Seen solves the
screenshot problem.
Seen catches every screenshot you take, reads it on your Mac, and makes your whole screenshot history searchable.
Coming soon for macOS Everything stays local on your Mac
Seen catches every screenshot you take, reads it on your Mac, and makes your whole screenshot history searchable.
Coming soon for macOSNo new habits, no new shortcuts. Press ⌘⇧4 and the moment a capture lands, Seen's card floats up — drag it anywhere, copy it, or let it slip into your library. Nothing is ever lost.
Seen's founder is a creative entrepreneur who screenshots ten to fifteen times a day — design references for vibe-coding sessions, stats to drop into Slack, receipts, errors, things too good to lose. They piled up on one Desktop until he built a way out.
Seen works quietly after you take a screenshot. Here’s what it changes — and what it doesn’t.
Seen is a screenshot manager for Mac that handles what happens after you capture something. It makes the newest screenshot ready to paste, gives the file a useful name, and lets you find it later by what you remember. The files and search index stay on your Mac.
Yes. Keep using ⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4, or ⌘⇧5 just as you do now. macOS still takes the screenshot; Seen starts working after the file is saved.
Yes. Seen automatically puts each new screenshot on your clipboard, so you can take it with ⌘⇧4 and paste it with ⌘V. The screenshot is still saved as a normal file, so you get both without adding another key to your shortcut.
Seen gives new screenshots useful names and groups related ones together. Those groups don’t move the actual files around — your screenshots stay in the folder you chose.
Yes. Seen reads the words visible in a screenshot on your Mac, so you can search for an error message, someone’s name, a receipt total, or any other text you remember seeing.
Yes. Type whatever you remember — the words in the image, the app you were using, or roughly when you took it. A search like “Resolve error last week” can find the screenshot even if you never looked at its filename.
No. Screenshot reading, naming, and search happen locally on your Mac. Seen does not send your images to a cloud AI service.
They stay on your Mac. If there are apps you never want Seen to index, you can exclude them in Settings. You can also pause indexing or remove a screenshot from search without deleting the file.
Seen doesn’t move or delete screenshots on its own. It does give new screenshots more useful filenames, while keeping a record of the original name. Collections don’t change where the files live.
Your screenshots stay in your normal screenshot folder. Seen stores a local index — things like recognized text, useful names, and capture details — in its Application Support folder on your Mac. Remove Seen and the original image files are still yours.
Yes. You can pause Seen from the menu bar whenever you want. Your screenshots remain ordinary files on your Mac whether Seen is running or not.
Yes. Search and indexing run on your Mac, so you can find screenshots without an internet connection.