Capture, annotate and pin, without leaving your Mac
Shotcraft captures an area, a window or the full screen, then lets you annotate, blur, measure, read text and pin the result on screen. No account, no upload, no telemetry.
What Shotcraft does
Every kind of capture
An area, any window, the active window, the last area again, the full screen, every display at once, or on a delay.
Scrolling capture
Pick an area and Shotcraft scrolls it for you, then stitches what it saw into one tall image. Press Esc to finish.
Annotate
Arrows, text, shapes, freehand, highlighter, numbered counters, a magnifier, spotlight and a gradient backdrop.
Blur and erase
Four modes. Blur Text and Erase Text find text with the macOS Vision framework and cover only that.
Text and QR recognition
Select an area and the recognized text, QR code or barcode goes straight to the clipboard.
Pin to screen
A pinned capture floats above other windows. Drag it anywhere, scale it, keep several at once.
How it works
Capture
From a global hotkey, the menu bar icon, or a shotcraft:// link once you allow links.
Choose what happens next
Open the editor, show a preview thumbnail or do nothing, and copy or save each capture automatically if you like.
Edit and share
Annotate, blur, crop or measure, then copy it, save it as PNG or JPEG, or pin it to the screen.
Private by design
Everything stays on your Mac: no account, no upload, no telemetry.
- No networking code of its own; the only network access is the update check in release builds, which the app asks about first
- Captures use the system screencapture tool, and text recognition runs through the macOS Vision framework
- Lives in the menu bar only: no Dock icon, and nothing opens at launch
- Written in Rust and released under the MIT License
Questions
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