All features

Learn more about all the features CleanShot offers

Annotate

With the built-in editor, you can highlight or hide specific parts of your screenshots, or add necessary annotations. CleanShot provides astonishingly wide range of tools, so you can do whatever you want with your screenshots. The interface is simple, with great, native performance.

Native macOS look and feel
Modern interface with perfect UX
Great performance
Many sharing options
“Drag me” button
Dark and Light mode support
Rotate and flip images
Crop and resize images

Tools

Crop tool

With an option to specify aspect ratio and snapping to edges

Pixelate

With applied randomization for better security

Arrow

4 styles, including curved

Blur

With secure and smooth options

Spotlight

Emphasise what's important

Counter

Provide step marks for tutorials

Pencil

With auto-smoothing feature for more pleasant looking drawings

Highlighter

Highlight a text the way you do it in books, with smart text size detection

Filled rectangle

Rectangle

Line

Ellipse

Text tool

7 predefined styles included:

Build your color palette

Use the color picker to pick colors from your screen and save your favorite colors for later use.

Combine multiple images into one

You can combine multiple screenshots into one without leaving the app. Just drag & drop another screenshot into the Annotate window and position it however you like.

CleanShot file format

Save your annotated screenshots as editable CleanShot project files and don't worry about making the annotations perfect on the first try.

Background tool

Create beautiful social media posts with our Background tool. In just a few clicks, you can add a background to your screenshot, adjust padding, alignment, aspect ratio and your screenshot is ready to be shared! The Auto Balance option will make your screenshot look perfectly aligned by adjusting the space around the content of your screenshot. Save your presets and use them later to create more screenshots with the same style.

20 hand-picked backgrounds included
Add your own background
Create reusable presets
Magical Auto Balance option
Change aspect ratio
Highly customizable

Quick Access Overlay

Right after taking a screenshot or recording a video, you’ll see a small pop-up in the corner of your screen. It’s designed for viewing, annotating, or sharing whatever you’ve just captured. Instantly save, copy or drag & drop the files to other apps. Whatever your workflow looks like, it's going to fit.

Easily copy, save or annotate captures
Display additional file information
Restore recently closed overlay
Adjust position on the screen
Adjust overlay size
Configurable Auto-close behavior
Multi-display support
Control with swipe gestures

Drag & Drop to any app

You can combine multiple screenshots into one without leaving the app. Just drag & drop another screenshot into the Annotate window and position it however you like.

Quick actions

Save your annotated screenshots as editable CleanShot project files and don't worry about making the annotations perfect on the first try.

Temporarily hide overlays

Save your annotated screenshots as editable CleanShot project files and don't worry about making the annotations perfect on the first try.

Screenshots

With CleanShot you can capture your Mac's screen in many ways. You can grab the area, fullscreen, window, or even a scrolling window. Set a timer if you need a few seconds to capture the right moment. The possibilities are endless.

Capture Area
Capture Window
Self-Timer
Capture Fullscreen
Scrolling Capture
integration

Window screenshots

With background

Adjust padding and use desktop background, custom image or plain color

Transparent

Enable/Disable shadow

Scrolling capture

Need to capture something that doesn't fit on your screen? Maybe you want to save a chat history or take a screenshot of a larger chunk of code? With CleanShot it's possible! Works in every app and supports both vertical and horizontal scrolling.

Advanced capture modes

Take screenshots more precisely by showing the crosshair and magnifier. You can also capture moving objects by freezing your screen.

Show crosshair

Show magnifier

Freeze screen

Screen recording

No matter if you want to make a quick recording or the whole video tutorial, CleanShot will work for you. Choose between recording a video or a GIF, whether to capture a specific window, part of the screen, or fullscreen. You can even capture the sound that comes out of your Mac!

Capture window, fullscreen or specify custom area dimensions
Record as MP4 H.264 Video
Record as GIF
Easily control quality, FPS and resolution
Record Microphone
Record Computer Audio
Automatically enable “Do not disturb” mode while recording
Show/Hide cursor
Display recording time in the menu bar
Hide clutter from your desktop when recording

Capture Clicks

Change color
Change size
Change style (Outline/Filled)
Enable/Disable animation

Capture Keystrokes

Change position
Change size
Change style (Dark/Light)
Show all keys or only command keys

Record Camera

Change position
Change size
Change shape
Fullscreen mode

Video editor

Turn raw screen recordings into polished videos with a fast, Mac-native editor built into CleanShot. Add zooms, refine cursor movement, adjust backgrounds, and export in seconds. Perfect for product demos and tutorials.

Smart Zooms
Fully Mac-Native
Fast rendering
Hardware encoding

Add smart zooms

Add smooth zooms that follow your cursor and guide attention to the most important parts of your recording.

Smooth cursor movement

Clean up shaky cursor movement so your recording feels easier to follow.

Adjust cursor appearance

Change cursor size, style, and click effects to make every action clear.

Add background

Place your recording on a polished background with spacing, shadows, and custom styling.

Export for every platform

Export videos in landscape, square, or vertical formats, ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube, and more.

Motion blur

Add natural motion blur and adjust intensity to your liking for smoother, more cinematic-looking movement.

Cloud

You can instantly save your screen captures to CleanShot Cloud — dedicated hosting integrated with the app. Straight from the Quick Access Overlay, upload your screenshots or videos and get a link ready to share. Perfect for you, or your whole team.

Share screenshots and recordings with one click
4K videos supported
Video transcription
Collaborate with comments
File access control
Password protected links
Self destruct control
ISO 27001 certified

Lightning-fast sharing

Upload screenshots and recordings from CleanShot in one click. Copy a clean link instantly and share it anywhere, without breaking your flow.

Custom domain & branding

Share captures from your own domain with custom branding and white-label links that feel consistent, professional, and trustworthy.

Organized and secure

Keep every screenshot and recording in one searchable place. Find captures by transcripts, screenshot content and tags. Add link expiration and password protection when needed.

Team management

Set up SSO, SCIM, and admin controls to manage access securely as your team grows, from small startups to larger organizations.

Floating Screenshots

Keep a reference of anything you need always visible. It will float above all windows.

Pin any screenshot to the screen
Always on top
Adjust size & opacity
Precisely set on screen position with arrow keys
Use Lock Mode to interact with apps underneath the screenshot

Text recognition (OCR)

CleanShot makes it dead easy to capture any non-selectable text (from an image, video, scanned document etc.) so you don't have to retype it manually. Simply select an area that contains the text and it will be copied to your clipboard! It's also privacy friendly, because the text recognition is performed completely on-device. (it doesn't leave your Mac)

Copy text from any image
Read QR codes
30+ languages supported
Fast and private by design

All-In-One Mode

Our All-In-One mode was introduced to give you easy access to all capture modes with a single keyboard shortcut. With this mode, you can specify size and lock aspect ratio for your screenshots. It also saves your last selection, so it's easier to retake your last screenshot.

Capture history

Easily access and restore recent captures if you ever need them again. You can also delete them from the history or filter by specific capture type. CleanShot can store up to 1 month of capture history.