BetterShot
Screenshot, screen recording, and video editor for macOS. Native SwiftUI app with capture deck, 75+ customizable shortcuts, URL scheme automation, and self-host
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About BetterShot
BetterShot
Capture, edit, and share your screen. Native on macOS.
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BetterShot is a free, open-source Mac app for screenshots, screen recordings, and image and video editing. No account or subscription.
Features
- Screenshots: region, window, fullscreen, and scrolling capture, plus OCR and a color picker.
- Image editor: arrows, shapes, text, numbered markers, highlights, blur, and pixelate.
Crop, rotate, flip, and frame captures with backgrounds, padding, corners, and shadow.
- Recording: a display, window, or area, with system audio, microphone, camera, and a teleprompter.
- Video editor: cuts, speed, zooms, captions, masks, camera layouts, cursor styles, and 3D shots.
Export MP4 or MOV at 30 or 60 fps.
- Sharing: copy, save, pin, or drag from the floating preview, browse everything in the
Media Gallery, and share links through your own Cloudflare R2 bucket.
Original captures and source recordings are never modified.
See the video editor
Getting started
- Open BetterShot. Setup asks for Screen Recording and Accessibility access and
where to save screenshots.
- Press
⌘⇧4and select an area. - Copy, Save, Edit, Pin, or Share from the floating preview.
Change shortcuts in Settings > Shortcuts. New installs save screenshots to the Desktop; change the folder, file names, or automatic saving in Settings > General > Saving.
Permissions
If capture or shortcuts still fail after granting access, quit and reopen BetterShot. When BetterShot opens at login before macOS applies Screen Recording access, it offers to restart itself the first time you capture.
Cloud sharing
Optional. Sharing uploads to a Cloudflare R2 bucket you own.
- Create an R2 bucket with a public URL and an
API token (opens in a new tab) with Object Read & Write access.
- Enter the credentials in Settings > Sharing, choose the bucket's Jurisdiction
if it has one, and click Test Connection.
- Click Share on any capture to upload it and copy the link.
Credentials are stored in your login Keychain, and anyone with a link can view it. Outside of sharing, BetterShot only goes online to check GitHub for updates.
Automation
Trigger captures from Shortcuts, Raycast, or the terminal:
Description adapted from the project README.
- Version
- 0.5.9
- Updated
- Oct 11, 2026
- Size
- 37 MB
- License
- BSD 3-Clause License
Open source details
- Source code
- Exact source for v0.5.9
- Released
- Oct 11, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 2.4K
- Website
- bettershot.site
Community project. Help and bug reports go to the maintainers on GitHub; AppsXi does not provide support for this app.
License
PermissiveBSD 3-Clause License
Use, change and share it freely, including in closed source apps, as long as the copyright notice stays.
Read the full licenseHow this app was checked
AppsXi checks every version before it is listed.
Signed by Kartik Labhshetwar (8JL39GK2DC)
Apple Developer ID team 8JL39GK2DC
Notarized by Apple
Hardened Runtime on
File matches the hash GitHub published
SHA-256 38a2a63c35f1ebf5ce6460eb5229fede12bc96f80edb1eff2066a1a31f525348
No malware found
ClamAV 1.5.4 on Oct 16, 2026
Install and behavior test in a virtual machine: not run yet
Coming soon for all listings.
Versions
0.5.9checked
Checked Oct 16, 2026 · Mac
DMG · 37 MB, DMG · 37 MB
Questions about BetterShot
Is BetterShot free?
Yes. BetterShot is free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause License. AppsXi lists the maintainers' official release and does not charge for it.
Is BetterShot safe to download?
AppsXi downloads every version of BetterShot from the maintainers' official GitHub release and checks it before it is listed. For version 0.5.9 (checked Oct 16, 2026), the Mac download is signed by its developer and notarized by Apple, each file matches the checksum GitHub publishes for the release, byte for byte and a malware scan found nothing.
Does BetterShot run on Apple silicon Macs?
Yes. BetterShot has a native Apple silicon build, and it runs on Intel Macs too.
What does BetterShot need to run?
BetterShot needs macOS Sonoma (14) or later.
Who makes BetterShot?
BetterShot is an open source project by Kartik Labhshetwar on GitHub (KartikLabhshetwar/better-shot). Help and bug reports go to its maintainers there.
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