Recento Snap · Part of Recento Pro
Take a screenshot, mark it up, hide what should stay private and give it a clean background, all in one window. Recento Snap is part of Recento Pro.
macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon & Intel
A raw screenshot is rarely ready to share. It has an email address in the corner, a notification on top, desktop icons behind it and nothing pointing at the part that matters. Fixing that usually means a second app, and then a third to record a short clip.
Recento Snap is a screenshot tool for Mac that does the whole job in one place. Capture an area, a window or the full screen, then add arrows, text and numbered steps, blur or pixelate private details, and set the shot on a background with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow. When a still is not enough, record the screen as a video or a GIF.
Capture a dragged area, a single window or the whole display. The area selector stays on screen after you let go, so you can move it, resize it from its corners or nudge it a pixel at a time with the arrow keys before you press Return. Quick Capture Area takes the shot the moment you release the mouse.
Click the pencil on the size readout and type the width and height in pixels. The selection resizes to match, and the editor's crop takes a typed pixel size too, so a shot meant for a 1280 by 720 slot comes out exactly that size.
Add arrows (straight or curved), lines, rectangles, ovals, text, highlights, freehand pencil, numbered step badges, a magnifier loupe and a ruler that measures in pixels. Drag either end of an arrow to point it somewhere else. Your annotations are saved with the capture, so you can reopen it later and keep editing.
Recento Snap reads the text in a screenshot and finds email addresses, IP addresses, card-like numbers and API keys so you can cover them with blur, pixelation or a solid block. You can also draw redactions by hand. A spotlight dims everything except the part you want people to look at.
Set a screenshot on a solid colour, a gradient or a background picked automatically from the image itself. Adjust padding, rounded corners and shadow, choose an aspect ratio, and export at Retina resolution.
Text recognition runs on your Mac, so you can copy the words out of an image, an error dialog or a video frame without retyping them.
Select the part of the window that scrolls and Recento Snap scrolls it for you, capturing as it goes and stitching the frames into one tall image. Useful for long web pages, chats and documents.
Record an area, a window or the full screen as an MP4 video at 30 or 60 frames per second, with or without the cursor, after an optional countdown. Turn a clip into an animated GIF for places that will not play video.
After each capture a small preview appears in the corner: drag it straight into a message, or copy, save, edit or pin it. A pinned screenshot floats above every window as a reference you can resize and fade. Every capture is kept in a history you can filter by screenshots, recordings and GIFs.
Desktop icons are covered during a capture and notifications are kept out of the shot. A self-timer of 3, 5 or 10 seconds gives you time to open a menu before the shot is taken.
| Feature | Free version | Recento Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Screenshots, editor & annotations | Included | Included |
| Backgrounds, redaction & copy text | Included | Included |
| Quick Access & pin to screen | Included | Included |
| Export watermark | Yes | Removed |
| Screen recording & GIF | Not included | Included |
| Scrolling capture | Not included | Included |
| Capture history | Last 10 | Last 30 days |
Recento Pro unlocks the paid features in every module for $9.99 a month after a 2 day free trial (cancel any time) or $99 once for a lifetime licence.
Plans, trial and refund terms are on the Recento Pro pricing section.
Captures, edits and history are stored on your Mac in Recento Snap's own folder. Text recognition and the detection of private details run on your Mac. Recento Snap does not upload your screenshots anywhere.
Recento Snap captures and annotates in one step. Press ⌘⇧7, drag over the area, and the capture opens in an editor with arrows, text, numbered steps, highlights, blur and backgrounds. Your edits are saved with the capture, so you can come back to it later.
No. ⌘⇧3, ⌘⇧4 and ⌘⇧5 keep working as before. Recento Snap uses ⌘⇧7 for area capture and ⌘⇧8 for quick area capture by default, and you can change or add shortcuts for every capture type.
Choose Scrolling Capture in Recento Snap, select the part of the window that scrolls, and it scrolls and stitches the page for you. Scrolling capture is part of Recento Pro and needs Accessibility permission. Apps that scroll in unusual ways may not stitch perfectly, so check the result before you send it.
Yes. Record an area, a window or the full screen as an MP4, then convert it to an animated GIF. Screen recording and GIF export are part of Recento Pro.
You can record your microphone on macOS 15 or later. On macOS 14 recordings are video only.
Recento Snap reads the text in the image, finds details like email addresses and lets you cover them with blur, pixelation or a solid block. You can also draw a redaction over anything by hand.
Images exported from the free version carry a small "Made with Recento Snap" watermark. Recento Pro removes it.
The free version keeps your last 10 captures. Recento Pro keeps every capture for 30 days. Anything you save to a folder of your own stays there until you delete it.
Yes. macOS requires Screen Recording permission for any app that captures the screen, including screenshot tools. Recento Snap asks the first time you capture and only uses it to take the shots you ask for.
Download Recento Pro, open Recento Snap and take your first annotated screenshot in seconds.
Recento Dropput each new screenshot on a floating shelf of its own, ready to drag anywhere.
Recento Slidepaste your recent screenshots and recordings into any app from one bar.
Recento Clipboardevery image and snippet you copy, kept and searchable.
Recento WorkspacesMeeting Mode tucks personal apps away before you share your screen.