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Shotback

AI reply drafts from any screenshot on your Mac

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Shotback is a Mac menu bar app that drafts replies from whatever is on your screen. Press a shortcut, drag over any conversation (chat, email, comments), and get a reply in the same language. No account, no plugins, nothing stored. First 5 replies free.

PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: ai writing assistants · 186 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Artificial Intelligence

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a Mac menu bar app that captures a screen region and sends the image to a multimodal LLM for reply drafts, which is a standard macOS plus API build.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 208 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #136 of 209 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.

  • SmartReply · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Replr · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • AI Reply · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • AI Reply Assistant · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • ReplyME: AI Dating Replies · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • TalkOS · ph · 2026-11-04 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Shotbolt · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • ScreenshotX for Mac · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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