At 19 · Student
Copy the slide, not a photo of it. Recognise Text turns a lecture into notes you can search.
Free for Mac · No account
The quiet way to capture your Mac.
Screenshots, scrolling pages, recordings and GIFs, with a Library that keeps every one. Everything stays on your Mac.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Notarized by Apple
All Captures
214 items
Search text and names
Today
Wednesday 14 October · 5 captures
One desk, a lifetime
At 26 · First job
Show the bug, don't describe it. An arrow says more than a paragraph.
At 34 · Studio of one
The whole page, in one image. Scrolling Capture stitches it while you scroll.
At 41 · Family
Show your dad how to join the call, once. Eight seconds of GIF beats twenty minutes on the phone.
At 68 · Travel
Keep the boarding pass in sight, and blur what no one else should read.
A lifetime of captures. Still on your Mac, still findable.
Features
Everything you capture, done well.
Capture anything
An area, a window, the full screen or the same area again, with a magnifier for the last pixel. All in One puts every mode in one bar.
Scrolling Capture
Long pages in one image. Watch it stitch as you scroll, or let Auto Scroll do it.
Window shots that look finished
A window keeps its macOS shadow and sits on your wallpaper, with room around it. Hold ⇧ when you click for a clean cut-out.
Freeze the screen
Menus and tooltips hold still while you draw the frame. Desktop icons can step aside for every capture, behind your wallpaper, a picture or a colour.
Saved how you like
PNG, JPEG or HEIC, in sRGB, at 1x or with a 1 px border. The Library always keeps a lossless PNG.
Frames snap to what you aim at
Hold ⌘ while you select: a loose frame tightens to what is inside, and a click takes just the button, card, photo or headline under it. Capture Area with Snapping does it without ⌘.
Recognise text
Copy the words off the screen in reading order, and find the capture by them later.
Annotate and redact
Arrows, rectangles, pen, highlighter, text and numbered steps, then crop. Pixelate or blur that really removes the pixels.
Record video or GIF
Draw the area, then choose Video or GIF. Your voice, the Mac's sound, your camera, clicks and keys are one switch each.
You on camera
A camera bubble sits in your recording. Drag it anywhere, or click it to fill the area.
Draw while you record
Point things out as you talk: pen, marker, arrows, shapes, text, numbered steps, a laser pointer and a spotlight. Click Draw on the recording controls, or press ⌃⌥⌘D. Marks fade unless you keep them.
Hide details as you record
Redact covers a box with Pixelate or Blur, on your screen and in the video. Point at the box for a ✕ that takes it away.
Clicks and keys
Clicks show a ring and shortcuts show as keys, right in the recording.
GIFs of any length
Pick the frame rate and width. Optimise keeps them small and sharp.
Quick Access
Every capture lands in the corner as the capture itself, and stays until you close it. Copy, save, annotate or pin it, drag it into any app, or press Space to preview. Pick the corner and one of five sizes, or let cards close, and save, on their own.
Pin to screen
Keep a capture floating above your work, on every Space. Zoom it, lock it, or fade it while you copy from it.
Capture History
Every screenshot, recording and GIF along the top of the screen, newest first. Point at one and Restore puts it back in the corner, even after you closed it.
Where it came from
Every capture remembers the app and window it was taken from. Find it by the app's name, or see it in the Library as From.
The Library
Every capture and recording, by day. Filter by kind, play recordings in place, and search by recognised text, app, kind or date.
Made for your Mac
Light or dark, with Liquid Glass on macOS 26. It lives in the menu bar and joins the Dock only while a window is open.
And the small things
- Self-Timer Capture, up to 30 seconds, for menus that close when you click.
- Pin to Screen: drag an area and it floats at once.
- Hide desktop icons from the menu, or let them step aside for every capture.
- A magnifier and a thirds grid; Space moves the frame, Shift makes a square.
- Open any image, or paste one with ⇧⌘V, to annotate it.
- Drag a capture into any app.
- Choose what follows a screenshot, and a recording: Quick Access, copy, save, open or pin.
- Select many captures to copy, save or trash them together.
- Recordings play in the Library and in a player with full screen.
- Drag the recording controls anywhere; they always leave room for the drawing tools.
- Every command can have a shortcut, grouped and searchable, and HeySnapMe warns when keys clash.
- Updates itself, and shows What's New once.
- Saves screenshots as PNG, JPEG or HEIC, and recordings as MP4 or GIF, to the Desktop or a folder you choose.
- A setup window that turns on what it needs, with a practice capture.
- A camera shutter for screenshots, and a sound as a recording starts, pauses and stops. One switch turns them off.
- The Trash keeps what you delete, so nothing is lost by accident.
Try it
Try it here.
A small Mac, right in the page. Drag across the window to capture it, or press ⌃⌥⌘5 to record it.
- ⌃⌥⌘4Capture Area
- ⌃⌥⌘5Record Screen
- SpacePreview a card
- EscCancel
Drag across the desktop to capture an area. Control Option Command 4 starts an area capture, and Return then captures the invoice table. Capture Window is in the HeySnapMe menu, at the right of the menu bar. Control Option Command 5 starts Record Screen: drag to frame the recording and adjust it, then press Return for a video or Option Return for a GIF; with no area drawn, Return records the invoice table. A window capture sits on the wallpaper with its shadow; hold Shift as you click for a cut-out. Control Option Command 5 again stops the recording. Escape cancels. Each capture lands in the bottom left corner with Copy, Save, Pin, Annotate, Trash and Close, and each recording with Copy, Save, Play, Trash and Close. Hover or focus a card and press Space to preview it.
Privacy
No account. No cloud. Nothing to sign.
Stays on your Mac
Captures, recordings and the text inside them are saved on this Mac and nowhere else.
Free, without a sign-in
No account, no trial, no subscription.
Notarized by Apple
Signed by Unity Bridge Solutions and checked by Apple before it opens.
Shortcuts
Your hands never leave the keyboard.
- All in One⌃⌥⌘1
- Capture Full Screen⌃⌥⌘3
- Capture Area⌃⌥⌘4
- Record Screen⌃⌥⌘5
- Capture Text⌃⌥⌘6
Change any of them in Settings, or give a shortcut to any of 32 commands, grouped and searchable. HeySnapMe can take ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4 and ⇧⌘5 from macOS, and walks you through it. It warns you when keys clash.
Free, for every Mac on macOS 14 or later.
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