Getting started

1. Create your account#

Head to favstash.app and hit Go to Portal — you can sign up with your email right there. The same account works everywhere: mobile app, web portal, and the AI connection.

2. Install the mobile app#

The mobile app is where saving happens (it's the thing living next to your doom scroll):

• iPhone / iPad — Download on the App Store
• Android — Get it on Google Play

Sign in with the account you just created. On first run you can pick a few starter collections — folders like the ones you'd make anyway, minus the effort.

3. Save your first reel#

This is the whole trick, and it's two taps:

1. Find a reel, TikTok, or Short you want to keep.
2. Tap the platform's native Share button.
3. Pick FavStash from the share sheet.
4. (Optional) Choose a collection and add a note — "the lemon pasta thing", "steal this hook", whatever future-you needs.

That's it. The save is in your stash. Works with Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts — and any other web URL as a fallback.

4. What happens next (enrichment)#

The moment you save, FavStash gets to work in the background:

• Title & metadata — pulled from the post so the save isn't just a naked link.
• Transcript — the full spoken text of the video, when one is available.
• Summary & hook — a short AI-written summary plus the extracted hook (the first-seconds line that made you stop scrolling).
• Semantic indexing — everything above goes into a search index that understands meaning, not just keywords.

Enrichment takes a few moments per save. Once it's done, that reel is findable by anything that was ever said, shown, or written in it.

Enrichment happens automatically for every save — you never have to tag, transcribe, or file anything by hand (though you can add notes and collections if you want to).

5. Find it in the web portal#

Open the Portal and go to Stash. Your save is there with its thumbnail, summary, transcript, and collection. Try the search bar — type what you remember, not the exact caption:

that pasta recipe with the browned butter

If the words appeared anywhere in the video — spoken, on-screen, or in the caption — FavStash will find it.

Where to next#

• Stash & search — collections, notes, and how search actually works.
• Channels — connect your Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts.
• AI Connect — let your AI assistant use your stash.