iShot
iShot is a macOS screenshot and screen recording app that helps you capture, annotate, extract text, and save visual information from your screen.
What is iShot?
iShot is a native macOS capture utility for taking screenshots, recording the screen, and working with information shown on your Mac display. It is designed for people who need more than basic screenshots, including students, office users, support staff, and designers who collect references or explain steps visually. The app supports standard captures as well as long scrolling screenshots, multi-window capture, on-screen annotation, pinned image snippets, color picking, OCR text extraction, and screenshot translation. It also includes screen recording and audio recording tools for tutorials, demos, and quick documentation. Better365 publishes iShot as part of its lineup of Mac productivity tools, and the app is intended for everyday Mac workflows where fast capture, markup, and sharing are useful.
Key features
- Capture standard screenshots and long scrolling screenshots
- Record your screen for demos, walkthroughs, and tutorials
- Annotate images with text, shapes, numbering, and markup tools
- Pin captured areas on screen for quick visual reference
- Extract text from screenshots with OCR
- Translate text captured from the screen
- Pick colors from anywhere on screen and copy color values
- Capture multiple windows in a single shot
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
iShot is a legitimate screen capture tool for macOS. For its core features, it may ask for permissions such as Screen Recording, Accessibility, Microphone, or access needed for OCR and capture-related workflows; those requests are normal for this type of app. Because the app can capture on-screen content, be careful not to record passwords, private messages, or confidential documents by mistake. If you no longer use it, removing the app may also remove its quick-access capture workflow and related settings.
Recommendation: Keep iShot if you use its screenshot, OCR, translation, or recording tools regularly on your Mac. If you only use built-in macOS capture features, you can remove it without affecting the system, though you may lose saved preferences and any app-specific capture conveniences.
Common paths
/Applications/iShot.app
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