Writing about Screenshot Inbox
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Fact sheet
| Name | Screenshot Inbox |
| Developer | Ritesh Satia, Udaan Technologies |
| Platform | macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel |
| Price | $22 one-time. No subscription. |
| Trial | 14 days, fully featured, no account |
| Current version | 1.0.0 (2026-09-01) |
| Distribution | Direct download, signed and notarized |
| Data collection | None. No analytics, telemetry or crash reporting. |
| Text recognition | Apple Vision, on-device |
| Contact | support@screenshotinbox.com |
Boilerplate
Screenshot Inbox is a macOS app that makes every screenshot you take searchable by the text inside it, entirely on your Mac.
Screenshot Inbox is a menu-bar app for macOS that turns your screenshots into a searchable library. It watches wherever macOS saves screenshots, reads the text in each one using Apple's on-device Vision framework, and clears them off your Desktop. A global keyboard shortcut opens a search panel over any application, so finding a screenshot you took weeks ago takes a couple of seconds without leaving what you were doing. Nothing is uploaded: the capture, recognition and search loop makes no network calls at all.
The angle, if it helps
The interesting thing about this app isn't OCR — several tools do that. It's that retrieval happens without opening the app. A shortcut puts a search field over whatever you're in, you type a fragment you half-remember, and paste. Most competitors in this category make you open a library and browse.
The second thing worth knowing is that the privacy claim is structural rather than promised: the build refuses to compile if a network call is added to the core module, and the whole app has two dependencies. It's verifiable from outside with Little Snitch in about five minutes, which is a fair thing to test if you're reviewing it.
Assets
Not yet available
App icon, screenshots and the demo recording will be published here in PNG and SVG, light and dark, at the point of release. Until a signed build exists there are no honest screenshots to hand out — and handing out mockups labelled as screenshots is exactly the thing this page shouldn't do.
Review copies
If you're writing about it, emailsupport@screenshotinbox.com and I'll send a licence key — no conditions, no review agreement, and no expectation that you like it. Please don't redistribute the key.
I'm also happy to answer technical questions on the record, including the awkward ones about what the app can't do.
Please don't
- Describe it as AI-powered. It uses Apple's Vision framework for text recognition and a deterministic offline classifier — there's no model download and no language model.
- Say it "monitors your screen". It watches one folder for new files. It has no screen-recording capability.
- Quote an OCR accuracy percentage. There isn't a published one, because the measurement isn't reproducible yet — and I'd rather have no number than a soft one.