Recapture watches your screenshot folder, reads the content with on-device OCR, and categorizes everything automatically. Search any screenshot by what's in it. No cloud. No accounts. Completely free and offline.
Find any screenshot by the text inside it. Full-text search across everything.
Set your folder once. Recapture handles OCR, naming, and categorization.
Everything runs on-device. Your screenshots never leave your Mac.
Recapture does the heavy lifting so you never lose track of a screenshot again.
Extracts every piece of readable text from your screenshots using Apple's Vision framework. Multi-language support with automatic correction built in.
Automatically sorts screenshots into categories like Chat, Code, Email, Terminal, Receipts, Web, Documents, and more. Powered by keyword and entity analysis.
Create your own categories with custom colors. Right-click any screenshot and assign a new tag. Your categories persist across sessions.
Gives your screenshots meaningful names based on their content. Choose from Category-First, Date-First, or Keywords-Only naming formats.
Instantly find any screenshot by searching the text inside it. Powered by FTS5 indexing for lightning-fast results with prefix matching.
Narrow down results by category and date range. Filter by Today, This Week, This Month, or All Time to find exactly what you need.
Lives quietly in your menu bar. One click to search, browse, and manage all your screenshots without switching apps.
Press Cmd+Shift+S from anywhere to instantly open Recapture. Search your screenshots without breaking your flow.
Right-click any screenshot and copy the extracted text to your clipboard. Grab that error message, URL, or snippet instantly.
Automatically identifies people, organizations, and apps mentioned in your screenshots using natural language processing.
Automatically detects your macOS screenshot save location and syncs when it changes. Zero manual configuration needed.
Right-click the menu bar icon to pause monitoring anytime. Resume with a single click when you're ready.
Use macOS screenshot shortcuts as you normally would. Recapture monitors your screenshot folder in the background.
Recapture reads the text, detects the category, extracts entities, and renames the file with a meaningful name.
Open Recapture from the menu bar or press Cmd+Shift+S. Search by text, filter by category, and find any screenshot in seconds.
Recapture is completely free. No accounts, no subscriptions, no data collection.
Questions, feedback, or feature requests? We'd love to hear from you.