But on my Mac, I use indeed Flameshot, it's not ideal (the window is "shrinking" when a screenshot is captured), but it's better than any alternative I tried.
I'm not affiliated, but the software is simply on a whole different level. They deserve all the fame.
You know Shottr is only available for macOS, don't you? If source code is so important, why do you even bother using macOS?
I wouldn't install Shottr on any of my Linux machines, even if available. Despite it being objectively better than any available alternative. I'd recreate one myself if necessary.
But on a corporate Mac, where 99.999% of executed code is a black box, why bother?
On a small note: This recent PR is both awesome and pretty funny to me.
https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/pull/4498#issue-3...
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I have a multi-monitor setup with different size & resolution screens, so that may be a factor for the problems I'm having. Really hope it'll work someday.
Hit a hotkey, capture a region, get presented with a way to annotate it and easily copy it to your clipboard or write it to disk. I use it on a multi-monitor system and it works no problem with Wayland.
Here's an example from my dotfiles: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/do...
It supports capturing a region, a specific window or the focused monitor.
But its code... Thousands (like definitely over 10k) of lines of procedural perl. I had a feature in mind I wanted to contribute and I couldn't even scratch the surface. I doubt this software can evolve any further.
It was number three for me, I stopped looking and sort of wondered if there was anything else out there better.
I tried putting up an HDR image and then capturing the screen. All HDR brightness was gone from the image.
I get it's not easy per-se. It wasn't until MacOS Tahoe that Apple's own screen capture on Mac started supporting HDR. Windows 10/11, AFAIK, only supports HDR through the XBox Game Bar's capture. Apps like ShareX still only capture SDR.
I mostly bring that up because I have apps the draw HDR and spent some time trying to find ways to add tests that we're actually getting HDR on the screen using screen captures. I hit a wall and gave up (2021).
When you say the Xbox game bar accounts for it, do you mean video or still images? I've had HDR disabled for some time but I remember win+shift+s on Windows 11 capturing over-exposed screenshots when playing videogames.
It does a great job for my purposes – describing which buttons to click over email or im.
The HDR experience on KDE is about as good as the Windows one. Last time I tried Gnome, there was no way to configure SDR and HDR brightness separately, but it was definitely still usable.
Jan 2024: https://www.qt.io/blog/window-embedding-in-qt-quick
Sep 2025: https://forum.qt.io/topic/163224/hdr-example-code
Latest docs (search for "HDR"): https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qvideoframeformat.html
This Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ibala5/ive_discov...
... shares info about a Swift-based screen recorder that claims to support HDR. (I have no ability to verify that.) That might work for you.
update: turns out, for my specific case of the display model, it seems it's better to keep it off, otherwise the colors are not as vibrant.
https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-gain-map-gallery/
Note: Pretty much all phones for the last 4-5 years take HDR images. Take a high contrast phone (sun in the background, something dark covering half the image). Then later, view in in your phone. At least on iPhone they have some "fade to bright" thing where they don't show the HDR instantly but they instead fade to HDR over 1 second or so. Once they the brightness up it will still be up for the next photo. If you get out of the photo app at some point it will reset and then the next time you look at a photos it will do the "fade to HDR" thing.
Note: that site seems to only work correctly in Chrome. In Safari, the images flicker between SDR and HDR in some semi-random way. Firefox, AFAIK, has not added any HDR support yet.
There's also this: https://threejs.org/examples/?q=hdr#webgpu_hdr
Should work on Chrome Mac/iOS, and Safari iOS. Broken on Safari MacOS.
It doesn't as of a recent update (due to continued stability issues at Imgur). The default behavior is to not upload anymore.
Additionally ShareX pops up a big red warning telling you that you're about to upload. There are some forks (see: ShareNot) that explicitly remove any uploading, but by default there is a registry key, a setting, and a big warning that you can enable that disables uploading.
Embeddable as well. Anyone with a website should use this method so they can maximize the use of their hosting.
just video is waaay better in cleanshot than it is in shareX (and a bit simpler to set up)
One of the few times in Linux land where the UX is actually significantly better than Windows or Linux, and there's basically no jank at all.
(The only slight jank I noticed is that on X11 the "Screen recording" button just ... doesn't do anything. No "you need Wayland" message. Just nothing. I'll give it a pass though because the rest is so surprisingly great. Good job Spectacle authors!)
I do use ShareX on Windows for video recordings but Spectacle is better.
Looks like someone found a workaround by having spectacle run as a systemd process and restart after closing though, I'll have to give it a try: https://discuss.kde.org/t/make-spectacle-launch-faster/38030...
For all I know you found a way to tie some software to a politician you want me to hate, or the guy that wrote it donated to $50 to a cause you don’t like, or they murdered beagle puppies in some horrendous way. Just spit it out.
They leave the comment making it look like the person made something huge. Only to find out that they didn't use the coaster while drinking his chilled beer.
And I don't care about this instance, I am not going to look it up. I have far more negative vibes about the OP in question than Lightshot.
Very bad dark pattern I've been seeing more and more these days.
Considering that there are many tools like ShareX where uploading the screenshot is a feature, I don't really see reboot81's poor attempt at "spreading awareness" as genuine.
1) As others mentioned, Wayland support. But it seems that it's gotten a lot better since I last used it. I resisted using Wayland for a long time because of several software breaking, but I've switched over now that most of the things I use now work (or because I've stopped using things that don't work).
2) it was broken for me with fractional scaling. This is the main reason why I switched, I started using fractional scaling on my second monitor and could not properly fix it for the life of me. I haven't tested it recently, but I just checked, and the github issue seems to still be open. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564
2022 (114 points, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30071766
2021 (335 points, 84 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113753
But why the hell can’t we get pen smoothing? What if I want to use the pen tool but not make it look like I’m a child on several mediations?
https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/
I found Flameshot to work flawlessly only on Linux X11 and Windows. Other platforms (Wayland, macOS) have problems.
What do you mean? For what it does, it absolutely works nicely on mac.
On Macs = cmd + shift + 4
On Windows = win + shift + s
On Gnome/KDE = shift + printscreen
cullenking•1w ago
https://github.com/kingcu/screendrop
philsnow•1w ago
This has got to be the "todo list app" for people who aren't app devs; mine [0] is for MacOS + launchd + hammerspoon and I use Shottr for annotation
[0] https://github.com/philsnow/shots-filed
cheschire•1w ago
Fell in absolute love with the controls though. Way more powerful than windows screenshots.
KomoD•1w ago
I wanted something like this too but I modified Flameshot so I don't need a bash script in-between.
Flameshot already has a feature to upload to Imgur so I modified that and also added some small things (like randomized file names, some new config options).
iLemming•1w ago
Didn't they remove it though? Because someone complained about "privacy" or something? Devs promised to bring it back as the plugin, but I wasn't following progress on it, I don't know if that happened yet.
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vlod•1w ago
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb flameshot
cullenking•4d ago