What Is Shottr and What Does It Do?

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Shottr is a screenshot and annotation app for macOS. It captures your screen, then lets you mark up, measure, resize, and share the result without leaving the app. It is built for people who care about pixels — the site names designers, front-end engineers, and mobile developers as its audience — and it is designed to be small and fast rather than a full image editor.

Core capabilities

The site describes Shottr as a "tiny and fast mac screenshot tool with annotations, beautiful backgrounds, scrolling screenshots and S3 upload capabilities." In practice, that covers:

  • Screenshots — the app is optimized for Apple Silicon and the site claims it takes about 17ms to grab a screenshot and roughly 165ms to display it.
  • Scrolling screenshots — capture a long web page or a chat conversation in any app or window.
  • Annotation — add text, freehand drawings, highlights, spotlights, and other visual effects.
  • OCR and QR reading — select an area of unselectable text, and Shottr parses it to the clipboard; it also reads QR codes.
  • Pixelate or remove objects — hide parts of the screen behind a pixelated curtain, or remove sensitive information. A text mode hides text without corrupting anything else.
  • Overlay images — paste images on top of a screenshot, make overlays semi-transparent to highlight differences, or generate two-frame before/after animations.
  • Combine screenshots — use the Add Capture button on the toolbar to place multiple captures on the same canvas.
  • Resize — click the image size in the upper right corner to make a screenshot bigger or smaller in the app.
  • Pin screenshots — keep images as floating, always-on-top, borderless windows for references or temporary storage.
  • Screen ruler — press ↑ or ↓ and move the mouse to measure vertical size, or ← or → for horizontal size; click to imprint the measurement on the screenshot.
  • Color picker — take a screenshot, zoom in, hover over a pixel, and press TAB to copy the color under the cursor.
  • Zoom — use Shottr as a digital magnifying glass for a closer look at something.
  • Save to a folder — select a dedicated folder and save screenshots with ⌘S, useful for receipts, reminders, and archives.

Who it fits

Shottr suits you if you take screenshots often and want annotation, measurement, and text extraction in one lightweight tool on a Mac. It is less relevant if you are not on macOS, or if you need a full image editor rather than a capture-and-annotate utility.

Practical notes

The site lists the current download as Shottr for Mac, v1.9.3, 2.4mb, with a separate note that the dmg is 2.3mb. Pricing is not stated in the material available here, so check the site's own pricing link before assuming cost. The page also includes a feature request section, release notes, and a tips and tricks area — worth checking if you want to see what has changed or what is planned.