Tailor - Screenshot Stitching Reviews

by CreateTank

I got Tailor a few days ago, but it didn't really work until I was forced to make an in-app purchase to remove watermarks and the like. After numerous attempts at trying to stitch a sequence of very simple screenshots, Tailor continued to discard my shots, asking me to retake them, which I did. Tailor , however, continued to overlay at times or stitch only two of the numerous screenshots I wanted to bring together as a continued screenshot. It prompted me then to a help link which lands you on your email account to send a message to a robot that will never answer you back. What a waste of time! But even more pathetic is the fact that the apple store has lost it—no quality control anymore, and they allow these developers to use them so they can have apple clients pay for an inefficient product so we can test their failure. I don’t think so. I will escalate this issue and get my money back at the very least.

by Robbymat

Very limited functionality. Haven’t yet been able to get Tailor to stitch together screenshots properly. Wont allow you to pick images from your photo library. You have to open Tailor then take screen shots. Can’t crop or adjust and if the images aren’t overlapping correctly, it’ll give you an error message saying it can’t stitch the images together. So you’re just left with the useless images and can’t do anything until you delete them and start over. Sometimes it’ll recognize the images, sometimes it doesn’t and I have to retake them. Settings only gives you an option to upgrade. Just needs to be more intuitive and some basic settings or adjustments should be included. Whatever time you save but having the process work automatically you end up spending more time retaking screenshots because there’s no controls or way to adjust images. Because I have yet to successfully stitch together any screenshots, and there is no other function other than to take screen shots and hope Tailor works it out, Tailor has no practical purposes.

by MCMorrise

As a preface, I try to make all my App Store reviews as objective as possible to help people find good software. That said, this app is not good software; it is fundamentally flawed, a poor execution of an excellent idea.

My main complaints with Tailor are that the UX/UI is unintuitive, stitching is inaccurate, and worst of all, I gave these miserable cretins my money to have an ad-free experience.

There seems to be no way to manually add photos to this app, nor any kind of “refresh” command to see new collections of message or thread screenshots. This is quite the oversight, and as there is no way to stitch any media other than what Tailor offers to stitch, it’s quite unintuitive and in fact a markedly bad design.

Most of my stitches (Twitter in dark mode, for example, or Google Docs) have ended up being merely superimposed translucent screenshots in the normal screenshot size. This is obviously not the desired result. this app cannot consistently detect where one line ends and another begins, and the thread I took screenshots of had significant overlap from screen to screen. The inaccuracy of an app designed to do the exact thing it cannot do is stunning.

The last beef is my mistake. I should have known better than to give money to the devs of a 3-star app. The ads might’ve made this stark hellscape of an app more bearable. Oh well. Live and learn. Anyway I’ll revise this review if palpable changes are made to Tailor quality.

by Hooksaw_lazrblade

If it worked, it would be a good app.
But for me, it does not work, therefore,
I cannot say, without betraying my honesty, that this is a good app.
I do not know, if also, in addition to being a not good app, is this a bad app?
Two things can be true at once my dear fellow.

Whhich is whhy, or shall I say, thusly, I shall only say, that it is not a good app.

Or maybe I don’t get it because “who decides what’s good or bad man? It’s like, decisions, in themselves, are a form of discrimination, against the ‘not chosen’, ya know what I mean bro? It’s all 1s and 0s brother”.

Or maybe it’s a software compatibility issue and Apple is to blame, but Apple is like, so cool, I wouldn’t ever speak bad about them, because, I like them so frickin’ much. I treasure Apple and the ever loving entrepreneurial spirit of our beloved Steve Jobs.

So what’s wrong with Tailor ?

It doesn’t work well on iOS 14.
How not?
can’t select the from photos, which screenshots you want to stitch together.
Only immediately after you snap the screenshots, will Tailor allow you to choose the images to open.

Like my wise old grandpa use to say when he was reviewing apps like he always did,
”if ya cant open no files, ya sure as shoot can’t edit no files.”

by Kgintovt

Pro: This is a good app for as far as it goes, in that it does a seamless stitching together of two screenshots.
Cons: Perhaps the biggest con is that you can’t choose which screenshots to stitch together yourself—you only get a smattering of images from your saved photos that Tailor thinks go together and they’re not necessarily current. For example, you take a screenshot of something you’d like to post on social media but it doesn’t all fit in one shot and you have to take two. You open Tailor hoping to stitch them together but no dice. The images don’t even show up as being available and there’s no way for you to select them from within Tailor . Maybe next week they’ll show up in Tailor , but that doesn’t do you any good if you want to post the shot immediately. Fix that major inconvenience and then you’ll have a decent app.

by Sighofdisappointment

It's so hard to keep track of important stories and posts when they are scattered around in photos. I was so excited to find this app, hoping it would help me stitch 4-8 screens together so I could share articles as a graphic format.
Pros: stitches pretty good (as long as you overlap almost 1/3rd of screen). Let's you save stitched screens and "delete originals".

