Shottr is a small, fast, human-sized screenshot app built for those who care about pixels. It was crafted with Swift, optimized for M1, and is completely free at the moment.
Scrolling Screenshots on Mac
Take a screenshot of a long web page or capture conversation in a chat. Shottr is probably the only free Scrolling Screenshot app for Mac.
Pixelate or remove objects
Hide parts of your screen behind pixelated curtain, or remove sensitive information as if it was never there.
Markup screenshots
Add text annotations to your screenshots, draw lines, arrows, and simple shapes.
Use it as a Screen Ruler
Press ↑ or ↓ key and move your mouse to measure vertical size, ← or → for horizontal size. Click to imprint the measurement on the screenshot.
Unclutter your desktop
Select a dedicated folder to save screenshots on ⌘ s. Great for purchase receipts, reminders, archive items, random images, etc.
Zoom in on your pixels
Think of Shottr as your digital magnifying glass. If you need to have a closer look at something, take a screenshot and zoom in.
Text recognition (OCR)
Came by a text that won’t select? Press a hotkey and select an area — Shottr will parse the text and copy it to the clipboard.
Proven performance
Shottr is a tiny (1.2mb) native app optimized for M1. It takes only 17ms to grab a screenshot, and ~165ms to show it to you. You can take a screenshot, press Cmd+S and save it before the default macOS preview box would even show up.
Color picker
Take a screenshot, zoom in, move your mouse over the pixel and press the TAB key to copy color under the cursor.
What feature should we do next?
Thank you for taking time to answer our question! We carefully consider every suggestion. Follow Shottr_cc on Twitter to be the first to know when your suggestion is implemented.
Text bubbles with multiple pointy arrows
Text highlighter tool
Pin Screenshots
Font Recognition
Small preview after the screenshot is taken
Overlay images
Upload image to Dropbox
Upload image to S3 bucket
Upload image to Google Cloud
Free form drawings (pen)
Screenshots organizer
Hide desktop icons
Suggest your feature
Get Shottr Updates
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Tips and Tricks
Quick zoom on the selection
Press cmd + 2 to quickly zoom on the selected region.
Other helpful shortcuts:
Q – Zoom on the top left corner of the selection.
W – Zoom on the bottom right corner of the selection.
cmd + 1 – Zoom to fit.
cmd + 0 – Zoom to 100%.
cmd + + / – – Zoom in / out.
Crop the image
Just select the area you would like to crop and hit Enter. It's that simple!
Quickly select monotone objects
If you want to select a monotone object, to check its size or to crop it, hold ⌘ and click on it.
Smart selection mode
Press A after you selected an area to auto-adjust selection. Hold ⌥ while selecting to see the instant preview of what the selection will adjust to.
Copy text color
Move your mouse over a line of text and press Shift + TAB. No need to be precise, the darkest pixel of the 20×20px area will be copied.
Copy average color
Select an area and press C to copy average color of the area.
Measuring objects on retina display
All sizes on Retina screens are measured in logical (non-retina) pixels. If you want to see sizes in physical (retina) pixels, click on the dimension box at the top right corner.
How to enlarge the screenshot
- Make a screenshot.
- Zoom in.
- Make a screenshot of the zoomed area.
- Crop.
Quick zoom in
Press Z and click on the screenshot – Shottr will zoom in on that spot.
Pan with the mouse
Drag with the right mouse button to move the screenshot around.
You can also press Space and use the left button.
Manipulate selection with the keyboard
Arrows – Nudge selection (1px)
Shift + Arrows – Nudge (10px)
Cmd + Arrows – Resize (1px)
Cmd + Shift + Arrows – Resize (10px)
[, ] – Enlarge selection by 1px on each side.
Shift + [, ] – Enlarge by 10px.
Measure distance between objects
Move your mouse in between two objects on a screenshot and press an arrow key – left or right for horizontal distance, up or down for vertical.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does it take a screenshot of an empty desktop?
Shottr will ask you to grant permission for screen recording when you take the first screenshot. If it didn't, go to System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Screen Recording, and check the checkbox next to the Shottr app (you may have to unlock a little lock icon at the bottom left first).
I granted permissions, my screenshots are still empty
MacOS grants permission to a single copy of the app, and if you happen to have multiple copies of the app on the disk, or ran it from different places, permission may be granted to a wrong copy. Try to remove the permission, restart the app, and grant the permission again.
Is there a version for Windows?
At this moment Shottr is available for Mac only.
Which macOS versions are supported?
Shottr runs on macOS Catalina (10.15) and up. If you need to run it on macOS Mojave (10.14), download this version (an older build with limited capabilities.)
How to submit a feature request?
Use this quick form. Contact information is optional.
When and why does Shottr contact Shottr.cc?
After launch Shottr contacts https://shottr.cc/api/version.json to check for an update. It won't download a new version, but will notify you with a red icon in the toolbar. It also sends home telemetry to help us find bugs, measure performance and gauge popularity of certain features. Telemetry does not contain any personal or identifiable information. It's not used for advertising or retargeting purposes, and is never sold to the third parties. There's an option to turn off telemetry collection in the app Preferences. Earlier versions of Shottr included Google Analytics code, but it was removed in v1.5.1.
Release Notes
February 10, 2022
v1.5.3
Preview thumbnail for Area Capture, a setting to auto-save or auto-copy the screenshot.
