One shortcut, three meanings
Drag anywhere for an area. Point at a window's title bar to take that window. Point at the menu bar to take the whole screen. Nothing to switch between and nothing to remember.
For macOS · Coming soon
Capturat — screenshots you can actually find again
Most screenshots are taken to remember something, and then never found again. Capturat is a fast screenshot tool for macOS that also remembers — what the picture says, where it came from, and why you kept it.
Free forever for the screenshot tool. Seven days of Pro free at launch. No account, ever.
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The short answer
What is Capturat?
A screenshot tool first, and a memory second. It replaces the shortcut you already use, adds an editor you will not need to leave, and then quietly reads every capture on your Mac so you can find it again months later. There is no chat window and no assistant — when it has nothing useful to offer, it says nothing.
Menus and hover cards stay open
The screen is photographed the instant the overlay appears, so a dropdown, a tooltip or a hover card is still there while you select it. Most tools close it the moment they appear.
An editor you will not need to leave
Arrows, boxes, circles, freehand, numbered steps, highlighter, spotlight, blur and crop. Thickness and opacity are sliders, and clicking a mark picks it up so you can change it instead of redrawing it.
Presentable in one click
Padding, solid or gradient backgrounds, rounded corners, a shadow, and any aspect ratio a post or a slide needs — 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 16:9 or your own. Free, in full.
Find it by what was in it
Every capture is read on device, so searching for a word you remember seeing finds the picture you saw it in — no file names, no folders, no guessing.
Nothing leaves your Mac
No account, no server, no telemetry, no third-party code. Your captures are ordinary image files in a folder you can open in Finder at any time.
Capturing
How do you take a screenshot with Capturat?
You press one shortcut. Where you point decides the rest.
- Drag anywherefor an area. Adjust the edges afterwards — nothing is captured until you say so.
- Point at a title barto take that window, with its shadow and rounded corners intact.
- Point at the menu barto take the whole screen.
- Save, copy or cancelfrom the buttons under the selection, or press Return to save and ⌘C to copy without saving anything.
+ and − adjust the padding
⇧ and arrows resize
Esc clears
After the shot
What happens after you take a screenshot?
It is already saved. A small panel appears in the corner, offers what is useful, and leaves on its own a few seconds later. Hover it and it waits for as long as you like.
- The name is written from what is in the picture. Type over it and it stops changing by itself.
- Copy, Translate, Summary and Remind are always one click away.
- Click the picture for Quick Look; the corners copy, edit and share it.
- Add a note — the one thing a machine cannot work out for you.
Every capture is a real file from the moment it is taken, so even if you never open Capturat again, your screenshots are exactly where you can reach them.
The app itself
Where does everything you capture live?
Capturat has no dock icon and no window to manage. It lives in the menu bar, one click from everything you have ever captured.
The menu bar
What does the library show you?
Click the menu bar icon and the panel drops down under it. Everything you have captured is there, newest first and grouped by day.
- Each row shows the picture, the name it was given, where it came from and its tags.
- Search from the top of the panel; filter by tag from the icon beside it.
- Hover a row to copy it or open Quick Look without leaving the list.
- Select several at once to tag, export or delete them together.
- Drag any capture straight out of the panel into another app.
- The Capture button and your shortcut sit at the bottom, always in reach.
A single capture
What can you do with one capture?
Click any row and the panel becomes that capture's page — the picture at full size, and underneath it everything the app worked out about it.
- Rename it in place, or press the wand to have the name written from the contents again.
- Add or remove tags, and accept the ones suggested for it.
- Whatever it recognised appears as buttons — a contact, an address, a date, a link, a sum.
- Copy the text, translate it, summarise it, or turn it into a reminder.
- Pin it above every other window, reveal the file in Finder, or open where it came from.
The editor, in its own window
Opening a capture for editing gives it a proper window: tools along the top, the picture in the middle, and the frame controls beside it so you can see what you are changing. Save writes back over the capture; Copy and Share take the edited version without touching the original.
Settings, and staying out of the way
Choose your shortcut, the image format and where files are written; decide whether captures are copied to the clipboard automatically, whether sounds play, and whether passwords are blurred. Everything intelligent can be switched off, and the app keeps working as a screenshot tool.
Understanding
What can Capturat understand on its own?
When a capture obviously contains something, Capturat offers the obvious thing to do with it. When it does not, it stays quiet. Every one of these runs on your Mac, using Apple's Vision framework and the on-device Foundation Models.
A business card
becomes a contact, written as a vCard that Contacts opens for you to approve.
An address
opens in Maps, including the ones a data detector would miss.
A date
becomes a calendar event or a reminder, at the time it actually says.
A QR code
offers its link, long after the preview has gone.
A sum
is worked out — and declined outright when the numbers are ambiguous, rather than guessed at.
A password
is blurred before you can share it by accident, with one click to bring it back.
Editing
What can you do in the editor?
Enough to finish the job without opening anything else, and little enough that you never hunt for a tool. Marks live on top of the picture until you save, so anything can be moved, recoloured or removed.
