Frozen-screen selection
- Show & Tell
- Exact-frame crop before selection
- macOS built-in
- —Not included
Native · Apple silicon · macOS 26 Tahoe or later
Show exactly
what you mean.
Show & Tell is a screenshot & screen-recording studio that feels like it shipped with your Mac — instant capture, a beautiful annotation editor, and AI background removal that never leaves your machine.
Apple silicon · macOS 26+ · On-device · No app account or cloud
The screen freezes the instant the overlay appears — what you frame is exactly what you get.
The toolkit
Every capture, one hotkey away.
Area, window, fullscreen, scrolling, text, or video — the All-in-One overlay switches modes live, before you commit.
Frozen frame+
Capture the exact moment
The screen freezes the instant you press the hotkey, so you select from that exact frame. The overlay never photobombs your own shot.
~120 Hz tracking
Recordings that follow the window
Drag a window across the desk — or to another display — and the recording keeps the selected window framed.
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Quick Access shelf
Captures slide into a glass stack in the corner. Drag them into any app, or hover to copy, edit, pin, or delete.
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History that reads your screenshots
Every capture is OCR-indexed in the background. Search for the text inside your screenshots — not just filenames.
Copy text from anything
Point at any region and lift the text — or a QR code's payload — straight to your clipboard. Multi-language.
stitched
seamlessly
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Scrolling capture
Scroll naturally; frames are stitched with Vision registration. Whole pages, threads, and timelines in one image.
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Pin anything, anywhere
Float a capture above every window. Scroll to fade it, ⌘-scroll to resize, double-click to dismiss.
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A real desktop app, too
Keep using the menu bar and shortcuts, or open the Dock app for a labeled control panel that launchers and AI computer-use tools can discover and drive.
The editor
Annotate like you mean it.
Arrows, shapes, text, counters, highlights, and redaction — every tool one key away, every mark editable until the moment you export.
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Editable until export
Annotations are vectors above the bitmap. Move, restyle, or delete any mark at any point — nothing is baked in until export.
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Export exactly what you see
One renderer draws the canvas and the exported file. What you see is what you ship — not a close approximation of it.
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Obscure sensitive details
Blur or pixelate sensitive details in the flattened export, plus a spotlight to dim everything but your point.
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The pretty-screenshot pipeline
The Backgrounds tool wraps any capture in a gradient backdrop with padding, rounded corners, and a soft shadow. Share-ready without leaving the editor.
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On-device AI
Cut the background.
Keep the fine edges.
Background removal that stays on your Mac, with an edge-aware brush that follows image detail instead of the stroke shape.
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One click, zero uploads
Vision's segmentation model lifts the subject on the Neural Engine. The image never leaves your Mac.
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A brush that snaps to reality
Refinement strokes don't paint the matte — they re-solve it against the actual image. Edges follow hair and antialiasing instead of your brush shape, updating in real time as you brush.
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Finish like a pro
Feather and expand/contract controls, a red quick-mask overlay, hold-to-compare, and per-stroke undo.
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Then do something with it
Export a transparent PNG, or chain straight into the Backgrounds tool for a drop-shadowed, gradient-backed hero shot.
Works on any image on your clipboard, too:⌘⌥⇧B
Recording
A screen recorder with a director's eye.
Recordings that look deliberate — because you composed them before pressing the button, and the window you're recording can't escape the frame.
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Set the stage, then roll
An armed setup stage shows the whole composition live — webcam bubble, audio sources, region — before a single frame is captured.
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Direct to file
H.264 or HEVC written straight to disk by ScreenCaptureKit. When you stop, the file is ready.
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A webcam bubble worth keeping on
Built-in, USB, or iPhone Continuity Camera — switch live, then zoom and reframe with a drag. Pause and resume merge losslessly.
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Narrate every input
System audio and any microphone, cursor and click-highlight rings, and an opt-in keystroke HUD for tutorials.
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Trim without re-encoding
Trim the ends without re-encoding — no quality loss — or export a GIF with fps and width controls.
Recording a window? It stays framed as you drag it — even to another display.
Shortcuts
Your hands never leave the keys.
Every capture mode has a global hotkey — and every hotkey is rebindable in Settings.
All-in-One capture⌘⇧2
Capture area⌘⇧7
Capture window⌘⇧8
Capture fullscreen⌘⇧9
Repeat last area⌘⇧6
Capture text (OCR)⌘⇧1
Record screen⌘⇧0
Scrolling capture⌘⌥⇧S
History⌘⌥⇧H
Remove background from clipboard⌘⌥⇧B
Your screen is nobody else's business.
Screenshots can contain contracts, dashboards, and DMs. Capture, recording, OCR, search indexing, and background removal stay on your Mac; no capture data is uploaded.
No cloud
Capture, recording, OCR, search indexing, and background removal stay on your Mac. No capture data is uploaded.
No app account
Use the 7-day trial without an account. Enter an email only for a Founder license and early-access updates; there is nothing to sign into in the app.
No telemetry
The app sends no usage telemetry. Its only network connection checks for cryptographically signed updates.
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The honest comparison
Why not just press ⌘⇧5?
The built-in tools are fine for a quick grab. Show & Tell is for when the screenshot has a job to do.
Annotation editor
- Show & Tell
- Editable vectors, redaction, counters & backgrounds
- macOS built-in
- ◐Markup
Background removal
- Show & Tell
- On-device, with edge-aware Erase / Restore
- macOS built-in
- ◐Built-in removal
Scrolling capture
- Show & Tell
- Whole pages, stitched seamlessly
- macOS built-in
- —Not included
Window recording
- Show & Tell
- Armed setup with cross-display window tracking
- macOS built-in
- ◐Selected-window recording
Search captures by their contents
- Show & Tell
- OCR history with thumbnails & type filters
- macOS built-in
- ◐Spotlight text search
Post-capture workflow
- Show & Tell
- Persistent shelf, hover actions & pins
- macOS built-in
- ◐Floating thumbnail & drag-out
FAQ
Answers, briefly.
What does it run on?
Show & Tell requires Apple silicon and macOS 26 Tahoe or later. It is built around the newest capture and AI APIs Apple ships.
Is anything sent to a server?
Capture, recording, OCR, search indexing, and background removal stay on your Mac. No capture data is uploaded, and the app sends no usage telemetry. Its only network connection checks for cryptographically signed updates.
How much does it cost?
New installs include a 7-day trial. During early access, enter your email for a free Founder license — yours forever, including future updates. No app account required.
What permissions does it need?
Screen Recording — that's the one requirement, and macOS asks once. Microphone and camera are only requested if you turn them on for a recording, and the keystroke HUD's Accessibility permission is strictly opt-in.
Can I change the keyboard shortcuts?
Every shortcut is rebindable in Settings, and captures can route to the shelf, the editor, the clipboard, or straight to disk with custom filename templates.
How is this different from other capture tools?
Four things set Show & Tell apart: the screen freezes before you select, recordings track a chosen window across displays, the background-removal brush follows image detail instead of the stroke shape, and dedicated history searches the text inside your screenshots.
Ready to show, not just tell?
Get Show & Tell and a free Founder license in one step — the download starts as soon as you hit the button.
Prefer to stay anonymous? Just download the 7-day trial.
Requires Apple silicon · macOS 26 Tahoe or later · 7-day trial · Free Founder license during early access