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This is an amazing piece of software. Does all that's needed — simple screenshots, very convenient crop / blur tool, annotation, arrows.

One question though — why is this free? I am ready to pay for this.

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I came scross this utility a few months ago via a Reddit post and have been using it regularly.

The developer provides some insight into why it's free here [1]. To save you the click, they consider it a hobby project and decided the work to productise it is too great.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/s4uvpr/shottr_the_...

if you want to pay, get Cleanshot. Not affiliated in any way. (very) Happy customer. It now has a cloud version, but the shrinkwrap/standalone license is enough. You get one year updates I think, and then you can keep it at that version or buy more updates. The most ethical software license for a tool like this one. We’re happily paying to support them and they keep delivering great enhancement. A recent favourite was OCR. You grab a portion of the screen like you take a screenshot, but instead it keeps the OCR text in your clipboard. Quite accurate even in different languages.

Oh, actually, I have CleanShot. Bought it back in 2020. And I was offered an update to the recent version, so will check out the new features and the cloud too, thanks.

I still would pay for Shottr!

There‘s a „buy me a coffee“ link in the page footer!

Thanks, no one scrolls so down below the fold haha!

that's kind of why I put it there : )

Thank you for recommendation. I use Shottr, but it crashes constantly for me and I looking for app with video recording functionality

Check out loom.com for video recording

Cleanshot is amazing

You can pay: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/shottr

But thankfully, this payment model means that someone who is less fortunate and cannot afford to pay... they don't have to.

Hi! I built Shottr to address my own needs mostly, and I don't think it's exactly a gold mine, you know. Besides, I'm way behind on answering the feedbacks, it's not criminal yet, but if I charged money and provided such a lackluster support, I'd probably get sued, haha : )

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