Mark up a sample, or drop in your own screenshot. It never leaves your browser.
One line in Terminal is the quickest. Prefer to click? Download the app and follow four short steps.
On your phone right now?
Send the link to your Mac and install it there.
Paste it into Terminal and press Return. It downloads the latest release, checks its checksum, puts Screenmac in Applications and opens it, with no security popup.
curl -fsSL https://screenmac.vercel.app/install.sh | bashVersion 0.2.0 for macOS 14 or later. One build runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel.
Built from source by GitHub Actions on every release. SHA-256 checksum.
Open Screenmac.zip from Downloads and drag Screenmac into Applications.
It isn't notarized yet, so macOS asks first. On macOS 15, open it once, then choose System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. On macOS 14, right-click it and choose Open.
Turn Screenmac on in Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording, then choose Quit & Reopen.
Press⌥⇧⌘4and drag. Screenmac lives in your menu bar.
After an update, macOS may ask for Screen Recording again because builds aren't notarized yet. If captures stop working, choose Fix Screen Recording Permission… from the menu bar icon.
The screen freezes so nothing moves while you drag. A loupe and live size readout keep it pixel-exact. Press Space to grab a window instead.
A small preview appears in the corner. Open it to add arrows, labels, and steps, or blur what shouldn't be seen.
Copy the flattened image and paste it into a ticket, a chat, or a doc. Or drag the preview straight in.
Every capability on this page carries its real status. The editor tools work above, right now. Capture and recording live in the native Mac app.
One shortcut, then drag. Screenmac picks the right display and keeps Retina detail.
Area capture
Crosshair selection you can nudge and resize before you confirm.
Window capture
Hover to highlight a window, click to capture it alone.
Full screen
The display under your pointer, at native resolution.
Global shortcuts
Configurable, and checked against the shortcuts macOS already uses.
Screen recording
Display, area, or window to MP4, with microphone if you allow it.
Scrolling capture
Long pages stitched into one image, for apps we've tested.
Fourteen tools that look good by default, so a screenshot explains itself.
Arrows, lines, and shapes
Tapered arrows, rectangles, ellipses, solid blocks. Shift snaps.
Text labels
Plain text or a filled label that stays readable on any background.
Numbered steps
Click, click, click. Steps number themselves in order.
Highlighter and pencil
Smoothed strokes that don't look like a trackpad accident.
Crop
Free or fixed aspect ratio, with the pixel size shown as you drag.
Backgrounds
Padding, rounded corners, and a soft shadow for slides and posts.
Hide tokens, emails, and card numbers before anything leaves your screen.
Solid redaction
Pixels are replaced in the export. Nothing underneath survives.
Blur and pixelate
Computed from the image and flattened into the file you save.
Local by default
No account. Captures and history stay in your Mac's Application Support folder.
Copy text from images
On-device text recognition with Apple's Vision framework.
Get the result where it's going without hunting through Desktop files.
Quick Access preview
A small floating preview: annotate, copy, save, drag, or dismiss.
Copy and export PNG
Straight to the clipboard, or a file named like a Mac screenshot.
Capture history
Search past captures, reveal them in Finder, or reopen them in the editor.
Share links
Upload and share with a link. Not built, and won't be shown as working until it is.
Screenshots are full of things you didn't mean to share. Screenmac is built so that keeping them private is the default, not a setting.
macOS screenshots are good at capturing. Screenmac starts where they stop: explaining, hiding, and finding things again. The Screenmac column describes the Mac app in development.
| Capability | macOS Screenshot | Screenmac |
|---|---|---|
| Area, window, and full-screen capture | ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4, ⇧⌘5 | Frozen screen, loupe, pixel readout |
| Screen recording with microphone | From the ⇧⌘5 toolbar | Pause, resume, and audio status |
| Preview after capture | Floating thumbnail | Copy, save, drag, or annotate from it |
| Arrows, shapes, and text | Markup, after opening the file | Fourteen tools, styled by default |
| Numbered steps | Not available | Auto-numbering counters |
| Blur and pixelate | Not available | Flattened into the export |
| Redaction | Draw a filled shape by hand | Pixels replaced in the export |
| Backgrounds and padding | Not available | Presets with shadow and corners |
| Searchable history | Files land on the Desktop | Local, with missing-file handling |
Everything in the beta is free. Pro is shown so the roadmap is visible. It has no price and can't be bought.
Free
for everyone in the Mac beta
The full local workflow on your Mac. No account, no watermark, no time limit during the beta.
Later
price not set
For people who want sharing and more polish. Listed so you can see where Screenmac is going.
Not on sale. Nothing in Pro is built yet.
Something else? hello@screenmac.app
Paste one line into Terminal and press your first shortcut a minute from now.
curl -fsSL https://screenmac.vercel.app/install.sh | bash