Shotcake blog
Notes on building a native macOS screenshot app — design decisions, privacy trade-offs and release news.
Screenshots are a privacy problem
Your screenshots folder is one of the most sensitive things on your computer. A look at what a capture tool can see, and what Shotcake does and does not send anywhere.
Why annotations should stay editable
Most markup tools burn arrows into the pixels the moment you save. That one decision quietly costs you an afternoon every time a UI changes.
Introducing Shotcake
Why we built another screenshot app for macOS, what it does differently, and what it deliberately does not do.