Mac’s screenshot abilities are pretty solid, but they could always be better. Third-party screenshot applications offer a lot of extra features.

Check out these Mac Menu Bar Screen Capturing Apps:

Shottr

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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Tape

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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TextSniper

textsniper

TextSniper allows you to quickly convert uncopiable or unselectable text from any content visible on your mac’s screen into editable text copied to your clipboard.

Use it to capture and recognize text from presentations, trainings, screencasts, images, pictures, webpages, video tutorials, photos, PDFs etc.

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