Privacy

Updated October 12, 2026

Nameshot gives your screenshots real names. It does all of that on your Mac. This page is the whole story.

The short version

Nameshot does not collect anything about you. It has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no crash-reporting service of its own. Nameshot itself makes no network connections, and it never sends your screenshots, their contents or their names anywhere. Nothing is sold or shared, because we never have it.

Two things go through macOS, as they would for any app. Its App Store service checks your Nameshot purchases with Apple; nothing about your screenshots is part of that. And if a folder Nameshot renames files in is in iCloud Drive, such as a Desktop kept in iCloud, macOS syncs the renamed files there, new names included, like any rename you make yourself.

What Nameshot looks at, on your Mac

To suggest a name for a screenshot, Nameshot reads:

• The screenshot itself, using Apple's on-device model that comes with Apple Intelligence, and Apple's on-device text recognition to read any text in it.
• Which app the screenshot was taken of, or which app was in front when you took it. macOS tells apps the names and positions of open windows without their titles, and Nameshot uses only that.
• The screenshot's file details, such as when it was created and whether macOS marked it as a screenshot.

This happens on your Mac and nowhere else. Apple's on-device model does not send what it reads to Apple. Nameshot only reads files in folders you choose, or files you drag onto it or open with it, and macOS enforces that limit.

What Nameshot keeps, on your Mac

• Your screenshots' new names. Nameshot renames files in place. It never copies, uploads or keeps your images.
• The original name of each renamed file, stored as a small hidden label on the file itself, so you can always undo. Undoing a rename keeps the label, so Nameshot never renames that file again by itself; undoing a whole batch puts each file back with the label it had before, or none if it had none. Screenshots Nameshot leaves as they are, for example while it's paused or when it only suggests a name, get a small label too, for the same reason. Finder doesn't show these labels, and they're harmless.
• A short history of recent renames (names, dates, the folder, the app the screenshot showed and the one in front, how it was taken, and the number your Mac uses to tell that file from others on its disk), so the menu can list them and undo them. Batches renamed together are remembered for 30 days so you can undo them all.
• What it learns from your renames, described below.
• Your purchases, as Apple reported them, such as whether you have Pro or the free trial, when you got it and whether it was refunded, so Pro works the moment Nameshot starts.
• The free version's allowance: when you used this week's free names, and whether you've used the free Tidy Up.
• Your settings, which one-time messages you've seen, and the bookmarks macOS gave Nameshot for the folders you chose, so it can open them again.

Apart from the names and labels on your files themselves, all of this lives in Nameshot's own storage on your Mac, the folder ~/Library/Containers/com.growpixel.nameshot. macOS keeps that folder when you delete an app, so if you delete Nameshot, delete that folder too to remove what it kept (Finder may list it as Nameshot). Like the rest of your home folder, it's in your Time Machine backups if you use Time Machine.

What Nameshot learns from your renames

When you give a file Nameshot named a name of your own (in Nameshot, in a batch, or by renaming it in Finder), Nameshot remembers how you named it, so the next ones sound more like yours. That goes for any image it names, not only screenshots, including ones you drop on it. In a batch, it learns from screenshots, and from other images only when the batch names them for What it is, not for How it looks. For each rename it keeps:

• the name Nameshot gave it and the name you gave it;
• the app it was taken of and the app that was in front, the kind of screenshot (a window, a region or the whole screen), the kind of thing it showed (a receipt, a chat, code…), where you renamed it (in Nameshot, in a batch or in Finder) and the date;
• up to six words from the image's most prominent text, so it can tell which of your renames a new screenshot is like.

It never keeps the image itself or its full text. To pick those few words, Nameshot reads the image's text again, on your Mac. It is built to keep plain words only, and to leave out numbers, email addresses, links, file paths, anything with code symbols in it, strings that look like a key or a code, and any line that reads like a street address.

If the text shows a label for a secret, such as Password, PIN, API key, Recovery phrase, Verification code, Passport, Driver's license, Social Security number, IBAN or Card number (and "password" in over twenty other languages), or a passport's machine-readable lines, Nameshot learns nothing at all from that rename, not even the two names. The same goes when either name mentions one. And if it can't read the image's text (it can't open the image, or the text doesn't come within a few seconds), it learns nothing from that rename, because it can't tell whether the image shows a secret.

This is a careful filter, not a guarantee. It recognizes secrets by their labels and how they look, so a secret shown without a label it knows could still be kept: a password that looks like an ordinary word could be one of the six words, and both names are kept, numbers included, so a name such as "Apple Account code 123456" would be kept whole. You can see every word and name it kept, and forget the rename they came from, as described below.

Nameshot also counts the names you type when renaming, such as a project's or a client's, so it can spell them your way when a screenshot shows them.

It keeps at most the latest 200 renames, in Nameshot's own storage on your Mac, and never sends them anywhere. To stop it, turn off Learn from my renames in Settings ▸ What Nameshot has learned; nothing new is kept from then on. To see it, choose Show… there: it lists every rename it has learned from, with the words it kept from each, and the names you use. You can forget any of them, or choose Forget Everything.

Purchases

If you buy Nameshot Pro or start its free trial, Apple handles it. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account. When Nameshot starts, and when you buy or restore a purchase, it asks macOS's App Store service for its prices and for what you've bought, and that service checks with Apple, as it does for every app with in-app purchases. Nothing about your screenshots is part of that. Nameshot keeps what Apple reports on your Mac, as described above.

TestFlight

If you test Nameshot through Apple's TestFlight, Apple may share with us the feedback, screenshots and crash reports you choose to send, along with the details Apple's TestFlight terms describe, such as your device model and system version. We use them only to fix and improve Nameshot. Apple's own privacy policy covers TestFlight.

This website

This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts. Like any website, its host keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested, for a short time to keep the site running and secure.

Writing to us

If you email us, we see what you send, including your email address, and use it only to reply. Delete requests are welcome at any time.

Children

Nameshot asks for no personal information, so there is nothing for a child to give it.

Changes

If Nameshot ever needs to send anything off your Mac, for example an optional feature that uses Apple's servers for better names, it will be off until you turn it on, it will say so plainly in the app, and this page will be updated first.

Who we are

Nameshot is made by Shapes & Stories LLC. Questions about privacy: privacy@growpixel.com.