Shottr – screenshot app for pixel professionals
Extracto
Shottr is a free macOS screenshot app with scrolling screenshots, OCR, annotation and measurement instruments.
Contenido
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 distributed for free.
Small and Fast
Shottr is a tiny (1.6mb dmg, 3.6mb unpacked) native app optimized for M1. It takes only 17ms to grab a screenshot, and ~165ms to show it to you.
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. Text mode hides text without corrupting anything else.
Text recognition (OCR) & QR
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. OCR feature also reads QR codes.
Pin Screenshots
Pin images as floating always-on top borderless windows. Convenient for keeping references, or as a temporary screenshots storage.
Markup screenshots
Add text annotations to your screenshots, draw lines, arrows, and simple shapes.
Overlay Images
Paste images on top of your screenshots. Make overlays semi-transparent to highlight the differences, or generate two-frame before/after animations.
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.
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 I build next?
Thank you for taking time to answer our question! I 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
Font Recognition
Upload image to FTP/SFTP
Upload image to iCloud
Free form drawings (pen)
Screenshots organizer
Screenshot name template
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is it free?
Shottr is a hobby project, and I don't feel ready to take a burden of a commercial project maintenance for the money that it can realistically bring. If you still want to pay and support the app, buy me a coffee. No pressure though, I'm cool with people using a free app for free : )
Can Shottr upload the image online?
Shottr has the upload feature, it's experimental at this point, but works quite well. Here are more details on how to enable it.
I'm having problems with the scrolling capture
Make sure you don't press any keys or mouse buttons while Shottr scrolls the content. If you're using an app that changes the way your scroll works (like MOS, Scroll Reverser, Smooze, etc), it may interfer with Shottr. And finally, Scrolling Capture doesn't work with Visual Studio Code and Columns view in Finder (both emulate scroll in a non-native way, the result is choppy.)
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.)
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 me 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 25, 2023
v1.6.2
Auto-update functionality, new in-app shortcuts, scroll-to resize pinned windows, and more.
See full changelog
October 22, 2022
v1.6.1
Pinned thumbnail, hotkey for "Capture Any Window", auto-padding button, improved work with the third-party clipboard managers.
See full changelog
September 4, 2022
v1.6.0
Pin screenshots, image overlays, new confirmations.
See full changelog
July 17, 2022
v1.5.4
Text-only blur/erase, step counter tool, opt+drag duplication and uploaded files management.
See full changelog
February 10, 2022
v1.5.3
Preview thumbnail for Area Capture, a setting to auto-save or auto-copy the screenshot.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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