CreamShot X

CreamShot X is a fast, native screen-capture and annotation tool for macOS - snip any area, window, or full display, mark it up, pin it on top, or pull the text out, and share in one keystroke.

Hit a hotkey, drag a selection with a pixel-perfect magnifier, and the shot lands in a clean editor: annotate, then copy, save, pin, or OCR it - whatever you set as the default.

Highlights

1. Capture anything - area, a window, or the full display, with a magnifier loupe and live pixel readout for pixel-perfect edges. On a multi-monitor setup you pick the screen first, for area grabs as well as full ones; ⌘⇧2 and friends are all rebindable.
2. Annotate fast - every tool a single keystroke - arrows A, rectangles R, ellipses O and lines L, freehand pen P, text callouts T (bold / italic / underline), numbered steps S, highlighter H, an emoji picker E, and blur to redact B - plus crop C and undo / redo ⌘Z. Hover any tool for an instant tooltip.
3. Pin to screen - float a capture as an always-on-top window to reference while you work.
4. Extract text (OCR) - pull selectable text out of any capture and copy it straight to the clipboard.
5. Your default action - set what happens after each grab: open the editor, copy to the clipboard, or save straight to a folder.
6. Set the shot up first - a 3 or 5 second self-timer to arrange a menu or hover state, freeze the screen so nothing moves while you drag, and hide the desktop icons for a clean background.
7. Save your way - write out PNG or JPG with a filename template, or hand a shot off to Pixpresso for deeper image editing.
8. Lives in the menu bar - global hotkeys for every mode, a quick-access tray of recent shots, launch at login, and light / dark / auto theme.

How it works

Press a hotkey and a transparent overlay drops over the screen - drag a region or click a window, and the shot goes wherever you pointed it: the editor, the clipboard, or straight to disk. Mark it up with the draggable toolbar, then copy, save, pin, or OCR. The last region and a history of recent captures are a keystroke away.

Everything is keyboard-driven and stays on your Mac; settings - hotkeys, save location, default action, file format and theme - persist locally.

Perfect for

1. Designers & developers - grab pixel-perfect UI, annotate a bug, and paste it into the PR.
2. Support & documentation - numbered step-by-step screenshots that explain themselves.
3. Anyone who shares their screen - capture, redact the sensitive bits with blur, and copy in seconds.
4. Researchers & writers - pin references on top and OCR text out of images and documents.