{"id":50699,"date":"2026-01-12T14:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50699"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:45:26","slug":"mac-screenshot-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/mac-screenshot-utilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Screenshot Utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/01\/05\/why-i-use-multiple-screenshot-utilities-on-the-mac\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/01\/05\/why-i-use-multiple-screenshot-utilities-on-the-mac\/\">\n<p>Here are the unique features that keep me using multiple apps for my screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, I dismiss floating shot windows immediately, but they can be useful for referring to a screenshot&mdash;such as the contents of a menu that I can&rsquo;t keep open&mdash;while writing. Floating shots are also handy for making simple edits and annotations without opening the file in Preview. The feature I value most, though, is one that ScreenFloat developer Matthias Gansrigler added last year&mdash;the option to export an image with an added border.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>CleanShot X is a thoroughly capable screenshot utility with editing and annotation features, but it also offers a feature I haven&rsquo;t seen elsewhere: the ability to combine screenshots.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I still occasionally press Command-Shift-5 and use the built-in macOS screenshot utility to create a screenshot of a window with an open menu. In these screenshots, I <em>don&rsquo;t<\/em> want shadows around the window, but I <em>do<\/em> want them around the menu, which otherwise looks weird. This requires a multi-step process that involves capturing two separate screenshots and compositing them in Preview[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/screenfloat-2\/\">ScreenFloat 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/cleanshot-x-4-5\/\">CleanShot X 4.5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"mac-screenshot-utilities-update-2026-01-13\">Update (<a href=\"#mac-screenshot-utilities-update-2026-01-13\">2026-01-13<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@jackbrewster\/115884182978164091\">Jack Brewster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@jackbrewster\/115884182978164091\">\n<p>Shout out for <a href=\"https:\/\/shottr.cc\">Shottr<\/a>, which I switched to from CleanShotX a few years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Here are the unique features that keep me using multiple apps for my screenshots. [&#8230;] Most of the time, I dismiss floating shot windows immediately, but they can be useful for referring to a screenshot&mdash;such as the contents of a menu that I can&rsquo;t keep open&mdash;while writing. Floating shots are also handy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-01-12T19:35:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"0d179028-8e40-4b4a-a2b6-7467a7790434","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-13T16:10:01Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ADReQKI5AS0qitnRnp3kENA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2034,30,32,2742,2534,282],"class_list":["post-50699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cleanshot-x","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-screenfloat","tag-screenshots"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50707,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50699\/revisions\/50707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}