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Flint Capture / Features

Everything it does.

The whole local feature set, with nothing held back for a higher tier. Every capability on this page is in the $19 build.

The Flint Capture selection overlay: the screen dimmed and frozen, dashed crosshair guides following the cursor, a pixel magnifier showing a hex colour readout, and a hint bar reading drag to capture, click a window, space to move, escape to cancel.
Before you drag. The screen is frozen, the loupe reads the pixel under the cursor, and the hint bar spells out every move available.

⇧⌘4 Capture

Getting the pixels.

Every capture starts the same way: the screen freezes so nothing moves out from under you while you aim.

A selection you can correct

Drag once and the marquee is editable, not final. Eight handles resize it, the live badge reports exact pixel dimensions as they change, and rule-of-thirds guides appear inside the selection. What you keep stays at full brightness while everything else dims, so you can see precisely what you are about to take.

  • 8 handles
  • live dimensions
  • thirds guides
  • space to reposition
  • esc to cancel
A committed selection: the chosen region bright against the dimmed screen, eight round resize handles on its border, and a live badge reading 1786 by 973.

The pixel magnifier

A loupe follows the cursor with a hex readout of the exact pixel underneath. It is the difference between "about there" and landing on the boundary you meant — and it doubles as a colour picker when the hex was all you wanted.

  • hex readout
  • per-pixel aim
  • frozen screen
Close view of the pixel magnifier: individual pixels of a chart line enlarged under the loupe, with a hex readout of hash E9EDFB beneath it.

Window capture

Hover to highlight, Tab to cycle the stack. Transparency survives and the shadow is synthesised, not scraped off whatever was behind it.

Every display

Each screen at its own scale factor, including a selection that spans two of them.

Scrolling capture

The window is scrolled for you and the frames stitched. When content is too featureless to align, it stops and says so rather than handing you a silently mangled image.

All-In-One

Drag once, then choose: screenshot, video, GIF or scrolling capture.

Capture previous area

Re-shoot the exact region you used last, without re-aiming.

Self-timer

A countdown HUD for when you need both hands to set the shot up first.

⇧⌘4 Editor

Twelve tools, none of them destructive.

The editor opens on the capture you just took. Every mark stays an object you can move, restyle and reorder right up until export — including the blur.

The Flint Capture editor: a tool palette down the left edge, colour swatches and a line-width slider across the top, export actions along the bottom, and an annotated dashboard on the canvas.
One window. Tools left, style top, export bottom — nothing hidden in a menu.
  • Arrow A

    Adjustable head size and weight.

  • Line L

    Shift constrains to the axis.

  • Rectangle R

    Outlined or filled, with a corner radius.

  • Ellipse O

    Shift for a perfect circle.

  • Pen P

    Freehand, smoothed as you draw.

  • Highlighter H

    Wide, translucent, no shadow.

  • Text T

    Any installed font, any size.

  • Step counter C

    Auto-increments and renumbers on reorder.

  • Spotlight S

    Dims everything outside the shape.

  • Blur B

    Adjustable radius, reversible until export.

  • Pixelate X

    Adjustable block size.

  • Redact K

    A solid bar, when blur is not enough.

Non-destructive throughout

Crop, annotate, then widen the crop again without losing a mark. Undo has no depth limit.

Precision by keyboard

Arrow keys nudge, shift constrains, option duplicates, and every tool has a single-key shortcut.

Layer ordering

Bring forward, send back — obscuring tools always draw beneath outlines, so your arrows stay visible.

One click

Blur every email in the shot.

Flint Capture finds every text region itself and obscures all of them at once — blur, pixelate or a solid bar. No dragging a rectangle over each row and hoping you caught them all.

It runs on device with Vision. The screenshot never leaves your Mac to be scanned, which is rather the point when the thing you are hiding is customer data.

A customer table where every address in the email column is blurred while the names beside them stay perfectly legible.

⇧⌘R Record

Moving pictures.

H.264 or HEVC to MOV, system audio and microphone together or separately — with the controls somewhere you can actually reach mid-take.

The recording control bar: a live elapsed timer beside pause, stop, restart, discard and microphone toggle buttons.
The control bar. A live timer, pause, resume, restart, discard and a mic toggle — no hunting through the menu bar.

GIF, directly

Record straight to GIF, or convert a finished video to one in the trim editor.

Readable demos

Click ripples and cursor highlighting — or hide the cursor entirely.

Webcam overlay

Circular or rounded, draggable and resizable while recording.

Trim before it leaves

A filmstrip scrubber with in and out handles, a mute toggle, and export to video or GIF.

After the capture

Where it goes.

The Quick Access overlay

Captures stack in the corner as cards. Drag one straight into Slack, Figma or a mail draft, or hit a quick action — copy, save, annotate, pin, reveal, delete — without opening anything at all.

  • drag out
  • six quick actions
  • auto-dismiss
A Quick Access card: a thumbnail of the capture above a row of six action buttons.

The export canvas

Padding, a solid or gradient or desktop-wallpaper background, rounded corners and a drop shadow — saved as presets so you stop re-deciding every time. The image beside this is the app's own output, not a mockup of it.

  • padding
  • gradient
  • wallpaper
  • corner radius
  • shadow
  • presets
An annotated dashboard presented on a violet-to-blue gradient with rounded corners and a soft drop shadow.

Pin to screen

Float a capture above everything, cycle opacity, click straight through it, or snap it back to actual size.

Capture history

Thumbnails, search, filters by kind and context actions on every item.

OCR

Pull text out of any capture or region, on device, straight to the clipboard.

Filename templating

Date, time and app-name tokens, plus format, quality and a Retina toggle.

Desktop tidying

Hide desktop icons with a shortcut. They come back when the app quits.

Menu-bar only

No Dock icon, launch at login, permanently out of the way.

⇧⌘T Automate

Built for people who never touch the menu.

Settings — Shortcuts The Shortcuts settings pane listing capture, specialised and record actions, each with an editable key combination.

Every action gets a hotkey

Record one in place. Conflicts are surfaced rather than silently swallowed.

Every action gets a command

The binary doubles as a CLI. A second launch forwards its command to the running app and exits, so nothing steals focus — which makes it trivial to wire into Shortcuts, Raycast, Alfred or a shell script.

zsh — flint
$ flint capture-area
$ flint scrolling-capture
$ flint record-gif
$ flint capture-text          # OCR to clipboard
$ flint pin-screenshot
$ flint --list                # every command

Setup

Two things and you're set.

Permissions, explained once

macOS gates screen capture behind a permission, and the welcome window walks you through it, polling until it is granted. Optional permissions are only ever requested the first time you use the feature that needs them — the app does not demand your camera on launch.

The Flint Capture welcome window listing required and optional macOS permissions with their current status, and the default shortcuts.
PermissionWhat it unlocks
Screen & System Audio RecordingEverything. Nothing can be captured without it.
AccessibilityScrolling capture only — the app scrolls the window for you.
MicrophoneVoice-over on recordings. Optional.
CameraThe webcam overlay. Optional.
Download
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Requires
macOS 14+
Third-party deps
None
Price
$19 once

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