Trott – search,sort,extract social media videos(ig,yt,tiktok)
I built Trott out of frustration with my own “Saved” folders on Instagram and YouTube. I’d save reels and shorts—workout tips, recipes, travel spots—thinking I’d find them again later. But, like most people, I ended up with a black hole of unsorted videos: no search, no filters, and if I ever did find the right video again, I’d have to dig through the whole thing just to get that one detail I needed. When I tried looking for solutions, I found only genre-specific apps or tools that demanded manual uploads or new workflows. None felt like they understood how real users behave or save content.…
Trott – search,sort,extract social media videos(ig,yt,tiktok) launched on October 15, 2025 with 37 votes, #451 of 8,178 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Trott is a tool for organizing and searching videos saved from Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Users can share reels and shorts directly from their phone's share menu, and the app uses AI to automatically extract and categorize information like ingredients, places, and products. It's designed for people who accumulate large collections of saved videos but struggle to find or organize specific content, offering search and filtering capabilities to turn disorganized video collections into searchable libraries.
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From the sources
Trott reads the reels you save and pulls out what mattered, so you can search or ask for it later instead of scrolling. Free on iOS and Android.
You save the recipe. The trip. The workout you swore you'd try. Then it sinks into a folder of four hundred and you never see it again. Share a reel to Trott and it reads the whole thing, caption and video, then hands back what mattered the moment you ask. Make reels too? Trott hands you the transcript and structure to study what works. Tapping bookmark feels like doing something. It isn't. Three weeks later you're planning the trip, and the one perfect reel is buried in a list of four hundred. No search, no notes, no idea which thumbnail it even was. The recipe, the address, the product name. All locked inside footage. Re-watching the whole thing to find one detail. Every single time. Four…from trott.hattimatimlabs.in
In the maker’s words, at launch
I built Trott out of frustration with my own “Saved” folders on Instagram and YouTube. I’d save reels and shorts—workout tips, recipes, travel spots—thinking I’d find them again later. But, like most people, I ended up with a black hole of unsorted videos: no search, no filters, and if I ever did find the right video…
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