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Export Screenshots to Markdown

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Your screenshots from Photos, each beside a note holding the text in it.

What you get

  • Each screenshot copied into a folder for its day, with a Markdown note beside it: the picture, its size, and the text in it
  • The text is recognized on your Mac, and kept with its positions as JSON too
  • An index of every day, newest first
  • Originals kept in iCloud are downloaded

Where the files go

alto-index/screenshots/2026-09-30/03-43-00.png
alto-index/screenshots/2026-09-30/03-43-00.md
alto-index/screenshots/2026-09-30/03-43-00.ocr.json
alto-index/screenshots/index.md

What you choose

  • Tick the months to export
  • Wikilinks or standard Markdown for the pictures, in Options… or Settings › Markdown

How it gets access

Screenshots asks for Photos access, not a folder; limited access works too. Deleting a screenshot in Photos, or unticking its month, removes its files.

Free and paid

Your first 50 screenshots export and keep syncing free. Then one purchase unlocks Screenshots: on its own, as one of any three apps, or with all of them. See pricing.

With Claude

The MCP server lets Claude Desktop search the text in your screenshots, and /altoindex:search in the Claude plugin searches it with everything else.