ScreenFeel vs Highlight AI

Both are desktop apps that can see your screen. Highlight is an assistant built to watch it; ScreenFeel photographs only what you ask it to, and keeps the result in a library you own.

Highlight AI: A desktop application that can see your screen and answer questions about it. Paid from $20 a month — the paid tier is credit-metered (about 2,000 credits). Free tier: Unlimited use on base models. Researched in August 2026.

	ScreenFeel	Highlight AI
Can it see your screen?	Yes — a region of any display, any window on your desktop, or the whole screen, in any application.	Yes, across the whole desktop as a native application.
Where do captures live?	On your device, in the app's own local database. There is no server-side gallery to breach, because none was built.	Cloud-resident.
What does the AI provider keep?	Nothing. Lenses run on open-weight models under zero data retention, and a build check fails if a configured model is not marked private.	Standard commercial AI terms; not a zero-retention guarantee.
Annotate and redact before sharing?	Eleven-tool editor. Redaction is flattened into the exported pixels, not a removable overlay.	No annotation or redaction editor.
Searchable history of what you captured?	Yes — full-text search across titles, tags and text read out of the images, all local.	No local, searchable capture library of the ScreenFeel kind.
Tools for live screen sharing?	Cursor glow, spotlight boxes and arrows drawn locally over any app, plus a warning when an open window's title looks like it would expose something.	None.
What you install	A Windows app from the Microsoft Store that touches the screen only when you press capture — no remote code, no third-party scripts, the whole bundle auditable.	A native desktop assistant designed to watch your screen as you work.
Price	€9.99/mo, or a free tier that runs every lens.	$20/mo as researched in August 2026.

When Highlight AI is the better choice

If you want an assistant that continuously watches and remembers your whole desktop session — rather than a capture tool you invoke — Highlight is built for exactly that, and its free tier on base models is genuinely generous.

Try it without deciding

Capture, editing, redaction, the library and the presenter tools work with no account at all, and the free plan runs every lens. Nothing here needs a card.

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