Native macOS app · one-time licence
Capture any window or area, drop every screenshot on one canvas, drag each one wherever the explanation needs it, and annotate across all of them.
1What ShotShot does differently
Choose ShotShot for a canvas where each screenshot stays independently movable. Drag images into any arrangement, leave room for arrows and text, then move one image again without rebuilding the composition. Use a tidy layout only when you want one.
.shotshot file and move things again next week
Add to this canvas
The viewfinder button in the toolbar drops its screenshot onto the canvas you are working on, so two states of a bug end up side by side without a trip through another editor. The capture keys still start a fresh canvas, and ⌘Z brings the last one back.
Liquid glass
Arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, text and step markers can be drawn as solid or as liquid glass. A Metal shader refracts the artwork through the shape’s own edges, and the export keeps it.
Scriptable
shotshot compose takes the same backgrounds, frames and layouts as the
window and writes a finished picture, so release shots and docs figures are rebuilt by a
script instead of remade by hand. This page’s pictures are drawn that way.
shotshot compose before.png after.png \
--layout before-after --labels \
--background studio:obsidianOn your Mac
Redaction, text recognition, background removal and upscaling run on-device through Apple’s Vision and VideoToolbox. The app reaches the network to check your licence and look for updates, and for nothing else.
2Features
Area ⇧⌘2, window ⇧⌘4 or the whole screen ⇧⌘3, from the menu bar,
a global key, or shotshot capture. Every shot is copied to the clipboard on the
way past and filed under Recent Captures.
Ten tools — arrow, line, rectangle, ellipse, highlight, text, step, blur, emoji and magnifier. Three arrow styles, five heads, four typefaces, 48 emoji. Pin a tool (P) so annotations chain.
Put several shots on one canvas and move each one freely, or let them arrange themselves — grid, row, column or before / after — with tight, normal or roomy gaps. Tidy ⇧⌘T and rebalance ⇧⌘R even the stack.
Wrap a shot in a macOS window, a browser window, an iPhone or a MacBook, drawn so it exports at full resolution.
71 mesh presets from ColorFlow, a solid colour, a blurred copy of your screenshot, or a picture. Six canvas sizes, from Landscape to Story and Twitter.
Six annotation types in solid or glass. A Metal shader bends the artwork underneath through the shape’s own edges.
Blur, pixelate or solid block. Auto-redact reads the picture with Vision and covers every email address, token, IP address and phone number it finds.
4× Apple super-resolution on the selected screenshot, on-device. macOS 26 or later, source up to 1920 × 1920. Shadows and transparent edges stay intact.
Crop non-destructively (C), lock, duplicate, nudge by 1 or 10 pt, rotate by 1° or 15°. Drag an object past an edge and the canvas grows instead of clipping it. A recovery copy is written after every edit.
PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF up to 4×, Quick Export ⌥⌘S, copy the canvas, or copy as Markdown with alt text read off the shots. Drag the finished canvas straight into Slack.
3Tips and tricks
Press ⇥ or ⇧⇥ to reach an object buried under another one, without hunting for a clickable sliver.
Drag a screenshot off the side and the canvas extends that way instead of clipping it.
Press P to pin the armed tool so it stays armed; Esc drops back to Select. Step markers N keep counting as you click.
Arrows nudge by 1 pt, ⇧ + arrows by 10 pt. ⌥← ⌥→ rotate by 1°, add ⇧ for 15°.
Select a screenshot and press C. ↩ keeps the crop, Esc backs out, and Reset Crop brings it all back.
⌥⇧⌘C copies the canvas as Markdown, with alt text read off the screenshots, for GitHub and Notion.
Every shortcut is on the app’s own sheet: ⌘/.
Bought ShotShot? A few honest words to support@shotshot.app go on this page.
4Pricing
Paid up front — no subscription, no watermark, no account. The licence covers three Macs and every update that follows.
$5
$29
Launch price for early users
Twenty-five licences at this price, then it steps up.
The licence key arrives by e-mail the moment the payment clears. Paid through Creem, which handles VAT and sales tax.
Already bought? Download here.
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No. You pay once and the licence does not expire. It covers three Macs and every update that follows, and Deactivate frees a seat when you move to a new machine.
ShotShot is launching, and the earliest buyers take the most risk on it. The first twenty-five licences are $5, the next twenty-five $10, and so on in fives up to the $29 list price. The counter on this page is the real one — the payment processor is keeping it, not this website — so a rung sells out whether or not anybody redeploys.
A stitched image is one picture: the shots are fused into a row or column. In ShotShot each screenshot stays a separate object on the canvas, so you can leave gaps for labels, overlap images, rotate one, and move it again later. The tidy layouts are there when you want them, and never lock anything in place.
By e-mail, from license@shotshot.app, usually within a minute
of the payment clearing. Paste it into the unlock screen on first launch,
or into Settings › License. If it has not arrived, check spam before
writing in.
macOS 13 or later. The download is a universal binary, so it runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Yes, and it is the same program. Run the app with a verb —
shotshot compose, shotshot capture,
shotshot render — and it composes a canvas and exits without
opening a window; run it with nothing and it is the app. It takes the same
backgrounds, frames, layouts and materials, so release shots and documentation
figures can be rebuilt by a script.
No. Editing and exporting happen on your Mac, and auto-redact reads the picture on-device with Apple's Vision framework. The app reaches the network to check your licence and look for updates, and for nothing else.
Within 30 days, for any reason. Write to support@shotshot.app from the address you paid with and it is done.
Creem runs the checkout and handles VAT and sales tax. Your card details never touch this site, and there is no account to create here.
If you want a Snipping Tool for Mac, or a screenshot editor that frames and lays shots out, this is the same job: capture, combine, annotate, export.
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