v1.1.2 · Free, private, and will stay that way

Everything you copied,wrote and captured.Found by meaning.

Notes, clipboard and screenshots in one local index. Nothing leaves your Mac.

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Capture · note

Type. Press ⏎. Done.

No folder to pick, no title to invent, no file to name. The thought goes to the top of the stream and stays findable forever.

Capture · clipboard

Everything you copy lands here.

Gisti watches the clipboard so nothing has to be saved twice. Text, images and files – with the app they came from.

Capture · screenshot

⇧⌘X grabs the screen. Vision reads it.

Every capture is OCR'd on device, so a screenshot is as searchable as a note. Watch – this paragraph is about to become one.

Understand · AI

⌘Y distills anything, in place.

A model on your own Mac, or any endpoint you point it at. The summary appears under the item and can be saved as a note of its own.

Seen in motion

The parts a screenshot cannot show.

⇧⌘X grabs a region. Vision reads it, so the capture is searchable text. Read more →
The extension saves any page as a Markdown note, without a copy-paste. Read more →
⌘Y distills any item in place – a model on your own Mac, or your own endpoint. Read more →

Search that gets it

Type the idea.
Gisti finds it.

Every note, clip and screenshot is embedded on your own Mac. The dots behind this text are those records – watch them regroup around the query.

  • 100% on-device – Apple's MLX runs the model on your own GPU. No API key, no cloud embeddings, nothing sent anywhere.
  • Screenshots rank like notes – Vision reads them once, on capture.
  • Hybrid ranking – exact, typo-tolerant and semantic hits fused into one list.
How semantic search works →

And the rest of it

One window, six ways to use it.

Replacing something in particular? Clipboard manager for MacScreenshot OCR on Mac

Everything stays on your Mac.

Local SwiftData database. API keys in Keychain. Zero telemetry. AI is optional, and can run entirely on your machine. Copies marked Concealed or Transient – what password managers put on the pasteboard – are skipped before they are read.

Read privacy policy →

Keyboard first

Two keys to remember.

Everything else happens inside the window that these two open.

All hotkeys →

Price

Free. And it stays free.

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on the Mac App Store

  • Every feature. Nothing is locked or watermarked, and there is no paid tier.
  • No account, no subscription, no trial to run out.
  • No telemetry, and nothing about you to collect.
  • Your own AI key in the Keychain – or a model on your own machine.
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So what is the catch?

There isn't one, and the reason is dull. Gisti is written by one person for that person's own use. There is no investor to pay back, no data worth selling and nothing to advertise – so there is no later version of this where the price goes up.

The library is a plain database on your disk, and it stays readable whatever happens to the app or to me.

Ready when you are

Everything you copied, wrote and captured – in one place.

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Version 1.1.2 · macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · No account, no telemetry

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Type to search every page of the manual.