AnnoshotmacOS app

Capture, mark up, copy. Show what you mean.

Add boxes, arrows, and text as you capture — copied straight to your clipboard. Keyboard-centric, barely any mouse. For bug reports, code reviews, and AI prompts.

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A screenshot marked up with a box, an arrow, and text

Do any of these happen when you share a screenshot?

You paste an image, write "right here," and get "where?" back

Only one spot matters, but the reader has to scan the whole screen to find it

Opening an image editor to draw one arrow pulls you out of the work you were doing

Hand a screen to an AI tool and, with nothing marked, it cannot tell which element you mean

With Annoshot

Mark it up in the same motion, then copy.

The editor opens the moment you finish selecting a region, and a drag adds a box, an arrow, or text. When you are done, it goes to the clipboard — no round trip through a separate image editor.

REASON

Why Annoshot works

01One drag places a box, an arrow, or text

Drag across what you want to circle for a rectangle, drag in a direction for an arrow, start typing where you want a label. Annotations snap to each other and to screen edges, so lining things up costs no time.

02Go from capture to clipboard without reaching for the mouse

Switching between rectangle and text, changing colors and sizes, selecting, duplicating, undoing, copying, saving — all directly from the keyboard, so mouse use stays minimal.

03What you copy pastes anywhere

Copying writes TIFF, PNG, file URL, and plain text at once, so it pastes cleanly in Slack, GitHub, browsers, and AI assistant chat boxes.

FUNCTION

Key features

One screenshot carrying boxes, arrows, text, white fill, blur, and mosaic

Region and Window CaptureSelect any region of the screen and go straight into the editor, or take a single window instead.

TextAdjustable font size and color. Perfect for one-word labels like "Bug" or "Check this."

RectangleAdjustable border width, with five fill modes — outline, white fill, blur, mosaic, and grid. Highlight an area or redact sensitive data with the same tool.

ArrowSnap the angle in 15-degree steps and choose the head — one end, both ends, none, or a dimension line that caps both ends and writes the length.

Border Width and Corner RadiusSet the defaults in settings; adjust the width from the keyboard while editing.

Three ColorsRed, blue, and green — enough to separate what you are pointing at from what you are adding.

Adjust the Frame After the ShotGrab the area that gets written out. Pull it in to crop away what you don't need, push it out to add margin. No retaking to get the shape you want to hand over.

Reopen from HistoryThe last 20 screenshots are kept, and reopening one brings its annotations back for editing — for when you want to add one more note to an earlier capture.

Lives in the Menu BarAnnoshot stays in the menu bar rather than the Dock, and can launch at login.

What it needs, and how it handles your data

Requirements: macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
Screen Recording Permission: Used only to take screenshots. A guide on first launch walks you through granting it in System Settings.
Network: Annoshot makes no network connections. Nothing you capture or edit leaves your Mac.
History Storage: History is stored on your Mac purely for use inside the app. There is no feature that sends it anywhere.
Auto-Delete: Saved files older than a set period can be deleted automatically (off by default).
Account: No account, no data collection.
Price: Buy once, use forever. No subscription.

Give it a try

Get it from the Mac App Store.

Get it on the Mac App Store

macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Screen Recording permission required · One-time purchase, no subscription