Now in early access for macOS
Beautiful screenshots in seconds.
CaptureBear wraps every capture in a gorgeous background with perfect corners and realistic shadows — a share-ready image with one shortcut, zero design skills.
Press ⌘ ⇧ 1 anywhere to capture
01
Capture
Press ⌘⇧1 to grab a region, or tap Space for a whole window. The editor opens instantly.
02
Style
Your shot lands on a beautiful background with corners and shadow already dialed in.
03
Share
⌘C copies the finished image. ⌘S saves it to your Desktop. No dialogs, no waiting.
Backgrounds, corners, shadow
Beautiful by default.
No blank canvas, no decisions. Every capture arrives already styled — and everything is one slider away if you want to tweak it.
- Backgrounds that match the moment
- Rich gradient presets, any solid color, or your current desktop wallpaper — picked up automatically.
- Corners like the ones Apple ships
- Window captures get native-feeling rounding out of the box, from subtle to full pill.
- Shadows with actual physics
- A hybrid camera-and-light model casts soft, believable depth — not a gray smudge.
Move your cursor to tilt
Perspective
Add a little drama.
Hold ⌘ and drag to tilt your shot in 3D. CaptureBear projects a true shadow onto the backdrop behind it — computed through the camera, not painted on — so the depth reads as real from any angle.
- Rotation that feels physical
- Smooth, eased motion rendered live by the Metal engine — no stutter, even on huge captures.
- One tap back to flat
- A perfectly straight-on pose is always one click away, and small tilts snap back to true 2D.
Annotate and redact
Make your point.
Arrows, shapes, text, and redaction live on keys 1 through 4. Annotations stay editable until you export — nothing is baked in until you say so.
- Tools that keep up with you
- Drag to draw, drop outside the card if you like — annotations can point in from anywhere in the frame.
- Redaction with a radar
- CaptureBear detects emails, credit cards, IP addresses, and API keys, then blacks them out in one click.
- Copy the words out of any shot
- Built-in analysis reads the text in your screenshot verbatim, ready to copy component by component.
2 emails detected Redact all
Public link, on your domain
cdn.yourdomain.com/shot-2026-07-09.png
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Export and share
Off your Mac in milliseconds.
⌘C puts the finished image on your clipboard. ⌘S drops it on your Desktop. No export dialogs, no five-step wizards — the fast path is the default path.
- Bring your own storage
- Point CaptureBear at your own S3 or R2 bucket and every export can return a public link on your domain — no third-party host in the middle.
- Drop anything on the bear
- Drag any file onto the menu bar icon to upload it and get a link back on your clipboard.
And there's more.
Small things, done carefully — the kind you notice after a week and can't live without.
- Window-perfect captures
- Grab a region, a window, or the full screen. Window captures get native corner rounding automatically.
- Sizes for every platform
- Auto-fit, square, 16:9, or ready-made presets for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more.
- Your look, saved
- Store background, corner, and shadow combinations as presets and reuse them everywhere.
- A very useful menu bar icon
- Reopen your last screenshot, start a capture, or drop a file on it to upload — all without a Dock icon in sight.
- WYSIWYG, powered by Metal
- The live preview is the export — same renderer, pixel for pixel, at any zoom level.
- Local-first privacy
- Everything happens on your Mac. Nothing leaves it unless you turn uploads on.
Feels like it shipped with your Mac.
Native SwiftUI with a Metal rendering engine underneath. No Electron, no account, no splash screen — CaptureBear lives in your menu bar and gets out of the way.
People notice.
The compliment is never "nice screenshot tool." It's "wait, how did you make that?"
My changelog screenshots used to be an afterthought. Now they're the best-looking part of the post.
Alex Moreau
Indie developer
I stopped opening Figma just to put a gradient behind a screenshot. It's ⌘⇧1 and I'm done.
Jordan Blake
Product designer
The 3D tilt feels like a party trick until every screenshot in your docs looks like a product shot.
Riley Chen
Developer advocate
One price. No subscription.
Pay once and CaptureBear is yours. Your screenshots shouldn't have a monthly bill.
CaptureBear
Early access$29 one-time
Every feature, forever. For people who share their screen in pixels.
- All capture modes and styling tools
- Annotations, redaction, and sensitive-data detection
- Uploads to your own S3 or R2 storage
- Free updates as new features ship
Free to try — a license removes the export watermark.
Questions, answered.
Something else on your mind? Email support@capturebear.app and a human will reply.
Which Macs does CaptureBear support?
CaptureBear runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
Does it work offline?
Completely. Capturing, styling, annotating, and exporting all happen locally on your Mac. The only features that touch the network are the ones you opt into, like uploads.
Where do shared links point?
To your own bucket. Connect any S3-compatible storage — Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3 — and CaptureBear uploads exports there, returning a public link on your domain. There's no third-party host in the middle.
Can it redact sensitive information?
Yes. Black out anything with the redact tool, or let CaptureBear find emails, credit card numbers, IP addresses, and API keys and redact them in one click.
Is it a subscription?
No. CaptureBear is a one-time purchase with free updates, and you can try it for free first.
Will it fight with the built-in macOS shortcuts?
No. CaptureBear listens on ⌘⇧1 by default, and you can change that in Settings. macOS's own ⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4, and ⌘⇧5 keep working exactly as before.
Your screenshots deserve better.
Download CaptureBear and make the next one beautiful.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon and Intel · Free to try