Version 2.0 · macOS & Windows · open source

Screenshots worth sending.

Capture anything, mark it up precisely, and wrap it in a canvas that carries it. Two native apps over one Rust core. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload to.

Download for macOS View source Free · Apache-2.0 · 11 MB
A window showing a syntax-highlighted Rust function, sitting on a violet gradient canvas.

Background

The app's real presets. The desktop version renders at full resolution and adds annotation, blur, and export.

What it does

Capture is the easy part. The rest is where the time goes.

All of it native, all of it local, all of it on both platforms unless noted.

CAPTURE

Region, window, display, scroll

Draw a region on any monitor, isolate a window, or stitch a long page into one tall image by matching overlapping rows.

ANNOTATE

Thirteen tools, full undo

Arrows that curve, shapes, text, numbered steps, highlighter, freehand, spotlight, crop. Nothing is baked until export.

REDACT

Redaction that holds

Blur, pixelate, or an opaque block. Exporting flattens it into the pixels, so what you hid cannot be lifted back off.

FIND

Search inside old captures

Text is read on-device and indexed with full-text search, so a screenshot from months ago is findable by what it says.

RECORD

MP4 and GIF

System audio, a countdown, pause and resume, with controls that stay out of the recording. macOS today.

CODE

66 languages, 7 themes

Paste code and get the same highlighting your editor uses, wrapped in the same canvas. Export PNG or SVG.

Real output

Every image on this page came out of PixCap.

Not mockups. One Rust function, marked up and exported through the same renderer that ships in the app — annotations, background, and all.

Open source

Read it, build it, change it.

The whole thing is public: the Rust core that renders and stores, the Swift app, the WinUI app, and the build scripts that sign and package both. If you do not trust a tool that can see your screen, do not take our word for it — read the source.

# clone and build both platforms
git clone github.com/isureshsubramanian/PixCap
cd pixcap
cargo test # 48 tests
# macOS
./platforms/macos/PixCapMac/scripts/make-app.sh
# Windows
./platforms/windows/build.ps1 -Installer

Download

Free, open source, about eleven megabytes.

No account. No telemetry. No server to send anything to.

macOS

Apple silicon & Intel · macOS 14 or newer · signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a warning

Download .dmg

Windows

Windows 10 version 1903 or newer. Not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen asks first — choose More info → Run anyway.

ARM64 x64