Observed arrival · 2026-08-30
Shotbar, the screen-capture app that finishes the tedious bits
A free, open-source macOS utility for pixel-exact screenshots, scrolling captures, click-aware recording zooms, on-device text extraction, and genuinely irreversible redaction.
Field notes
The workflow begins by freezing the display at the shortcut, then hands off repetitive capture work such as scrolling, overlap matching, and seam removal. The page lists macOS 14.0 as the minimum, an 18 MB download, two architectures in one binary, and five recent captures retained in the menu bar. Its privacy model is unusually explicit: the site says captures, OCR, and related processing stay on the Mac, with zero accounts, trackers, or uploads.
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