New · Screen recording

Take the shot.
It waits in the corner.

Screenshots and screen recordings from the menu bar. Each one lands bottom left, ready to copy, drag out or pin.

Go on, take a screenshot.

This desktop is live. Press the shortcuts or tap a button, then hover a thumbnail in the corner.

Built for the screenshot
you need ten seconds from now.

Grab it, paste it into the chat, move on. Pinshot keeps every capture in reach until you're done with it, then gets out of the way.

Four shortcuts

An area, a window, the full screen, or a recording. Each a key away, in any app.

A stack in the corner

Every capture waits bottom left as a thumbnail you can copy, drag or open.

Pinned on top

Float a screenshot above every window while you work from it.

The stack

One corner. Every capture.

Each screenshot and recording lands as a thumbnail in the bottom-left corner of the screen you're on. The newest sits at the bottom and older ones slide up; when the column is full, the oldest drops off.

The stack floats over every Space and full-screen app, and never takes focus from what you're typing in. It hides while you capture, so it's never in the shot.

What a thumbnail does

HoverCopy, Save As…, Edit, close, pin and Show in Finder.
DragDrop the file into Slack, Mail, Finder, anywhere that takes one.
Double-clickOpens it in Preview, or a recording in your video player.
SwipeTwo fingers sideways on the trackpad and it's gone.

A thumbnail under the pointer.

Features

Shoot it. Record it. Pin it.

Shoot it

⌥⇧4 captures an area. Drag across it, or press space to pick a window instead.
⌥⇧5 captures a window: click the one you want.
⌥⇧3 captures the full screen.
The pencil on a thumbnail opens the screenshot in Preview with the Markup toolbar showing, ready to draw on.
The same four are in the menu bar menu, with Open Screenshots Folder and Close All Overlays.

Record it

⌥⇧6 starts a recording. Drag an area, or click to record the whole screen.
A red outline marks what's being recorded, and the menu bar icon turns into a red stop button.
60 fps at Retina resolution, cursor included, Pinshot's own windows left out. No audio yet.
The .mp4 lands in the same stack as your screenshots.

Pin it

The pin on a thumbnail floats the screenshot above every window, at its real size.
Drag it wherever it's least in the way.
Scroll over it to fade it, so you can see through to what's underneath.
Double-click it or press Esc to close it.

How it works

It uses what macOS already has.

Pinshot is a small layer over the Mac's own tools: the capture you already know, with a stack in the corner on top.

Screenshots

Pinshot hands each screenshot to macOS's own screencapture, so the crosshair, the window picker and Esc to cancel work the way they always have. The shortcuts are registered with the system and work in every app, with no Accessibility permission to grant. Only Edit asks for it, to show Preview's Markup toolbar for you.

Recordings

Recordings go through ScreenCaptureKit, straight to an H.264 .mp4. The area you picked is recorded at 60 frames a second and full Retina resolution, and Pinshot leaves its own thumbnails and outline out of the video.

One folder

Everything is saved to ~/Desktop/Pinshot, named by when you took it, before it ever reaches the stack. Closing a thumbnail doesn't delete anything.

~/Desktop/Pinshot/
  Pinshot 2026-10-17 at 09.41.12.png
  Pinshot 2026-10-17 at 09.43.05.png
  Pinshot 2026-10-17 at 09.44.30.mp4

Download

Download for macOS

Free. Open the disk image and drag Pinshot to your Applications folder.

Download for macOS Requires macOS 15 or later and an Apple silicon Mac.

First launch

Pinshot isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time. You only need to allow it once.

Open Pinshot from your Applications folder. macOS says it can't verify the app; close the message.
Open System Settings › Privacy & Security and scroll down to Security.
Open Privacy & Security
Click Open Anyway next to Pinshot, then confirm. The viewfinder shows up in the menu bar.
Take your first screenshot. macOS asks for Screen Recording permission: turn Pinshot on under Screen & System Audio Recording, reopen it if macOS asks, and capture again.
Open Screen Recording settings
The first time you click Edit on a thumbnail, macOS asks for Accessibility access, which lets Pinshot open Preview's Markup toolbar for you. Turn Pinshot on under Accessibility. Without it, Edit still opens the image in Preview.
Open Accessibility settings

To remove it, choose Quit Pinshot from its menu and delete /Applications/Pinshot.app. Your captures stay in ~/Desktop/Pinshot.

Take the shot. It waits in the corner.