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

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Long Screenshot: Stitch turns screenshots, screen recordings, and web pages into one clean long image. Automatically stitch overlapping screenshots into a seamless image. Import a slowly scrolling screen recording and convert it into a long screenshot. Save a full web page from its URL as one image. Fine-tune joins and reorder images when needed. Export and share in PNG, JPEG, or PDF. Processing happens on your device, with no account required.

Screenshots

Spoolscroll4 screens
Long Screenshot3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Long Screenshot at none against Spoolscroll's 1. Spoolscroll's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spoolscroll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Long Screenshot asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spoolscroll ships an update weekly, Long Screenshot fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Spoolscroll versus Long Screenshot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpoolscrollLong Screenshot
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFrans DelportYuya Takamoto

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spoolscroll

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$5.99
None

Long Screenshot

No in-app purchases

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 no in-app purchases.
Do Spoolscroll or Long Screenshot have ads?
Long Screenshot shows ads; Spoolscroll does not.
Which is updated more often, Spoolscroll or Long Screenshot?
Spoolscroll ships an update weekly, and Long Screenshot fortnightly. Most recently, Spoolscroll was updated on October 24, 2026 and Long Screenshot on October 22, 2026.

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