Cons: on iphone, every time a screenshot is taken, a little thumbnail of the shot stays on screen for a couple seconds before disappearing. This means you have to wait until that is done before taking another screenshot. This delay makes it difficult to be quick enough getting the shots before the clock changes and the stitcher won't match any following shots (after minute changes). It would be GREAT if this app could ignore the iPhone clock at top of screen when stitching.
WISH: It would be the BEST 5* IF
It could recognize annoying ads in articles and crop them put before stitching OR incorporate multifunction Crop (overall, Single) type of tool so we can crop each shot making up the stitched whole (like in StitchPics).
It would also be great to be able to add text and circle or highlight things before saving so as not to have to go into a second app to complete.

by MaitreMind

I love Tailor when it stitch’s correctly - the obvious stated. However lately when I take say 5 screen shot with an appropriate amount of overlay I will get 2 stitches, the first from 2 screen shots and the second from the last 3, or some combination of 1:4, 2:3, 3:2, 4:1, etc.

The problem mostly happens when there is a fixed area of the screen that doesn’t change like a header area. I take the first screenshot, then scroll the page leaving an appropriate amount of overlay under the header and take take another screen shot. I do the same day for the example above 5 times. Next, I go to my iPhone XS MAX and crop the first image at the bottom to remove the thumb bar to slide Tailor up. Then I move through the images cropping the top header off and cropping off the bottom thumb bar to slide Tailor up. The only success I have is 2 stitches in the combinations I mentioned above.

Another thing is once Tailor doesn’t get the images stitched right you can’t go back and tweak your croppings. It must look at the dates on the images and not reuse them. It only looks for new images forward to stitch together. As a developer I understand why that’s done yet there has to be a solution that enables you to reset a set of images allowing you to tweak and recrop the set and restitch them.

I think Tailor has great potential.

I am grateful for the work you put into this and believe it will be one of the top apps I use.

I can’t wait to see further releases.

by Gizmo Ghost

It would be wonderful if Tailor had access to delete the set of screenshots that are being stitched. Make it an option because I don’t want to keep having to go BACK to my photos every-time after I stitch a series, but optional because sometimes the stitching comes out goofy if the screenshots were not adequate for Tailor to work. (Forgive us users for OUR user errors, because 98% of the time it’s been my fault that a stitch came out wrong)

But if we had an option upon reviewing the stitch to delete the stitches shots that would be great. A prompt would be annoying but an option at the bottom would be fantastic and conveniently placed upon review of the stitching!

Thank you I love Tailor it has helped me so much over the past 9 months I’ve had it!!!

by Greg M 📷

this app does a great job stitching sequences of screenshots into one long image, perfect for sharing. It has helped me in so many ways - both for fun and in serious applications. It works well unpaid (only putting a small banner at the end of the stitched image). It definitely earned the in-app “tip” from me though.

The only two things I’d like to see improved:
1. An option to export to PDF. This would be used to avoid messaging apps “helping” by resizing the image for you.
2. Better handling of the “selected photos” permission. It correctly shows the message to “select more” photos when launching Tailor , but then doesn’t load the new images until you close and reopen Tailor . Easy to work around, but mildly annoying.

by Makingnicknameishard

This idea is brilliant! I love the concept and from what I’ve been able to get tailored, it’s turned out mostly fine. My main peeve is that I downloaded it when Tailor Store was saying it would help when screenshotting web pages, and I haven’t seen that work successfully. In order for things to be tailored, there has to be visual distinction (eg, the bubbles in a text chain) and paragraphs don’t (seem to) have this enough. Might be worth noting I’m using this on my phone, so a larger screen area may produce better success on that front. My other peeve is similar but related to spreadsheet tables. Even if you have a numbered list, the table is too visually similar that it seems to just overlap the photos like a collage, which is interesting but not useful as it becomes unreadable. Note I haven’t seen anything to suggest that would work, but I kinda hoped it would. Honestly it’s a great app and with modifications for the above I would definitely give it 5 stars!

by Mego💛💙💜💚❤

If love a way to give input, tell it which pics to attempt to blend, tell it where it needs to recalculate, things like that. I’m not sure if the technology is there yet or not but it would be nice to see at some point in the future.

