Screenshots and recordings for Mac: change any arrow or note after you save, and find any screenshot by a word in it.
Free forever. Every download starts with 7 days of Pro. Requires macOS 26.
Press it, then choose: drag an area, or pick another kind of capture.
The screen freezes. The magnifier shows each pixel, so you start on the exact one.
Drag an area. Its size shows in points and pixels, and the arrow keys nudge it.
One bar turns it into a picture, text, a long page, a video or a GIF.Each letter is a key. Scroll, Record and GIF are Pro (Shotbolt Pro).
Copied and saved. The card keeps it close to mark up, pin or drag into an app.
Each arrow, note and cover is its own layer, so one moves without the rest.
Point it out. Marks pin down the wrong total, and each one becomes a row in Layers.
Hide a layer. The eye on its row in Layers hides that mark and leaves the rest.
Reshape the note. A side handle rewraps its lines, and the knob above turns it.
Keep it private. Cover the email address by hand, or let Redact find the card number.
Redact is Pro.
Type a word you remember, and the screenshot that shows it turns up.
Any word. The search field takes a place, a price or part of an error.
Names first. Captures with the word in their name sit on top, under Name matches.
Found in text. Then come screenshots that hold the word, each with the line it is in.
Sorted for you. Each screenshot gets a category, such as Receipt, and a title you can read.
Six more things Shotbolt made today. Pro is marked; everything else is free.
Every kind of screenshot, the editor with layers, text capture, pins and History with search. No time limit.
Recording and GIF, scrolling capture, Redact, several screenshots on one canvas and every other tool marked Pro (Shotbolt Pro). One payment.
Shotbolt reads the words in your screenshots so you can find one later.
On your Mac. Apple’s text recognition does the reading, so no screenshot goes to a server.
Yours to switch. On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, one switch turns off everything that uses it.
Search works on every Mac, with the switch on or off.
Never uploaded. What Shotbolt reads stays on your Mac, and there is no account to create.
Shotbolt goes online for two things: a daily update check you can turn off, and a license check if you enter a Pro key. Neither sends a capture.
We take screenshots all day, and every tool we tried stopped somewhere. Arrows became part of the picture once we saved, a note could not be turned, and the price felt high. So we built one app for the whole job, at a fair price, where a screenshot stays in layers: move a mark, turn a note, cover an address, find it by a word. We use Shotbolt every day. It improves with every release. See what changedMade in the Netherlands.
Pro is one payment. There is no subscription and no account to create.
$0 forever
No time limit and no account. Fine for work.
Shotbolt Pro
Launch price $9.99, normally $15. once
Launch price until December 31, 2026.
One payment, free updates for all 1.x.
Every download starts with 7 days of Pro. After that Shotbolt keeps working as Free, and nothing you made is locked. Compare Free and Pro
Free to download. Three steps take you to your first capture.
Open the download. Drag Shotbolt to Applications and open it; it lives in the menu bar.
Allow Screen Recording. macOS asks once, and one switch in System Settings is all a screenshot needs.
Press . The welcome tour sets your keys and ends with a real capture.
macOS keeps , and for its own screenshots until you turn those off. The tour shows you where.
Version 1.2.2. What changedRequires macOS 26 on a Mac with Apple silicon or Intel.
