Alternatives to Shottr

Fast Mac screenshot tool with scrolling capture, OCR, and annotation. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Shottr

    Fast Mac screenshot tool with scrolling capture, OCR, and annotation.

    FreemiumProprietarymacOS

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Shottr.

  • CleanShot X

    Premium Mac screenshot and screen recording app with built-in annotation.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    CleanShot X is a paid Mac app that adds screen recording to scrolling capture and built-in annotation, while Shottr offers a free tier.

  • Snagit

    Commercial screen capture suite with scrolling capture and batch tools.

    PaidProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    Snagit adds Windows support and batch processing with scrolling capture, but it is paid after a trial and has no free tier.

  • Flameshot

    A cross-platform screenshot tool that drops annotation controls right on top of the selection.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    Flameshot is free and open source on macOS, Windows and Linux with in-place annotation, but it lacks scrolling capture and OCR.

  • Snipaste

    Screenshot tool that pins snips as floating windows on the desktop.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsmacOSLinux

    Snipaste runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and focuses on pinning snips as floating windows, with advanced features in a paid version.

  • ksnip

    A screenshot tool with annotation that works on Wayland, which several better-known ones still do not.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    ksnip is a free GPL-3.0 annotation tool for macOS, Windows and Linux, but it has no scrolling capture or OCR and releases slowly.

  • Xnapper

    A macOS screenshot app that frames captures with backgrounds and hides sensitive information automatically.

    FreemiumProprietarymacOS

    Xnapper is a freemium Mac app that adds automatic backgrounds and one-click redaction of sensitive data, and its free version adds a watermark.

  • Monosnap

    A screenshot and screen recording tool for Mac and Windows that uploads captures to cloud storage.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    Monosnap covers Mac and Windows with screenshots and screen video, uploading captures to its own cloud storage for link sharing.

  • Lightshot

    A lightweight screenshot tool for Windows and Mac that captures a region and shares it by link.

    FreeProprietaryWindowsmacOSBrowser extension

    Lightshot is free for Mac and Windows with quick region capture and short share links, but offers basic editing and stores uploads on its server.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Shottr as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • GoFullPage

    Captures an entire web page as one image in a single click.

    FreemiumProprietaryBrowser extension

    Shottr handles full-page scrolling capture from the Mac desktop with OCR and annotation, but it is macOS only and advanced features require the paid version.

  • NormCap

    A screen capture tool that runs OCR on what you select, so you get the text rather than a picture of it.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Shottr offers OCR text extraction within a screenshot tool with scrolling capture and annotation, but it is macOS only, closed source and freemium.

  • TextSniper

    A macOS OCR utility that extracts text from any selected area of the screen.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    Shottr is a freemium macOS screenshot tool that includes OCR text extraction alongside scrolling capture and annotation.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.