Yetda

• One shot, right now — tap ⌘ twice, select a region, and Yetda pastes it straight into the terminal or agent app you used last. No files to manage.
• Secrets stay yours — API keys, tokens and passwords in the shot are blacked out on your Mac before the image goes anywhere: on-device OCR, plus Apple's on-device LLM on Macs with Apple Intelligence. No cloud, no network.
• Several shots — every capture is also saved to ~/Yetda/; pick an earlier one with ⌘⇧1, or (Claude Code) feed them all at once with /shots.

Works with

Yetda puts the image on the clipboard and presses the paste key in the last terminal or agent desktop app you used, so it works with any agent that accepts a pasted image:

Agent	Paste key on macOS	Status
Claude Code	Ctrl+V (⌘V in iTerm2)	tested
Codex CLI	Ctrl+V	should work
Gemini CLI	Ctrl+V	should work
opencode	Ctrl+V	should work
Cursor CLI	⌘V	set your terminal to ⌘V under Paste Into
Claude desktop app	⌘V	tested
Codex / ChatGPT desktop app	⌘V	should work

Tried one of these? A PR to update this table is welcome.

The menu bar icon shows how many captures are waiting, and old ones are cleaned up automatically — so the folder never fills up.

Install

macOS 13 or later.

brew install --cask woonmayer/tap/yetda

Or download Yetda.dmg, open it and drag Yetda to Applications. Releases are signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. (Maintainers: see docs/releasing.md.)

Build from source

Needs a Swift toolchain (Xcode or Command Line Tools).

./scripts/build-app.sh        # produces Yetda.app (code-signed if an identity exists)
rm -rf /Applications/Yetda.app && mv Yetda.app /Applications/
open /Applications/Yetda.app

Move (don't copy) the bundle so only one Yetda.app exists — a second copy can leave macOS showing a permission as granted while the running app still gets the prompt. If that happens, reset with tccutil reset ScreenCapture io.github.woonmayer.yetda (or Accessibility), relaunch, and grant again.

build-app.sh signs with the first available code-signing identity (so macOS permissions persist across rebuilds); it falls back to ad-hoc signing if none is found. To pin a specific identity: YETDA_SIGN_ID="Developer ID Application: …" ./scripts/build-app.sh.

During development you can also run it straight from source: swift run Yetda.

Upgrading from ClipShot (the old name): delete /Applications/ClipShot.app, install Yetda as above, and grant Screen Recording and Accessibility again — macOS ties permissions to the bundle ID. Your settings and ~/ClipShot/ captures move over automatically on first launch.

First run: Screen Recording permission

macOS asks for Screen Recording permission the first time you capture (required by screencapture). Grant it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording, then relaunch the app. If captures come out blank, the permission isn't granted yet.

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