Shottr is a tiny and fast mac screenshot tool with annotations, beautiful backgrounds, scrolling screenshots and S3 upload capabilities. Built with love and optimized for Apple silicon.
Designed to be lightweight
Shottr is a tiny (2.3mb dmg) native app optimized for Apple Silicon. It takes only 17ms to grab a screenshot, and ~165ms to show it to you.
Beautiful Backgrounds
Make your screenshots stand out with gradients backgrounds, shadows and rounded corners.
Scrolling Screenshots on Mac
Take a screenshot of a long web page or capture conversation in a chat. Any app, any window.
Pixelate or remove objects
Hide parts of your screen behind pixelated curtain, or remove sensitive information as if it was never there. Text mode hides text without corrupting anything else.
Text recognition (OCR) & QR
Came by a text that won’t select? Press a hotkey and select an area — Shottr will parse the text and copy it to the clipboard. OCR feature also reads QR codes.
Combine Screenshots
Take multiple screenshots and put them on the same canvas using the Add Capture button on the toolbar.
Resize Screenshots
Make your screenshots bigger or smaller, right in the app (click on the image size in the upper right corner).
Pin Screenshots
Pin images as floating always-on top borderless windows. Convenient for keeping references, or as a temporary screenshots storage.
Markup screenshots
Add text, freehand drawings, highlights, spotlights and other visual effects to your drawings.
Overlay Images
Paste images on top of your screenshots. Make overlays semi-transparent to highlight the differences, or generate two-frame before/after animations.
Use it as a Screen Ruler
Press ↑ or ↓ key and move your mouse to measure vertical size, ← or → for horizontal size. Click to imprint the measurement on the screenshot.
Unclutter your desktop
Select a dedicated folder to save screenshots on ⌘ s. Great for purchase receipts, reminders, archive items, random images, etc.
Zoom in on your pixels
Think of Shottr as your digital magnifying glass. If you need to have a closer look at something, take a screenshot and zoom in.
Color picker
Take a screenshot, zoom in, move your mouse over the pixel and press the TAB key to copy color under the cursor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Shottr free?
Shottr can be used for free for as long as you want. Most of its features are available to free users; the main caveat is that the app will ask you to consider buying it every once in a while. Shottr generally provides a better overall experience in the activated version, and I plan to add more features and raise its price in the future.
Can Shottr upload the image online and copy link?
Shottr has the upload feature, but it needs to be activated. Here are
more details on how it works.
Which macOS versions are supported?
Shottr runs on macOS Catalina (10.15) and up.
When and why does Shottr contact Shottr.cc?
After launch Shottr contacts
https://shottr.cc/api/version.json to check for an update. It won't download a new version, but will notify you with a red icon in the toolbar. Shottr needs an internet connection to validate and activate the license. It also sends home telemetry to help me find bugs, measure performance and gauge popularity of certain features. Telemetry does not contain any personal or identifiable information. It's not used for advertising or retargeting purposes, and is never sold to the third parties. There's an option to turn off telemetry collection in the app Preferences. Earlier versions of Shottr included Google Analytics code, but it was removed in v1.5.1.
Nikole Miguel Polar Lights - May 2026
Miguel is known for using the Sony A7S III for its insane low-light sensitivity, but she pairs it with vintage, manual-focus lenses from the 1980s. “Modern lenses are too perfect,” she says. “The Polar Lights are organic chaos. I use a vintage f/1.4 lens to let in the light, but I keep the slight coma distortion around the edges because it feels like you are looking through frosted glass.”
Of course, a project of this scale invites criticism. In the previews, some art critics have accused Miguel of “eco-pornography”—using the death of the cryosphere as an aesthetic prop for wealthy collectors. There is also the persistent, weary conversation about the lack of diversity in ‘extreme landscape’ art.
Miguel, who is of Indigenous Taíno and Catalan descent, dismantles this easily. “My name is Nikole Miguel,” she states flatly in the book’s foreword. “I have no ancestral claim to the Vikings or the Arctic explorers. I come from the Caribbean. I come from heat. I come from hurricanes. When I look at the Poles dying, I do not see nostalgia. I see my own future. The water that melts there will drown my grandmother’s house. Polar Lights is a eulogy, not a vacation.” Nikole Miguel Polar Lights -
Polar Lights is not a "crowd-pleaser." It is an intellectual fragrance. It is for:
The search term “Nikole Miguel Polar Lights” exploded in December 2021. Miguel was stationed in Tromsø, Norway, during a rare G4-class geomagnetic storm. Most photographers packed up at 2 AM when the clouds rolled in. Miguel stayed. Miguel is known for using the Sony A7S
At 3:17 AM, the clouds parted, and the sky erupted. She captured a 360-degree panorama of the Aurora Australis (ironically, while in the Arctic—a freak solar event). The image, titled “The Crown of Winter,” showed the Polar Lights forming a literal halo around the entire horizon.
The image was shared by NASA, the BBC, and eventually became a default wallpaper for a major smartphone manufacturer. Overnight, Nikole Miguel became the face of Aurora photography. I use a vintage f/1
The story of Polar Lights begins three years ago, not with a camera, but with a malfunction. Miguel was stationed at the Ny-Ålesund research town in Norway. While waiting for a data relay, she witnessed what she describes as a “perfect storm” of solar winds and atmospheric clarity.
“It wasn’t just green curtains,” Miguel explains in the project’s manifesto, released exclusively to this publication. “The aurora was singing. I know scientists say you can’t hear the Northern Lights, but the electromagnetic interference was creating a frequency in my headphones—a low, resonant drone. I realized then: the visual is only half the story.”
This epiphany led to a grueling production schedule across three continents: the magnetic fields of Iceland, the boreal forests of Canada, and the frosty peaks of Patagonia. The result is “Polar Lights: A Symphonic Spectrum.”