Show HN: Screendrop – open-source cleanshot alternative
Screendrop is an open-source macOS app currently in beta, designed for capturing and sharing screenshots and screen recordings. It operates from the menu bar, allowing users to capture full screens, windows, or specific areas, and offers various annotation tools. The app supports cloud sharing through a Cloudflare setup, ensuring user privacy by storing captures locally by default.
- ▪Screendrop is a native macOS menu bar app for screenshots and screen recordings.
- ▪The app allows users to annotate captures and supports cloud sharing via Cloudflare.
- ▪Screendrop keeps a local history of captures and does not require a paid backend for cloud functionality.
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Screendrop Beta -- Screendrop is under active development. Expect rough edges, missing features, and breaking changes between releases. Feedback and bug reports are welcome via GitHub Issues. Screendrop is a native macOS menu bar app for taking screenshots, recording the screen, annotating captures, and sharing them when needed. It is built for a fast local workflow: capture something, preview it immediately, mark it up, save it, copy it, or upload it from the same floating preview. The app is designed to stay out of the way. It runs as a menu bar utility with no main window, keeps a local capture history, and only talks to the network when you explicitly configure cloud sharing or check for updates. What It Does Capture the full screen, a selected window, or a selected area.
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