You screenshot things to feed ChatGPT & Claude — then they pile up on your Desktop, unsearchable. Stashot catches every shot, OCR-indexes it automatically, and makes your whole history searchable. Your AI can even take and find them for you.
Everything you need to stop losing screenshots — at no cost.
Tap Right Shift for a region, hold it for a window — one key, no chords. Full-page scrolling capture too. Straight to your stash and clipboard.
Every capture is OCR-indexed automatically. Search your entire history by the words inside your screenshots.
Your screenshots never leave your Mac. No account, no cloud, no tracking — just a fast native app.
The annotation editor is built for people who paste screenshots into ChatGPT & Claude.
Stashot ships a CLI and a built-in MCP server. Tell Claude Code, Codex, Claude Desktop or Cursor to “take a screenshot” or “find the screenshot with that error” — and it does. All on the free tier.
# hand the latest screenshot to your AI
sss
# capture the screen right now
sss cap
# search your history by the text inside
sss search "invoice"claude mcp add stashot stashot-mcp{ "mcpServers": { "stashot": { "command": "stashot-mcp" } } }{ "mcpServers": { "stashot": { "command": "stashot-mcp" } } }code --add-mcp '{"name":"stashot","command":"stashot-mcp"}'codex mcp add stashot -- stashot-mcpTools: capture_screen · search_screenshots · get_latest · get_screenshot_text. Requires Node 22.5+. Your screenshots stay 100% local — nothing is uploaded. Enabling MCP lets the AI client you connect search and read your screenshot history, so only connect clients you trust.
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Your screenshots never touch our servers. No account. No cloud. No subscription. Native Swift, notarized by Apple.
The things that make Stashot useful — a global one-key hotkey (Right Shift), full-screen capture, and a CLI + MCP server your AI can drive — aren’t possible under the App Store sandbox. So we ship it direct. It’s still notarized by Apple (malware-checked) and 100% local, and going direct keeps it $5 with no 30% cut.
Yes. Every release is notarized by Apple — scanned for malware — so it opens without the “unidentified developer” warning. And your screenshots never leave your Mac: no account, no cloud, no tracking.
Free is fully functional forever — capture, automatic OCR, full-text search, and the CLI & MCP server. Pro ($5, one-time) adds the annotation editor (crop, arrows, boxes, text, blur, rotate) and works on up to 5 Macs.
An Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. The app is ~3 MB and fully native. The CLI and MCP server are optional and need Node 22.5+.
Questions, requests, or bugs? Open an issue on GitHub or ping us on X (@koichi_doggo).
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