Features — Shelf Screenshot

Capture

Freeze the screen, then take your time

Trigger a capture and the entire screen freezes into a still frame. Nothing animates, nothing scrolls away — you're aiming at a snapshot, not a moving target.

✓Double-tap the right ⌘ — the default, ergonomic trigger that stays out of every other shortcut's way.
✓⌘⇧1 — a classic hotkey if you'd rather use one.
✓Window capture — hover any window and click to grab it clean, shadow and all.
✓Full screen — capture the whole display in one click from the menu bar.

Screen frozen

1280 × 720

Selection

Pixel-perfect, then adjustable

Drag out a region and a magnifier zooms in on the exact pixel under your cursor, with live width × height numbers so you always know the size. Got it slightly off? The selection isn't final — reposition and resize it as much as you like.

✓Live magnifier and a running W × H readout while you drag.
✓Move the whole frame or pull the corner and side handles to resize after you've drawn it.
✓Shift locks the aspect ratio · Option resizes from the center.
✓Esc cancels the capture instantly — no file, no fuss.

Drag & resize

920 × 540

Annotate

Mark it up before it's even saved

The moment you finish selecting, the annotation tools are right there. Draw, point, highlight and hide — everything stays editable until you commit the shot. No separate editor, no round-trip.

✓Eight tools: pencil, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, text, blur — plus OCR.
✓One-letter shortcuts so your hand never leaves the keyboard.
✓Seven colors and full undo with ⌘Z. Nothing is committed until you copy, save or pin.
✓Non-destructive blur covers sensitive data — the pixels underneath are removed from the exported file.

↗A · ARROW

▭R · RECT

◯C · CIRCLE

╱L · LINE

✏️P · PENCIL

TT · TEXT

🌫️B · BLUR

🔍O · OCR

Tap a tool or press its letter · ⌘Z to undo

One key, done

Copy, save, or pin — your call

When the shot looks right, a single key decides where it goes. No dialog, no "export as" — just the outcome you wanted.

✓⌘C — copied to the clipboard, ready to paste.
✓⌘S — saved straight to your chosen folder.
✓⏎ — pinned as a floating card at the edge of your screen.

⌘C Copied to clipboardClipboard

⌘S Saved to ~/ScreenshotsFile

⏎ Pinned to the shelfPin

Floating pins

A shelf for screenshots that aren't done with you

This is the idea the app is named for. Press ⏎ and the screenshot doesn't vanish into a folder — it hangs on the right edge of your screen as a small card, stacking with the others, staying visible while you keep working.

✓Stacked on the right — always in view, never in the way.
✓Click a card to open the full editor and keep annotating.
✓Hover to reveal an ✕ and dismiss it when you're finished.
✓Drag a card straight into Slack, Mail, Finder — anywhere that accepts an image.

Pinned shelf

Click to edit · hover for ✕ · drag into any app

OCR

Turn any screenshot into text

Press O and Shelf Screenshot reads whatever is in the frame. A window appears with the recognized text so you can copy it in a click — no retyping an error message or a receipt ever again.

✓Entirely on-device using Apple's Vision framework — it works offline and nothing is uploaded.
✓English and Ukrainian recognized out of the box.
✓Copy instantly from the pop-up the moment recognition finishes.

"Build succeeded — 128 tests passed." Copy

Privacy

Nothing leaves your Mac

Shelf Screenshot makes no network connections at all. There's no account to create, no cloud to sync with, and no analytics watching what you do. Screenshots stay in the app's local container and OCR runs on your own hardware.

✓No account, no cloud, no network access — verifiably offline.
✓No analytics or tracking of any kind.
✓Local history with a limit you set: 50, 100, 300 or unlimited captures.

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🚫 No account ☁️ No cloud 📡 No network 📊 No analytics 🍏 On-device OCR 🗂️ 50 / 100 / 300 / ∞

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