Inboard - Image Organizer for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By JesseGunner

  No developer support?

  The latest update seems to have removed the menu bar icon -- which is where I would initiate any screenshots, so currently it's unusable. I'm otherwise happy with the software, but I see no other way to reach support. Can someone help me?

  
  
• By Bezalel Nebari

  Crashes

  The app crashes nearly every time I open it. It is not updated regularly and feels outdated.

  
  
• By mikokim

  UPDATED REVIEW | No longer a good start for a simple digital scrapbook

  This app appears to have become abandonware. Four years ago, this was a promsing start; four years later, not much has changed. As others, I have provided user feedback and UX improvement suggestions, but the developer team doesn't listen. Problems: - Web page capture is temperamental at best in Catalina - Still no support for cloud sync -File management is awkard This is no longer of use to me and I'm going to remove it from my system. ORIGINAL REVIEW Don’t think of this app as a replacement for your image library; it’s a digital scrapbook app; it has been designed with simplicity in mind to help you quickly capture inspiring visual ideas (and it probably will never have close to the feature set that the discontinued Ember had or Pixave currently has, so don’t compare it to those apps). Inboard does a few things, and it does them well: take full page web captures and screen shots and enable you to organize them by tags and in folders in a Pinterest-like layout, that is, images are displayed in full height, which makes for a nice browsing/(re)discovery experience. Performance is great, even with a few hundred images, scrolling is smooth and rendering is near immediate (and I’ve seen users comment in forums that performance is consistent with even larger libraries). That said, there certainly is room for improvement. For example, the following enhancements/additions would be nice: * More default capture options; this version only provides “click and drag” area screenshot capture and full-page web snap options; adding Capture Window and Capture Fullscreen options to the Inboard Helper menu (which sits only a click away in your menu bar) would be nice. * Tabbed sidebar, so the Library and Folders can reside on one tab, and Tags can live on the other tab (similar to the Together app does); currently, Folders and Tags appear together; this can get messy if you have many tags and folders. * Support for nested folders. * Support for Smart Folder and Live Folder options. * Some basic annotation tools/features, so one can mark up a screenshot; currently there are none (you can open a screenshot with an like Preview but the changes won’t be saved back to Inboard automatically; you have to save and drag the shot back into the library. * Support for multiple libraries (icing on the cake) * Cloud sync (which appears to be in the works). Despite these shortcomings, I decided to purchase Inboard after a few days of using the trial version (available from the developer’s website). With Ember no longer under development, Inboard is a good start for a simple digital scrapbook app that not only performs well but also lets users quickly work with their inspirational source captures. And frankly, there are not many alternatives out there. Four stars for what it does based on what it appears to be designed for (not for what it should be in my or other user's minds). I will update my star rating pending future improvements/enhancements.

  
  
• By designsbytierney

  Doesn’t capture modern websites well

  The pinterst type display of images is nice but for me as a web designer needing an app to save website screenshots as a scrapbook to reference when working on design projects - this app does not capture modern web pages well. Modern as in websites that have sections and pieces that fall into place when you scroll down the page. I know it can be done because I have an extension in Chrome called Full Page Screenshot which does it really well. If I could just get that combined with an app like this to manage them it would be a dream.

  
  
• By David Pádua

  it’s a clean job, but someone's gotta do it

  lovely app, fast and beautiful. i like the fact that the developers didn't attempt a subscription model, it makes no sense for this kind of tool. it could be more finder-friendly though. [1] if the image folder mirrored the app’s two level structure, it would make it simple to browse them anywhere, either from the finder or apps that don’t touch the file structure like plex, for example. [2] live folders would make it even more flexible. [3] if it used finder tags instead of its own database, it would make it possible to search from outside the app. [4] image credits (title, author, year) could be clearly labeled with exif tags instead of generic ones. [5] sorting relies on filenames and dates, but there’s no way to manipulate them from inside the app. when you have tags, there’s no reason to worry about those things anyway, so it would be nice to be able to just drag them to reposition. the pinterest-like layout makes the positioning a little unpredictable, but the trade-off between control and beauty is inherent to the style.

  
  

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