Native macOS screenshot app. Beautify, annotate, auto-redact.

Capture → Style → Annotate → Redact → Share. Everything on-device. Pure Swift.

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Your screenshot workflow probably looks like this: capture → open Preview to crop → open Figma to add a nice background → open Carbon to make the code pretty → manually blur the API key you almost forgot about → repeat for every single screenshot.

Skreen collapses that entire chain into one native Mac app that lives in your menu bar.

No code uploaded to any server. Everything happens on your machine.

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Beautiful screenshots without design skills

Hit ⌘⇧0, draw a region, and Skreen opens with your screenshot already styled — gradient background, rounded corners, shadow. One more click for Auto-Beautify: Skreen analyzes your screenshot's dominant colors and picks the gradient + sizing that makes it look best. Not gimmicky. Actually useful.

48 curated gradient presets across 8 collections — Vivid, Sunset, Ocean, Cosmic, Neon, Pastel, Dark, Nature.

13 procedural patterns — particles, topology, plasma, domain warp, wave lines, and more. Every pattern is unique and regenerates at export resolution.

Or: custom gradient with full color control, solid color, uploaded image, blur overlay, grain texture. It's all there.

Aspect ratio presets: Square (1:1), Portrait (4:5), Landscape (16:9), Twitter/X header (2:1), LinkedIn, Story (9:16), or fully custom dimensions.

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Code snippets to beautiful images — native, offline, private

Carbon.now.sh hasn't had a meaningful update since late 2024. ray.so requires the Raycast ecosystem. Both are web — your code goes to their servers, you need internet, and you're copy-pasting every time.

Skreen has a native code mode. Paste once, configure once, export anywhere.

• 21 languages: Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, C, Ruby, PHP, HTML, CSS, JSON, YAML, Markdown, SQL, Shell, Plain Text
• 10 themes: Dracula, GitHub Dark, Monokai, One Dark, Nord, Tokyo Night, GitHub Light, Solarized, Xcode, One Light
• Line numbers, custom window title, PNG or SVG export
• Works offline. Your code never leaves the machine.

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Auto-redact sensitive data — faces, emails, API keys, and more

This is the part that saves you from yourself.

Every developer has accidentally shared a screenshot with an API key, token, or email visible. Skreen watches for it automatically, using Apple Vision framework — entirely on-device, zero network calls.

What Skreen detects and redacts automatically:

• Faces
• Email addresses
• API keys & tokens
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Credit card numbers
• SSN
• IP addresses
• Custom patterns (your own regex)

Pick the method: Blur, Pixelate, or Solid fill — at soft, medium, or hard intensity. Toggle each type individually. See what was detected. Enable or disable per category.

And for manual redaction: hold ALT while using the Redact or Marker tool to snap precisely to individual words detected by Vision OCR. No dragging blind boxes around text anymore.

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Annotations that cover real workflows

13 tools. All keyboard-accessible.

Key	Tool	What it does
V	Pointer	Select, move, resize, delete
P	Freehand	Free-draw pen
M	Marker	Highlighter pen — ALT to snap to words
A	Arrow	Straight or curved, single or double-ended, open or filled arrowheads
L	Line	Straight lines
R	Rectangle	With optional rounded corners and fill
O	Ellipse	With optional fill
T	Text	Plain or badge style, 9 font sizes (12–128 px)
C	Counter	Numbered step badges — 1, 2, 3… perfect for tutorials
B	Redact	Blur / pixelate / solid fill — rectangle, ellipse, or freehand shape
U	Ruler	Visual distance measurement
G	Magnifier	Zoom lens at 1.5×, 2×, 3×, 4×, or 5×
S	Sticker	Drop images from your personal sticker library

Per-tool: stroke color, fill color, width (1–5 keys), arrow style. Full undo/redo stack (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z). TAB to cycle through annotations.

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How Skreen compares

	Skreen	CleanShot X	Xnapper	Carbon / ray.so	Shottr
Price	Public Beta	$29 + $19/yr	$30/device	Free (web)	$8–$30 one-time
Screenshot capture	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Code mode	✅ 21 langs	❌	❌	✅ web only	❌
Beautiful backgrounds	✅ 48 + procedural	Limited	Limited	Limited	❌
Auto-Beautify	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Annotations (full)	✅ 13 tools	✅	Basic	❌	✅
Auto PII redaction	✅ On-device	❌	Partial	❌	❌
Word-snap redact	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Watermarks	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Stickers	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Smart Crop	✅ Vision AI	❌	❌	❌	❌
Runs offline	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
SVG export	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
Menu bar native	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

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More features worth knowing about

Crop: free-form, re-crop without losing the original, or Smart Crop — Vision saliency detection finds the most interesting region automatically.

Watermarks: text or image. 9-position grid. Adaptive color (auto-contrast). Opacity 15–100%. Inner, outer, or frame placement. For documentation, tutorials, branded content.

Zoom & pan: navigate large screenshots without losing context. Reset with one click.

Sticker library: drop PNG/JPG files into ~/Library/Application Support/Skreen/Stickers/ — they appear instantly, no restart.

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Install

Download, drag to Applications, done. Auto-updates via Sparkle — no need to come back here for new versions.

→ Download Skreen

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Screen recording and accessibility permissions requested on first launch.

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Settings worth configuring once

• Hotkeys: remap both capture shortcuts to whatever you want
• Auto-save folder: configure once, files always land in the right place
• Auto-close after export: copy → clipboard → window closes automatically
• Detection toggles: enable/disable each PII category independently
• Custom patterns: add your own regex for internal data formats (session tokens, internal IDs, etc.)
• Launch at login: lives in your menu bar, always ready

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