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CleanShot X

Capture and record screens on Mac with CleanShot X, featuring seamless recording, custom keyboard shortcuts, customizable wallpapers, Quick Access Overlay, and Desktop icon toggle for a tidy user interface.

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Cost / License

  • Pay once or Subscription
  • Proprietary

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Platforms

  • Mac
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Features

  1.  Annotate Screenshot
  2.  Upload Screenshot
  3.  Screen Recording
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Full-page Screenshot
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  OCR
  8.  No registration required
  9.  Works Offline
  10.  No Tracking
  11.  Keystroke Visualization

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Top Positive Comment
_Sascha_
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You can't get a trial-version of this app and skip it. But I can say, you will mourn afterwards if you just ignored it.

At least I almost did. 30 bucks for a capturing tool, without a trial-version? This made me really sceptical!

But after...

  • Capto_ (to less features, no further development)_
  • SnagIt (slow performance, to heavy)
  • Monosnap (changed to subscription model and seems only focused on that, instead improving)

... When it comes to good looking, lightweight and smart screen-capturing tools with good annoations Cleanshot X has become my new favourite screen capturing tool.

Everyone who loves to make fast annotations, screenshots and videos... you should think about buying it. The creator of this app offers 30days money back if you are not satisfied.

But I can tell, currently Cleanshot X is hard not to satisfy.

Takuya Matsuyama
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The UI is so simple and intuitive to use. But I've been experiencing the performance issue that the screen recording is choppy recently. I hope it'll be solved soon. Love it.

Mutant
0

Why does the official website link take you to an affliate page? it's https://cleanshot.com/

Sarkis Terek
0
Delivery Manager at Felix Solutions

CleanShot X has quickly become one of my favorite tools. I use it for everything, from capturing clean screenshots and scrolling pages to recording quick tutorials for work. It’s fast, reliable, and packed with features that make everyday tasks so much easier.

Esus
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ProductizedHQ

I love lifetime deals, so naturally CleanShotX has been a big winner for me. I've tried a few others (xSnapper, Mac default, etc) and nothing quite measured up to it.

I have customized my keyboard shortcuts a bit, and it takes seconds to OCR text or grab and markup a snippet now. (I didn't realise how much text on the web wasn't 'copyable' until I had this shortcutted)

I also was able to setup a custom subdirectory on a domain to make it even easier to share.

Markup features look a bit like MS Paint, wish they looks classier, but still a small thing when the app performs everything really solidly. Highly recommend this one!

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What is CleanShot X?

CleanShot X is a lightweight and fast screen capturing and recording tool for your Mac. It offers following Features:

== CORE FEATURES ==

  • SCREEN RECORDING: Easily record your screen without the icons on your Desktop in a matter of seconds.
  • SCREENHOT CAPTURING: Capture what you want into an image. From Areas, Windows, Fullscreen until scrolling everything possible,
  • QUICK ACCESS OVERLAY: Simply drag & drop, copy or save screenshots straight from the Quick Access Overlay.
  • TOGGLE DESKTOP ICONS: Permanently toggle the Desktop icons even when you're not taking screenshots.
  • KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS: Assign hotkeys for all actions. You can also replace Mac's default screenshot tool with our app.
  • SET CUSTOM WALLPAPER: Set a specific photo or a plain color as a wallpaper for screenshots and screen recordings.
  • WINDOW SCREEENSHOTS: Perfectly centered window screenshots with wallpaper background made in no time.
  • RECORD KEYSTROKES: Shows in videos which hotkeys and keystrokes was made.

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