On-device AI

Sealshot uses on-device AI to make captures self-describing and their contents reusable. Like everything else in Sealshot, it runs entirely on your Mac — on Macs with Apple Intelligence it uses Apple’s on-device models; elsewhere it falls back to built-in rule-based processing. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Automatic titles, summaries, and Smart Keywords

When a capture or recording lands in your library, Sealshot generates a title, a short summary, and Smart Keywords from what’s visible — plus visual tags for things like QR codes and documents. They appear in the editor’s Info panel, where the summary is yours to edit (with a Revert to Generated Summary if you change your mind).

Smart Keywords are kept separate from your own tags: generated ones are read-only and refresh over time; your tags are always yours. Search matches both.

OCR Live Text

Select and copy text straight out of a screenshot — error messages, code, addresses — with automatic language detection, so non-Latin scripts come out right too. QR codes and barcodes are recognized as well: click one to open its URL or copy its payload. Pick the Live Text tool at the trailing end of the editor toolbar; recognition runs entirely on your Mac.

Select and copy text directly from the image.

Find in Image

Search for text inside the open capture. Press ⌘F (or click the magnifying glass on the editor toolbar), type, and every match is highlighted on the canvas — Next / Previous (or Return) step through them. If you’ve set a focus area, you can limit the search to it. Esc leaves search mode.

Useful when a long scrolling capture or a dense screenshot holds one line you need — the same on-device text recognition that powers Live Text does the finding.

Extract Structured Data

The Extract Data pill in the editor toolbar reads the capture and pulls out its structure: tables, form fields, contacts, URLs, emails, phone numbers, addresses, amounts, dates — even stack traces.

Results open in an Extract Structured Data window as cleanly formatted text — tables become real Markdown tables — with Copy, Export… (saved under the capture’s name), and Re-extract buttons. The result is cached in the capture’s .seal package, so it’s instant next time.

When the enhanced on-device model is downloaded, extraction uses it too, recognizing entities by meaning rather than pattern.

A screenshot’s tables and fields, extracted into clean, copyable text.

Enhance Clarity and Remove Background

• Enhance Clarity upscales and sharpens a capture on device, with tunable controls. Toggle between enhanced and original any time — the original is always kept.
• Remove Background cuts the subject out on device, leaving a transparent canvas or a background fill of your choice. Fully undoable.

Smart search

On Apple Intelligence Macs, library search quietly expands your query with related terms — searching “invoice” can also surface captures matching “receipt” or “billing”. See Library & search.

Controlling it

Everything lives in Settings → On-Device AI:

• Use on-device AI (on by default) — the master switch for automatic metadata, Smart Keywords, and AI-assisted redaction and search. Turn it off and Sealshot stops generating; OCR and plain search keep working.
• The Smart Redaction options, including the optional enhanced model and Thorough scan, are here too — see Smart Redaction.

Which Macs run what

Sealshot is a universal binary, and every feature has an on-device path — but the AI extras scale with your hardware:

Feature	Intel	Apple Silicon	Apple Silicon + macOS 26 (Apple Intelligence)
OCR, Live Text, Find in Image, full-text search	✓	✓	✓
Smart Redaction (built-in detectors)	✓	✓	✓
Extract Structured Data	✓	✓	✓
Titles & keywords	built-in fallback	built-in fallback	Apple Intelligence
Enhanced redaction model	—	✓ (optional download)	✓ (optional download)
Generated summaries, Smart search, Thorough scan	—	—	✓

On an Intel Mac, everything core works — capture, recording, the editor, OCR, search, rule-based redaction, and structured extraction — and Sealshot generates titles and keywords with its built-in fallback. The enhanced redaction model is Apple Silicon-only (Settings shows “Requires a Mac with Apple silicon”), and the Apple Intelligence features additionally need macOS 26 on Apple Intelligence-capable hardware.

Features degrade gracefully rather than disappearing — and whichever Mac you’re on, nothing ever leaves your machine.