Apple Silicon native

Your Mac
screenshots,
set free.

A lightweight capture app that lives in your menu bar. Region, full-screen, window, and timer — plus the new video capture. One-click re-shoot of your last region and burst capture, too. Shoot, then annotate with text, arrows, and shapes right in the viewer, and save or copy. With InkClip, capture–annotate–keep happens in one breath.

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macOS 12 or later · Apple Silicon (arm64) · version 0.5.7

Annotating a capture with arrows and text in the InkClip viewer

Lives in your menu bar

Native-resolution captureRetina pixel-perfect output

Signed & notarizedDistributed with Developer ID

Lightweight & residentStays out of your Dock

Dialog-free savingInstant save by naming rule

Capture, exactly how you want

Just the features you need, with a Mac-native feel.

Region snapshot

A dimmed overlay and crosshair cursor let you select a pixel-perfect region. Full multi-display support.

Timer snapshot

Shoots after a 3 / 5 / 10-second countdown — never miss a menu, hover, or other state that vanishes.

Video capture NEW

Record the selected region as video. Press Esc to stop and a dedicated preview opens, where you can scrub the timeline and layer text, shapes, arrows, pen/marker, and mosaic with time-based timing. Hide a shape at another point and it disappears there; cut the unwanted head and tail with time trimming. Undo/Redo supported.

Capture info panel NEW

Click Info in the viewer to reveal a side panel with everything about the shot: date taken, which monitor (main/sub), the exact start & end coordinates, image size, DPI, and color model. For video captures it also shows the length and save format.

Last region & burst

Re-shoot a region with one click via “Last region.” “Burst” auto-shoots a set count (2–10) at an interval (1–5s), with the remaining count and next-shot progress shown right in the menu bar.

Full-screen & window

Capture the whole display under the cursor, or click a specific window. Switch capture modes quickly from the menu bar.

Dedicated viewer

Native-size preview right after capture. 50–400% zoom, pan, and modern overlay scrollbars let you inspect every corner.

Text extraction (OCR)

Automatically detect text in the image and pull it out as data. Select and copy recognized text directly, so you can reuse text from images with no retyping. Powered by the built-in macOS Vision engine for high accuracy.

Japanese & English NEW

Switch the entire interface between Japanese and English from Settings — the menu bar, the viewer, and the editing toolbar all follow instantly, with no restart.

Save directly, no dialog

One-click save with a prefix + app name + date naming rule. Capture-time stamping and sequence / overwrite conflict handling are automatic.

Copy to clipboard

When you just want to paste, copy in one click — your annotations come along, baked into the clipboard image.

Fine-grained settings

Theme (system / light / dark), launch at login, shutter sound, save folder, and naming rules — all tuned in a macOS System Settings–style screen.

Adding red freehand annotations and text to a capture in the InkClip viewer

Annotate & markup

Mark it up,
right where you shot it.

Mark up directly on the image with text, shapes, arrows, pen, callouts, mosaic, and cropping, with fine control over font, outline, shadow, and rotation. Saving and copying bake the edits in, matching exactly what you see. The same tools work for video captures, layering annotations at chosen playback times.

Text: 10 fonts / weight, size, color, outline, tilt
Shapes: circle, square, star, diamond, double-arrow, and more + rotation
Arrow: a solid shape with adjustable thickness and spread
Pen: freehand / line type, width, color, outline, and a marker (wide-horizontal, thin-vertical chisel)
Callout: drag to draw a speech bubble with text
Mosaic: blur areas to protect private information
Crop: trim around the image / time-cut the head & tail for video
Video: time-based annotations, trimming, and Undo / Redo

Know your capture

Every detail,
one click away.

Press Info in the viewer and a panel slides in beside the image with the full story of your shot — without ever leaving InkClip. Great for bug reports, design specs, and documentation, where the exact pixels and where they came from actually matter.

Date taken — the moment of capture, to the second
Monitor — which display it came from (main / sub)
Coordinates — exact start & end points of the region
Image size — output dimensions in real pixels
DPI & color model — effective resolution and pixel format
Video — also shows the length and save format

The tools aren't the star

We rebuilt the toolbar into a Mac-native, unified design.

InkClip

A rounded-segment toolbar that blends into the window's title bar.

Fill Line Edge Shadow

The floating edit bar drags from the grip on its left. The active tool is highlighted.

Unified toolbar integrated into the title bar
Rounded-segment UI for better legibility
The edit bar drags by its grip
Active tool / object is highlighted

Up and running in 3 steps

From install to your first shot in minutes.

Download & install

Open the .dmg and drag InkClip to your Applications folder. It's signed and notarized, so it launches right away.

Allow screen recording

You'll be asked for permission on your first capture. Allow it in System Settings and restart the app.

Capture from the menu bar

Pick “Region” from the menu-bar icon and drag to shoot. Choose “Record region video” to record (Esc to stop), “Capture last region” to re-shoot the same spot, or “Burst” for automatic sequential shots.

Your Macscreenshots,set free.