PureShot

PureShot is a native macOS screenshot utility built to make everyday capture workflows feel faster and less fussy than the default system tool. It is intentionally smaller than a full professional suite, but focuses on the features that make screenshots easier to use immediately after capture.

The app lives in the macOS menu bar and offers area, window, and fullscreen capture modes. New screenshots pile up as movable floating thumbnails in the bottom corner, so several captures can stay close at hand while working across apps. By default, each unmoved capture autosaves to Downloads after 30 seconds; moving a capture pauses autosave and keeps it available until it is saved, copied, dragged into another app, annotated, or dismissed.

PureShot also includes a lightweight annotation flow for common edits: arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and pixelation for sensitive information. For more polished output, captures can be exported with color gradient backgrounds, giving product shots or documentation images a cleaner presentation without opening a heavier design tool.

The first version is built with SwiftUI and AppKit, using ScreenCaptureKit for capture, borderless floating panels for the screenshot stack, native pasteboard and drag behavior for sharing, and a generated macOS icon pipeline. The goal is a small, sharp Mac utility: quick enough for daily use, native enough to feel at home, and focused enough to avoid becoming another oversized capture suite.