This walkthrough covers the four things you'll actually do in ScreenClipr every day: capture something, mark it up, know where it went, and find it again weeks later. If you're on the 7-day free trial, every feature below is unlocked — nothing here is gated.
1. Open the capture picker
ScreenClipr lives in your menu bar, not in the Dock — it stays out of the way until you need it. The fastest way in is the global shortcut Control + Shift + C, which opens the All-in-One picker: a small "Image or Video?" prompt that appears instantly, wherever you're working, without switching apps first. Press Return for a still capture or V for a recording, or just click the one you want. Esc cancels.
If you'd rather jump straight to a specific mode without the picker, the individual global hotkeys work too: Shift+Cmd+2 for a region, Shift+Cmd+8 for a window, and Shift+Cmd+1 for the full screen. All of these are rebindable from Preferences if they collide with something else on your Mac.
2. Take your first capture
Pick Region for your first try — drag a box around anything on screen. As you drag, a small dimensions readout shows you the exact pixel size, and the overlay snaps to window edges so you don't have to eyeball it. Let go, and the capture is done; there's no separate "confirm" step.
For anything taller than one screen — a long changelog, a chat thread, a full webpage — use Scrolling Capture instead. It drives the scroll for you, captures each step, and stitches the frames into one continuous image, automatically detecting and keeping sticky headers/footers only once instead of repeating them down the page. There's a horizontal version for wide tables and timelines too.
3. Annotate it
A capture opens straight into the editor — this is the part most screenshot tools treat as an afterthought, and ScreenClipr doesn't. From the toolbar you get:
- Arrows, shapes, and freehand drawing, plus text callouts for labeling specific spots
- One-click blur or pixelate for anything you need to redact — an API key, an address, a face
- Numbered step badges that auto-renumber if you delete one in the middle, which is exactly what you want when you're building a how-to guide
- Quick Styles, which remember your last-used colors so your fifth arrow matches your first without re-picking a color each time
Draw a box or an arrow, hold Shift while dragging to constrain it to a perfect square/circle or a clean 45° line, and drag it around afterward — annotations snap to the canvas edges and to each other with alignment guides, the same way objects snap in a design tool. Cmd+Z undoes, as many times as you need.
Copying just the text
If all you actually need is the text inside the capture — not the image — skip the editor entirely. Grab Text (OCR) (Shift+Cmd+T, or the Copy Text button in the editor toolbar) reads the capture with on-device text recognition and puts the plain text straight on your clipboard.
4. Save it — or don't, it saves itself
When you're done in the editor, Cmd+S or the Save button lands the capture in your library — you don't have to pick a filename or a folder unless you want to. From there you can drag it straight out to the Desktop, into Mail, into Slack, wherever it needs to go; the real file is dropped, not a placeholder. Prefer the clipboard? Copy puts the finished image there instead, ready to paste.
5. Find it again, weeks later
This is the step most screenshot tools don't have an answer for. Every capture that lands in your library is automatically OCR'd and indexed for full-text search — not just its filename, the actual text that was visible inside the image. Open the library, type a word or phrase you remember seeing — an error code, a name, a line from a contract — and it turns up, with a snippet showing where the match was found.
The sidebar also groups everything by source app, lets you tag and favorite captures, and remembers your last sort order, so "the screenshot from Figma last Tuesday" is findable a half-dozen different ways, not just one.
What's next
That's genuinely most of the app. The rest — Timed Capture for repeating shots, combining multiple captures into one layout, the keyboard-shortcuts cheat sheet (just ask the app to show it), renaming and reveal-in-Finder from the library grid — are all discoverable from there once the basics are muscle memory.