ScratchList Photo app for iPhone and iPad

This app lets you snap a photo of anything you like and then scribble over the photo with a finger or stylus. It is perfect for snapping a picture of a list on a whiteboard and then crossing items off one by one.

It was designed for a busy mother who kept her shopping list on a whiteboard in the kitchen. She wanted to be able to snap a photo of that whiteboard list and then cross each item directly off the photo with the swipe of a finger.

She wanted the app to be very simple to use. She wanted the snapped shopping list to be disposable and she didn’t want it to get mixed in with her normal photos. Also, it was important to her to have a choice of colors to stroke with.

So here we have scratchlistphoto. It’s easy to use, with four simple buttons. The photo you take is isolated within the app and does not take on a life of its own in your photo backups. And, in a nice touch, you can choose from an infinite number of colors to draw with – just tap the color button until it produces a color that suits your mood (or your photo).

These four simple buttons allow you to: snap a photo, undo one stroke, undo all strokes and, of course, change your stroke color. When you take a new photo, the old photo is automatically disposed of, just like throwing away the old shopping list.

Although it’s designed to suit a shopping list, there’s nothing to stop you drawing over a photo of anything else you’d like to take. For example, instead of copying out those recipe ingredients from the cookbook, why not use ScratchList Photo to quickly snap a picture of the recipe list directly from the cookbook? Then you can check your pantry, cross out the items you already have in the pantry in one color, then cross out the rest in another color when you get to the shops.

It’s very useful and very easy to use. And it’s free.