Venture studio · macOS utility
Rename My Screenshot
A native macOS menu bar app that watches for new screenshots and renames them the moment they land, using on-device text recognition. No more Screenshot 2026-01-15 at 3.42.17 PM.png.
- Status
- Coming soon
- Category
- macOS utility
- Model
- Internal venture
- Requires
- macOS 14.0 or later
- Where
- Mac App Store
- Price
- $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year
What it is
Most people who take screenshots on a Mac end up with a desktop full of files named Screenshot 2026-01-15 at 10.42.33 AM.png. You rename them by hand, or more likely you do not, and finding one later means scrolling through timestamps and thumbnails.
Rename My Screenshot lives in the menu bar. The moment you take a screenshot it reads the content, identifies the app and writes a clean, descriptive filename, usually in under two seconds.
Who it is for
Anyone on a Mac who takes a lot of screenshots: designers collecting references, developers filing bug reports, anyone passing client feedback around. If your desktop is a wall of timestamped files, this is for you.
How it works
- 01
A screenshot is detected
The app watches the desktop and any folders you configure. When a new screenshot appears it picks it up immediately. - 02
On-device analysis reads the image
Using the Apple Vision framework, the app reads every word on screen, menu bars, page content and URLs, and works out what you were looking at. - 03
A descriptive filename is generated
The detected app, the key content and the date are combined into a clean kebab-case name, for example slack-engineering-standup-notes-2026-01-15.png. - 04
The file is renamed in place
A small notification confirms it. If the name is not right, edit it inline or undo with one click.
What it does
App detection
Recognizes more than 25 apps from menu bar text, including Slack, Chrome, Figma, VS Code, Notion and Arc. Browser screenshots include the domain automatically.On-device only
All analysis happens locally with the Apple Vision and Natural Language frameworks. Screenshots never leave the Mac, and the app makes no cloud or API calls and collects no data.Configurable naming
Template tokens such as {app}, {description}, {date} and {time} define the format. Choose kebab-case or snake_case, set a maximum length and add per-app rules.Works with your tools
Supports native macOS screenshots (Cmd+Shift+3, 4 and 5), CleanShot X and Xnapper out of the box, and watches any folder you point it at.History and search
Every rename is logged with the full recognized text, so you can search your screenshot history by content and find that error message or Slack thread months later.Quick edit and undo
A small confirmation panel lets you adjust the generated name before it sticks, and any rename can be undone from the history panel.
Under the hood
Swift and SwiftUI
Written natively for macOS, with no Electron and no web views.Menu bar only
Lives in the status bar. No dock icon and no windows you did not ask for.Lightweight monitoring
Uses macOS file system events rather than polling, so CPU and battery impact are minimal.Automatic updates
Updates arrive through Sparkle, so the app stays current.Launch at login
Starts when you log in, so screenshots are renamed without you having to open it.
Pricing
$2.99 a month, or $29.99 a year, which works out to $2.50 a month. Both plans include unlimited screenshots, every feature, ongoing updates and priority support, and you can cancel at any time.
The app will be on the Mac App Store and needs macOS 14.0 or later.
Why we built it
We take a lot of screenshots: client feedback, design reviews, bug reports, reference material. Renaming them by hand was tedious, so we built a tool to do it. Rename My Screenshot is an internal venture, built for our own workflow and now offered to anyone else who wants it.