BiBimba
Clipboard history that can read your screenshots
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Clipboard history that can read your screenshots
82 followers
Clipboard history and screenshots, searchable together. BiBimba reads the text inside screenshots, so you can find a receipt total or an error message later and paste just what you need. On-device AI translates, summarizes, rewrites. Stays on your Mac. $9.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Rihito, a solo developer in Japan.
BiBimba started from a small annoyance: I take a lot of screenshots (receipts, error dialogs, slides), and when I need one number from one of them a week later, I can't search for it. So BiBimba treats screenshots like clipboard entries. It runs OCR on them right away, and everything you copied or captured ends up in one search box. Type "invoice" and you get the text you copied, the screenshot with that word in it, and the snippet you saved.
A few things that matter to me:
- Everything stays on your Mac. History and screenshots are stored locally, you pick how many items to keep and for how long, and there are no analytics.
- The AI features (translate, summarize, rewrite, your own saved instructions) use Apple's on-device models, so nothing is sent to a server. They need a Mac with Apple Intelligence turned on.
- It's keyboard-first. ⌃⇧C opens history, Return pastes into the app you were in, ⌃K runs text actions.
- $9, one time, for 3 Macs. Buy again with the same email if you need three more. No subscription.
Requirements: Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. That's a real limitation, and it's because the OCR and the on-device models come from the current OS, not something I bundle.
The interface is in ten languages. I'd love to hear what you'd want it to do with your screenshots, and I'll be here all day answering questions.
Here's a 25-second demo: https://youtu.be/g9aNCR7ubts
I take a lot of screenshots for the help guides of my product, in five languages, so text inside images is a daily problem for me. I have two questions: does the OCR handle Italian, German and French accents, or is it tuned for English? And
does it read the screenshot at capture time or only when I search, because I usually need the text hours later, when the screenshot is already buried under fifty others and I only remember one word of what was in it?
@davide_terni Yep, Italian, German and French are supported. OCR detects the language automatically, and you can also choose multiple preferred languages in Settings. It's better to set preferred languages to help BiBimba detect the language, but it can still detect other languages even if you don't set them.
It runs in the background after you take a screenshot, and the text is saved with it. So, you can search your screenshot history hours later using a word you remember. Give it a try with your own screenshots, and let me know if any accented characters come out wrong!
@rihito_arai Hi, many thanks, I appreciate your answer.
Update: 1.2.0 is out.
It adds Parts: select any item in your history, press Control-U, and pick just the value you need from it, including QR code's contents, a link, an email address, a phone number, a postal address, or the title and URL of the page you copied from. QR codes are read on your Mac when the screenshot is taken, so you can search for what's inside them too.
Existing customers get it through the in-app update. Thanks to everyone who tried BiBimba this week
Update: 1.4.1 is out! 🎉
You can now annotate screenshots and copied images directly in BiBimba. Press Control-E to add arrows, text, shapes or freehand drawings, then Enter to save and copy. The original image is kept unchanged.
I’ve also added notes to saved items. Press Control-Shift-N to edit the title and note together. BiBimba can suggest tags from your note on your Mac, and you can edit them yourself. Notes are searchable too, so you can leave a reminder of why you saved something and find it later.
This update also fixes focus issues when opening BiBimba and taking screenshots. Available through the in-app update, with a 7-day free trial for new users. Let me know how it works for you!
Update: 1.5.0 is out! 🎉
You can now search “URL” to find screenshots containing QR codes with web links—even when “URL” isn’t written in the image. Press Ctrl+U on a result and pick the link to copy or paste.
I’ve also added image conversion right from Finder. Select one image or several in the same format, press Ctrl+Shift+F, and choose PNG, JPG, HEIC, TIFF, or WebP. It’s also available in the right-click Services menu. Converted copies are saved beside the originals, which stay untouched.
Both features run locally on your Mac. Available through the in-app update, with a 7-day free trial for new users. Let me know how it works for you!
Update: 1.3.2 is out (days ago, forgot to post here).
Ever copied something and later couldn't tell what it was?
You can now give any item in your history a name and tags (Control-Shift-N): the name becomes its title, the name and tags are searchable, and the item is not removed by the count or age limits. Works on text, images, screenshots and files. Snippets take tags too. It arrives through the in-app update.
Update: 1.6.0 is out! 🎉
You can now select several things from your clipboard history and paste them together.
Useful when you’re gathering links for a message or pulling notes from different places—without going back and pasting each one separately.