A drawer at the right edge of your screen, always there, showing everything you save. No folders to dig through.
THE ROLL
Everything you save shows up as a picture. Scroll until you spot it, the same way you find a photo on your phone. You never filed a photo, and you find them fine: Kepter does the same for everything else you save.
WHAT IT DOES
Every word of every page: Word files, spreadsheets, slides, saved emails, saved web pages. A word on page 12 is as findable as a word on page 1.
Zips, installers, and disk images are shown, never opened. A zip is findable by the names of what's inside.
Kepter read it, so it can line up bills by amount, letters by who sent them, papers by the dates printed on them.
iCloud took the bytes, the drive is unplugged, the file is gone: your words still find it, and Kepter says where the original truly is.
Kepter reads the dates inside your documents. One click sets a reminder that brings you back to the exact thing.
Kepter watched your save land, so it cannot miss it. A fact, not a search.
Want Kepter to act exactly like Finder, deleting included? Flip one switch. Kepter never takes an ability away.
Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud: add them and everything shows up together. One search looks through all of it.
These are real tiles from the roll. You know the boarding pass on sight. So look at it.
FIND
It remembers what every file says, even words spoken in a video or voice memo. Type what you remember and the thing comes up. "The power bill." "That $420 estimate." The filename never mattered.
Kepter reads what's inside everything you save, so your own words are enough.
A small panel sits at the edge of your screen. Open it while you work and drag things straight into an email or a doc. A global shortcut (Option-Space) jumps straight to search from any app.
Click a file for the real preview, every page of a PDF, the full image, plus every action next to it: Share, Copy, Reveal in Finder, Rename, add to a Stack, move to Private, move to Trash.
ALWAYS CATCHING UP
Screenshot, download, export: it appears at the top the moment it lands, wherever your Mac put it. You never go looking for where a file went. Save anything into the folders Kepter watches. It notices, reads it, and remembers what's in it. Your files never move. You do nothing.
No duplicate mess. Kepter recognizes what it already has. Copies collapse into one tile, and you decide what stays. Nothing is ever deleted on its own.
Voice memos and videos: spoken words become searchable, right on your Mac. Find a recording by what was said in it.
Hours you'll spend organizing, ever again.
THE FAIR COMPARISON
Keep it. It launches apps, does sums, and finds a thing when you can name the thing. The reading is the part it wasn't built to do.
Spotlight still searches your mail, your contacts and the web. Kepter does not, and is not a replacement.
A scanned page is a picture of words. A screenshot has the address inside. A voice memo is something you said out loud. Kepter reads all three, on your Mac, every time. Not occasionally: the whole product is built on it.
THE PRIVACY
No account to make, no tracking. Kepter reads your files right where they sit, and they never leave your Mac.
What Kepter remembers about your files lives in an encrypted index on your Mac, and nowhere else.
Kepter reads your files right where they sit and remembers them there. Nothing is copied. Nothing is uploaded.
They never left your folders in the first place. Walk away any day and everything is exactly where it always was.
Deleting in Kepter moves the real file to the macOS Trash, recoverable, like it should be.
There's no sign-in. You install it, pick the folders to watch, and it starts.
The reading runs on Apple's own text recognition and on-device models, right on your machine.
You haven't organized a photo since 2012, and you find them fine. Kepter does the same for everything else you save. It watches, it reads, it remembers. You never lift a finger.
PRICING
One plan. Everything included. The two options only differ in how you pay, and because you were here while Kepter is new, your price is kept for life.
You keep the founding price forever. Everyone who comes later pays $4.99.
Pay once and never think about it again. Later this becomes $59.
30 days free first, no card. Join while Kepter is new and your price never goes up.
Kepter needs macOS 26 or newer and an Apple Silicon Mac, meaning M1 or later. It will not open on anything else. To check yours, open the Apple menu and choose About This Mac: a line that says Chip is Apple Silicon, a line that says Processor is Intel.
Because the reading is the product, and the reading runs on Apple's on-device models, which arrived in macOS 26 and require Apple Silicon. An older Mac could show you the grid, but not the part Kepter is for, and selling you the shell of the app would be dishonest. So the requirement is enforced rather than softened.
No. There is no sign-in and no account. You install it, pick the folders to watch, and it starts. There's nothing an account would hold, because nothing of yours is anywhere but your Mac.
The short version: your files never leave your Mac, and Kepter never keeps a copy of one.
The long version: Kepter reads each file where it sits, using Apple's own text recognition and Apple's on-device models, on your machine. There is no upload and no cloud read. For each file it stores three things: a memory record (the extracted text, the plain words you would search by, dates, amounts), a thumbnail, and the path back to the original. The records are kept in an encrypted index on your Mac. Your files are never moved, never copied, and never sent anywhere. The receipts page says how we verified it.
Three things per file: the memory record, a thumbnail, and the path back to the original. They live in one folder on your Mac, inside your user Library. The index of records is encrypted; the thumbnails are a plain local cache so scrolling stays fast. Your originals are not in there. They stay exactly where you put them. The full inventory is here.
A scanned page is a picture of words, with no text inside for search to find. Kepter runs Apple's text recognition over the picture, on your Mac, and puts what it reads into the memory record. From then on the scan is findable by the words printed on it, even though the file itself still contains no text.
Kepter transcribes it, on your Mac, and the spoken words go into the record. You find the memo by what was said in it. The same goes for what was said in a video.
No. You type what you remember, in your own words, and Kepter shows you the saved things that match, as themselves: the real receipt, the real scan, the real memo, each one a click from the original on your disk. It does not converse, does not summarize your life, and does not generate anything. The answer is always the thing itself, with the path to prove it.
Archives, disk images and installers (.zip, .dmg, .pkg) are listed but never opened; Kepter shows they exist and reveals them in Finder, so nothing in a watched folder is quietly hidden from you. Code projects collapse to a single item, so a repo shows as one thing instead of ten thousand source files. Folders you've marked .noindex are left alone, the same convention Spotlight honors.
Save the same thing twice and you see it once, with a count. Things are grouped only when they are genuinely the same: byte for byte, or pages that render identically. Near-identical images show up as related instead, because guessing would be worse than asking. Nothing is ever auto-deleted, and when you do delete, it goes to the macOS Trash, recoverable, like the Finder.
A place you can move things that shouldn't show up when someone is looking over your shoulder. Only you put things there; Kepter never decides for you that something looks sensitive.
Your things were never in Kepter, so they can't go down with it. Every file stays in its folder, opened by the same apps, whether or not Kepter exists. The copy of the app on your Mac has no server it needs to phone; it keeps running as long as macOS runs it.
Straight from kepter.app. The download is signed and notarized by Apple, and it updates itself, with your permission, from then on.
Quit Kepter from the menu bar and drag the app to the Trash. If you want the memory gone too, delete the Kepter folder from Application Support in your user Library; that removes the records and thumbnails. Your files are untouched by any of this, because Kepter never moved, copied or held them.
30 days free, no card. Then $2.99 a month or $39 once. macOS 26 on Apple Silicon; the download page checks your Mac first. Kepter is a product of Maltby Ventures LLC. Every claim on this site is checked against the shipping code: read the receipts.
