How it works
Ranked strongest first. Each one is a plain line, and a card explaining why it matters.
Everything you save shows up as a picture. Scroll until you spot it, the same way you find a photo on your phone. People remember what a thing looks like the way they remember a face without the name; Finder lists and Spotlight results demand recall, a roll of pictures runs on recognition.
It remembers what every file says, even words spoken in a video or voice memo. Type what you remember and the thing comes up: scans, screenshots, and the words spoken in audio and video, on your Mac.
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 to search from any app, even while Kepter is closed.
Screenshot, download, export: it appears at the top the moment it lands, wherever your Mac put it, already read and ready. You never go looking for where a file went.
No account to make, no tracking. Kepter reads your files right where they sit, and they never leave your Mac.
Kepter recognizes what it already has, byte for byte or pages that render identically. Copies collapse into one tile, and you decide what stays. Nothing is ever auto-deleted; near-identical images surface as related, not merged.
A git repo or code project shows as one item, not thousands of source files. Dev trees like node_modules never flood the grid. Plain text and code stay searchable but out of the visual glance.
Deleting in Kepter moves the real file to the macOS Trash, recoverable, using the exact recorded path. Kepter forgets its own record only once the file is confirmed gone.
Archives, disk images, and installers (.zip, .dmg, .pkg) are listed read-only, never opened, and revealed in Finder instead, so nothing in a watched folder is quietly hidden from you.
If a file disappears from disk, it drops out of Kepter's feed, counts, and search. If it comes back, it comes back. Kepter never shows you something that isn't really there.
In-app organization that stays optional: humans decide what goes where. Kepter never auto-organizes and never guesses what's sensitive; only you move something to Private.
Kepter mirrors the Mac, and folders and renaming still work exactly as they always did. Stacks and the roll can be ordered by facts Kepter actually read, like the date on a document or who it's from, never by guessing.
Also true
Kepter watches the folders you choose. Downloads is on by default; Desktop, Documents, or any other folder is added with a click.
Visual tiles are the real thing: photos and videos are their own pixels, documents get their real rendered first page. No caption or OCR text is ever stamped on an image.
Photos and screenshots are never reconstructed. Share or export always sends the original file.
The download is signed and notarized by Apple, and it updates itself, with your permission, from then on.
Cloud drives already on your Mac (Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, OneDrive) appear as one-click adds, the same as any other watched folder.
Folders you've marked .noindex are left alone, the same convention Spotlight honors.