Grab any area, pixel-perfect
A magnifier follows the cursor and the live size readout tells you exactly what you are capturing. Window and full-screen modes highlight what is about to be grabbed.
Native for macOSScreenshots,
Screenshots,
piece of cake.
Hit one shortcut, drag a box, and you are already annotating. Arrows, numbered steps, blur for the parts nobody should see — then copy, save, or share a link.
Coming soon to the Mac App StoreSee what it does
One-time purchase · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel
- No subscription
- No account
- Nothing leaves your Mac
What you get
Built for the screenshots you take twenty times a day.
Instant capture
Area, window, full screen, all displays, or a freeform shape. Fixed-size and repeat-last-area modes for screenshots that have to match. Timed capture catches menus and hover states.
Annotate anything
Arrows, shapes, pen, highlighter, text and step numbers. Crop, rotate and flip. All non-destructive and fully undoable, so a wrong arrow is never a redo of the whole shot.
Redact before you send
Blur, pixelate and solid redaction, plus a spotlight that dims everything except the one detail you want people to look at.
Backgrounds that look designed
Gradient or solid backdrops with adjustable padding, rounded corners, drop shadows and watermarks with position, size and opacity control.
Copy text out of an image
Text recognition runs on-device through Apple's Vision framework. Select a region, get the text on your clipboard — no upload, no service.
Share a link in one click
Upload anonymously and get a short link you can paste anywhere. Links expire and are deleted after 7 days. No account, no sign-up.
A whole workflow, not just a capture key
Everything below happens in Shotcake — no round trip through a design app, no browser upload dialog.
Annotate in seconds
Arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, freehand pen, highlighter, text and numbered step counters. Every object stays editable — nothing is burned into the pixels.
Hide anything sensitive
Blur, pixelate or cover with a solid block. Drag the region over an email address, an API key or a customer name before the screenshot ever leaves the window.
Make it presentable
Add padding and a gradient backdrop, round the corners, drop a shadow behind it, stamp a watermark. A raw screenshot becomes something you can put in a doc or a post.
Pick any color on screen
The built-in color picker magnifies the pixels under the cursor and copies the HEX value. Useful far beyond screenshots.
Pin it. Measure it.
Pin a screenshot on top of every window as a reference while you rebuild something, and pull up the on-screen ruler to check spacing in points or pixels.
Every capture, searchable
The capture library keeps your history in a grid you can search. Open any past shot and the annotations are still there, still editable.
Three steps, about ten seconds
The whole point is that you never leave what you were doing.
Press the shortcut
⌘⇧2 for an area, or bind any capture mode to whatever your fingers already know. Every shortcut is rebindable and conflicts are flagged for you.
Mark it up
The editor opens on the shot straight away. Point at the thing, number the steps, blur what should not be public.
Send it
Copy to the clipboard, drag the floating preview into any app, save as PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF or PDF, or get a share link.
Your screen stays your business
Shotcake has no analytics, no advertising SDKs and no user accounts. There is nothing to log in to, so there is nothing about you to collect.
- Captures, edits and exports are processed entirely on your Mac.
- Text recognition runs on-device with Apple's Vision framework — images are never uploaded for OCR.
- Share links are the one exception, and they are anonymous, opt-in and deleted after 7 days.
Questions people ask first
The short answers. There are more on the FAQ page.
Which Macs can run Shotcake?
Any Mac on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Shotcake uses ScreenCaptureKit, the modern capture API Apple introduced in macOS 14, which is why older systems are not supported.
Is Shotcake a subscription?
No. Shotcake is a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store. There are no in-app purchases, no subscription tiers, no ads and no account to create.
How is this different from the screenshot tool already in macOS?
The built-in tool (⌘⇧5) captures and saves. Shotcake picks up where that stops: a full annotation editor with arrows, shapes, text and numbered steps, blur and pixelate redaction, background and padding presets, on-device text recognition, a searchable capture library, a pinned-on-top reference window, an on-screen ruler and a color picker.
Shotcake says it has no Screen Recording permission, but I already turned it on
macOS only applies that permission when the app restarts. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording, turn on Shotcake, then quit Shotcake and open it again. The permission does nothing until you do.
Where do my screenshots get saved?
Settings → Export → Save to decides the folder. If it is set to “Ask every time”, Shotcake shows a save panel on every capture. Everything you capture also lands in the capture library, which lives inside Shotcake's own container and keeps your annotations editable.
Take a better screenshot in the next ten seconds
One shortcut, one drag, and the annotation editor is already open.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store
One-time purchase · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel