Find the screenshot you half-remember
“Blue jacket from Zara,” “flight to Lisbon,” “that Slack thread with the API key.” You describe the picture; it surfaces the file. No renaming, no albums, no scrolling a wall of thumbnails.
Screenshot AI
Your screenshots remember more than you do.
Looking for a price, an address, or the error that finally explained the bug? Say what you remember. Screenshot AI finds the image — and lets you take the useful part with you.
Ask what you remember — get the capture back with proof.
A familiar problem
The screenshot was a good idea. The folder wasn’t.
You save a booking number, a recipe, a chat, a price, a fix for an error. A week later, it is buried among hundreds of nearly identical thumbnails.
Try this instead
Type “the blue jacket from last month” or “my flight confirmation”. Start from the memory, not the filename.
In practice
Three things people actually do with it
Not a new place to dump files — a way back into the ones you already have.
Copy the line you would have retyped
Confirmation codes, addresses, error messages, a snippet from a terminal window — OCR turns the words in the image into text you can select and paste.
Ask what the image already shows
Open a capture and ask in plain language: What’s the total? Which room was it? What was the deadline? The screenshot stays the source; you get the detail without squinting.
Ask across several captures at once — the answer comes with the screenshots that back it up.
Set it up once
Choose a folder. Carry on as normal.
- Choose a folder Pick the screenshots or photos you want to search. Nothing else is included by default.
- Let it catch up New images become searchable in the background, without asking you to rename or sort them.
- Come back when you need it Find the booking number, recipe line, or half-forgotten note when it is useful again.
A small everyday win
Open a capture, open Info → OCR, and copy the text instead of retyping the whole post.
App Store
Stop saving things twice: once as a screenshot, then again in your head.
Screenshot AI gives the images you already save a better memory. Search them when the detail matters — not when you finally remember which folder you used.
Requires macOS 14 or later. Questions? Email support@screenshotai.org
FAQ
A few useful details
Can I find screenshots by description?
Yes. Start with what you remember — “a receipt from the grocery store” or “the hotel address” — instead of trying to recall a filename.
Does it extract text from images?
Yes. When you need text from a screenshot — a number, a link, a code snippet, or a short note — you can select it and copy it instead of typing it again.
Is it a screenshot editor?
No. It is not a drawing or markup tool. Screenshot AI is for finding, reading, and reusing what is already in an image after you take the screenshot.
Can I use it as a picture organizer?
Yes. It helps you retrieve screenshots and photos by what is in them, rather than by filing them into albums by hand.
What gets indexed?
Just the folder you choose during setup, plus any sources you add later. It does not scan your whole disk by default.
Where can I read the privacy policy?
See our Privacy Policy for how indexing, OCR, and chat requests are handled. Need help? Visit Support.