Capture, edit, and share your screen. Native on macOS.

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BetterShot is a free, open-source Mac app for screenshots, scrolling captures, screen recordings, and image and video editing. No account, subscription, or cloud service required.

Requires macOS 26 or later.

brew install --cask bettershot

Or download the Apple silicon or Intel .dmg from Releases, drag BetterShot into Applications, and open it. A short tour walks you through permissions and your first capture.

Screenshots

• Region, window, fullscreen, and scrolling capture.
• Extract text with OCR or pick any on-screen color as hex.
• Annotate with arrows, shapes, text, numbered markers, highlights, blur, and pixelate.
• Crop, rotate, and flip without losing editable annotations.
• Frame captures on a wallpaper, soft gradient, or any custom color with padding, rounded corners, and shadow.
• Save as PNG or JPEG.

Recordings

• Record a display, window, or adjustable area with optional system audio, microphone, camera, and teleprompter.
• Pause, restart, or discard from the compact recording bar. Restart and Discard ask for confirmation in a native macOS dialog; Cancel keeps the recording.

Video editor

• Cut clips, change speed from 0.25x to 8x, and add zooms, transitions, captions, and blur or pixelate masks.
• Arrange screen and camera as Camera Bubble, Overlap, Side-by-Side, Presenter, Camera Only, or Screen Only.
• Restyle the cursor (Recorded, Arrow, Dark, Light, Dot) with size, smoothing, click effects, and idle hiding.
• Add 3D shots: eight camera moves, five drifting angles, Auto Scene, depth blur, and keyframed Bézier curves.
• Export MP4 or MOV at 30 or 60 fps.

Everything else

• Copy, save, pin, edit, share, or drag captures from the floating preview.
• Browse screenshots, recordings, and share links in the Media Gallery.
• Share to your own Cloudflare R2 bucket with one click.
• Trigger any capture from Shortcuts, Raycast, or the terminal with