I will say this though, the first time I used Tailor and it blended everything it could grab from my photo library there was an error where it blended two different covers from a manga I love, and it created the most beautiful image as a result, blending a transition from the first volume cover into the second volume cover in a professional intentional transition quality, and for that I rate 4 stars. If there ever comes a way where I can try and force such a glitch again then I will definitely rate Tailor 5 start because at that point I will be living and breathing Tailor for the rest of its life

by Bruschr

I had previously been using another app for stitching together screenshots into one long photo, but it required manual alignment. this app saves so much time!! Even though I purchased the full version of the other app, I just purchased the full version of this one too.

I still see a use for the other app: times when I need custom-stitching — if I want to truncate a portion of the image, creating a seamless look where there actually is more content in between. For the majority of the times I need an app like this, however, it’s perfection.

One other improvement idea would be if they could add an option to auto-save your final Tailored image, and possibly delete the original screenshots after confirmation of an accurate compilation. That option would help with overall camera roll maintenance.

by Tatester101

I have not looked into it, but this app suits me well enough to keep using space on my phone to splice together vertical screenshots of conversations.

I don’t know if this app is supposed to do more than that so I’m only rating the vertical splice, and I’m giving it a 4 out of 5.

My only problem is that it sometimes won’t splice things at all when it should have. That’s usually because it needs more screenshots with more of the previous screen than I would like. Still, not a huge deal! So what if I take 8 screenshots while I scroll instead of 4? It’s not taking more than a few extra seconds.

But it’s annoying if it won’t splice, and every so often there’s a glitch at the splice area that’s noticeable. So for that, I give it 4 out of 5.

I’ve used this app for quite a while now — enough that I just purchased the $2.99 to remove the watermark and ads.

For the developers: if not already available, I would be willing to pay a small amount for splicing two to four shots together that do NOT have shared text or images. I’d like to be able to take 2-4 screenshots of various things and splice them together side by side horizontally, or vertically, and in a stacked 2x2 arrangement if possible.

by [ayoungsimba]

I love Tailor. I use it to screenshot long iMessage, long text messages, long websites, long Reddit posts and almost everything that doesn’t fit in the screen and it is amazing how they just stitch it for me.

I’ve brought Tailor almost a year ago and I don’t regret it one bit. I love how they just work. I use Tailor almost every single day. It’s useful and it’s stitching algorithm is so beautiful. 👍

I only wish that they release an iPad version. I screenshot stuff on iPad as well and it hasn’t released iPad compatible app. Which makes me sad. Hmm, and even air dropping it to my iPhone to stitch doesn’t seem to work. Which is something they should work on! Otherwise it’s 5/5. ⭐️

by OnOnUofK

This is a great app. Sure, it does what it’s supposed to do. And it does that really well (even with a bunch of images). But what made me come and write the review is Tailor is the essence of what is good in an app. It works well, the free version works well, the developers don’t ruin Tailor with ads left and right to get money, the developers don’t cripple Tailor to get your money, and it’s reasonably priced. While I could honestly probably get by with the free version, I went ahead and bought it. 10% of my decision was to get rid of the ads and watermark, but 90% is because the developers deserve the money for making a good, useful app and making it consumer-friendly. If we had more developers that had this mindset, Tailor Store and the world would be better places.

by JustWill

I actually checked reviews to see if I was the only irritated about buying it early and then having go free, and I definitely wasn’t expecting all the dissatisfaction. It doesn’t always work with text heavy screenshots or web pages, but it’s worked great well over 90% if the times I’ve used it. From text messages, web pages, and even Twitter threads. It’s definitely not perfect, but I hope the negativity doesn’t dissuade people from trying it. Sour grapes over paying aside, I use Tailor a couple times a month (at least) and rarely have to retake screenshots to get it to work. I’m happy to give it access to my photos and let it scan and do it’s thing — not requiring the effort of manually joining images is the beauty of Tailor!

by Marcusdiddle

I downloaded Tailor not even sure what I needed it for. I’ve been surprised at the number of times I’ve ended up using it since then. Has really come in handy, especially for capturing screens of lengthy emails or documents. Some way of manually selecting older screens for stitching from your camera roll would be nice, but not really necessary.

