macOS Menu Bar App

Capture anything.
Understand everything.

ScreenGenius lives in your menu bar. Take a screenshot, pick a prompt, and get instant AI-powered analysis — streamed in real time.

Download on the Mac App Store

Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later · Free to download, bring your own API key

ScreenGenius

1440 × 900 · 82 KB uploaded

Describe Image

The screenshot shows a macOS desktop with a code editor open on the left side. The editor displays a Swift file with a class definition. On the right, a terminal window shows a successful build output with no errors.

Features

Everything you need, nothing you don't

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Always one click away

Lives in the menu bar. No Dock clutter. Press a hotkey or click the icon and start capturing.

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Area or full-screen capture

Drag to select any region of your screen, or capture everything at once with a single click.

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AI streaming

Results appear token by token as the model thinks — no waiting for the full response to complete.

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Extract text (OCR)

Screenshot any text on screen — error messages, articles, PDFs — and let AI extract it perfectly.

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Custom prompts

Create and manage your own analysis instructions. Assign them to Option+1/2/3 hotkeys for instant use.

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Bring your own AI

Works with OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. You own your keys.

How it works

Three steps to insight

Click or press a hotkey

Select a prompt from the menu bar or press Option+1/2/3 to trigger your favorite prompt instantly.

Capture your screen

Drag to select any region or capture the full screen. The screenshot is JPEG-compressed before sending.

Read the AI response

The result window opens and streams the AI analysis in real time. Copy to clipboard with one click.

Compatible with

Any AI provider, any model

OpenAI (gpt-4o)

OpenRouter

Ollama (local)

DeepSeek

Anthropic (via OpenRouter)

Any OpenAI-compatible API

🔒 Your screenshots stay yours

ScreenGenius sends your screenshots only to the AI endpoint you configure. No data is stored on any third-party server by this app. When using a local Ollama model, your images never leave your Mac. We collect zero analytics, zero telemetry.

Capture anything.Understand everything.