macshot

Capture

• Instant capture — global hotkey freezes your screen, select any region
• Window snap — hover over a window and click to capture it exactly; Tab toggles snap, F for full screen
• Scroll capture — auto-detects vertical or horizontal scrolling, stitches with Apple Vision, live preview panel beside the capture region
• Capture delay — 3/5/10/30 second countdown before capture, set via menu bar. Escape to cancel.
• Multi-monitor — captures all screens simultaneously; drag a selection across screens for a stitched image
• Quick save — Cmd+Shift+S to select and save/copy instantly without annotation. Enter key also saves/copies based on preference.
• Quick OCR — Cmd+Shift+T to select and extract text instantly

Annotation Tools

• Arrow — 5 styles: single, thick/banner, double, open, tail; flip direction toggle; right-click to add anchor points for complex curves
• Shapes — rectangle and ellipse with 3 fill modes (stroke, stroke+fill, fill), corner radius slider
• Text — rich formatting (bold/italic/underline/strikethrough), resizable text box, left/center/right alignment, background fill & outline colors, click to re-edit
• Pencil & Marker — freeform drawing with optional smoothing; smart marker mode snaps to text lines via OCR
• Numbered markers — auto-incrementing (1/I/A/a formats), with optional pointer cone
• Stamp / Emoji — 21 quick emojis, 100+ in categorized picker, or load any image
• Censor (Pixelate / Blur / Solid / Erase) — unified redaction tool with 4 modes: pixelate, Gaussian blur, solid color fill, or smart erase that samples surrounding colors for invisible content removal. Auto-redact PII (emails, phones, credit cards, SSNs, API keys), auto-detect faces and people, or draw in "Text Only" mode to censor just the text in a region
• Measure — pixel ruler with px/pt toggle; hold 1 or 2 for auto-measure
• Loupe — 2x magnifier
• Color sampler — eyedropper to pick any color; right-click to copy hex; auto-saves to custom palette slots
• Space to reposition — hold Space while drawing to move the shape without changing its size
• Rotation — rotate shapes via handle, Shift for 90° snaps
• Click-to-select — click any annotation to select it, then edit properties (stroke, style, fill), drag to move, resize via handles, rotate, or delete — all without switching tools

Screen Recording

• MP4 (H.264) up to 120fps or GIF (5/10/15fps)
• System audio capture — toggle on/off, excludes macshot's own sounds
• Microphone recording — record voice narration alongside screen capture (permission requested on first use)
• Mouse click highlights — visual ripple on clicks during recording
• Selection border — visible capture region outline during recording
• Menu bar stop button — stop recording from the menu bar icon (appears even if icon is hidden)
• Quick settings popover — change format, FPS, and post-recording action on the fly without opening Preferences
• Video editor — trim timeline, mute/strip audio, play/pause, save (with Save As), upload, reveal in Finder

Output & Upload

• Formats — PNG, JPEG, HEIC, WebP with quality slider
• Google Drive — sign in once, uploads to a private "macshot" folder
• imgbb — anonymous image hosting with shareable links
• S3-compatible — upload to Cloudflare R2, AWS S3, MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze B2, etc.
• Retina downscale — optional 1x export for smaller files
• sRGB color profile — optional embedding for cross-display consistency

Editor Window

• Standalone resizable window with full annotation tools, beautify preview
• Add Capture — capture additional screen regions and compose them into a single image, drag to reposition
• Crop (with rule-of-thirds grid), flip H/V, zoom 0.1x–8x
• Top bar with pixel dimensions, zoom dropdown (presets, fit canvas, zoom in/out)

Beautify

• macOS window frame with traffic lights, shadow, and gradient background
• 30 gradient styles including 7 mesh gradients (macOS 15+), adjustable padding/corner radius/shadow

Image Effects (Adjust)

• Non-destructive CIFilter adjustments: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness
• 8 presets: Noir, Mono, Sepia, Chrome, Fade, Instant, Vivid
• Works independently or combined with Beautify
• Live preview in the overlay

Other

• OCR — extract text with Apple Vision (auto-detects all languages on macOS 13+), auto-copy to clipboard, translate to 30+ languages, Google AI Search
• Invert colors — one-click color inversion, apply twice to revert
• Background removal — Apple Vision foreground mask (macOS 14+)
• Pin to screen — floating always-on-top window
• Floating thumbnail — auto-dismiss preview with Copy/Save/Pin/Edit/Upload
• Screenshot history with editable annotations — menu bar submenu + drop-down history panel (Cmd+Shift+H). Re-open any capture in the editor with live annotations preserved — edit, then press Done to save back. Drag-and-drop, Quick Look, and right-click actions
• QR & barcode detection — inline Open/Copy actions
• Snap alignment guides — annotations snap to midlines and edges
• Auto-updates via Sparkle
• ~8 MB memory at idle

Global hotkeys (configurable in Preferences)

General (during capture)

Tool shortcuts (active after selecting a region — customizable in Preferences > Shortcuts)