Capture, polish, and ship beautiful screenshots in under a minute — without leaving your Mac. Free, local, no account required.
You ship screenshots that look like bug reports.
Raw captures. Harsh white edges. A stray desktop icon in the corner. You paste them into Slack, docs, or a tweet — and they undersell the work.
Fixing them means opening Figma, aligning shadows, fighting with gradients. Ten minutes later, you've lost your train of thought.
Press ⌘⇧2. Drag. Done.
BetterShot captures the region and opens the editor instantly. Pick a background, nudge the shadow, drop an arrow where it matters, and hit ⌘S.
The polished version is on your clipboard before you'd even have Figma open.
Mesh gradients, wallpapers, solid colors, transparency — or drop in your own image.
Arrows, circles, numbered callouts, text labels. Auto-incrementing badges for walkthroughs.
Tune corner radius, blur, noise, and padding from 0 (edge-to-edge) to 200px.
Save, copy, undo, redo, close. Shortcuts work even when BetterShot is hidden.
Drag in a PNG, JPG, or existing screenshot and polish it the same way.
No account. No uploads. No telemetry. Screenshots never leave your Mac.
From anywhere — even with BetterShot hidden in the menu bar.
The editor opens the moment you release. No extra clicks.
Background, shadow, padding, arrows, numbered callouts, text.
Save to disk, or drop it straight onto your clipboard.
No uploads. No account. No telemetry. Your screenshots — and whatever sensitive thing happens to be in them — never leave the device.
Signed with an Apple Developer ID and free. Not yet notarized, so on first launch right-click the app → Open to get past Gatekeeper. Pick the build that matches your Mac — macOS 10.15 or later.
Yes. BSD-3 licensed, fully open source, no paid tier. Star the repo on GitHub if it saves you time — that's all we ask.
Yes. Separate builds ship for Apple Silicon (M1 through M5) and Intel. Both are on the Releases page.
Never. BetterShot runs entirely on your Mac. No network calls, no account, no cloud sync, no telemetry.
macOS 10.15 or later only, for now. A cross-platform version isn't on the roadmap — the app leans on macOS-native capture APIs.
Yes. Drag any PNG or JPG into the editor and apply the same backgrounds, shadows, and annotations.
Only Screen Recording, which macOS requires for any screenshot tool. Grant it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording on first launch.
Free forever. Installs in thirty seconds via Homebrew. Works the moment you press the shortcut.