and joins them seamlessly. You can also pick images by hand, in any order. CAPTURE FULL WEB PAGES Enter a URL to save an entire page from top to bottom. Or use the Safari extension to capture the page you are already reading, without leaving Safari. EDIT BEFORE YOU SAVE • Remove repeated status bars and scroll indicators • Redact private details by swiping over them • Fine-tune any seam if the alignment is not perfect • Trim the top and bottom • Split a very long image into segments EXPORT THE WAY YOU NEED PNG, JPEG or HEIC Ā· PDF Ā· Copy to clipboard Ā· Save to Photos Ā· Built-in album with optional iCloud sync PROCESSED ON YOUR DEVICE Stitching runs entirely on your iPhone. Your screenshots are not uploaded to any server. If you turn on iCloud Sync, images sync only through your own iCloud account. FREE AND PAID Stitching screenshots from your photo library is free. Scrolling Capture, Web Snapshot and the Safari extension unlock with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, and it works on all your devices. Support: https://perry-lee.github.io/support/

Screenshots

Spoolscroll4 screens
Long Screenshot4 screens

Verdict

The call

Spoolscroll and Long Screenshot are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Spoolscroll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Long Screenshot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Spoolscroll versus Long Screenshot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpoolscrollLong Screenshot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrans Delport培 Ꝏ

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spoolscroll

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$5.99
1 purchases

Long Screenshot

One-time1
  • Long Shot Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Spoolscroll free?
Spoolscroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Long Screenshot free?
Long Screenshot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spoolscroll or Long Screenshot have ads?
Neither Spoolscroll nor Long Screenshot shows ads.

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