Getting Started with ScreenClipr

Installing and starting the trial

Every new install of ScreenClipr starts a 7-day free trial with full access to every feature — no credit card required to start. If you don't buy a license before the trial ends, capturing pauses; nothing you've already created (captures, annotations, your library) is deleted. Buying a license at any point — during or after the trial — just removes that pause.

Granting Screen Recording permission

This is the one step every screenshot and screen-recording app on macOS has to ask for, and it only needs to happen once. ScreenClipr captures your screen using Apple's ScreenCaptureKit framework, and macOS gates that capability behind the Screen Recording privacy permission.

Because ScreenClipr is signed with a stable Developer ID, macOS only needs to ask for this once per Mac — it won't re-prompt on every launch or every update. Until it's granted, capture attempts will fail; ScreenClipr shows an alert that links directly to the right System Settings pane rather than leaving you to hunt for it.

1. Open System Settings

   Go to System Settings › Privacy & Security › Screen & System Audio Recording. If ScreenClipr shows you an alert after a failed capture attempt, click through it — it opens this same pane for you.

2. Enable ScreenClipr

   Find ScreenClipr in the list and turn on its toggle. macOS may ask you to confirm with Touch ID or your password.

3. Capture again

   You don't need to relaunch the app in most cases — try your capture shortcut again. If it still doesn't work, quit and reopen ScreenClipr once so it picks up the new grant.

Taking your first capture

ScreenClipr's default global shortcut, Control + Shift + C, opens the All-in-One capture picker from anywhere — no need to switch to the app first. From the picker:

• Press Return for an Image capture, or V for Video.
• Press Esc to cancel.

For a still image, choose a region, a specific window, or the full screen. While dragging a region, a live dimensions readout and a pixel magnifier loupe help you line up the exact edge you want. (See the keyboard shortcuts guide for the rest of the default shortcuts, including dedicated Scrolling Capture and Step Capture triggers.)

What happens right after you capture

The moment a capture completes, ScreenClipr does three things at once:

• Copies it to the clipboard — ready to paste anywhere immediately.
• Saves it to disk automatically — see the save location below.
• Shows a floating post-capture thumbnail near where you captured. Hovering it pauses the auto-dismiss countdown, and you can drag the thumbnail straight out to Finder, Mail, Slack, or any app that accepts a real file. Its Annotate button opens Quick Markup, a small floating editor for a fast arrow-and-copy without opening the full editor window.

In the background, ScreenClipr also runs OCR (text recognition) over the image and adds it to your library's search index — see the OCR-searchable library guide for how that works.

Where captures are saved

By default, every screenshot and recording is written to ~/Pictures/ScreenClipr in your user folder. You can point new captures at a different folder from Preferences › Change Save Location… — ScreenClipr remembers the choice and falls back to the default location if that folder is ever moved or deleted.

Everything — the original files, your annotations, and the OCR search index — is written straight to local disk. There's no account, no upload step, and no background sync; see ScreenClipr's Privacy Policy for the full picture.