Use cases
What people actually do with it
Every one of these is a job people currently do by scrolling. Colour is the thing they are scrolling for, and it is the one thing a photo library has never let them ask about.
Planning an Instagram grid that holds together
A profile is read nine squares at a time, and what makes those nine look intentional is almost always colour. The hard part has never been choosing — it has been finding the candidates.
Building the next nine
Start from the hue your account already leans on. Set it high — Teal ≥ 65% — and you get the frames that commit to it fully. Those are your anchors. Then run the same hue at ≥ 35% to find the softer shots that sit between anchors without breaking the run, and you have a grid with rhythm instead of nine near-identical squares.
Bridging one colour block into the next
Grids that change palette abruptly look like two accounts stitched together. Second-colour detection is how you avoid it: find the photos whose dominant hue is the one you are leaving and whose second colour is the one you are moving to. A frame reading 38% teal + 12% amber is the hinge between a teal block and an amber one, and there is no way to find it by eye at scale.
Keeping a feed consistent over months
Consistency is easy for a week and hard for a year. Because Filters searches your whole library on Pro, you can go back to what you were posting nine months ago, read its dominant hues, and pull from the same band today — rather than drifting one post at a time until the profile no longer looks like itself.
The query
Teal ≥ 65% · Mid · Favourites
Your strongest committed-teal frames, already vetted once by you.
Stories and TikTok: finding frames with room in them
Vertical formats put text, stickers and captions on top of the picture. A busy frame fights all of it.
Clean backgrounds for text overlays
The Clean busyness level is exactly the shortlist you want: skies, painted walls, water, tabletops, snow. Add a hue and you can match the overlay colour to the background before you even open the editor — Sky ≥ 55% · Clean gives you a run of backdrops that all take the same white type.
A TikTok set that looks like one shoot
Short-form video thrives on a recognisable look. Pulling stills for covers and transitions from a single hue band means a series reads as a series in the grid view, even when the clips inside it were shot weeks apart.
Seasonal runs
Combine a colour with a date range and you have the seasonal edit: amber and red-orange from last October, mint and sky from the spring. It takes one query instead of an evening of scrolling.
The query
Sky ≥ 55% · Clean · last 90 days
Recent, uncluttered, and pale enough to carry dark text.
Pinterest boards from a single palette
Boards are judged as a whole. One frame in the wrong colour family is the one people notice.
Assembling the board in one pass
Query a single hue across your entire library and the set arrives already coherent. Where a board would normally be built a pin at a time over months — each addition judged against a memory of the rest — you get the whole candidate pool at once and edit down.
Neutral boards
The white, grey and black filters are what make minimal boards possible. A hue-based search cannot find “bright and empty”, because there is no hue to find. Filtering on White ≥ 60% can, and it is the single most requested look in interiors, product and wedding boards.
The query
White ≥ 60% · Clean · Plants
The pale, uncluttered plant shots that anchor a minimal board.
Your library is already sorted by colour. It just can’t say so yet.
Filters is finishing up for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Free covers the last twelve months of your photos; Pro opens the rest for $19.99 once or $9.99 a year.
