A quiet macOS app for screenshots, short recordings, and the things you just captured.
Frame helps when you need to show something quickly: a bug, an idea, a setting, a layout, or a short interaction. Press the shortcut, choose what you need, and then copy, save, edit, pin, or find it again later.
Everything stays on your Mac. Frame does not need an account and does not upload your screenshots or recordings.
Frame lives in the menu bar instead of opening a large window. After each screenshot or recording, a small preview appears in the corner of your screen. From there you can copy it, save it, edit it, keep it visible, or close it.
The goal is simple: capture what you need, then get back to what you were doing.
- Select an area with
Command+Shift+A. - Capture a window.
- Capture long content by scrolling, with a fixed side preview that follows successfully stitched progress while capture is running, fast Finish without restitching the whole capture, and automatic scrolling that waits for each frame and stops at the bottom or when matching becomes unreliable.
- Use Frame on multiple displays.
- Save screenshots as PNG files.
- Copy a screenshot or recording.
- Save it to a folder.
- Drag a screenshot into another app.
- Open a larger preview.
- Pin an image so it stays visible while you work.
- Add text, arrows, shapes, highlights, brush marks, or blur sensitive details.
- Move things after adding them.
- Resize or delete them.
- Change color and size from a contextual header style control.
- Use canvas shortcuts or double-click an object to return to its editing tool.
- Undo and redo.
- Save the edited result.
- Record a selected area as MP4 or GIF.
- Choose whether to show the cursor, clicks, and pressed keys.
- Stop, restart, or delete a recording.
- Trim MP4 recordings and export faster or slower versions.
- Open recent screenshots and recordings.
- Bring an older item back into the corner preview.
- Choose how long Frame keeps recent items.
Frame needs the macOS Screen Recording permission so it can see what is on your screen when you take a screenshot or recording. The name sounds broader than screenshots, but macOS uses this permission for screenshot apps too.
See macOS Permissions for more detail.