Capso
Capso is a native macOS screenshot and screen recording app for capturing, annotating, and sharing screen content with OCR and export tools.
What is Capso?
Capso is a macOS screen capture and screen recording app designed for users who want a native tool for screenshots, recordings, quick annotation, and text extraction. It helps with common workflows such as documenting bugs, creating tutorials, sharing visual feedback, and saving on-screen information as editable text. The app supports standard screenshot modes, screen recording, and markup tools for highlighting or explaining what is on screen. It also includes OCR features that can recognize text inside captured images, which is useful for copying text from apps, websites, or error messages. Capso is built for Mac and fits well into productivity-focused desktop workflows where fast capture and lightweight editing matter. It is published by Zhihao Li and is commonly used as a modern Mac alternative for everyday capture and recording tasks.
Key features
- Capture selected areas, windows, or the full screen
- Record on-screen activity for demos, tutorials, or feedback
- Annotate screenshots with markup tools before sharing
- Extract text from captured images with OCR
- Create share-ready captures with visual cleanup and presentation options
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Capso is a legitimate screen capture app for macOS. It may request permissions such as Screen Recording, Microphone, or Camera when you use recording features, and those requests are normal for this type of app. Only grant the permissions you plan to use, and review macOS Privacy & Security settings if you want to limit access later.
Recommendation: Keep Capso if you use it for screenshots, recordings, or OCR-based capture work. If you no longer need it, you can remove the app and its related support files to free space, but doing so may delete its settings and any app-specific saved data.
Common paths
/Applications/Capso.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.awesomemacapps.capso
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Capso
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.awesomemacapps.capso.plist
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