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 favorites, recent items, and categories for things like notes, images, and web links to help you find what you need, along with its excellent search features.
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.
Getting Stuff In
Scrappy’s Share extension can save web links, images, files and text to Scrappy from within other apps, as well as append any of those things to notes.
If you’ve already copied something, use New from Clipboard to create a new item from the home screen or within the app itself.
You can also take photos or videos with the camera, add photos and videos from your Photos library, or attach them to notes.
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 and encrypted to protect sensitive information with a password that only you know.
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, and 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 portions of text from articles, edit information about the links, and can save the original page for offline viewing too, if required. All links can be opened in your browser or other app of your choice.
Scrappy also supports links with highlights, showing only that text, and when you view the original page the highlighted text will be scrolled into view.
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 Photos library.
When searching, Scrappy can find images by the text and prominent features they contain, and what they represent, such as screenshots, illustrations and receipts.
Search
Once you’ve got things into Scrappy, you’ll want to find them again. Scrappy finds items by their name, date, kind, URL, tags and content, including text in scanned PDFs and images, and the 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
Finally, 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 to other apps or saved as files, and you can export any list or the entire library as files and folders in standard formats that any good app can understand.