See full changelog- A setting to automatically Copy and/or Save the image after screenshot.
- A setting to show Preview instead of the Editor after the Area Capture.
- Quick zoom by Z+Drag (press Z and drag your mouse around the area that you want to zoom in).
- Ability to open files and load clipboard images from the main menu (Shottr icon → More → Open File.)
- Hold CMD while drawing an arrow to reverse its deirection
- When part of the image is selected, Cmd+C now copies the selection only, and doesn’t close the window.
- Drag’n’drop now applies the same settings as regular save (PNG/Jpeg, 1x downscale).
- Default Folder selection dialogue allows to create New Folder.
- More robust checking for Screen Recording permissions.
- Bug fix: Scrolling Capture now works fine when the Hot Corners are enabled.
- Bug fix: Cmd+C used to rely on the Esc button settings.
January 9, 2022
v1.5.2
Colors and styles for drawings, narrow and curved arrows, guides, convenience settings, QR reader, open PNG and Jpeg, Repeat Area screenshot, Delayed screenshot.
See full changelog- Ability to change object styling (color, thickness, line style, pixelation level, etc)
- Setting to change behavior of the Escape button when nothing is selected (options to Copy image and/or Save image)
- Setting to open Shottr window bigger by default. When selected, the app starts at 80% zoom for the fullscreen screenshot, and area screenshots will open at 100% zoom more often
- Setting to turn on/off telemetry collection. Please consider leaving this checkbox on, at least for a while, so that I can verify the app runs smoothly and no exceptions are thrown across variety of devices and OS versions
- Ability to open a PNG or Jpeg file in Shottr via the “Open With” context menu. The app needs to be copied to the Application folder for that feature to work. If you save the opened file, it will override the original file
- You can also open the image file through the “File” → “Open File” menu item
- QR Reader: Text Recognition now detects and decodes QR codes
- Guides: hold Opt+S or Opt+D to show a vertical or horizontal guide, click to imprint it on the image
- Cmd+C / Cmd+V now works for the annotation objects
- Chinese language is supported in Text Recognition. You need to select Chinese as your primary language in the Preferences (Advanced tab)
- Added Repeat Area Screenshot – it will retake screenshot of the previously selected area
- Added Delayed Screenshot (3s delay)
- Arrow tool improvements. Longer arrows are now slimmer, more styles are available, including curved arrows and super-slim arrows.
- Hold space while drawing an object to move it around.
- If you start taking an area capture and hit Esc in the process, the window won’t pop up.
- Pixelation algo produces a more uniform pattern, works a tad faster too.
- Pixelation on small areas scrambles pixels for better protection.
- Improved Ruler rendering on non-retina displays (crisper look).
- Window screenshot with Wallpaper or Solid background now have proportionate top and bottom paddings.
- Addressed an issue when the cursor is occasionally imprinted in the scrolling screenshot.
- Cosmetic improvements to the object handling knobs and helper popovers.
- Added new color format: HEX without the sharp (#) character.
- Improved stability when doing Cmd+Click raster selection on area screenshots.
- Window Screenshot better process edge case scenarios and allows you to select window is Shottr can’t identify which window is currently active.
October 6, 2021
v1.5.1
Added an ability to Drag'n'Drop screenshot file to the other applications and a setting to downscale retina screenshots.
September 21, 2021
v1.5.0
Scrolling screenshots, objects removal, preferences, and more.
See full changelog- Scrolling Capture (up and down)
- Area capture
- Active window capture
- Instant text recognition
- Objects Removal (selection + Delete)
- Hotkeys customization
- Window Capture modes: keep shadow on a transparent background, trim window shadow, keep shadow on a solid background, keep shadow over a wallpaper
- Color format setting (click on the current pixel color box in the toolbar)
- Auto format selection setting for Cmd+S: Shottr will save images with lots of text as PNG and choose JPEG if the screenshot is graphic-heavy
- A setting to keep the main window always on top
- Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z for Undo/Redo
- Menu "Edit" → "Reset Crop" undoes cropping
- Hitting Tab while editing text label will add color under the cursor to the label’s text
- The main window is now resizable and supports fullscreen
- Ability to drag’n’drop file on the main window canvas to open an image
- If you’re using multiple spaces, the main window will now open in the active space
- Trackpad and Magic Mouse zoom is smoother
- Cmd+Q now shows a dialog asking if the app should close or quit, the selection is remembered
- Shottr remembers OS permissions to access the selected screenshots folder and doesn’t ask for permissions after each restart
July 24, 2021
v1.4.8
Shottr was rebuilt from scratch, it's a much smaller and faster app now. Added annotation capabilities.
December 19, 2020
v1.3
Improved performance of the fullscreen screenshot. Added Cmd+Shift+2 shortcut to grab a part of the screen. Added New Version notification. Improved Ruler — press Shift to get an outer size of the element, click while measuring to imprint the measurement onto the screenshot.
December 6, 2020
v1.2
Shottr is now signed and notarized by Apple. Added quick measure tool (arrow keys).
November 28, 2020
v1.0
Bug fixes (autosave crop issue, toolbar visual glitch); Show icon in the dock when shottr is active.
September 5, 2020
v0.1
The private beta release
from Hacker News https://shottr.cc
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