Longshot
Longshot is a Mac screenshot and screen utility app for capturing, annotating, recognizing text, measuring elements, and recording on-screen content.
What is Longshot?
Longshot is a native Mac productivity app for screenshots, screen annotation, OCR text recognition, measurement, and recording. It helps users capture regular and scrolling screenshots, mark them up with arrows, text, highlights, blur, and step labels, and quickly share or save results. The app also includes tools for extracting text from images, pinning screenshots on the desktop for reference, and measuring distances or element sizes on screen. These features make it useful for documenting workflows, giving visual feedback, preparing tutorials, comparing designs, and collecting information from windows or documents. Longshot is designed for macOS users who want more than the basic built-in screenshot tools for everyday work and communication.
Key features
- Capture standard and scrolling screenshots
- Annotate images with text, arrows, shapes, blur, and step markers
- Recognize text from images and screen content with OCR
- Measure on-screen distances and element sizes
- Pin screenshots or extracted content on the desktop for reference
- Record a selected area, window, or app screen
- Save, copy, and share captures quickly with shortcuts
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Longshot is a legitimate screenshot utility for macOS. For its core features, it may request normal Mac permissions such as Screen Recording, and some workflows can involve access to files you choose to open or save. Those permissions are expected for screenshot capture, OCR, and recording tools, but you should still grant only the access you plan to use and review saved captures if they may include sensitive on-screen information.
Recommendation: Keep Longshot if you use its screenshot, OCR, annotation, or recording tools as part of your workflow. If you no longer use it, you can remove the app and its related data to free space, but doing so will reset its settings and may remove saved app-specific preferences.
Common paths
/Applications/Longshot.app
Preference paths
~/Library/Containers/com.chitaner.Longshot
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.chitaner.Longshot
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