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Screenshots + screen recording for Mac

Your screen, perfectly framed.

Capture, annotate, redact and record from one shortcut. Every tool in one app, $6.99 once.

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1-day full trial · no card · macOS Sonoma 14+

capture modes
8
annotation tools
17
built-in backdrops
20
OCR languages
30+
screen recording
60 fps

01All-in-one capture

One shortcut. Every kind of capture.

Press ⇧⌘1 and one toolbar offers area, window, fullscreen, scrolling, timer, text, recording and GIF. It remembers your last selection, so the next shot is one keystroke.
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Drag out exactly what you need

Crosshair, pixel loupe with coordinates and colour, live size readout. Nudge with arrow keys, hold Space to move, type an exact size.

⇧⌘2default shortcut, change it any time

Area tools

02From capture to clipboard

One screenshot, five seconds, zero other apps.

  1. 1Select

    Drag out the area. The loupe and live size readout make it pixel-exact.

  2. 2Annotate

    Arrows draw themselves, boxes and numbered steps explain the point.

  3. 3Smart Redact

    Emails, card numbers and keys are found and covered in one sweep.

  4. 4Polish

    A backdrop, padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow, applied together.

  5. 5Send

    Copy it, drag it straight into Slack, Mail or Figma, or save it as PNG, JPEG, HEIC or PDF.

03Annotate · redact · polish

Mark it up, cover it up, make it shine.

Seventeen tools in an editor that opens the instant you need it. Every object stays editable until you export. Swipe through them, then try the real thing below.

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Crop

Freeform or locked to 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, with snapping.

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Rectangle

Outline anything worth a look.

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Filled rectangle

Solid shapes for callouts and covers.

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Ellipse

Circle the one number that matters.

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Line

Straight, dashed or with end caps.

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Arrow

Four styles, including curved.

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Pencil

Freehand, smoothed as you draw.

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Highlighter

Marker strokes that keep text readable.

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Text

Seven styles, from plain to pill labels.

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Counter

Numbered steps that count themselves.

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Pixelate

Chunky mosaic over anything private.

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Blur

Secure blur, flattened on export.

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Solid redact

A black bar. Nothing underneath survives.

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Spotlight

Dim the rest, light up what matters.

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Magnify

A zoomed bubble over tiny UI.

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Emoji & stamps

✅ ❌ ⭐ or your own stamps.

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Colour picker

Sample any pixel, copy HEX, RGB or HSL.

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Point at it

Arrows in four styles including curved, shapes, highlighter, a smoothed pencil, seven text styles and numbered steps that count themselves.

Hide it for real

Secure blur, pixelate and solid redaction flatten into the pixels on export, so nobody can un-blur your customer's data.

On brand, every time

Save your colours, stroke widths, text style and backdrop as presets. Your whole team's screenshots match.

Crop, resize, rotate

Crop to 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 or freeform with snapping, resize to exact pixels, rotate and flip, or combine two shots side by side.

Edit it again tomorrow

Save as a .pinhole project and every arrow, label and blur stays editable. Export PNG, JPEG, HEIC or PDF when you're done.

Spotlight and magnify

Dim everything except what matters, or drop a magnified callout over tiny UI so it reads on any screen.

04Smart Redact · only in pinhole

Secrets don't make it into the shot.

One click finds the email addresses, phone and card numbers, IBANs, IP addresses and API keys in a screenshot and covers every one. Text recognition runs on your Mac, so the screenshot never leaves it.

05Background tool

Studio backdrops in one click.

Turn a plain window grab into something you'd put in a launch post: twenty backdrops, padding, rounded corners, shadow, aspect ratio and a window frame. Flick through the backdrops below.

06Scrolling capture

The whole page, not just the fold.

Select once and scroll, or let pinhole do it. Frames are matched and stitched as you go into one tall, seamless image.

07Capture history

Find that screenshot from last Tuesday.

A month of captures and recordings, searchable by the words inside them. Restore, copy, re-edit or delete in a click.

08Quick Access

Drop it wherever it's going.

No hunting through the Desktop. Every capture waits in the corner, ready to drag into any app or act on with one click.

09Text recognition

Copy text that isn't text.

Slides in a video call, a scanned PDF, an error in a screenshot: select it and the words are on your clipboard. QR codes and barcodes too.

10Pin to screen

Keep a reference floating on top.

Pin any capture above every window while you work: a design to match, a number to type, steps to follow.

11Screen recording

Recordings that show where you clicked.

Record an area, window or screen as MP4 or GIF at up to 60 fps, with microphone and computer audio, click highlights, keystrokes and a camera bubble.

12Video editor

Trim, zoom and reframe without another app.

Smart zoom follows your clicks automatically. Trim the ends, change the speed and export landscape, square or vertical for any channel.

13Anatomy of a perfect screenshot

Seven layers. One keystroke.

Every polished capture is a stack. Scroll to pull pinhole's apart, and watch it snap back together.

