Capture, style and annotate screenshots without anything leaving your machine
OpenShots is a free, open-source desktop application that covers the entire screenshot workflow on your own machine: capture, styling, annotation, privacy redaction and export. It comes from TraceKit, a small team better known for its application monitoring tool, and it is built with Tauri (Rust and React), which keeps the installers small and the interface quick.
The app is aimed at anyone whose screenshots end up in public: bug reports, documentation, blog posts or social media. Instead of juggling a capture tool, an image editor and a redaction tool, everything happens in one window, and projects auto-save so an unfinished visual can be reopened days later. Because nothing is uploaded anywhere, dashboards, logs and internal tools can be captured without a second thought.
OpenShots is a young project - its first public release dates from April 2026 - yet it already ships native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, along with a command-line interface for scripted batch processing. Development is active and the source code is available under the MIT license.
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Grab the full screen, a region or a specific window using configurable global hotkeys, a self-timer and a crosshair for pixel-perfect selections, all reachable from the system tray.
Place captures on gradients, solid colors, macOS wallpapers or your own images, then tune padding, rounded corners, drop shadows, inset borders and window or device frames.
Arrows, rectangles, ellipses, text labels, speech bubbles, numbered callouts, emoji and a spotlight overlay - every element can be dragged, resized and rotated, with undo and redo.
Blur or pixelate any region so email addresses, API keys and other sensitive details never leave with the shared image.
Yes. It is open source under the MIT license, with no account, no subscription and no watermark, and it runs completely offline.
No. OpenShots captures and styles still screenshots only. For screen recordings or GIFs you will need a separate tool.