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Shottr — Screenshot app for Mac for Designers and UI Developers
Joined November 2020
Another pro tip: to take a screenshot with even paddings, take a fullscreen capture, select the area, click the Auto-adjust button, press the Shift + ] shortcut a few times, and crop (Enter).
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Shottr v1.6 demo video. The last few releases brought pinned screenshots, preview thumbnail, step-counter tool, and text-only blur/erase.
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Shottr v1.7 is officially out! Meet freehand drawing, spotlight tool, text highlighter, and image resizer
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Experimenting with the freehand drawing in Shottr. Stoked about the variable line-width technique, it adds this sexy edge to the strokes:
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Now Shottr allows you to place annotations outside of the screenshot area:
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Shottr v1.6 is out!.The headline feature of this release — Pinned Screenshots. Wonder what you guys think about it.
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Playing with shape optimization for circles and rectangles. Can't decide if it's cool or annoying.
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Shottr 1.6.2 just dropped. This version adds auto-update, scroll-to-zoom for pinned screenshots, and improvements to the preview thumbnail.
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Starting with macOS Sequoia, Apple does not allow global hotkeys where Option or Shift+Option are the only modifiers. If you have an Opt+Letter hotkey, it'll stop working after you update macOS. Changing hotkey to Ctrl+Letter will help.
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Big news: after two years of development, I bit the bullet and introduced paid tiers. Looks like the app may have a future after all : ). To balance out the potential effect, the free version stays pretty much unlimited, and there's a coupon FIRSTWEEK50.
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My frantic doodling in an effort to promote freehand drawing tool. Happy Halloween!
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Help me pick the highlighter tool line cap (NB: not released yet)
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Fun fact: I tinkered with the packaging script, and now Shottr DMG is only 1.3mb. The idea to sell box edition on floppy disks is back on the table 😂.
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One of the coolest feature of the new release: dedicated buttons for even paddings.
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Shottr license price will go up to $12 next Monday, October 14th. The change won’t affect existing licenses.
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Highlights of v1.5.1: drag'n'drop to export, scrolling screenshots, customizable hotkeys, object removal, instant text recognition, and more. Get it here:
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Shottr price goes up at the end of the day, last chance to grab it for cheap.
Shottr license price will go up to $12 next Monday, October 14th. The change won’t affect existing licenses.
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How to smooth a hand-drawn line? I grew up with Xara, I thought the best way is to reduce points with Ramer–Douglas–Peucker, and build spline with Catmull-Rom or similar.
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Shipped freehand drawing in v1.7 : ).
Experimenting with the freehand drawing in Shottr. Stoked about the variable line-width technique, it adds this sexy edge to the strokes:
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One of the improvements in v1.6.1: now you have an option to keep the thumbnail preview floating until you use the screenshot (it won't hide when you go to the other window, or switch spaces):
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Apparently, the recent macOS update (13.5) has broken quite a few things in Shottr. If you started experiencing problems recently, update to this version:. The auto-update will follow shortly.
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If you have installed macOS 15 beta and experience problem running Shottr on it, use this version:
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Good news! If you have a license, you could now get a token to enable image uploading service via an automated page here:
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Another feature of v1.6 is image overlays and two-frame GIFs. Good for side-by-side comparison: before/after, design/implementation, expectation/reality
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With the latest release you could auto-adjust one edge at a time by clicking on it:
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Shottr v1.6.1 is out!.Don't forget that it doesn't auto-update, you need to redownload the app manually. Release notes:.
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Something I'm working on right now. Got a question for you though ↓
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One of those little hidden features: press 1-9 to make shape semi-transparent, 0 to make it opaque, and Cmd+B to remove borders.
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By the way, if you don't want to see the intro window when you launch Shottr, there's now an option for that
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Shottr crossed the $1,000 mark on the “Buy me a coffee”! Got to admit, I was skeptical at first, but I’m glad I signed up. It's a surprisingly cool motivation booster, and I met a couple of interesting people through this platform. Thank you for support guys!
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The new version of Shottr is out! Now with the Step Counter tool, text-only mode for Pixelation and Erase, and the ability to manage uploaded screenshots. It also fixes a stupid bug that crashed the previous version on some computers: .
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I need your help! Spend a few minutes clicking images on this page. I want to use the power of crowdsourcing to quantify aesthetics:.
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The funniest intro to Shottr features I saw, ever. I love it so much I want to replace my demo on site with his monologue (would it be a copyright infringement?).
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I've heard that the macOS Sequoia monthly recording permission reminder can be bypassed with a simple trick: Thanks Miles from .
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#4 The app is free, there's a $10 "Friends Club" in-app purchase. Maybe access to some experimental features, or to a Discord channel, but mostly just the bragging rights.
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Download it here: In addition to the free version, the app gets two paid options. Details: Coupon for the existing users: FIRSTWEEK50.
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A neat trick to copy multiple colors at once. Create a text object, move the mouse to the position and use Tab while the text is still in the edit mode. Color codes will go into the box, and the window won't hide.
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This Buy-Me-a-Coffee comment made my day : ). Roses are red.Violets are purple.Shottr is sweeter.Than maple syruple.
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Help me figure out what’s next for Shottr by filling this survey: Thank you!.
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Apparently somebody just published Shottr on ProductHunt: Come say hello, I could use your support!.
