I take screenshots on my Mac pretty often but honestly I am not the type who organizes them. I usually just take a screenshot and paste it right away wherever I need it. My desktop is kind of a mess and I never really cared about sorting screenshots into folders. So when I tried ShotSnap I was curious if it would actually change anything for me.
What Is ShotSnap Anyway
ShotSnap is a Mac app that tries to solve the screenshot organization problem using AI. You know how most people just let their screenshots pile up in the desktop or downloads folder with those generic names like Screenshot 2026-01-29 at 3.45.12 PM? ShotSnap watches every screenshot you take and automatically sorts it into the right category based on what is actually in the image.
The app runs in the background all the time. Every time you press Cmd+Shift+S to take a screenshot ShotSnap analyzes it using GPT 4 Vision and decides where it should go. Code snippets go to a Code folder. Design mockups go to Design. Error messages get their own folder. You get the idea.
It also has this AI assistant feature built in where you can literally chat with the app about any screenshot. Ask it questions, get explanations, extract text or whatever. The whole pitch is that you never have to manually organize or search for screenshots again because the AI does everything.
First Impressions
The UI is clean and easy to understand. You get a 7 day free trial which is enough time to test everything.
Setup is really simple. You can create custom folders if you know exactly what types of screenshots you take regularly. Or you can just turn on Auto Categorization and let it figure things out for you. I went with the auto option because I honestly did not know what folders I would need.
The Features
Auto Analyze Screenshot
This is the core feature and basically the whole point of ShotSnap. Every single screenshot gets analyzed the moment you take it. The app uses GPT 4 Vision which is pretty advanced AI that can actually understand what is in images.
So if you screenshot some React code it recognizes that and puts it in your Code folder. Screenshot a Figma design? Goes to Design. Take a picture of an error message in your terminal? Error Messages folder. Dashboard charts and graphs get sorted into Dashboards. Random documents or text go into Documents.
I tested this with my old screenshots. It was interesting that even though screenshots of my mobile app didn't have any logo on the images, it organized them to my mobile app folder. So the accuracy was honestly pretty good. I would say it got things right maybe 80 to 85 percent of the time.
ShotSnap Assistant
The chat interface is pretty straightforward. You just type naturally like you are texting someone. No special commands or syntax to learn.
I tried a few different things with this. First I took a screenshot of some customer feedback and asked it to "Summarize the customer pain point in this screenshot." It gave me a decent summary that hit the main points. Not groundbreaking but useful enough.
Then I screenshotted a landing page design I was working on and asked "Please give me some UI/UX feedback based on this screenshot." It actually gave some helpful feedback about spacing, visual hierarchy and where the call to action button should go. Some of it I already knew but it pointed out a couple things I missed.
You can also use it for practical stuff like extracting text from images which is basically OCR. Or asking it to explain code in a screenshot. Or getting it to summarize what is happening in a complex dashboard.
Annotations
The app has built in drawing and annotation tools. Standard stuff like shapes, arrows, lines, text boxes and sticky notes. You can add numbered labels to mark up screenshots for feedback or documentation.
The one annotation feature I actually used a few times is the blur tool. You can blur out sensitive information before sharing a screenshot which is super practical. Hiding API keys, personal info, internal data or whatever. Way easier than opening the screenshot in Preview or Photoshop just to blur something out.
Who Actually Needs This
I took a screenshot of some code to paste into Notion and by the time I pasted it and moved on I did not care where the screenshots were filed. The organization matters if you actually come back later to find stuff.
For people who do come back to their screenshots regularly though this seems genuinely useful. Developers who screenshot bugs to document later. Designers building mood boards or reference collections. Product people saving user feedback screenshots. That kind of workflow makes sense for auto organization.
What Could Be Better
A couple things that would improve the experience:
Subfolders - You cannot create subfolders within the main categories right now. So all your code screenshots just go into one big Code folder. If you work on multiple projects being able to make Project A and Project B subfolders would help a lot with organization.
Location notifications - The auto sorting happens silently in the background. Sometimes I would want to know exactly where a screenshot was saved right after taking it. A quick notification like "Saved to Code/react-components" would be helpful without being annoying.
Chat ShotSnap assistant with multiple images / folder - currently you can only talk to ShotSnap assistant with one screenshot, but if you can communicate multiple images or the whole folder, I could ask more useful questions to it.
Final Thoughts
Whether you need it really depends on your workflow but I can see some clear scenarios where this app would be genuinely valuable.
If you are a developer who constantly screenshots error messages and needs to find them later when writing bug reports ShotSnap would save you so much time. Same for designers who collect UI inspiration and reference screenshots.
The 7 day trial is perfect for figuring out your use case. Install it and use it naturally for a week. If you find yourself going back to those organized folders then it is probably worth it for you.