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How to Search Screenshots on Mac

Screenshots are named after the moment you took them — the one thing you never remember. What you remember is what was inside the picture.

Searching a Sealshot Library for the words permission denied. The unrelated captures filter away, and the one screenshot with that phrase inside it remains — with the matching line shown underneath, so you can see why it matched.

This guide will cover what macOS gives you out of the box, where Spotlight stops being enough, and how a library that runs OCR on every capture turns “somewhere in the last three months” into one search box.

Sealshot indexes the text in every capture on your Mac, and nowhere else. See the Library for how that search works today.

The full guide is being written. In the meantime the documentation above covers the same ground.