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=== Assistant: Totally get the use case — super common, and you don’t need anything fancy. ===
Totally get the use case — super common, and you don’t need anything fancy. Here are the easiest → more powerful options, depending on what you’re on and how clean you want it.

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This is honestly hard to beat for screenshots.

Steps:
# Open all screenshots in Preview
# In the sidebar, select them in order
# Drag them into one Preview window
# View → Thumbnails (if not visible)
# Drag thumbnails to reorder
# Select all thumbnails
# Edit → Combine Images - Choose Vertical (best for conversations)
# Save as PNG or JPEG

✔ No extra apps
✔ Perfect for chat screenshots
✔ Preserves quality

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Great if you want spacing or cleanup.

Steps:
# Create a custom-size canvas (tall)
# Upload screenshots
# Drag them in order
# Use Position → Tidy up
# Export PNG

✔ Simple
✔ Lets you add spacing or blur names
✖ Requires login

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If screenshots are on your phone:
* Open StitchPics
* Select screenshots
* It auto-detects overlaps and stitches

✔ Shockingly good
✔ Designed for conversations
✖ iOS only

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If you want pixel-perfect output:
* Create tall canvas
* Drop screenshots
* Align edges
* Export

✔ Professional result
✖ Overkill for most cases

==== - Image Combiner (web) ====
* PineTools Image Merge
* Photopea (Photoshop-like, free)

Just choose vertical merge, upload, download.

==== Given how you’re working: ====

👉 Preview → Combine Images → Vertical

If you want:
* Cleaner margins
* Slight padding between screenshots
* Removing the status bar at the top

…tell me your OS and I’ll give you the exact best workflow.

You’re doing this the right way — one clean artifact beats 20 screenshots every time.