Tailor - Screenshot Stitching

Back in 2018, I was looking for an app that would stitch together screenshots. I found Tailor in the App Store and decided to try it. I LOVED it! It worked exactly as described and it was very user friendly. I liked it so well that I paid a small fee to have the watermark removed and to remove ads, and I’ve been using it frequently ever since. I’ve used it hundreds of times, and you could never tell the photos were stitched at all. I used to be able to stitch together a large number of screenshots all at once, with no issues. Like 8-14 at a time! The only issue that I ever had was my own fault, for not overlapping the screenshots enough.) Even the screenshots that had ‘banners’ or buttons, or other items that were cluttered on each screenshot didn’t affect the performance of the app or how it stitched them together. Unfortunately, there must have been an ‘update’ to the app recently, because it’s basically worthless now. It doesn’t recognize the first screenshot of a series, and will only stitch together 2-3 screenshots out of numerous shots selected. And not just once. Every single time now. I just tried to stitch together 4 screenshots of text from a website and it only stitched together the second and third screenshot. I tried several times, thinking it was me not using enough overlap. It’s definitely not me. This used to be a 5-star app that I told EVERYONE about. Now it’s just embarrassing. PLEASE FIX THE APP TO WORK LIKE IT DID BEFORE!

This app has been a real useful tool for me given the needs of having to build lists for multiple projects. I have recently found a critical flaw with the app that I have never come across. I have a series of images totaling 113 images with the proper amount of overlap needed by the app but I am guessing due to the number of screenshots, this being the largest job for the app I’ve ever done, the app cannot handle it and crashes. It now crashes the app on this project that the app automatically pulled in every time I go to open the app. I have tried to scroll past it and it still chokes on these images like it is still pulling them in in the background as I can see it looks like it is pulling in multiple groups whether hi-lighted or not in the active window I am on. May I suggest adding an option to allow the end user a check box on what photo set or date to pull in images from. This way I can bypass the problem job. Or allow a larger number of images to roll in for processing. These are screenshots so it isn’t like I am pulling in XX-megapixel/10-12mb photos each to put on the list. These are kb range .png image sizes. The app is useful until it isn’t. Can’t open it now as long as I have these images which took time to grab from the source.

At first I thought "wuuhh.. how'es this work? where're the instructions??" Then I decided to just toy with it. Well, who'da thunk it – it's FUN! By my fifth or sixth stitch (jeez, say THAT five times!) I was like "okay, I got this.." With a skosh more confidence, I played ..ahem.. tested it in several vertically scrolling apps, all with good results. One caveat: If you're stitching screenshots with repetitive horizontal space (like paragraphs separated by plain white gaps), avoid snapping your images "on" those gaps, i-e with that repetitive space directly below the app's header. Or, in other words, when you snap one image, and then scroll down for your next shot, don't overlap only a single paragraph, stopping on the space between; scroll back and get the bottom line of the paragraph before that. (I hope I'm explaining this alright. –gulp–) For me, this works well. I use this app on an iPhone 6s, and I found it goofed a few stitch attempts on a long email. I perused the originals and noticed that I had been stopping between paragraphs instead of through them. I altered my technique and Presto! Tailor's reliability shot through the roof (not to mention, three bucks was suddenly never easier to part with!) I can't vouch for any particular company or app. My advice is simply this: Play with it. Toy around with different techniques of stopping through images and paragraphs, instead of between them. I think chances are you'll find it not just fun, but hella useful too! And well worth the modest price. -Phill, Las Vegas