A Mac menu-bar app · macOS 15 or later

Create beautiful screenshots in seconds.

TinkerShot puts your screenshot on a background, adds padding, a shadow or a device frame, and copies it back to your clipboard. On your Mac, offline.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

See it where it’s shared

No network access
No account
No subscription

The TinkerShot editor. A pull request screenshot sits on an Auto-match background; the sidebar shows backgrounds, padding, inset, radius, shadow, Balance, frames and size. — The TinkerShot editor on macOS.

How it works

Snap it. Style it. Share it.

TinkerShot waits in your menu bar until you need it.

Snap.
Drag over what matters, or pick a window. An image you already have works too.
Style.
A background, room around the edges, soft corners, a shadow. Auto-match takes its colours from your screenshot.
Share.
Copy it and paste it into a pull request, a chat, a doc or a post. At Auto size the pixels stay 1:1, so text stays sharp.

Features

What TinkerShot does.

Real exports. Tap or click a picture to switch.

Auto-match.

A background built from the colours already in your screenshot.

A view over the fjords and fishing villages of Lofoten from Reinebringen, on the default Lagoon gradient, green to blue.

The same photo on an Auto-match background: a muted fjord blue taken from the photo’s own colours.

Balance.

Evens out the margins around your content, so the shot sits in the middle.

A loose capture of a merge card: more empty space to the right of and below the card than above and to the left.

The same capture with Balance on: the card sits in the middle, with an even margin all round.

Frames.

A Mac window, a phone, a tablet or a laptop. Drawn by the app, light or dark.

A photo of the fjords of Lofoten in a generic Mac window frame, on an Auto-match background.

A terminal screenshot in a generic phone frame, landscape, on a dark Auto-match background.

The Lofoten photo in a generic tablet frame, landscape.

The Lofoten photo in a generic laptop frame.

Sizes for where it’s going.

X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, YouTube thumbnails, or any custom size.

A photo of the fjords of Lofoten at X post size, 1600 × 900 pixels.

The same photo on a taller canvas at Instagram post size, 1080 × 1350 pixels.

The same photo at YouTube thumbnail size, 1280 × 720 pixels.

The same photo on a square canvas.

Presets.

Save the look you use every day and apply it in one click. Clean comes built in.

The pull request screenshot with the built-in Clean preset: white background, wide padding, a soft shadow.

The same screenshot with a saved preset: a dark Mac window frame on the Slate gradient.

The same screenshot with a saved preset: the Sunset gradient, rounder corners and a deeper shadow.

Lives in the menu bar.

Out of the way until you need it.

Privacy

Your screenshots stay on your Mac.

TinkerShot can’t connect to the internet: macOS’s sandbox gives it no network access. No account. No analytics. No cloud.

Read the privacy policy

Pricing

Free to use. $4.99 once if you like it.

Free

$0

All editing tools
A small “Made with TinkerShot” mark on exports

Lifetime Unlock

$4.99 once

No mark, or your own text
On every Mac with your Apple Account
No subscription

Price shown in USD; the App Store shows the price in your local currency. Pricing details

FAQ

Questions.

Does TinkerShot upload my screenshots?

No. It has no network access.

Which macOS do I need?

macOS 15 or later.

Is there a subscription?

No. One purchase, $4.99, removes the watermark for good.

Why does it ask for Screen Recording?

macOS requires it to capture the screen. Pasting, opening and dropping images work without it.

What formats does it export?

PNG, at 1×, 2× or 3×.

How is it different from CleanShot X or Xnapper?

CleanShot X does far more capture and annotation. TinkerShot does one job: making a screenshot look good, offline, for one price. See the comparison.

TinkerShot for Mac

Snap it. Style it. Share it.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

Requires macOS 15 or later.