EDIT: Tried writing a 5-star review for this app, only to find that I’d already written one. So I’m editing my original simply to say, Tailor is still indispensable to me. One suggestion, after much use, is the introduction of a Crop function post-stitch. I often stitch the photos, then save to my library just so I can go in and crop the resulting stitched image down a bit (unnecessary header or footer stuff). Would be amazing to be able to crop directly within Tailor !

by Mr.burple

Tailor does what it is supposed to do, and it does it well. It is built to require a generous overlap between screenshots, but it is so to ensure that the right screenshots get stitched together. It matches the screenshots perfectly - especially when there’s text involved (matches the distance between the lines as on the webpage you’re screenshooting), but does do with anything, really. I don’t have any complains, nor do I see the overlapping requirement as an issue at all, no, I’d rather say that’s a good feature and it’s just something to ensure accuracy by giving it more information to work with.

Tailor has been more useful than I expected when I first downloaded it for the purpose of a one-time-use. I find myself using Tailor to capture parts of articles, comments sections, wiki pages, etc, and It’s a good tool to have.

by Mjblue7

So first off, I’m surprised by how low the ratings are on this. Sure, the stitching isn’t perfect and sometimes gets it wrong, but most of the time if you take screenshots correctly (give them as much margin/overlap as you can, more than you think, it takes some practice) then it does all the hard work for you and gives you a wonderful end product.

There are way more times than I realized where I need to send or save a screenshot of a long webpage or email and now I don’t have to clutter up everything with a thousand different screenshots, I just have one!! Beautiful idea for an elegant and simple-to-use app. I love it so much I donated, and I never do that. Try it free for yourself.

Developers, please the updates coming, every time you send one out it definitely helps. And thanks for the great app!

by McCallBLaw

Had no idea how much my life wanted Tailor in it... till I read a mention somewhere and thought: why not download it “just in case” I ever needed it for some reason. Well, those reasons are a’plenty - From grabbing the WHOLE receipt, profile, etc to capturing a long list on my screen, (even a wider than screen comic stitched together perfectly)! I occasionally have to grab all the screenshots a second time (cuz there wasn’t enough overlap, I assume.) so I do often wish I could select the images and “force” a re-stitching from scratch, regularly... but this app went from never heard of/why would I need it to a position of high honor on the front page of my home screen where it’s easily accessible and very often used!

by James.damian

In my various hours of use and trials, I have found this app to not be very easy to use. In one sense, Tailor does too much for you. It’s difficult to modify whatever stitching determination Tailor reaches—you seemingly have to delete the original screenshots and then re-screenshot whatever images you’d like to stitch. Moreover Tailor is not very feature-rich. You seemingly cannot modify stitching alignments, choose the stitched photo organization, and you’re limited to only one type of stitching: the “scrollshot” stitching style as determined by the this app app logic.

There is a better app in terms of functionality, called Picsew, which I randomly stumbled upon and instantly loved. Ease of use, in addition to additional features (like modifying stitching alignments, determine stitching organization, multiple stitching varieties [e.g., scrollshot, vertical, horizontal], ability to stitch any photos [including non-screenshot photos], etc.), makes it much better than this app.

Assurance of authenticity: I have no affiliation whatsoever with Picsew (or this app), nor have I been asked, endorsed, paid, contracted with, incentivized, or otherwise, by Picsew to write this post. This post is a genuine review based on my personal experiences, and nothing more.

by Humptybump

Updated review:

I’ve switched to Picsew because it succeeds where Tailor failed.

Previous updated review:

I'm always careful to scroll about 70% of the screen and make very obvious overlaps between adjacent screen grabs.

I'm finding Tailor does well with a 2 or 3 contiguous screen shots but when I need to create a long strip - such as 5 or 8 or 12 screen grabs - Tailor fails to assemble a complete strip.

In some cases it skips one or more at the top or ends before reaching the last screen grab. In other cases it merges some in the middle. The mor screen grabs, the more errors. Even trying to retake screen grabs with more/different overlaps doesn't seem to help.

Original review:

Up front, I agree with other reviews that would like to see a manual selection mode and an option to delete the individual screen shots once Tailor have stitched them together.

Still, this has been useful, it deserves a completely positive review.

I used it for several months and decided it was definitely worth supporting the developer with the in-app purchase to remove the watermark. Even with the little "tag line" at the end of stitches from the free app, it has been very useful.

