Preppit

Preppit for Mac

Frame anything on your screen with one shortcut. Mark it up, say what you mean, hand it off to your AI.

Download for Mac
Free·Early access·macOS 12 or later·For Apple silicon. Intel Mac?

One shortcut

Press ⌃ ⇧ Space over a slide, a design, a spreadsheet or a web page, and draw a frame round the part that matters.

A shelf for screenshots

Drag a screenshot from the corner of your screen and a shelf appears. Drop it there and it goes straight onto the canvas.

It knows where it came from

Each capture remembers the app it came from, so your AI knows it is looking at your Keynote and not a photo of one.

Up and running once your place opens

  1. Download and open itDrag Preppit into Applications and open it.
  2. Sign inWith your Preppit account. Preppit is invite-only for now, so ask for a place first if you haven't been invited; the app is ready to sign in the day your place opens.
  3. Press ⌃ ⇧ SpaceFrame something, mark it up and serve it. The app connects itself to your AI, so there's no link to paste.

Good to know

Opening it the first timemacOS will ask you to confirm

Preppit is early and isn't notarised by Apple yet, so the first time you open it macOS stops and asks you to confirm. You only do this once.

  1. Open Preppit. When macOS refuses, click Done.
  2. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom. Next to “Preppit” was blocked, click Open Anyway.
  3. Open Preppit again and confirm with your password or Touch ID.

On macOS Sonoma or earlier, right-click the app in Applications and choose Open instead. Or, on any version, run this in Terminal:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Preppit.app
What it asks permission forScreen Recording, Microphone
Screen Recording
To capture what's inside the frame you draw. macOS asks once, then wants the app reopened. Every new build asks again while the app is unsigned, because macOS treats each build as a new app.
Microphone
Only for voice notes, and only while you're recording one.
Apple Events
To read the name and window title of the app in front, so a capture knows where it came from, and to switch back to it when you paste.
Removing it completely

Drag Preppit from Applications to the Trash, then clear what it left behind. Otherwise a reinstall picks up your old sign-in, because the app also reads settings saved under its earlier names:

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Preppit \
       ~/Library/Application\ Support/Visual\ Prompt \
       ~/Library/Application\ Support/Inkling \
       ~/Library/Logs/Preppit \
       ~/Library/Preferences/ai.preppit.desktop.plist \
       ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/ai.preppit.desktop.savedState

Your account and your Preppits are stored on our server and aren't affected. If you just want a fresh start, use Settings → This Mac → Start again in the app.

Which Mac do I have?

Go to the Apple menu → About This Mac. If it says Apple M1 or later, you have Apple silicon and the main button is the right one. If it says Intel, use the Intel build. Anything else, write to us.