MacScreenShot
Capture, annotate, beautify and record your Mac screen — free, open source, 100% on-device.
Press ⌘ ⇧ 4, click a window or drag an area, mark it up, drop it on a gradient and paste it anywhere.
Record a take and a Screen Studio-style editor turns it into a polished 60 fps MP4. No account, no subscription, nothing leaves your Mac.
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👋 What is MacScreenShot?
MacScreenShot is a native macOS menu-bar app for screenshots and screen recordings. It captures with ScreenCaptureKit and hands you a real editor — nine annotation tools, crop, rotate, background beautify, on-device OCR — while every edit lives in a sidecar file, so you can reopen a shot months later and still move that arrow.
Recordings get the same treatment. MacScreenShot logs your pointer and clicks next to the video instead of burning them in, and a Screen Studio-style editor turns the raw take into a polished clip — a camera that zooms where you click, a smooth synthetic cursor, backdrops, motion blur — that you can re-export any way you like, as often as you like.
It's the free, private alternative to paid capture tools like CleanShot X, Shottr and Screen Studio: pure SwiftUI, zero third-party dependencies, no telemetry, no account, and exactly one system permission.
[!NOTE]
MacScreenShot was previously called WinterShot. Same app, same repository — updating keeps your captures, your settings and the Screen Recording permission.
✨ Features
🧊 Frozen-screen selector
The screen freezes the moment you press the hotkey. Crosshair guides follow the cursor and windows lift out of a dimmed backdrop — one click captures a window cleanly, even half-covered.
✏️ Nine annotation tools
Arrow, rectangle, ellipse, line, freehand, text, numbered counters, highlighter and redaction — with colors, adjustable stroke, undo/redo and drag-to-move.
♻️ Non-destructive by design
Annotations, crop, rotation and backdrop live in a .wshot.json sidecar next to the PNG. Every arrow stays editable, every crop and quarter turn reversible. Pixels are flattened only on export.
🎬 Recording + studio editor
Record a display, a window or an area. Zoom, cursor, backdrop and masks are applied at export, so the raw take is never touched — and your edit is saved next to it.
🎨 Background beautify
Put a shot on a gradient with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow — seven presets, live in the editor, ready for posts and docs.
🔍 On-device OCR
Pull the text out of any capture with Apple Vision and copy it. Nothing is uploaded.
📌 Pin & copy
Float a capture above every window while you work. Or turn on Copy to clipboard automatically and every new shot is ready to paste the moment you take it.
🗂 A live library
Screenshots and recordings sit side by side in the main window and the notch panel. The library follows its folder — files added or removed in Finder show up on their own — and Delete All in the sidebar clears it in one go, after a confirmation.
🔒 One permission, zero telemetry
Screen Recording — and that's it. No microphone, no accessibility, no analytics. One global hotkey, re-recordable, and optional Open at login.
📸 The capture flow
Press the hotkey and the screen freezes. Hover a window to lift it out of the dimmed backdrop and click to capture it whole, or drag anywhere to take an area — a live size readout tracks the selection while you drag.
Every shot lands as a card
Each capture slides in as a thumbnail card at the edge of the screen. New captures stack upward.
- ✏️ Annotate — or just click the card to open the editor
- 📋 Copy — paste straight into Slack, an issue or a doc
- 📌 Pin — float it above every window
- 🗑 Delete — gone, sidecar and all
Card size and how long it stays on screen are yours to set in Settings → Capture Preview.
🎨 The editor
Nine tools, a live canvas and a library sidebar. Nothing is baked into the image — the arrows, the counters, the crop, the rotation and the backdrop are all still yours the next time you open the file.
Post-ready in one click
Flip on a backdrop and the same capture sits on a gradient with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow.
- Crop & rotate — non-destructive, quarter turns with ⌘ [ / ⌘ ]
- Recognize text — OCR the shot and copy what it says
- Copy, pin or export — a flattened copy; the original never changes
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