Archie Gives the MacBook Notch a Practical Job Holding Your Screenshots

MacBook owners have spent years treating the black camera cutout at the top of their screens as little more than dead space. A small new utility called Archie finally assigns that empty area a clear purpose by turning it into a temporary shelf for screenshots. Independent designer Artiom Piatrykin built the native macOS app so captured images stay within easy reach instead of scattering across the desktop or vanishing into a crowded folder. Once installed, Archie watches the usual screenshot location and pulls new captures into the notch area automatically, ready for quick use without any change to the standard keyboard shortcuts everyone already knows.

Screenshots land on the shelf and sit there, waiting to be actioned. Users may drag them directly into documents, chats, or even other apps, eliminating the need to navigate via Finder each time. There’s also a simple tiny editor right there for anything you want to do with the image, such as cropping, adding arrows, slapping a text label on, or numbering steps in order, which would ordinarily bring you to Preview. Archie will quickly conceal any sensitive details when you click on a name or email address. Text extraction is done fully on the Mac, using Apple’s VisionKit, so you can just copy the words directly from an image without sending the file anywhere else.

Archie is quite useful in terms of organization. Your screenshots are saved in a dedicated folder, keeping your desktop tidy, organized by date so you can quickly find one from last week, and you may pin the ones you want to keep handy. If you choose, there’s also an auto-clean option that will delete previous captures after a while, unless you’ve pinned them. Another small file tray resides in the top area, and you can drag and drop any document or image into it anytime you need it. When it comes to settings, you have numerous options, like multiple displays and a virtual notch on Macs without a physical one, so the shelf appears on your external panels as well.

The pricing is straightforward: a single $9.99 payment includes a copy for two Macs, as well as all future updates, without the need for a monthly or annual membership. You can even try it out for three days on any Mac without using a credit card. On Ventura and later, Archie will mostly keep out of the way until you take a new screenshot or click or hover over the notch area. For folks who shoot a lot of photos and like to have them near at hand, rather than hunting around in folders, Archie transforms an unused section of screen into a quiet little holding place.