  1. 1Backdrop

    One of twenty gradients, a colour or your own image, with padding to breathe.

  2. 2Shadow

    A soft, realistic drop shadow you can dial from none to dramatic.

  3. 3Window frame

    A clean macOS or browser frame, so a cropped capture still reads as an app.

  4. 4Screenshot

    Your capture, pixel-perfect at Retina resolution, rounded to match.

  5. 5Annotations

    Arrows, boxes, text and numbered steps, each still editable in the project file.

  6. 6Redactions

    Secure blur or solid bars, flattened into the pixels when you export.

  7. 7Export

    Copied or saved in one click as PNG, JPEG, HEIC or PDF, or kept as an editable .pinhole project.

14Try it here

Take a screenshot right now.

This desktop is real pixels. Drag a selection, capture it, then annotate it, put it on a backdrop, copy it or download the PNG.

15Only in pinhole

More than you'd expect from one small app.

Everything you know from the best screenshot tools, plus the extras we kept wishing they had. Hover or focus a tile to see it work.

  • Smart Redact

    Finds emails, phone numbers, card numbers, IBANs, IP addresses and API keys in a capture and covers every one in a click.

    See it work above ↑

  • Magic Polish

    One click adds a balanced backdrop, padding, shadow and rounded corners. Save it as your preset.

  • Colour picker

    Sample any pixel on screen, copy it as HEX, RGB or HSL and keep favourites.

    #F9D66B· HEX / RGB / HSL

  • Pixel ruler

    Measure the distance between any two points on screen, in pixels.

  • Magnify callouts

    A zoomed bubble over tiny UI, linked to the spot it shows.

  • Emoji & stamps

    Drop ✅ ❌ ⭐ 👀 or your own stamps onto any capture.

  • Device & browser frames

    Wrap a shot in a clean macOS window or browser mockup.

  • Searchable history

    Find a capture by any word inside it, a month back.

  • Step guides

    Turn a run of captures into a numbered how-to, exported as PDF or Markdown.

  • Click & keystroke overlays

    Viewers see where you clicked and which shortcut you pressed.

  • Camera bubble

    Your face in a circle or rounded square, mirrored, anywhere on screen.

  • HEIC & PDF export

    Half-size HEIC files, or a PDF for docs and tickets. PNG and JPEG too.

  • Hide desktop clutter

    Desktop icons and widgets vanish while you capture or record.

  • Self-timer

    3, 5 or 10 seconds to open the menu or hover state you need.

  • 1-day full trial

    Every feature unlocked for 24 hours. No card, no account. Then pay once.

  • Every shortcut yours

    Remap any capture. The defaults stay clear of macOS’s own ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4 and ⇧⌘5.

  • Editable projects

    Save as .pinhole and change any arrow or blur tomorrow.

16Pricing

One price. Every feature. Yours to keep.

Try the whole app free for 1 day. If it earns a place on your Mac, pinhole Pro is $6.99 once for the first 50 buyers, then $9.99. One licence, 1 Mac, every update to the current major version included.

pinhole Pro · one licence

1-day free trial

$6.99Regular price $9.99once

Launch price for the first 50 buyers, then $9.99.

  • Every capture mode, editor tool and recording option
  • Smart Redact, text recognition, pins and searchable history
  • Activates on 1 Mac; move it any time from Settings › Licence
  • Free updates to the current major version
  • 7-day refunds for verified issues
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One time · no subscription · macOS Sonoma 14+

How the 1-day trial works

  1. 1Download

    Open pinhole and start the trial from the welcome window. No card, no account.

  2. 224 hours

    Every feature is unlocked: capture, record, annotate, redact, export.

  3. 3Then

    Capturing and editing pause until you activate a licence key. Your history, settings and files stay.

pinhole compared with the built-in Screenshot app
FeaturepinholeBuilt-in Screenshot
Area, window and fullscreen captureYesYes
Scrolling captureYesNo
Self-timerYesYes
Annotate: arrows, shapes, text, numbered stepsYesBasic markup
Secure blur, pixelate and solid redactionYesNo
Smart Redact for emails, cards and keysYesNo
Backdrops, padding and window framesYesNo
Floating Quick Access with drag and dropYesThumbnail only
Copy text and QR codes from a captureYesNo
Pin screenshots on topYesNo
Capture history, searchable by textYesNo
Record MP4 with clicks, keystrokes and cameraYesVideo only
Record GIFYesNo
Trim, smart zoom and reframe recordingsYesNo

17Questions

Good questions, straight answers.

Something else? Write to hello@tealmac.com. A person answers, usually within a day.

1 day: 24 hours of the full app, every feature unlocked. Start it from the welcome window the first time you open pinhole. No card and no account. One trial per Mac.

Your next screenshot could look like this.

Download pinhole, press ⇧⌘1 and see the difference in a minute. Everything is unlocked for 1 day, then it's one payment.

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