Introducing Scrappy
Scrappy is a digital scrapbook for ideas, research, and fun. Use Scrappy to save text, links, and images—and find them again.
Scrappy shows everything as large thumbnails that open to fill the view—there you can swipe through items individually. Scrappy’s sidebar shows favourites, recent items, and categories for things like notes, images, web links to help you find what you need.
You can also create your own lists, including smart lists, with customizable icons and colors, and items can have searchable, and optionally color-coded tags too.
In addition to notes, web links and images, Scrappy can play movie and audio files, has built-in support for previewing PDFs and text files, and can show other files with Quick Look.
Scrappy works on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and is available for download now on the App Store and Mac App Store.
Getting Stuff In
Scrappy is designed for saving things in the moment.
On Mac drag text, links, images, screenshots, or just about anything to the Drop Shelf on the side of the screen. Notes and lists can be dragged from Scrappy to the Drop Shelf to become destinations. You can also drag to Scrappy’s icon in the Dock, or use the “Add to Scrappy” service to add text, links and files from most apps. Scrappy also provides a Safari extension to save links with a single click.
Scrappy’s Share extension can save text, links, images and files from other apps on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Add photos and videos directly to Scrappy from your photos library or using the camera on iPhone or iPad.
If you’ve already copied something, click and hold on Scrappy’s icon in the Dock on Mac, or on iPad and iPhone, and choose New from Clipboard.
Notes
Use notes to collect text, links, images and other attachments. Notes in Scrappy have consistent styles, and pasted text is cleaned up automatically. Links can be shown as clickable text or previews, and links to YouTube and other videos can be played inline.
Notes can also include quotes, checklists, bulleted and numbered lists, highlighted text, horizontal dividers, and links to other items. Notes can be locked to protect sensitive information in an encrypted format using a password only you know. These can be viewed with Touch ID or Face ID, when available.
Web Links
When you save a web link to Scrappy, what’s shown adapts to the content. Articles resemble reader mode in web browsers with a featured image and cleaned-up text, while other links, such as YouTube links and social media posts, will appear as cards with a summary and image or playable video.
When viewing web links, Scrappy lets you remove images and portions of text that you don’t need, edit information about the links, and can save the original page for offline viewing too, if required. All links can be opened in your default browser or other app of your choice.
Scrappy also supports links with highlights, showing only that text, and when you view the original page either in the app or a browser, the highlighted text will be scrolled into view.
When you save a link to something that can’t be viewed as a web page or represented as a link, Scrappy will download the file and store its source URL. If you use Safari, Scrappy can also save the source URL for text and images added via drag and drop, the clipboard, or (on Mac) the Services menu.
Images
Scrappy is the perfect destination for things like screenshots and those images we work with every day, many of which might otherwise remain buried in messages, or cluttering up your Desktop, Downloads folder, or Photos library.
When searching, Scrappy can find images not only by the text and prominent features they contain (animals, vehicles, plants, etc), but also what they represent, such as screenshots, illustrations, or receipts.
Search
Once you’ve got things into Scrappy, you’ll want to find them again. Scrappy finds items by their name, date, kind, source, tags and content, including the text recognition and image classification features mentioned above. Search suggestions appear as you type, and you can combine these to drill down to what you need. Found text is highlighted as you swipe through results.
Scrappy also lets you create Smart Lists, either from the current search or from scratch, to match items against a set of rules.
Getting Stuff Out
It’s no good putting things in an app if you can’t get them back out again. All the items you add to Scrappy can be dragged out, and you can export any list, item or the entire library as files, folders and tags in standard formats that any good app can understand.
Availability
Scrappy requires macOS 15.6 Sequoia or iOS / iPadOS 18.6 or later.
Scrappy offers a 14-day free trial, and is then $19.99/year on the Mac App Store and $14.99/year on the iOS App Store, or you can subscribe to both for $29.99/year.
Scrappy and Keep It
Keep It is a notebook and document organizer that fully integrates with the Finder and Files app. Use Keep It to organize files, write notes with a full suite of formatting features, create and edit text files, scan documents, archive emails, and edit files in other apps.
Some of Scrappy’s ideas will be familiar to users of Keep It’s predecessor, Together, which ran from 2004 until 2017. Designed long before iPhone and iPad, iCloud and App Stores, various key Together features were impossible on iOS and iPadOS (which remained true until this decade), and a struggle in the more constrained world of Mac apps we know today. Instead, Keep It was built to meet demands for a notebook and document manager with effective feature parity across Mac, iPad and iPhone.
Keep It satisfies those needs far better than Together ever could, but when it comes to collecting information from a variety of sources, what’s essential for managing a document library is often irrelevant or gets in the way. For that you need something more visual, flexible and self-contained. Enter Scrappy, which can be used on its own, or to complement Keep It for things that don’t belong in your document library.
If you are a Keep It user who thinks Scrappy may be a better fit, Scrappy can import your Keep It library. Similarly, if you stuck with Together because Keep It’s focus on notes and documents wasn’t for you, Scrappy can import Together 3 libraries, but you must export them from Together first—make sure to do that before Apple discontinues support for Intel apps altogether.