Search the text in images
Screenshots and ad creatives are found by what they say. The text is read on your Mac, never uploaded.
New in 0.3 Search the text in your images
Save anything in two keystrokes. Find it again in one.
Stash is a tiny menu bar app for your references. It grabs the tab you're on — down to the second of the video — or the screenshot you just copied, and keeps it as plain Markdown on your Mac.
⌥⇧S to capture · ⌥⇧L to find
The film
Stash in 43 seconds.
Sound on for the full effect. The film is in English.
Bookmarks you never open. Screenshots piling up on the desktop. Notes to yourself in a chat.
Stash replaces all of it with two keystrokes.
Keyboard first
Take shortcuts. Keep everything.
Every action has a key, and every key shows up when you need it.
esc1234567890delete
tabQW
Fast. Shortcut to saved in under a second.
UIOP\
capsASDFG
Instant search. Every keystroke.
Lreturn ↵
⇧ shiftZXC
Local. Plain files, on your Mac.
Mshift ⇧
fncontrol⌥option⌘command
Free. Open source, MIT licensed.
⌘command⌥option
⌥⇧SCapture
⌥⇧LLibrary
↵Save · Open
⌘↵Open at the timestamp
⌘KActions
⌘GGrid
Shelf
Shake to hold anything.
Dragging something with nowhere to put it yet? Shake the mouse. A shelf appears under the cursor. Drop it there, go wherever you need, and drag it back out.
- Anything you drag. Files and folders, images from a web page, text, links.
- Like finishing the drag. Drop it in Finder and it moves, as if you never paused. Hold ⌥ to copy.
- Nothing duplicated. Files stay where they are; the shelf only points at them.
- No setup. No permissions to grant. Or just drop things on the menu bar icon.
New in 0.3
It reads, it remembers,
It reads, it remembers,
it speaks your language.
Already saved? It merges
The same link, the same moment of a video, the same image: ↵ adds your new note and tags to it instead of making a twin.
In your language
English, Português, Español and Français. Stash follows your Mac, and so does this page.
Features
Everything you save,
Everything you save,
one shortcut away.
SafariChromeArcBraveEdge
It already knows what you're looking at
Press the shortcut on any tab and it's in the card — title, site, ready to save. Copied an image instead? That wins.
The exact second
Saving a YouTube video keeps the moment you were at. Open it later and it plays from 4:32.
Anything, really
Links, quotes, screenshots, ad creatives, PDFs. Paste or drop it; Stash works out what it is.
#tags as you type
Add a note with inline tags. The ones you use most come up first; ⇥ completes.
A moodboard, too
⌘G turns your library into a grid for browsing when you need inspiration, not a search.
On every Mac
Keep the library in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Syncthing. No Stash server involved.
Find it in one
Search titles, notes, tags, sites and the text inside saved PDFs and images — on every keystroke. Filter with #tag and type:image.
Your data is plain files
If Stash disappears tomorrow, your library doesn't.
- Every reference is a Markdown file with a small header.
- Opens in Obsidian or any text editor — edits show up instantly.
- Images and files sit next to them, named by ID.
- The search index is just a cache, rebuilt from the files any time.
--- id: 01JA8K3Q7Z2M4X5C6V7B8N9P0Q type: link url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=272s title: How I Write Hooks That Stop the Scroll site: youtube.com timestamp: 272 tags: [hooks, thumbnails] thumbnail: assets/01JA8K3Q7Z2M4X5C6V7B8N9P0Q.jpg created: 2026-10-14T10:20:00-03:00 --- great hook in the first 3s
Privacy
No account. No server.
No account. No server.
No tracking.
Stays on your Mac
Your references never leave your computer, and the text in your images is read right there. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting — ever.
One kind of request
The only network use: the title, thumbnail and icon of a link you save, from that site. One toggle turns it off.
Never touches secrets
The clipboard is read only when you capture, and anything your password manager marks private is skipped.
This website doesn't track you either. No cookies, no analytics.
Open source
Free. Open source. Yours to change.
MIT licensed, built with Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit. Read the code, open an issue, or build it yourself.
S4MU3LDemolidor / stash
Save anything in two keystrokes. Find it again in one.
$ git clone https://github.com/S4MU3LDemolidor/stash.git $ cd stash $ scripts/run.sh
Start stashing.
Free and open source, for everyone.
or with Homebrew
brew install --cask s4mu3ldemolidor/tap/stash-references