PhotoShade: Search by Color

Name: PhotoShade: Search by Color
Rating: 4.5 (43 reviews)
Author: William Taylor

By: William Taylor

Discover Photos by Hue & Grays

Features & Capabilities

Explore your photo library by color with PhotoShade: a whole new way to uncover your best shots for social media, relive memories, and spark inspiration.

HUE SEARCH Drag the color slider and watch the photo grid update instantly with all your photos in that hue, whether you’re looking for vivid sunsets, green landscapes, or concert purples.

MOST RECENT Quickly surface recent highlights from your library, perfect for finding aesthetic photos to post while they’re still fresh.

BLACK AND WHITE Rediscover your black, white, and gray photos and artwork, ideal for mood boards or monochrome inspiration.

SEARCH IN ALBUMS Explore photos from any album, including shared albums, to relive memories from trips, events, and special moments.

SHORTLIST As you browse, drag standout shots into the Shortlist. Then easily narrow them down before sharing, posting, or adding to an album.

ADD TO ALBUM Organize your photo library by adding results directly to an album.

Your photos stay private: PhotoShade processes your images entirely on device.

Privacy Policy: https://wttech.com.au/docs/photoshade/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://wttech.com.au/docs/photoshade/eula

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

William Taylor

Rating:

4.50

(43) 1 ratings

Version:

2.0.1 Last updated: 2025-07-25

Version code:

876709782

Creation date:

2022-02-18

Compatible devices:

Size:

35.61MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 208,489 ▼ 2,398

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Developed by:

William Taylor

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photoshade-search-by-color/id1608865970

Website:

https://photoshade.app

User Reviews

Users broadly praise PhotoShade for its fun, novel color-based browsing and beautiful UI. The concept is engaging and offers a unique way to relive memories. However, stability and performance concerns recur, with crashes in some modes, slower performance on large libraries, and occasional failures to display photos despite full access. Feature requests include more color controls and broader file access support. Overall, strong concept and design, but issues with stability, scalability, and compatibility affect large collections.

Pros

Fun and novel color-based photo browsing experience.
Beautiful, polished UI with a well-executed concept.
A unique way to relive and explore past photos.

Cons

Crashes and reliability issues (including in immersive/panorama modes).
Performance problems for very large libraries (scaling and speed concerns).
Occasional failures to display photos despite granting full access (permissions/Photos integration).
Limited feature set; desire for more color controls and broader file access support.

Recent reviews

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by ||*****, 2025-11-17

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.

by Ja*****, 2025-08-03

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.