Marks
Arrows, rectangles, circles, freehand, numbered steps, highlighter, spotlight and blur.
Precision
Continuous thickness and opacity. A highlighter at full strength becomes a block of colour.
Frames
Padding, gradients, corners, shadow and aspect ratio, previewed live on the picture itself.
Background removal
Lifts the subject out with the on-device segmentation model.
Privacy
Does Capturat upload anything?
No. There is no account to create, no server to talk to and no analytics of any kind. Text recognition, summarising, translation and background removal all run on your Mac using Apple's own frameworks, and there is no cloud fallback when they are unavailable — the feature is simply absent instead.
- Screen recording is the only permission needed to use the app.
- Calendar and Reminders are requested at the moment you first use them, never before.
- Your captures are ordinary files. Delete the app and they are still yours.
What we never collect
- No account, email or identifier is required to use Capturat.
- No usage statistics, no crash reporting to us, no advertising or tracking SDKs.
- No copy of any screenshot, its text, or anything read out of it.
- No cookies on this website.
Free vs Pro
What is free and what is Pro?
Free is the entire screenshot tool, with no watermark, no cap and no expiry — including frames and backgrounds, which are usually the paid part elsewhere. Pro is the layer that reads and organises what you kept.
Everything it does
Free
Pro
Region, window and whole-screen capture
Unlimited
Unlimited
One shortcut — point, don't choose
Yes
Yes
Menus and hover cards stay open
Yes
Yes
Captures kept forever, never trimmed
Yes
Yes
The whole editor, every tool
Yes
Yes
Frames, gradients and aspect ratios
Yes
Yes
Copy text from an image, open QR links
Yes
Yes
Pin over other windows, Quick Look, drag out
Yes
Yes
Your own tags
Unlimited
Unlimited
Search
By text and tag
By meaning, across everything
Tagged for you
Not included
Suggested from the contents, one click to accept
Named for you
Not included
Written from what is in the picture
Summarise and translate
Not included
On device, no account
Contacts, addresses, dates and sums
Not included
Turned into one-click actions
Passwords blurred automatically
Not included
Before you can share one by accident
Remove background
Not included
On device, one click
Remembers the app and page it came from
Not included
Recorded with every capture
Batch actions
Not included
Tag, export and delete many at once
Automation
Not included
URL scheme and naming rules
Pricing at launch
How much will Capturat cost?
Set for release. There is no checkout on this page yet.
Monthly
$1.99 per month
Cancel whenever. Everything you captured stays yours.
Yearly
$9.99 per year
83¢ a month — 58% less than paying monthly.
Lifetime
$19.99 once
Pays for itself in ten months. Then never again.
Seven days of Pro, free, for everyone.
Get early access
No card, no account, nothing to cancel. It simply stops being Pro at the end.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
When is Capturat available?
Capturat is coming soon. The app is finished and being prepared for release on macOS; this page is where the release will be announced. There is no checkout here yet, and the prices shown are what it will cost at launch.
How much does Capturat cost?
The screenshot tool is free forever, with no watermark, no capture limit and no expiry. Capturat Pro is $1.99 a month, $9.99 a year, or $19.99 once for a lifetime licence. Everyone gets seven days of Pro free, with no card and no account.
What is the difference between free and Pro?
Free is the whole screenshot tool: every capture mode, the complete editor, frames and gradients, unlimited tags you make yourself, and a library that is never trimmed. Pro is the layer that reads and organises what you kept — search by meaning, automatic tagging and naming, summaries, translation, contacts and addresses as actions, automatic password blurring, and background removal.
Does Capturat upload my screenshots?
No. Text recognition uses Apple's Vision framework, summarising and translation use Apple Intelligence's on-device model, and background removal uses the same on-device segmentation Preview and Photos use. There is no account, no server and no analytics. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you send it somewhere yourself.
Which Macs does Capturat run on?
Apple silicon and Intel Macs running a recent version of macOS. Summarising, translation and background removal use Apple Intelligence, so those specific features need a Mac that supports it. Everything else runs on any supported Mac.
What permissions does Capturat need?
Screen recording, which macOS requires of every screenshot tool. Calendar and Reminders access is requested only at the moment you first use those actions. Browser automation is optional and used solely to record the page a capture came from.
Can I get my screenshots out of Capturat?
They were never locked in. Every capture is an ordinary image file in a folder you can open in Finder, copy anywhere, or keep after deleting the app — on either plan.
How is Capturat different from CleanShot, Shottr or Xnapper?
Those are excellent capture and annotation tools, and Capturat matches them on the basics for free — including frames and backgrounds, which are usually the paid part elsewhere. What none of them do is remember: Capturat reads every capture on device so you can find it later by what was in it, and it suggests where it belongs instead of leaving a folder of dated files.
Does Capturat work without an internet connection?
Entirely. Every feature, including the intelligent ones, runs locally. An internet connection is only involved if you follow a link the app found for you.
Still unanswered? Get in touch — every message is read by the person who builds it.