Open source alternatives to CleanShot X
2 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what CleanShot X does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What CleanShot X does
- Screenshots of regions and windowscore
- Annotate screenshotscore
- Screen recording and GIFs
- Scrolling capture
- Floating previews and quick copy
- Cloud upload and share links
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 capcapMenu bar screenshot tool with region capture, annotation and clipboard copy |
Replaces it94% | 1.1k+13 | 5 days ago | 79% | Install like an app | MIT | |
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Screen recording and GIFs.See the evidence
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 macshotmacOS screenshot and recording tool with annotation, OCR and redaction |
Not checked yet | 4.2k+21 | 13 days ago | 66% | Install like an app | GPL-3.0 | |
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