CaptureKit

Keep your desktop clean by auto-organizing screenshots.

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This is such an ongoing frustration with macOS and quite crazy this is not natively a better experience on Macbook. Biggest frustration is naming and labeling. Almost all screenshots I take are in some way 'bookmarks' of something I want to read at a later stage. I often forget about them. Auto-prioritization and context related labeling would be a big win.

The auto-route-to-a-chosen-folder instead of dumping on the desktop is the exact friction I hit daily. Curious about the routing model: is it one global destination, or can I set per-project rules so shots taken while a given app or Space is focused land in different folders? And does it hook the capture itself or just watch the default screenshot directory via FSEvents and move files after?

My desktop is a graveyard of "Screenshot 2026-07-..." files, so this one hits. Can I route screenshots by rule — e.g. by active app or window title — or is it one destination folder? Per-project folders that switch based on the frontmost app would be the killer feature for me.

would love to see an option to auto rename screenshots based on the active app or window title, like "Slack - design-feedback.png" instead of just "Screenshot 2024-01-15 at 4.32.18 PM". would make sorting through project files way easier honestly

This is a nice Mac-native utility surface because the value is in staying out of the way. The details I would care about most are predictable rules, quick undo, and keeping originals easy to find, so organization never feels like another inbox to manage.

Great launch! If CaptureKit routes the file straight into a folder, does that markup window still come up? Does it become save-then-reopen-in-Preview? Arrows and boxes are half of why a screenshot is worth sending I guess!

Congrats on shipping. One thing worth knowing before you build the hotkey, and I say this as someone who would happily use the version of this that goes further.

macOS already does the base case natively. Cmd+Shift+5, Options, Save to, Other Location, and every screenshot from then on lands in the folder you pick. There is a defaults write for the same setting. So for the exact job on the landing page, saving to a chosen folder instead of the desktop, the system has shipped that since Mojave, and per your reply to Tarandeep, CaptureKit currently only applies when someone uses your menu rather than the shortcut already in their muscle memory. That is a hard sell against something built in and free.

The good news is that the interesting half is the half macOS cannot do, and it is already sitting in this thread. Gal asked about rules per app or project. Uğur asked for pattern based renaming instead of the default timestamp filenames. Neither is possible natively at any price. A screenshot that lands in the right project folder because that project was focused when you took it, named something you can actually search six months later, is a real product. A different default folder is a settings pane.

If it were mine I would park the hotkey and build the routing rule first. The hotkey only gets you to parity with the system. Routing is the part nobody has done.

This is very useful. I have been shamed multiple times looking at the screenshot dump that is my desktop. kudos on the launch.

clean idea, my desktop is basically a screenshot graveyard right now. how does it decide which folder a screenshot goes to, is it just one default folder or can you set rules per app/project?

Finally, a screenshot tool that just gets out of the way. Love that it saves straight to a project folder instead of piling up on my desktop every time I hit cmd+shift+4.

Would love to see an option to auto rename screenshots with a pattern like project-date-number, makes it way easier to find the right one later instead of scrolling through "Screenshot 2024-05-23 at 3.47.11 PM" files.

Finally something that gets the folder routing right out of the box without needing another Hazel rule. Love how clean the menu bar icon stays, no extra chrome cluttering up the workspace.

My desktop is basically a screenshot graveyard right now, so this is an instant "yes" for me. One thing I'm curious about: does CaptureKit intercept the native macOS shortcuts (Cmd+Shift+3/4/5), or do you have to trigger the capture through CaptureKit's own menu/hotkey for the auto-save-to-folder behavior to kick in? Asking because macOS doesn't make it easy to hook the system screenshot flow — if it's the former that's a genuinely hard problem you've solved.