ShotSolve

ShotSolve is a free macOS menu bar app that lets a user take a screenshot and then ask an AI model about it. It sends the captured image to OpenAI's GPT 4o vision model and returns an answer in a chat window, so a question about anything visible on screen can be answered without copying text out by hand. It is made by the developer of BoltAI, a full featured ChatGPT client for Mac, and uses the same engine. The vendor suggests uses such as generating and previewing code from a design, critiquing a design, giving feedback on software interfaces, evaluating marketing material, contextual help inside software and generating programming tutorials. The default shortcut for capturing a screenshot is Command Shift 1. The app is a native Mac application for Intel and Apple Silicon running macOS 12 or later, with a chat interface that supports editing, deleting and regenerating messages, light and dark modes, custom fonts and code block themes. Advanced settings include a custom API host, a context limit, a custom system instruction and parameters such as temperature and penalties. The user supplies their own OpenAI API key, which is stored in the Apple Keychain. The vendor states that prompts go directly to OpenAI and that the app does not store or analyze what the user types. ShotSolve is free to download and needs no account. Usage costs are billed by OpenAI against the user's own key. It also serves as a demo of the larger BoltAI app.