I do pay close attention to taking screen shots to insure there is about 10-20% overlap of sequential screen shots.

by Nova Tahir

The concept is great and it would be a great app...if it worked -_-. You can't pick the pictures to stitch and it automatically chooses random pictures that it thinks can/should be stitched and hilariously on top of that often says "not enough overlap." If any pictures look similar or you take multiple selfies they will show up, EVEN if they are NOT screenshots. It's insane how not a single of my screenshots showed up in the list and there's not even a way to refresh it. I don't understand who Tailor is this app(ed) to but it's sure not working. I'd much rather stitch screenshots myself in Photoshop Mix. At the bare minimum you should be allowed to pick the pictures that you want to stitch together otherwise you rely on the apps inefficient algorithm that somehow doesn't even do what it's supposed to and doesn't know what actual screenshots are. I've never been more irritated or disappointed by the lack of anything in an app.

by Mullse01

The interface is pretty, but in their effort to make everything seamless and automatic, the developers have severely limited Tailor 's capabilities. Because this app automatically costs only sequential screenshots, anything else in your camera roll you may want to stitch together is ignored - you cannot select anything other than what this app offers you. Additionally, there's no manual control over the stitching process, so adjusting the images created is not possible - if this app screws up, there's nothing you can do about it.

There's a better option: use "Stitch It!". It costs a couple bucks, but by offering manual control over selection and editing, you are able to stitch *any* image from your camera roll to any other image. It is infinitely better, and unlike this app, I've never had it crash, not even once.

by Musicmasta123321

I was extremely excited when I found Tailor. Coming from the Note8, scroll capture was one of my favorite features missing on iOS. After using it on and off for about 6 months, I have to say I am pretty disappointed. Results for me have been completely mixed. Sometimes it comes of perfect, other times it a will completely neglect one of the screenshots, and other times it will randomly stitch in only a small fragment of a screenshot. I am talking maybe a couple pixels before it starts the blend fade effect. I’ve even tried leaving half of the previous screen shot let’s convo on the screen to give it something more to grab onto and still get mixed results. And forget if you accidentally lock your phone and take a screenshot of the home screen, cause you have to start all over again! It’s not intelligent enough to do it automatically without some user input.

by Jlynn1020

I just took 3 pictures with at least 25% overlap, opened Tailor , and it pulled up some random screenshots from 3 weeks ago and said “not enough overlap.” Yes, there was no overlap because I wasn’t planning on stitching them together. However, the screenshots I do want to use Tailor for are no where to be seen and you can’t pick from photos or switch albums. You get what you get and it’s not consistent.

I could see if it only pulled pictures that were able to be stitched, but that’s not the case either. I don’t know why it picks what it does, but it’s pretty irritating to cross your fingers and hope the screenshots you just took end up in Tailor .

If you were able to go into your photos, select 2-3 photos, and send them to this app for it to do it’s work (or then at that time tell you there’s not enough overlap), Tailor would be perfect.

Also, there’s no help in Tailor , and nothing except some pictures on their website. I feel like of someone is going to take the time to make Tailor , go through all the work to get it submitted and approved by Apple, why not include a little FAQ in Tailor or on their website?

by Mortemistress

I love Tailor. It’s SO simple and does an incredible job...2/5 times. The other 3/5, it force closes and continues to force close over and over again until I delete Tailor and re-download it. It’ll work seamlessly for a few days after being re-downloaded, then it force closes again and I have to repeat the process all over. I’ve probably deleted and re-downloaded Tailor around 30+ times. AT LEAST 30 times. It’s an incredible, simple, seamless app, but the glitches drive me crazy.

I agree with another review that recommended adding a few tools to help it stitch the images together! Maybe being able to highlight the overlap so it knows, options for splitting the stitched images into a few separate ones, just things like that. It would still be very simple, but would do a better job (maybe, I’m not an app developer, so I don’t even know if that’s possible)!

Even if I had to pay a few dollars for it, I would be more than happy to if the glitches were fixed! :)

by MercyWalkedIn

Nice app. It’s really not hard to use and allowing the overlap isn’t that tough to guess at. It’s quick, smooth and gets things right if you do. 😎
My biggest concern is the limit of three screenshots that it seems to have. Yet, I couldn’t find mention of this in the description?
The min. fee that is for removing ads and a water 💦 mark, seems reasonable for functionality but a tad much for limited number of SS it can stitch.
After reading some other reviews, I would have to agree that some of the mentioned and or requested features is needed. Such as the ability to manually pick your SS, or redo a set recent/past SS, among others.
Devs. Listen to your customers and accommodate them where you are able.