Kepter help, for Setapp members
Kepter is a Mac menu-bar app that watches the folders you choose and shows you what you've saved, so you recognise your own files on sight, without knowing the name or the folder.
Getting started
When Kepter first opens, it asks which folders to watch. Pick from Desktop, Documents, and Downloads, or add another folder of your own. Anything already inside a watched folder, and anything you save into one afterward, shows up on its own. You never file anything by hand.
A small tab sits on the edge of your screen. Click it and the drawer slides out: everything you've saved, ready to glance at, open, or search. Click the tab again and it slides away.
The main tasks
Double-click any tile to Open it right in Kepter, without leaving the drawer. Right-click a tile to:
- Get Info, to see a file's details without opening it.
- Show in Finder, to jump straight to where the file actually sits.
- Move to Trash, which moves the file to the Trash, the same Trash Finder uses. 1 file goes right away. With 2 or more selected, Kepter asks first, for example “Move 3 items to the Trash?”, and you choose Move to Trash or press Esc to cancel. Changed your mind? Press ⌘Z and it comes straight back.
- Rename, which renames the real file, the same name Finder sees.
Stacks groups files that belong together, so a project or a trip reads as one thing instead of a scattered list. Find searches everything you've saved by what's actually inside it, not just the filename: type the way you'd say it, like "the power bill" or "my flight."
Speech Recognition: what it's for
If you open or play a recording, Kepter asks for Speech Recognition access so it can transcribe it, which is what lets you find it later by what was said in it. It never opens your microphone. Kepter is not listening; it is reading a file you already saved and opened.
Privacy
Your files never leave your Mac. Kepter keeps no copy of your files and never moves them on its own; it moves one to the Trash only when you ask, and only ever to the Trash. Lose the original and Kepter loses it too. Full details: Kepter's privacy policy for the Setapp edition and terms of use for the Setapp edition.
Support
Email support@kepter.app and a person answers. You can also click the K in the menu bar and choose Send Feedback…. It opens an email to us with your Kepter version, build and macOS version. When Mail is your default email reader, it attaches Kepter's activity log, kepter.log. With any other email app, it shows kepter.log in Finder so you can drag it into the email. For each file Kepter read, the log lists the file's name and size, what Kepter was doing to it, how long that took, and how much memory Kepter was using. It also names the folders Kepter watches and any errors it hit. It holds no text from inside your files, and you see the email before you send it.