Forevery App: (Re)Discover Your Photos

If you are like me and use your phone as your only camera, then eventually you wind up with thousands of pictures in your camera roll. That often means that when you want to show off a specific picture to friends or share it via email you wind up swiping furiously to find it. That stops today (ok, today if you are on iOS and you’ll have to wait a bit for Android). Just download the Forevery Photo App.

The app is powered by our portfolio company Clarifai’s image and video recognition technology and provides a nearly magical experience. Once your photos have been indexed you can search by one of over 11,000 built-in categories. These include not just concrete ones like “boat” (important for me as a sailor), but also emotions such as “love.”

Even cooler is that you can train Forevery to recognize things it doesn’t already know about. That includes teaching it about specific people in your life, such as friends and family, or even your own dog among all dogs you may have taken pictures of. This training capability also extend to all other categories and for instance I will be training Forevery to recognize our boat (not just any boat).

For some really snazzy screenshots of the Forevery app in action, I suggest you head over to Fred’s blog (my primary camera roll right now is all on Android so I am behind).

There is a great feedback loop in which as Clarifai gets better, the app gets better for everyone. And conversely, as people correct categorizations the Clarifai API gets better for developers (this does not include custom categories, such as training the app to recognize specific people). This kind of human-machine collaboration is incredibly powerful and I am excited to see where it will take us.

So anyone on iOS with more than a few dozen pictures, go download Forevery.