The Nameshot app gives each new screenshot on your Mac a descriptive name, so a date-stamped Screenshot file becomes a title that says what is in the picture. The app is free to download, and its automatic naming keeps working after a seven-day trial only if you buy Nameshot Pro.
Ryan McLeod, an indie developer in Amsterdam, makes Nameshot, and he also makes Blackbox, which has won two Apple Design Awards. Nameshot is on the Mac App Store and needs a Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 27. The app reads each screenshot with Apple’s on-device model.
What the Nameshot app does
Nameshot sits in your Mac’s menu bar and names a screenshot a second or two after you take it with Shift-Command-3, 4 or 5. Nameshot renames the file in place, so the screenshot stays in the same folder with a new name. You pick the screenshots folder yourself when you set up the app.
A small banner shows the new name with an Undo button, and one click brings the original name back. Each file also keeps a label with its original name, and you can undo a batch rename for 30 days.
When a name is wrong, you can type a better one, and Nameshot learns your naming style from those corrections. Nameshot keeps up to 200 of your renames for this, and you can turn learning off, review what it kept or clear everything with Forget Everything.
Settings let you choose Short, Standard or Detailed names, and you can add the name of the app the screenshot came from, such as in Safari. Nameshot Pro also adds the date at the start or end of the name. Renaming does not change a file’s created, modified or added dates.
Finder in macOS 27 suggests names when you rename a file yourself, but you have to start each rename. Nameshot names each screenshot without being asked, and Tidy Up handles the screenshots already sitting in a folder.
Tidy Up renames whole folders
Tidy Up names every screenshot already sitting in a folder such as your Desktop in one pass. The window shows each new name next to the original name, you can click any name to change it, and nothing is renamed until you click Rename. You can also drop an image or a whole folder onto the menu bar icon to have it named.
Pricing and the free trial
Nameshot is a free download, and you get seven days of every feature without an account. The trial starts the first time Nameshot names a screenshot, and after it ends, automatic naming stops unless you buy Nameshot Pro.
Nameshot Pro costs $4.99 at launch and $9.99 after that. Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription, and Family Sharing works with it. Pro covers automatic naming, Tidy Up, folder renaming, naming preferences and learning, while dropping images onto the app to name them stays free after the trial.
Everything stays on your Mac
Nameshot has no network access of its own, so your screenshots never leave the Mac, and the app works with Wi-Fi off. macOS’s App Store service verifies your purchase. Nameshot collects no data and has no account, analytics or ads.
The app needs no Screen Recording or Accessibility permission, because it reads only the folders you choose or the files you drop onto it. To write a name, it uses the screenshot itself, on-device text recognition, the name of the app it came from and the window names, and Nameshot says Apple’s on-device model does not send any of this to Apple. Nameshot keeps your rename history, learned naming patterns, settings and purchase status mostly in a container folder on your Mac.
Requirements and limits
You need a Mac with Apple silicon running macOS 27, and the download is 4.2 MB. Names come out best with Apple Intelligence turned on, which needs a Mac with Apple Intelligence support, and without it Nameshot builds names from the text in each screenshot.
For learning, Nameshot keeps up to six plain words from the main text of each image. Nameshot filters secrets out of those words, but it says the filter is not a guarantee, so you can review what it kept in the app.
Deleting Nameshot does not delete its data. The container folder at ~/Library/Containers/com.growpixel.nameshot stays on your Mac until you remove it yourself.
