PureShot

PureShot is a native macOS screenshot utility for the few minutes after a capture. It is smaller than a professional suite and adds the things I repeatedly wanted from the system tool.

The app lives in the menu bar and captures an area, window, or full screen. New screenshots stack as movable thumbnails in the corner. An untouched capture saves to Downloads after 30 seconds; moving it pauses the timer until it is saved, copied, dragged elsewhere, annotated, or dismissed.

Common annotations—arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and pixelation—are available without opening another app. A gradient-background export is there for product shots and documentation that need a little more space around them.

It is built with SwiftUI and AppKit, using ScreenCaptureKit, borderless floating panels, and native pasteboard and drag behaviour. The scope is intentionally tight: capture, keep the image close, make a quick edit, and move on.