Flint Capture
Screenshots, annotation and screen recording for macOS — the whole job, done before anything leaves your Mac. $19 once.
The editor, on a capture taken four seconds earlier. Everything you see here shipped in 1.0.
The whole loop
Most capture tools hand you a PNG and wish you luck. This one carries the shot all the way to the thing you actually paste into the ticket.
01 — Aim
Nothing animates, nothing scrolls, no tooltip disappears while you line the shot up. A pixel magnifier follows the cursor with a live hex readout, so you can hit a one-pixel border on purpose.
02 — Select
Eight resize handles, rule-of-thirds guides and a live dimension badge. Nudge the edges with arrow keys, hold space to move the whole selection, or press Tab to snap to a window instead.
03 — Mark up
Arrow, line, pen, highlighter, rectangle, ellipse, text, step counters, spotlight, blur, pixelate, redact. Every mark stays an object you can move, restyle and reorder — hours later, not just before the next click.
04 — Redact
Flint Capture finds the text regions itself and obscures all of them at once — blur, pixelate or a solid bar. No dragging a rectangle over each row and hoping you got them all. It runs on-device with Vision.
05 — Dress it
Padding, a solid or gradient or wallpaper backdrop, rounded corners and a drop shadow. Save it as a preset once and every future capture comes out looking the same. This image is the app's own output.
Beyond the rectangle
It scrolls the window for you and stitches the frames into one tall image. When a region is too featureless to align confidently it tells you, instead of quietly handing back a picture with a seam through the middle.
OCR any region straight to the clipboard — ⇧⌘T. Endlessly useful on the screenshots people send you instead of text.
Including one selection spanning two screens, each captured at its own scale factor.
Float a capture above everything, cycle its opacity, or click straight through it while you work.
Hover to highlight, Tab to cycle. Transparency survives, and the shadow is synthesised rather than scraped off your desktop.
H.264 or HEVC with system audio and microphone, click ripples and cursor highlighting. Trim it afterwards — or convert the finished video to a GIF without leaving the window.
Every shot lands as a small floating card in the corner. Drag it straight into Slack, Figma or a Finder window; ignore it and it fades out on its own.
Never touch the menu
Every action in the app has both a hotkey and a command. The binary doubles as its own CLI — a second launch forwards the command to the running app and exits, so nothing steals focus.
$ flint capture-area
$ flint scrolling-capture
$ flint capture-text # OCR to clipboard
$ flint record-gif
$ flint record-previous-area
$ flint --list # every commandRecord a shortcut in place. If something else on the system already owns it, the app says so rather than silently failing later.
Shortcuts, Raycast, Alfred, a Stream Deck, a shell alias. Because it's a plain command that returns immediately, it composes.
No helper daemon, no login item you didn't ask for, no update service phoning home on a timer.
The part nobody advertises
Screen captures are the most sensitive thing on a work machine — customer tables, internal dashboards, unreleased designs, the contents of your inbox. So Flint Capture has nowhere to send them.
There is no sign-up screen, because there is no server holding anything of yours.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no "anonymous usage data" checkbox buried in settings.
Your key is verified against a public key compiled into the app. It works on a plane, and it keeps working if this website disappears.
The honest bit
CleanShot X is a genuinely good app and the reason a lot of people stopped using ⇧⌘4. Here is where the two differ.
| Flint Capture | CleanShot X | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19 once | $29 once |
| Subscription option | None | $8/mo with cloud |
| Account required | Never | For cloud features |
| Licence check | Offline, signed | Online activation |
| Local capture features | Full parity | Full |
| Scriptable CLI | Yes | Yes |
| Download size | 1.8 MB | ~60 MB |
| Cloud upload & share links | Not yet — planned for 1.1 | Yes |
If share links are the whole reason you'd buy a capture tool, buy CleanShot X today — we'd rather you had the right app than ours. Flint Capture is for everything that happens before the upload.
Pricing
No tiers, no seats, no renewal email in eleven months. Try it for fourteen days first — the trial needs no card and no account.
30 days to change your mind. Email and you are refunded in full, no questions. With the free trial first, that is 44 days to decide.
Buy from inside the app whenever you're ready. Refunds within 30 days, no questions.
Questions
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple silicon. There is no Intel build today.
Screen & System Audio Recording for anything at all — that is macOS's own gate on capture. Accessibility only for scrolling capture, because the app has to scroll the window for you. Microphone for voice-over and Camera for the webcam overlay, both optional and only requested the first time you use them.
No. No telemetry, no crash reporting, no cloud upload. Your licence key is verified offline against a public key compiled into the app, so it never phones home either. When cloud sharing arrives in 1.1 it will be opt-in per capture.
Capture stops until you enter a licence key. Nothing you already saved is touched, and the editor still opens your existing captures.
AppKit and ScreenCaptureKit, with no Electron and no third-party dependencies in the app itself. That is most of why the download is 1.8 MB rather than 60.
Yes — every Mac you personally own, on the one key. There is no activation server counting them.
Possibly. The licence format already records the version range it covers, so a paid 2.0 can happen without invalidating your key. Everything in 1.x is included in what you pay today.
Email within 30 days and you get your money back. The app is a 1.8 MB download with a two-week trial, so there should be no surprises — but if there are, that's on us.
1.8 MB, fourteen days, no card, no account.