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Last week a new version (1.5.3) became public on It includes a thumbnail preview for the area capture and a setting to auto-save/copy an image upon taking a screenshot. Check release notes here:
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And regarding the Opt-based hotkeys on Sequoia, a possible workaround is to remap your .key combination using BetterTouchTool or Karabiner.
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Expandable canvas, combining multiple captures, contrast indicator and adjustable ruler sensitivity. Get it here:
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It’s oddly satisfying to get messages signed with a place. You know how people would occasionally end their email with “John, Milwaukee, WI”? I love that. My favorite so far is “From the Salish Sea of Washington”.
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The new version includes the "Upload Management" page for the uploaded screenshot. It's a boring feature, but this micro-interaction — I just love it:
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Btw, I was convinced that mouse-driven handwriting will look awful, but then I found @tldraw and it changed my mind. This tool is a big source of inspiration for me these days.
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#2 Licensing. A digital license is free, a physical license (a postcard) is $10, and a boxed edition on a floppy disk is $50. Would also highlight how small the app is. Shottr dmg spilled over the accepted 1.44mb a couple of releases ago : (.
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This seems to be the most universally hated option. I wouldn't have guessed, huh.
I need your help! Spend a few minutes clicking images on this page. I want to use the power of crowdsourcing to quantify aesthetics:.
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Another legit way to disable annoying screen recording permissions (courtesy of Miles Wolbe, Jeff Johnson and Ricci Adams):.
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For now, I settled on an exponential moving average for slow speeds, rope stabilization for high speeds, and no smoothing for sharp corners. Will keep fiddling with this approach.
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Get the new version here today: Or click the orange update button in the app toolbar when it reaches out your computer (may take a day or two).
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think the whole "Pin Screenshot" idea was pioneered by @eternalstorms in his ScreenFloat back in 2010. He's building a new, modern, and terrifyingly polished ScreenFloat 2.0 as we speak. It's going to be 🔥.
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Shottr v1.5.2 is out! The new features include color and style editing for drawings, more settings, Chinese OCR support, and a more powerful arrow tool. Check the full list here:
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#1 Postcardware. The app is free, but you should send me a postcard. I wanted it badly in the early stages, now I would've choked in the mail.
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Auto-update should be available for everyone now (look for the red icon in the toolbar). If it doesn't show up on your computer, you could always get the new version here:
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#7 Make Shottr fully paid, announce the change well in advance, and raise the price by a couple of bucks every week. Would be fun to see FOMO driving sales. Once done there’s no going back though.
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Huh, that really took off. Is the feature hot or did I get lucky with Twitter algo? Anyway, just so you know guys, there’s also a newish app @XnapperHQ, it does similar trick in a really clever way.
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Shottr is now available on Homebrew:.$ brew install shottr . More info here:
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@SnazzyQ Wow, thank you for putting a fun spin on Shottr! I’ll use it to prove that this little nerdy app is in fact cool : ).
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@MichaelTheGeek I’ve actually rolled out the new version last night, will do the Twitter announcement tomorrow : ).
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#3 The app is free, cloud upload is for a fee. Turned out there's little interest in image uploading these days.
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As with other averaging techniques, it reduces curves. If you draw a circle, averaging will make it smaller. I found a really clever Savitzky-Golay algorithm, that I hoped would fix this problem. It approximates points by fitting a cubic polynomial to the moving window.
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We need to wait a month to confirm that it’s working, and Apple could block it in future updates. It's still a nice trick though, doesn't take much time to try, and it could save you some frustration.
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At this point, I started looking at pro tools. Affinity Designer offers two curve-smoothing modes: window stabilization (moving average with Gaussian kernel) and rope stabilization (interpolates current and previous points with a factor that keeps lag constant). Here's the video:
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@ldenoue Nope, pure AppKit. Took a bit of work but it’s more robust and gives a better performance.
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@timberhines123 Hi! Sorry to hear about the problem. macOS Beta have a habit of breaking things here and there. Apple usually fix those problems before the stable release, but you never know. Last year they addressed the permission issue in one of the last betas (September-ish).
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#5 Make "Capture Area" paid feature. Would nudge users in the right direction. Shottr workflow is quicker and more efficient with fullscreen + crop, but people are used to cropping the area before the shot is made. It’s a tough habit to break. Decided it'd be too cruel.
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I swapped Ramer–Douglas–Peucker with Visvalingam and added a condition that keeps straight line points if they're far enough from each other. It worked better but wasn't perfect. Here’s a demonstration of why Visvalingam is a step up compared to the ubiquitous R-D-P.
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But I got disillusioned with this approach. It tends to produce an overly dramatic result. (Somehow Pen tool in Sketch behaves better while employing a similar technique; they seem to pick the skeleton points smarter.)
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@GianPaJ I've actually did some progress since the thread, will launch payments in a couple of weeks. Going to keep the app free but will also add two paid tiers. Free and paid tiers are not very different, so yeah, pretty much like Sublime.
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Unfortunately, on larger moving windows the result was not much different from the old-school running average, and Savitzky-Golay is very slow because cubic regression involves inversion of large matrices.
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Shotr 1.4 is out (. It was rewritten from scratch for better size and performance, now it's a small and fast native app. This version also introduced annotations. Check you our new video:
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