My wife and I built a Mac app that turns your screenshots into actions - explain an error and create an issue, add events to Calendar, save contacts and more.
Hey everybody! For the last few months my wife and I have been building Scinta - a small macOS app that lives in your menu bar.
The idea came from a simple but almost daily problem - the number of screenshots lying around on my filesystem got so big that it was impossible to even remember what they were about. A message about a meeting, an email signature, someone's messenger profile, an error from a build - all of this was waiting for "some later time" to be processed. And some later time never arrived.
This is the exact problem Scinta solves, and this is how it works - you press a shortcut (like any other screenshot app), select part of the screen, and it proposes the top 3 things it can do with what it sees. We call them smart actions. For example:
- screenshot an error - get it explained or create an issue directly from Scinta
- screenshot a message like "dinner Saturday at 7:00 PM" - Scinta proposes the actual event details and creates it in your Calendar
- screenshot an email signature - the person's contact info is saved to your Contacts
- it can also blur private and sensitive info before you share a screenshot, extract code or tables, translate text, decode different code formats (including QR and Bar codes) - and more actions are coming
There is also an Ask AI feature - if you just have a question about what is on the screen, you ask it right there in the app and get the answer back immediately.
Expecting a common question - why not just paste the screenshot into ChatGPT or Claude? That is exactly what I did before, and it is the reason Scinta exists. There you switch apps, upload the screenshot, write a prompt, then copy the result back and still create the event or contact yourself. With Scinta you skip all of this - it understands what can be done with the screenshot and one click gets the result and performs the action - saving to Calendar or Contacts, creating an issue, getting an instant explanation and so on.
The demo video shows 3 different smart actions and runs at real speed - nothing is sped up.
We are planning to release within the next 1-2 weeks, and this is the stage where honest feedback helps the most. So a few things I would genuinely love critique on:
- Does the "suggests 3 actions" approach feel useful or would you prefer to pick from a full list yourself?
- We are thinking $8/month with a free tier (local features free forever, AI actions metered) - fair or would you expect something else for a tool like this?
- What smart actions are missing? What would you want a screenshot to turn into?
There is a waitlist on our site - https://scinta.app, and if you would like to try it before release - comment or DM and we will send you a build as soon as it is ready.