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ShotSumo

Features

Everything ShotSumo does today, stated in full — not the highlights, the complete list. Every fact below is true of the version on the Mac App Store right now; nothing here is a plan. Plans live on the roadmap instead.

What it is

ShotSumo is a native macOS app, written in Swift 6 with SwiftUI and AppKit, requiring macOS 26 or later. It's free, with no watermark and nothing metered.

It lives in the menu bar and has no Dock icon while nothing is open. A Dock icon appears while an editor or the Preferences window is open, and goes away again the moment the last one closes — the accepted cost of having a real menu bar with File and Edit menus, which have to live somewhere.

Capture

Region capture is bound to ⌘⇧9 by default, and rebindable in Preferences. Window capture and full-screen capture also exist — one menu item per connected display for the latter — but ship unbound on purpose, so a fresh install can't collide with a shortcut you already rely on. All three become active the moment you assign them a key.

Every capture is freeze-frame: the screen is captured first, and only then do you select a region on the frozen picture. Menus, hover states and animations stay exactly as they were at the moment you pressed the key — the selection overlay itself can never end up in the result, and nothing moving under your cursor can throw off where you're dragging.

The editor

Every capture opens straight into the annotation editor: rectangle, ellipse, arrow, and pixelate for redaction, each with its own colour and stroke width. Every stroke is undoable, and redone the same way.

Copy and save

⌘C puts a flattened, full-resolution PNG on the clipboard. ⌘S saves — the first time, ShotSumo asks where in the standard macOS dialog, and every save after that lands silently in that folder, named ShotSumo_yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss.png. There is no built-in default folder; the app never guesses on your behalf.

Sandboxed, and asking for only what it needs

ShotSumo runs inside Apple's App Sandbox. The shipping build carries no network entitlement at all — not unused, but absent from what the binary is permitted to do. There's no account, no telemetry, no analytics, no ads, and no third-party SDKs of any kind.

Screen Recording permission is required — macOS demands it of anything that can read the screen, not a choice ShotSumo makes — and it takes effect only after the app is relaunched once granted.

About the network, so it doesn't need to be taken on faith. Today there is no network entitlement, which is a fact about the binary, not a promise about behaviour — anyone can check. A paid tier is under consideration, and if it ships, the only thing it will add is standard StoreKit traffic to Apple to verify a purchase. Nothing about your screenshots changes, and this page and the privacy policy will say so before that build ships, not after.

What ShotSumo will never do

Not missing features waiting for time — decisions, stated once so they don't need repeating on every page.

  • NOCloud storage or a share-link service. No uploading a screenshot to get a link — the feature most other screenshot tools are built around, and the exact thing this one exists to avoid.
  • NOAn account. No sign-up, no email, no licence key to type in. If a paid tier arrives, an App Store purchase is the entire identity system.
  • NOTelemetry, ads, or third-party SDKs. Not anonymised, not aggregated, not "to improve the product," not opt-out. None.
  • NOA cross-platform rewrite. ShotSumo is native Swift, and being native is most of what makes it fast. A shared runtime that also runs on Windows would cost exactly what people install it for.

Distribution

ShotSumo is distributed through the Mac App Store only. There is no direct download, no .dmg, and no third-party mirror. Anything you find elsewhere claiming to be ShotSumo is not ours.

That's not an oversight — it's the point. Every update reaches you the moment Apple approves it, the binary is signed, sandboxed and reviewed before it ever reaches your Mac, and you never have to be the one judging whether a download you found somewhere is the real thing.