❓ Problem

We have quietly turned the screenshot into the universal "deal with this later" button. See a jacket you like mid-scroll? Screenshot. A flight you might book, a restaurant someone mentioned, a tweet you want to action, a wifi password, a meme for the group chat? Screenshot, screenshot, screenshot. The average camera roll now holds around 2,795 photos, and 54% of people say even searching it is overwhelming.

Here is the quiet tragedy: a screenshot is pure captured intent. It is your brain saying "I want to do something with this." But the phone treats it like any other photo, dumps it in the gallery and walks away, so the intent rots. Roughly half of people do nothing with the images they capture, and the screenshot folder becomes a graveyard of things you genuinely meant to buy, book, remember or send.

The workaround today is a depressing amount of manual labour. You screenshot the product, then later you reverse-image-search it, find the brand, find your size, dig out your card and check out. By the time all that is done, the impulse (and often the item) is gone. The capture took one second. The follow-through takes ten minutes you never actually spend. Multiply that across the dozens of screenshots a heavy user takes every week and you have an enormous, universal pile of un-acted-on intent.

✅ Solution

Snapto is a mobile app that turns a screenshot into a completed task. You screenshot anything on your phone, it opens in Snapto, and it either suggests the obvious action or lets you say what you want in one sentence. Then it actually does it.

The wedge is deliberately narrow: nail one delightful loop ("buy this" off the social scroll) so well it feels like magic, then add verbs.

📊 Key Numbers

The behaviour is universal. Humanity takes on the order of 2.1 trillion photos a year, a large and growing share of them screenshots, and smartphones account for 91% of social commerce. The raw capture volume this product feeds on is effectively unlimited.

TAM. The first killer verb, "buy this", plugs straight into social commerce, a market worth around $2.11 trillion globally in 2026 and forecast to reach roughly $7.55 trillion by 2031. In the US alone, social commerce crosses $100 billion for the first time in 2026. Snapto does not need the GMV, it needs a take-rate on the slice it assists, plus a subscription. Add the other verbs (travel, food, reservations, contacts, reminders) and the addressable behaviour widens well beyond shopping.

SAM. Start with English-speaking iOS power users who screenshot heavily and shop on social. The US has around 108 million social buyers, and the average American social shopper already spends about $1,274 a year in-app. A serviceable early base of even 5-10 million high-intent screenshotters is realistic.

SOM and ARR (illustrative modelling).

⏰ Why Now