Screenshots, captured and out the door.
A fast macOS menu bar screenshot app. Capture, mark up, and drag a finished shot straight out of the menu bar. We grab screenshots all day for design QA, so we built the tool we wanted and now use it every day.
- Operating system
- macOS 13 Ventura or later
- Processor
- Apple Silicon, M1 and later
- Download size
- 3.1 MB
- Distribution
- Signed and notarized by Apple
- Price
- Free, no account
Version 1.1.0. Updates automatically.
Everything a screenshot needs. Nothing it does not.
Capture to annotation to handoff in one move, without leaving the menu bar.
Capture anything
Full screen, a single window, or a precise selection, triggered straight from the menu bar.
Mark up on the spot
Boxes, lines, text, and blur for the bits you want hidden. No round trip to another editor.
Drag straight out
Pull a finished shot from the menu bar into Slack, Figma, an email, or a folder. No save dialog.
Lives in the menu bar
Always one click away, never cluttering your dock. Out of the way until you need it.
Built for Apple Silicon
A native app, tiny on disk and quick to launch. No bloat, no background drain.
Updates itself
Signed and notarized by Apple, and quietly kept current so you stay on the latest build.
From download to first capture in under a minute.
Download
Grab the DMG. It is around 3 MB, so it lands in a second.
Install
Open the DMG and drag LudeShot into your Applications folder.
Capture
Launch it once. LudeShot sits in the menu bar, ready whenever you are.
Built in Swift, signed and notarized by Apple, and served straight from this site. LudeShot keeps itself up to date in the background, so you only download once.
One of the tools we build for ourselves.
LudeShot sits alongside the web tools and live products we run every day. We build for clients, and we keep our own software running, which is the proof we can build yours.
See everything we have shippedTry it on your next screenshot.
Free to download, built for Apple Silicon, and out of your way until you need it.