Screen Capturing Apps

Capture, record and share what’s on your screen instantly. Take screenshots, record video or audio, annotate visuals, recognize text, generate shareable links, or automatically organize and optimize your captures directly from your menu bar.

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Paid apps

Lapse

This menu bar app lets you capture your screen in time-lapse without re-rendering. Just as you would record a normal screen recording.

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Free apps

Dropbox Capture

With Dropbox Capture, you can create a video message that includes your computer screen, face, and voice all with a single Mac menu bar app.

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Freemium apps

Shottr

Shottr is a menu bar app with scrolling screenshots, text recognition (OCR), annotation (draw lines, arrows, and simple shapes) and measurement instruments. Optimized for M1.

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Free apps

Menu Snappr

MenuSnappr

Menu Snappr II makes screen capturing feel effortless, whether you’re grabbing a full display, a single window, or a custom area across multiple monitors. With flexible formats, smart file naming, configurable shortcuts, and instant Preview access, it keeps screenshots fast, organized, and quietly out of your way.

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Paid apps

Tape

Tape is a simple screen recording utility that lives in your menu bar. Choose the window you want to record. Once you’re done you get a link copied to your clipboard that you can share.

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Freemium apps

Jumpshare

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Jumpshare combines file sharing, screenshot capture, and video recording – all in one platform. Drag files to the Jumpshare menu bar icon and a shareable link will be copied to your clipboard.

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Presentify

presentify

Presentify is a menu bar app that lets you annotate anything and not just screenshots or images. It can also annotate videos, pdf, images, code, etc. Nice for online classes, video calls, tutorials and presentations.

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Freemium apps

Xnip

Xnip is a powerful screen capturing menu bar app. You can even resize your captured region when you are annotating. Capturing while scrolling is also possible.

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