CleanShot X

CleanShot X is an all-in-one screenshot and screen recording application designed for macOS. It goes far beyond basic screen capture by offering professional editing tools, cloud storage, and intelligent features that save time and improve the quality of your captures.

You can take screenshots of specific areas, full screens, windows, or even entire scrolling pages. The app includes a built-in editor with annotation tools like arrows, text, shapes, highlights, and blur effects. It can also hide desktop icons automatically, add custom backgrounds, and freeze your screen to capture tricky elements like dropdown menus.

For screen recordings, CleanShot X lets you create videos or GIFs with system audio, mouse clicks, and keyboard shortcuts visible. Everything integrates smoothly with its cloud service for instant sharing via links.

Using CleanShot X is simple and fits naturally into your workflow. Here are the basic steps:

• After installing, CleanShot X sits in your menu bar, ready when you need it. You can trigger captures using keyboard shortcuts or by clicking the menu bar icon.

• Choose your capture type: area, full screen, window, or scrolling capture. The app highlights windows intelligently and shows a magnifier for precise selection.

• Use the Quick Access Overlay that appears after each capture to quickly edit, save, copy, or share your screenshot without opening additional apps.

• Access the built-in editor to add annotations, crop images, hide sensitive information with blur or pixelate tools, or add professional backgrounds for social media posts.

• Upload captures to CleanShot Cloud with one click to get shareable links instantly, perfect for sending to colleagues or clients.

• Access your capture history anytime to retrieve recent screenshots you might have dismissed.

• Multiple screenshot modes with smart window detection

• Professional annotation and editing tools

• Automatic desktop icon hiding

• Screen freeze for difficult captures

• Scrolling capture for long pages

• Screen recording with audio and GIF creation

• Cloud storage with instant shareable links

• OCR text extraction from images

• Custom backgrounds and branding

• Capture history to retrieve recent screenshots