Screendrop

Screendrop

Screenshots and screen recordings, in one tiny app.

Capture, annotate, record, edit and share without breaking your flow. Native, open source, and only 6.3 MB.

Download for Mac

Free · Requires macOS 26.4 or later

Press ⌥3 and drag. The capture drops into a floating preview, ready to copy, save, pin or upload.

“you should replace cleanshotX with this it's the best screenshot tool for macOS really”
Théo, @theo0px
Free
No subscription, ever
CC0
Open source, public domain
6.3 MB
Native Mac app
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Accounts or servers of ours

Five shortcuts.
That’s the whole interface.

Go on, hold ⌥ and press 1 to 5. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.

More than a screenshot tool.

The small things that make Screendrop feel like it was built by someone who records every day.

Copy text straight off the screen.

Press ⌥5 and drag over anything. On-device OCR puts the text on your clipboard, in reading order.

Copied 3 lines

A teleprompter in your notch.

It listens as you speak and scrolls along.

…and every invoice now lives right here, one click from the dashboard.

Auto Zoom.

Smooth zooms, generated from the clicks you made while recording.

2×2×

Edit the video by editing the words.

Transcribe on-device, then cut footage by deleting text. Filler words and silences go in one click.

So um,upgrading now takes uh,a single click, and like,that’s it.

Remove 3 filler words

Smart redaction.

Screendrop finds emails, keys and numbers in a screenshot and blurs them for you.

Email
API key
PlanPro, monthly

Links on your own Cloudflare.

Deploy the Worker in one click. Files land in your R2 bucket, never on our servers.

share.acme.dev/v/billing-tour
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Private by design.

Your screen is personal. Screendrop keeps it that way.

Local first

Captures, projects and transcripts live on your Mac. Speech recognition runs on-device.

Your cloud, not ours

Uploads go to a Worker in your own Cloudflare account. There is no Screendrop account or server.

Nothing to unlock

No subscription and no licence key. The source is public domain, so you can read every line.

And everything else.

All of it ships in the same 6.3 MB app. No plugins, no tiers, nothing behind a paywall.

Capture

  • Full screen, window or area
  • Copy text off the screen with on-device OCR
  • Self-timer of 3, 5 or 10 seconds
  • Optional window shadows
  • Trims the empty menu-bar strip on notched Macs
  • PNG or JPEG with adjustable quality
  • Customisable after-capture actions
  • Pin any screenshot above every window
  • Open images from Finder as editable copies

Preview & Library

  • Floating preview stack you can drag out of
  • Rearrange the card’s actions
  • Collapses to a peek tab, not away
  • One library for screenshots and recordings
  • Grid or list, search and sort
  • Quick Look, rename, multi-select and export

Annotate

  • Arrows, lines, shapes and freehand
  • Text, numbered markers and highlights
  • Blur, pixelate and smart redaction
  • Crop with aspect-ratio presets
  • Colours, images and wallpaper packs
  • Padding, corners, shadow and borders
  • Perspective, rotation and progressive blur
  • Text watermarks
  • Shareable background presets

Record

  • Any display, window or area
  • Camera, mic and system audio as separate tracks
  • Continuity Camera and external devices
  • Notch teleprompter that follows your voice
  • Start timer of 1, 3 or 5 seconds
  • Pause, restart or discard mid-take
  • Dimmed, click-through area guide

Studio

  • Non-destructive recording projects
  • Split, trim, delete and change speed
  • Auto Zoom from your recorded clicks
  • Smooth reconstructed cursor and clicks
  • Keystroke captions
  • Draggable, resizable camera
  • Karaoke captions from on-device transcripts
  • Edit the video by editing its transcript
  • Remove filler words and silences
  • 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5 at 30 or 60 fps
  • Reusable style presets
  • Trim and compress any video file

Share & automate

  • Uploads to your own Cloudflare R2
  • One-click Worker deploy
  • Player with captions, speed and theater mode
  • Searchable transcript synced to playback
  • Comments pinned to moments
  • Scrub previews, view counts and link previews
  • Apple Shortcuts, Siri and App Intents
  • Lives in the menu bar
  • Updates itself

People are switching.

From CleanShot X, from Loom, and from the screenshot app that came with their Mac.

Théo@theo0px

you should replace cleanshotX with this it's the best screenshot tool for macOS really

Hunter Bertoson@BertosonHunter

Trying out screendrop from @fayazara and just wow. Its great!

Michael@_bymich

just came across this open source screenshot alternative wow impressed.

itshan@itshanrw

A beautiful screenshot + screen recording + Loom alternative - all native, self hostable and free.

Suganthan Mohanadasan@suganthan

Just got rid of CleanshotX and installed open source Screendrop by @fayazara 🔥

Omar Faruk ✨@OmarFaruk0x01

@screendropapp is a great alternative to CleanShot X. I used to use CleanShot, but I've now permanently switched to it. Thanks @fayazara for this Cool Product. Btw, Recently One of my PR is merged into this Repo.

Confidence@megaconfidence

I just uninstalled my screenshot app and installed Screendrop

Pranav@Prnvlol

Posting this because I loved using Screendrop by @fayazara

Rohan Mukherjee@roerohan

i love this screendrop feature!

Akshara Hegde - oss/acc@akshara_dev

bro's apps occupying my menubar.. 😂 by the way, nice wallpapers @fayazara, I just found them in screendrop today.

Best Mac Apps@best_macapps

Screendrop by @fayazara is Loom but native, self-hostable, and free. Capture, transcribe on-device, edit via transcript, share through your own Cloudflare — no subscription required.

CJ@cjsmarkets

great tool

Get Screendrop.
Free, forever.

Drag it into Applications and it settles into your menu bar, waiting for a shortcut. It updates itself.

Download for Mac

Requires macOS 26.4 or later