Story
Why Spohad exists — told by the person who builds it.
- Photo Sorting App: Why I Built SpohadI am not a programmer, and for ten years I looked for an app to sort photos from my phone, in bed. So I built it myself. This is the story of Spohad.
- What Spohad Means: Ukrainian for “Memory”What does Spohad mean? It is the Ukrainian word spohad, a memory. Where the name comes from, what one spohad is, and how a frame earns value stars.
- A Social Media Alternative: Scroll Your Own LifeA social media alternative that works: the same full-screen feed, but made of your own photos, videos and saved things. You end the evening with order.
- Organize a Family Photo Archive: 5 TB in 20 YearsHow to organize a family photo archive on an external drive or NAS without a computer: in bed, one frame at a time, with captions that stay with the files.
- Find Photos in Seconds: Caption Once, Search LaterA friend spent 40 minutes scrolling for a photo. How I find photos in seconds: caption a frame once by voice, and search finds it later by a word.
- Get Back to Your Saved Screenshots and VideosScreenshots, recipes, downloaded clips, all saved for later. How to sort screenshots on iPhone and return to saved things on time, not three years on.
- Free Up Space on iPhone: Photos to a Drive, No PC“iPhone storage full”? How to free up space on iPhone: move photos and videos to a USB drive or network drive from the phone, no computer or cloud.
- Big Files on iPhone: How to Free Up Space FasterWhere are the big files on iPhone, and how to free up space fast: set the feed to Largest and clear the heaviest videos first. Plus other feed orders.
- How to Organize Photos in Folders on iPhone: A RoomHow to organize photos in folders on iPhone so you can find them later: the gallery is a drawer, Spohad is a room with cabinets, doors and shelves.
- Keep Receipts and Work Photos Out of Family AlbumsReceipts, work photos and shots to translate drown among family ones. How to keep receipts on iPhone apart from your personal archive and find them fast.
- Photos Without Internet: Your Feed on a PlaneThe signal is gone, but the scrolling habit stays. How to view photos without internet on iPhone as a feed, and tidy up on a plane or the subway.
- Family Photos Without Internet in the Hardest HoursNo signal and all you can do is wait, but the faces and voices of your loved ones are still there. Family photos without internet, and how they help.
- One Swipe Instead of Five Taps: Photos for SeniorsHow to sort photos into folders on iPhone when small buttons are hard: big full-screen photos, one swipe instead of five taps, and undo for mistakes.
- 1,300 Exam Flashcards on iPhone, in Random OrderFlashcards for exam prep on iPhone: review 1,300 questions in random order, mark what does not stick, and gather a topic’s questions by tag.
- iPhone Photos on the TV Instead of a MovieHow to show iPhone photos on a TV with AirPlay for a family evening: only the frame on screen, your phone or watch as the remote, and tidying up as you go.
- How to Connect a NAS to iPhone and Sort It From BedHow to connect a NAS to iPhone through Files and turn a network folder into a feed: sort photos, watch videos and play music from the drive, in bed.
- I Can’t Code. I Read the CommentsI can’t write code, and I still built Spohad: AI agents write it, I read the comments in it and learn engineering. My first year of building it.
- Save Social Media Posts Where You’ll Find ThemWhere to save photos and videos from social media and messenger posts to rewatch them: Share → Spohad, the Inbox folder, and a feed instead of a chat.
- PDF and EPUB Books on iPhone, in the Same FeedA PDF and EPUB reader for iPhone that remembers your page: books, presentations, notes and code in the same feed as your photos. Sort, read, present.
- Sort Music on iPhone: Thousands of Tracks as a FeedHow to sort music on iPhone when a folder holds thousands of tracks: connect it through Files, listen one by one, sort with swipes, give clear names.