Tyto Screenshot

Utilities

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Press сmd+shift+9 and the screen freezes right away. Mark it up, hit Return, paste it wherever you need – no waiting, no window in the way. Tyto takes a screenshot the instant you press the shortcut, then gets out of your way. Press ⌘⇧9 and the screen freezes right away – so a menu, a tooltip, an animation stays exactly where it was while you pick what to keep. Drag a region, or click a window to grab just that one. Mark it up without leaving the capture: arrows, boxes, ellipses, lines, text, a blur for anything private, numbered badges when you are writing steps. Pick a colour and a thickness, undo as much as you like, move or delete anything you drew. Press Return and it is on your clipboard – paste it into Slack, a doc, a ticket, an email. ⌘S saves a PNG instead. - Instant capture – the screen is frozen the moment you press the shortcut - Snap to a window, or drag whatever region you want - Annotate in place: arrow, box, ellipse, line, text, blur, numbered steps - Copy to the clipboard, or save to a folder you choose - Optional history of every capture, right in the menu bar - Configurable shortcut, and default tool, colour and thickness Tyto is sandboxed, makes no network connections and collects no data. Your captures never leave your Mac – and the source is on GitHub, so you can check that rather than take my word for it. Named after the barn owl, Tyto alba – the one that hunts in silence. It also sounds like "отуто", Ukrainian for "right here", which is more or less what you are saying when you drag a box around something.

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A first-launch window: where Tyto lives, the Screen Recording permission, and the shortcut. Tyto now notices the permission the moment you grant it – no relaunch. The owl is in the menu bar. Keyboard shortcuts in the overlay follow the physical key, so they work on Cyrillic and other non-Latin layouts.

The developer, Yevhenii Viniichuk, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    • Yevhenii Viniichuk
    Size
    • 294.4 KB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Yevhenii Viniichuk