What Snugit is
Snugit is a save-everything app for iPhone — links, notes, photos, and files, saved straight from any app's share sheet and found again by instant search. It exists because saving something is always easy and finding it again almost never is, across every built-in iOS app. There's no AI involved in how it works, no account required to use it, and nothing you save is ever uploaded anywhere — it stays on your device. See the Privacy Policy for the specifics.
Why it exists
Snugit was built as a submission for RevenueCat's Shipaton 2026, a hackathon for indie iOS apps with a working subscription business model. Development started August 7, 2026, and the app went live on the App Store about two weeks later. It's targeting the Productivity influencer-award category, judged against a specific brief: a polished app that gives Apple power users one fast, focused place to save and retrieve reusable text, files, and images.
How it's built
Snugit is built solo, entirely on a Windows laptop — no Mac was used at any point. It's an Expo (React Native) app; EAS Build compiles the actual iOS binary in Expo's cloud, and EAS Submit uploads it to App Store Connect from there. Testing happened on a real iPhone throughout, since a simulator can't accurately show things like Face ID or true on-device animation performance. The subscription paywall runs on RevenueCat.
Built in public
The blog documents the actual development process as it happened — real bugs that shipped and got fixed, decisions that didn't work out, and the handful of features that exist specifically because someone left feedback and it got built. It's not a cleaned-up highlight reel; if something broke, that post is still up.
The build log
Every step of building Snugit was written up as it happened, in order:
- No folders, no accounts, no AI
- Why I'm building Snugit in public
- Why I Built Snugit Around the Screenshot Problem
- A stranger's feedback became a real feature
- Onboarding, finally
- The paywall is real now
- Deciding what stays free
- The logo animation nobody asked for
- The bugs nobody sees
- What a screenshot actually takes
- One last pass on a real phone
- Writing the App Store listing
- It's with Apple now
- The site broke on the one device that mattered
Get in touch
Bug reports, feature requests, press questions, or anything else — see the Support page, or email snugitapp22@gmail.com directly. Every message is read personally, since there's only one person reading them.