How Capture Works
Three steps from shutter to organized.
Choose Your Intent
Tap what you're capturing: Receipt, Calories, Contact, or any of the 10 intents. This tells the app how to process and file it.
Take the Photo
Capture directly to iCloud Drive. It never touches your Camera Roll. On-device AI kicks in instantly.
Instant Processing
Text is extracted, barcodes decoded, content classified. If Auto-AI is on, generative analysis runs too. Photo auto-files to the right folder.
The Capture Screen
Choose your capture intent. Each button tells the app what you're photographing.
10 Capture Intents
Each intent determines what gets extracted, what AI analyzes, and which folder receives the photo. Audio is a mode toggle, not an intent — record any of these as audio with the Record toggle.
Task → Tasks folder
Capture something you need to act on. A whiteboard, a note, a to-do list.
Translate → Translate folder
Snap signs, menus, labels, or documents in any language. Foreign text is translated with narrative context — not just words, but meaning.
Receipt → Receipt folder
Capture receipts and invoices. Get structured data ready to file or expense.
Calories → Calories folder
Snap your meal for instant nutrition estimation. No manual food database entry.
What is it? → Identify folder
Snap anything you can't identify. Plants, vehicles, electronics, antiques, art.
Explain → Explain folder
Decode test results, reports, and jargon. Get plain-language explanations.
Slide → Slides folder
Capture conference slides and whiteboards. Review key points later. Camera remembers your zoom level for consistent framing.
IDs & Docs → Essentials folder
Capture IDs, warranties, manuals, insurance cards — anything you need to look up later.
Contact → Contacts folder
Snap a business card. Extract contact info and share directly to Contacts.
Evidence → Evidence folder
Document damage, incidents, or conditions for insurance claims and legal disputes.
Record: Audio As A Mode
Audio is no longer a separate tile. Pick any intent, then toggle Record to capture it as audio instead of a photo.
🎤 Record an intent
A Record toggle sits next to Auto-AI and Batch. Flip it on, choose your intent, and the next capture is an audio recording — not a photo. Recordings are transcribed on-device with WhisperKit. Nothing leaves your phone for transcription.
Recordings file to the Audio folder regardless of the chosen intent, but the original intent stays attached. Summarize a day of recordings the same way you summarize a day of slides.
Why this changed: capturing a meeting as a Task or a class as a Slide is more useful than treating audio as its own bucket. The intent describes the situation; the mode describes how you captured it.
Mode Toggles
Three toggles on the Capture screen customize your workflow.
Auto-AI
Automatically runs generative AI analysis after capture. Configured per intent — Calories, What is it?, Explain, Translate, and Contact default to ON. Each intent remembers your preference independently. Uses one credit per analysis.
Batch Mode
Keeps you in the camera after each capture for rapid-fire shooting. Great for snapping 10 slides in a row, or multiple receipts. Analyze them all later from the Folders tab.
Record
Turns the next capture into an audio recording instead of a photo. Works with any intent. Transcribed on-device with WhisperKit — no internet, no AI credits required for transcription itself.
Built-In Editing
Crop Tool
Crop starts at full photo size so you can immediately drag to the area you want. No need to undo a default square crop first.
Zoom Memory
The camera remembers your zoom level per capture intent. Set it once for the projector distance and every Slide photo uses the same framing.
Home Screen Widget
Skip the app launcher. Add an Unmuck widget to your home screen and tap straight into capture.
📱 One tap to capture
Each widget is configured for one intent and one mode. Pick "Receipt · Photo" for the wallet, "Slide · Audio" for conferences, "Calories · Photo" for meals. Tap the widget — the camera opens with the intent already selected.
Set up multiple widgets, one per workflow. Stack them or put them in a Smart Stack — your most-used capture path is always one tap away from the home screen.
Audio mode launches into recording immediately. Useful when something interesting is being said and you don't want to lose seconds finding the right tile.
Where Do Photos Go?
Auto-Filing by Intent
Each intent has a default folder. You can always move photos between folders later. Learn about Folders →
Ready to Capture with Purpose?
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Photo intelligence. Always on. Always private. Always yours.