Photo recovery for your Mac.

Find the snaps your inbox forgot.

Snapattic finds photo attachments in your old email and saves the originals to your Mac. Your mail stays unchanged, and your email and photos aren’t uploaded to Snapattic.

macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon

A parent holding a newborn indoors.
A parent resting outdoors with a child in a carrier.

From Baz’s photo archive.

Find photos across old email

No opening attachments one by one.

Browse what you recovered

See the photos together in your library.

Keep the original files

Saved locally, without changing your mail.

Four steps

How Snapattic works.

Connect your email, recover its photo attachments, then browse the results on your Mac.

  1. Connect

    Connect a supported personal mailbox.

  2. Find

    Search old messages for photo attachments.

  3. Review

    Check the photos set aside for review.

  4. Save

    Keep the originals as ordinary files.

Why I made it

I only wanted one photo.

I went looking through an old inbox and found about 1,500 others. Family visits. Birthdays. New babies. Trips. Ordinary days I’d forgotten. They weren’t gone. They were just buried in email.

A person looking out over a city from a green hill.

Privacy

Your photos stay on your Mac. Your inbox stays untouched.

Snapattic reads your mailbox without changing it. The search happens on your Mac, and your email and photos aren’t uploaded to Snapattic.

Read-only mail
Messages are never moved, deleted or marked as read.
Local processing
Photos are checked and saved on your Mac.
No app tracking
No account, app telemetry or device tracking.

Price

Your first 100 photos are free to keep.

The rest of that mailbox is $9 once. Another mailbox is another $9. No subscription.

macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon

Questions

A few things worth knowing.

  • Gmail
  • iCloud Mail
  • Outlook (personal)
  • Yahoo Mail
Which email accounts work with Snapattic?

Snapattic works with personal Gmail, iCloud Mail, Outlook (personal) or Yahoo Mail accounts. Work and school Microsoft accounts are not supported.

How do I connect my email?

Gmail, iCloud Mail and Yahoo Mail use an app password. Personal Outlook uses Microsoft sign-in. Never use your normal email password.

Will Snapattic change my mail?

Snapattic reads your mailbox without changing it. It does not move, delete or mark messages as read.

Where do the photos go?

Snapattic saves originals as ordinary files in Pictures/Snapattic on your Mac.

What happens after the free photos?

Your first 100 photos are free to keep. The rest of that mailbox is $9 once. Another mailbox is another $9. No subscription.

What Mac do I need?

macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon.