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Archie
Mac Screenshot Manager & Notch Shelf
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Mac Screenshot Manager & Notch Shelf
99 followers
Archie — a small Mac app that keeps screenshots in your notch, ready to edit and drag wherever you need them.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Artiom, a product designer and builder.
I take dozens of screenshots daily for work and AI chats. But the native macOS thumbnail always annoyed me: it vanishes after a few seconds, forcing me to switch to my Desktop, and hunt down recent screenshots. And if I take several screenshots in a row, it’s a total mess. On top of that, making quick edits in Preview always felt clunky.
So I built Archie — native Mac app that turns your notch into an instant shelf for your captures.
What Archie does:
📸 Notch Shelf: Keep screenshots right in your notch, ready to drag-and-drop anytime.
✏️ Quick Editor: Crop, draw, add arrows, text, and numbered steps.
🔒 Smart Text Blur: Click any sensitive word or email to blur it instantly.
📋 Instant OCR: Copy text from any screenshot (100% local processing via Apple VisionKit).
📌 Auto-Cleanup & Pinning: Pin what you need; let Archie clean up the rest.
Works with your usual Mac shortcuts (⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4, ⌘⇧5) on Macs with or without a physical notch.
I built Archie to fix my own daily frustrations. I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
What happens when we take 15-20 screenshots back to back? Does it become crowded or there's some way to manage them?
@shahriardgm
Screenshots stay in a scrollable grid, newest first, so taking 15–20 in a row won’t keep expanding the shelf. You can open one or several in the editor, or select a few to drag and share together.
You can move screenshots to trash manually with a shortcut or setup auto-clean (1, 3, 7, 30 days)
Congrats! Love this idea. The quick editing is a great feature. Can you easily rename the files in your editor so they dont all say 'Screenshot?'
@mrjeffreystevens Sure! Just click the filename to edit it.
I’ve put an attention into these little interactions and shortcuts to make things quicker. Always open to suggestions on making them more intuitive!
@mrjeffreystevens thank you! Have you had a chance to try Archie yet?
where does the shelf go if the mac has no notch?
@mostafahosseini Archie creates a small virtual notch at the top center of your screen, and the shelf opens from there. It works on external displays too 🙂 you can check it on tryarchie.app there is interactive demo
This solves the exact annoyance I have with the native thumbnail — it vanishes after a few seconds and then I'm hunting through Desktop for the shot. Keeping captures in a scrollable notch shelf you can drag straight from is a much better mental model. The click-to-blur on sensitive text is the feature I'd use most, I screenshot a lot of stuff with emails in it. The local OCR via VisionKit is a nice touch too, no round trip to a server just to copy text out of an image.
@jcbuilds Thanks! Have you had a chance to try Archie yet? Would love to hear how it works for you.
Interesting interaction design, and the polish is really nice. Keep it up.
@cellier @cellier Thanks! I spent a lot of time on those little interactions, so it’s really nice to hear you noticed 🙂