chalk quietly cleans up each screenshot the moment you take it — a tidy, private name and no stray metadata, free. Unlock smart, content-aware names when you want them. Set it once and forget it.
chalk watches your screenshot folder and tidies each new file in the background — renamed to your pattern and stripped of residual metadata, with an undo net. All free, no drag-drop or batch runs.
Build a pattern from a prefix, date, and auto counter. Set it in one line and every screenshot follows suit — tidy and predictable.
Everything happens on your Mac. chalk has no login, no cloud, and makes no network calls — there's nothing to opt out of.
The one-time unlock makes names smart: chalk reads the screenshot with on-device OCR — or names it by the app that made it — and files each shot into the right folder. No cloud, no account.
The default screenshot name quietly leaks context: the exact date and minute you took it, sometimes the app you were in. chalk replaces it with a neutral name of your choosing, so a file you paste into a ticket, a thread, or a story says only what you want it to.
Read the full privacy policy →Removes the residual metadata that editing, cropping, and annotation tools embed — software identifiers, edit timestamps, and color-profile tags — leaving just the pixels.
Raw macOS screenshots don't contain GPS or location data — there's nothing there to remove, so we won't pretend to protect it. chalk cleans what's actually in the file.
The plan when chalk ships: the clean-up is free forever — every screenshot renamed and metadata-stripped. Pay once to make the names smart. Privacy is free; convenience is what you pay for.
chalk is in development. Leave your email and I'll send one note when it lands on the Mac App Store — nothing else, ever.