Photon
Menu bar screenshots, markup and screen recordings with a frozen-screen capture mode, written in Rust.GetGPL-3.0
Screenshots
Screenshot and screen recording app for macOS with annotation, scrolling capture and on-device text recognition.
MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- ciro-maciel
- Verified
- 2026
About Screenshots
Screenshots captures an area, a window, the full screen or a long scrolling page, and can copy the text recognized in a region. It also records the screen to MP4 or GIF, and it lets you annotate a capture with arrows, blur, spotlight and crop, pin it above other windows, or drag it into another app. It is a menu bar app for people who want a free, open-source alternative to CleanShot X; the README notes the project is not affiliated with CleanShot X. Its code makes no network connections.
It requires macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon only, and microphone recording needs macOS 15. The release is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning. On first run it asks for Screen & System Audio Recording permission; the welcome window reopens the app once the permission is on, because macOS applies it only to a fresh process.
Information
- Source code
- ciro-maciel/screenshots
- License
- MIT
- Website
- ciromaciel.click
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Utilities
- Alternative to
- CleanShot X
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/ciro-maciel/screenshots
- github.com/ciro-maciel/screenshots/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/ciro-maciel/screenshots/releases
- ciromaciel.click/tools/screenshots
- icon.png: Ciro Cesar Maciel; letter S from Candal by Vernon Adams. SIL OFL 1.1 for the Candal letterform; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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