Every screenshot tool eventually asks the same question: how much of the screen do you actually want? ScreenClipr answers it with three dedicated modes, each with its own global shortcut, plus a picker that lets the interaction itself decide. None of them is strictly "better" — they're built for different jobs, and knowing which one to reach for saves you a crop-and-trim step after the fact.
Region — for precise, arbitrary crops
Shortcut: Shift+Cmd+2.
Region is the mode for "exactly this, and nothing else." Drag a box around anything on screen and a live dimensions readout tracks the exact pixel size as you go, so you're not guessing. The overlay also snaps to window edges as you drag near them, which makes it fast to grab a precise crop without hand-aligning the corners yourself. Reach for Region when you want a specific piece of a larger view — one card out of a dashboard, a single paragraph, a code block — and don't want the surrounding chrome that a full window capture would include.
Window — for a clean, one-click capture of an entire app
Shortcut: Shift+Cmd+8.
Window mode skips the dragging entirely: hover over any open window and it highlights, click, and you have a clean capture of that exact window — its full content, with nothing from the desktop or other apps bleeding in around the edges. This is the mode to use when the whole window is the point: a finished design in Figma, an entire terminal session, a full browser window you want to document as-is. It's also just faster than Region when "the whole window" is what you wanted anyway — one click beats a careful drag.
Full Screen — for capturing everything on a display
Shortcut: Shift+Cmd+1.
Full Screen grabs an entire display in one shot — useful for showing how multiple windows, your Dock, and your menu bar look together, or for a quick "here's my whole screen" share where cropping would lose context. If you work across multiple monitors, Full Screen targets a specific display rather than merging everything into one image, so you capture the screen you actually mean.
The fastest way in: the All-in-One picker
If you don't want to remember three separate shortcuts, you don't have to. Control+Shift+C opens the All-in-One picker anywhere on macOS — from there, dragging selects a region and a plain click on a window captures it, the same overlay handling both without you having to pick a mode up front. The picker also doubles as the video/still chooser: Return for an image, V for a recording, Esc to back out.
Mid-selection, you can go straight to scrolling capture
Framing a region or window in the All-in-One overlay isn't the end of the decision tree — press S while it's open to turn that same framed area into a scrolling capture instead, without starting over. Useful the moment you realize the content you're framing keeps going below the fold.
A quick decision guide
- You know exactly which pixels you want, and it's smaller than a whole window → Region (Shift+Cmd+2).
- You want one app's window, borders and all, nothing else → Window (Shift+Cmd+8).
- You want the whole display — multiple windows, Dock, menu bar included → Full Screen (Shift+Cmd+1).
- You're not sure yet, or you might want a recording instead of a still → the All-in-One picker (Control+Shift+C).
- The content is taller or wider than one screen → frame it in Region or the picker, then hit S (or use Scrolling Capture directly) instead of settling for a partial view.
All of the shortcuts above are rebindable from Preferences if they clash with something else on your Mac — the point isn't to memorize a specific key combo, it's to build the habit of reaching for the mode that matches what you're actually trying to show.